Turning lemons into lemonade, U.S. Congressman David Schweikert is using the opportunistic carpetbagging of Ben Quayle to his advantage: Ben Quayle wants you to join him on a magic carpet ride to carpetbag a new Congressional district… Why? Because Ben Quayle wants to run for Congress in Schweikert’s CD6, but there are a few problems [...]
Problem-plagued perennial candidate Tony Bouie is once again in quest of a legislative seat. This time he’s seeking an appointment rather than going through that revealing information spill that accompanies an actual campaign. Bouie is now looking to be named as a replacement to fill the AZ House seat in Legislative District 4, currently open [...]
We hear Republican Jerry Lewis has decided to call it quits. He probably got wind of the fact that the Republican District 18 voters he bamboozled are onto his lengthy list of Democrat supporters and donors. Among them Eddie “your home town grocer” Basha, Roman Ulman (Executive Director of AFSCME AZ Union), former Democrat Phoenix [...]
Supporters in full force, vastly out numbering single protestor WND News covers the failed protest — a single protestor showed up — that took place at the beginning of the 2012 legislative session yesterday. Radical activist Randy Parraz’s efforts to rev up a crowd fizzled although his group had a permit to assemble. Approximately 50 [...]
39 percent of Republican state legislators negatively impacted The report in the daily carried an innocuous headline — Some lawmakers feel upended by new map – belying the disturbing facts behind Arizona’s so-called Independent Redistricting Committee‘s charade of impartiality redrawing district lines. Although the state Constitution prohibits the Democrat-heavy commission from considering the addresses of incumbents [...]
Duplicity abounds as Morrison Institute poll attempts to conceal AZ’s ”biggest problem” Tucked in among polling questions referencing education, the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University reveals a telling response to the question regarding the “biggest problem” facing Arizona. Immigration concerns topped the list, even beating out anxiety about jobs and the economy in [...]
Rally in support of Sen. Pearce this evening This morning’s newspaper runs an endorsement editorial in west Mesa’s state legislative district 18 recall election. To no one’s surprise, the daily throws its support behind the candidate named ABRP — Anyone But Russell Pearce. It’s not the first time the Republic has done so. Take a [...]
Today’s issue of the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) runs a report in which Valley pollster Michael O’Neil has supposedly “abandoned 30 years of carefully nurtured political neutrality by launching a bare-knuckled attack” against Republican Senate President Russell Pearce. O’Neil has begun a website in which he outrageously attacks the architect of [...]
Within days of testifying before a Congressional committee about his office’s role in the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms gun-smuggling operation known as “Fast and Furious,” U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke has submitted his letter of resignation — effective immediately. His resignation comes amid fallout of his knowledge of the ill-conceived and [...]
Olbermann, Gallardo serve as stooges for one another Last Thursday Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne took the bold step of suing the federal government in reference to the constitutionality of a portion of the Voting Rights Act requiring Arizona to pre-clear all voting changes with the Justice Department. The 16-page Complaint for Declaratory Judgment and [...]
