Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), the former and temporary senator who was appointed to fill the vacancy created by John McCain's death will resign the seat on December 31, The Arizona Republic reports. Gov. Doug Ducey will now make a second appointment.
They also report that there is "intense interest" in that second appointment from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and that he wants it to go to outgoing Rep. Martha McSally, the Republican who left her House seat to challenge Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema for the other open Arizona Senate seat, the one vacated by the retirement of Jeff Flake.
Never mind that the voters of Arizona rejected McSally last month, McConnell wants her apparently because "Republican donors spent millions of dollars McSally's election effort and likely want to see that investment pay dividends." It's all about the payout to those Republican donors.
Ducey has met with McSally, but other potential replacements are "Ducey's former chief-of-staff, Kirk Adams, and state Treasurer Eileen Klein." Whoever is put in the seat will likely remain until the election in 2020, when the seat is on the ballot again. And Kyl can return to his lucrative lobbying business.