It’s no secret — not really — that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s son is seriously mentally ill. During her years in the state Legislature and as a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, she mentioned it often in passing, and earned a reputation as a big-hearted advocate for…
Now that Jan Brewer’s proven herself a space-case of a public speaker, her Democratic competitor, Terry Goddard, is renewing his call for a whole series of debates. The milqetoast candidate, son of former Arizona governor Sam Goddard, would just love watching a repeat or two of last night’s gaffe, we’re…
If you missed the hour-long gubernatorial debate on Horizon last night, you missed a train wreck performance by Gov. Jan Brewer. The hour-long session with the Brewer (Republican), Terry Goddard (Democrat), Barry Hess (Libertarian) and Larry Gist (Green) started off bad for Brewer and just kept getting worse.Brewer kicked it…
Arizona has had more than its fair share of bad characters in the governor’s chair for too many years. Ev Mecham: Impeached. Fife Symington: Convicted. Jane Hull: Alt Fuels. Napolitano: Credit Card’s Maxed Out — Time to Quit. Now we’ve got these bozos to choose from…
Patrick Chorpenning, the former director of the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, pleaded guilty today to two corruption-related felony charges. He’ll be sentenced on October 6 by Judge Susan Brnovich, but prosecutors have already agreed to a sentence that includes only probation. However, Chorpenning also agrees to pay back $451,351…
One look at the tax plan of Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd and you’d think the guy’s a Republican.Hulburd’s plan includes things like extending the Bush tax cuts through 2012, permanently lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, and making permanent the current tax rate for…
No recounts will be needed in any state or county race following last week’s primary election, says Matt Benson of the Secretary of State’s office. As of late-afternoon Tuesday, all the votes statewide have been counted. Some races got within a rat’s hair of forcing a recount, like the Democratic one for…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd, who’s squaring off with Ben Quayle in the District 3 Congressional race, went On the Record with Greta Van Susteren last night, and he would have looked great — if he were a Republican.Hulburd’s appearance with Greta came on the same day we received a press…
Abandoning a sinking ship — more times than not — is a good decision. Jumping aboard, not so much.That’s what crossed our minds yesterday when we heard U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman’s campaign manager had bailed on the campaign and had been replaced. Today, just a day after announcing he…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon isn’t supposed to be meddling in discussions or matters involving Veolia Transportation, the company that operates most of the city buses and has Gordon’s girlfriend on its payroll. Gordon declared a conflict of interest during several public meetings and abstained from voting on (most) council agenda…
It’s been fairly clear the past few days that former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was gonna lose the Republican primary for state attorney general to Tom Horne. But he refused to concede.Can’t blame the guy for not throwin’ in the towel — it was a close race. But today…
Rodney Glassman, the Democratic Senate candidate hoping to unseat Senator John McCain, has filled one of the several holes that were left in his campaign staff following the alleged “jumping ship” of three of his top aids.The new kid on the block over at Glassman HQ is veteran Democratic strategist…
As absurd as it may sound, Hooman Karamian (a.k.a. “Nik Richie”), the founder of “The Dirty” is taking some of the credit for Congressional candidate Ben Quayle’s victory in the District 3 Congressional primary.In case you forgot, which we’re sure you haven’t, Richie’s the guy who outed Quayle’s ties to…
Former Tucson City Councilman (if you ask him “vice mayor”) Rodney Glassman is off to a sluggish start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.His former colleagues are bashing him — hard — and people on his own campaign have abandoned ship because they aren’t happy with how he…
News release from county just in: 2010 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS August 26, 2010, 4:25PM, Phoenix, AZ – Maricopa County Recorder, Helen Purcell, says every effort is being made to complete final counting for the August 24 Primary Election by Saturday, August 28, 2010. “We’ve tabulated 57,231 early ballots today. We…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman certainly isn’t getting off to a good start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.Last week New Times reported that several of Glassman’s staffers had quit because they were unhappy with how the candidate treated people working on the campaign. And today one of…
As we sat at former Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth’s primary night headquarters, we found it rather odd that his opponent, Senator John McCain, gave his victory speech before Hayworth showed up to concede — there was a reason.Traditionally, the loser of an election calls the winner to concede and offer…
It’s still officially unofficial. The GOP primary for attorney general is still undecided and will likely remain so until at least tomorrow.As of last night, Tom Horne has a 419-vote lead over Andrew Thomas in the race with about 100,000 votes left uncounted.The majority of the uncounted votes come from…
About 12,000 provisional ballots were amassed today at the Maricopa County Elections department, officials say, bringing the total number of uncounted votes in Tuesday’s primary to at least 133,000. The provisional ballots are from voters who didn’t have proper identification at the polls, recently moved or had some other minor technical…
Ben Quayle, the Republican nominee for Congress in Arizona’s 3rd District, concluded his primary campaign this afternoon with a touch of humor.At the office of his PR firm, Quayle thanked supporters and addressed the media for the first time since becoming the GOP’s nominee. When he took to the mic,…
Election officials tell us that at least 116,000 119,000 ballots remain uncounted in Arizona.That’s more than enough to flip the close race for state Attorney General again – maybe even a couple more times. The nail-biter of a Republican primary had Andrew Thomas in the lead for most of the…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin, who suspended his gubernatorial campaign in early July, is toeing the party line, announcing today that he is officially endorsing his one-time opponent Jan Brewer in the Arizona governor’s race.At one point Martin led in the polls in the gubernatorial primary, but with the flick of…
