Earlier this week, Anderson and his administration said those tax dollars weren't used to pay meal and food costs for non-city employees but rather went to pay initial costs associated with making a documentary film about the trip and a kick-off celebration. Anderson also said all tax dollars spent would be paid back by private donations.

The administration said tax dollars were spent up front because the city didn't have private donations available at the time to pay the city contractor — Dunn Communications — hired to put together the documentary.

However, a copy of the Dunn Communications contract shows it specified that no taxpayer dollars would be spent on any work Dunn did.

"The parties acknowledge that the public relations services and the video documentary to be provided by (Dunn) hereunder must be limited to and paid by donations and not from city funds," the contract reads.

Also, according to city accounting records that Anderson's administration provided earlier this week, the city did have donations available two weeks prior to signing the Dunn contract.

The first private donation — $25,000 from the George S. and Dolores Dore' Eccles Foundation on April 1 — was the same amount that was initially paid to Dunn two weeks later. Eventually Dunn was paid $90,000.

The stipulations against using tax dollars for Dunn's work and the date of the $25,000 Eccles donation raised questions in the minds of some Republicans about the administration's early claims that tax dollars were used to pay Dunn.

County Republicans say they want more answers and claim only an grand jury investigation will flesh them out. The accounting might be moot if, in fact, private donations are considered public monies by law.

"To be consistent, you have to convene a grand jury and let them determine the remedy," Evans said. "I've always said Yocom misused his prosecutorial discretion (when he prosecuted Workman), and Yocom said he did not. So, if he did not misuse his discretion, then he is obligated to move forward and treat Rocky the same way he treated Nancy."

Anderson, Fluhart and Hoskins have not returned several telephone calls over the past few days seeking comment on the issue.

"I don't think Rocky's going to have time to talk to you today," Anderson's new spokesman Duncan Moench said Thursday. "I don't think that can work in his schedule."

Yocom's office questioned the sincerity of the Republicans' motives, noting they talked to the press before coming to the District Attorney's Office.

"I guess the important thing is to get it out to the press first," District Attorney's Office spokesman Bob Stott said. "That's the way they play the game."