Two Republicans running against Democrat Ed Pastor in Congressional District 4 give voters a distinct choice between moderate and extreme right-wing views on immigration. Once they get to the general election, neither Jose “Joe” Penalosa nor Janet Contreras probably stand a chance in the heavy-on-the-Dems district that encompasses parts of Phoenix, Laveen…
If you get the majority of your news about the crowded District 3 Congressional primary from the mainstream media, you probably think candidate Ben Quayle’s ties to the Scottsdale-based sleaze site “The Dirty,” has sent his poll numbers into the tank.That’s because several news outlets covering the race are citing…
The results of a poll published by the Arizona Capitol Times are making the media rounds this week.The poll focuses on the Distric 3 Congressional primary and shows a dramatic shift in numbers from a poll taken a little over month ago. According to Yellow Sheet, the Cap Times exclusive…
Since our earlier post about letters exchanged (and distributed to the media) between Congressional candidates Ben Quayle and Steve Moak, Moak’s campaign got back to us and answered some of the questions posed in Quayle’s letter.In case you missed it, Moak sent Quayle a letter bashing the 33-year-old candidate for…
jA week before he’ll learn his political fate, Senate hopeful, and former New Times columnist John Dougherty has unveiled his campaigns latest piece of political art.Dougherty’s been running political cartoons by Arizona cartoonist Tom Robertson in several Arizona newspapers, New Times included.In his latest ad, Dougherty, often billed as the…
Congressional candidates Steve Moak and Ben Quayle have turned to snail mail for their latest round of mudslinging.In letters — yes, actual, physical letters — exchanged by the two candidates (and distributed throughout the media by their respective campaigns, of course) the two squabble over the thin line between Moak’s…
The Arizona Capitol Times’ assertion that Steve Moak is now the frontrunner in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary continues to gain steam in the more-mainstream media — and the mainstream media continues to swallow the bait.The latest Valley news outlet to do absolutely no research into the source of…
The Arizona Capitol Times has declared a new frontrunner in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.Businessman Steve Moak, the paper claims, has taken over for Ben Quayle as the leader in the 10-person race.Check out the Cap Times’ assessment of the race after the jump. …
Congressional candidate Ben Quayle isn’t backing off his claim that Barack Obama is the worst president in history — as made public in one of the lamest political ads to come out of this election season.In the ad, Quayle opens by saying “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.”…
We like to laugh here at New Times, so we were excited to learn that the Chicago-based sketch-comedy troop Second City had released a parody of Ben Quayle’s uber-awful campaign ad, in which he claims “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.”The ad sucks. It’s tacky, lame, and concludes…
If Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth was pissed off yesterday, he’s gotta be fuming today.In response to a comment Hayworth made that America is better off with Barack Obama as president than it would be with John McCain in the White House, the McCain campaign released a new campaign ad highlighting…
We just spent a few minutes chatting with Melissa Rein, the former director of public relations at Rose & Allyn Public Relations, the firm that likely planted the story about Congressional candidate Ben Quayle’s ties to The Dirty.If you’re unfamiliar with the saga, click here. She claims she’s not involved…
If you’re a political candidate considering taking a ride on Jan Brewer’s recently acquired, Greta-Van-Susteren-fueled coattails, you may want to reconsider — two candidates with Brewer’s stamp of approval lost their primary elections Tuesday.Not to say it’s Jan’s fault they lost, but it seems her super-star status after signing SB…
Senate Hopeful J.D. Hayworth is firing back after reports that he believes the country would be worse off if John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election.Check out our story on the matter here.At a campaign stop Tuesday night, Hayworth said “don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the guy…
Vernon Parker’s mouthpiece Jason Rose and other conservative politicos have been squawking much about the Ben Quayle connection to Nik Richie’s scandalously sexy website thedirty.com.It’s been part of the mudslinging campaign featuring Parker and Quayle — two of the candidates vying for a seat in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District.Ok, so…
John McCain’s campaign spokesman, Brian Rogers, says “The Maverick’s GOP primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, has “clearly lost it.” That would suggest at one point Hayworth had “it,” which we would say is a stretch, but Rogers’ comment was in response to something Hayworth said that, on the J.D. Hayworth scale…
Congressional candidate Ben Quayle apparently decided to tell the world how he really feels about President Barack Obama in a new Web ad posted on his Web site this morning. In the ad, Quayle says, in no uncertain terms, that “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.” He goes…
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has declined to stop Sheriff Joe Arpaio from pounding Tom Horne and Rick Romley in a televised attack ad. Judge John Buttrick stated in his ruling on the matter this morning that state election law provides remedies for complaints like Horne’s, and an injunction against…
One look at Jason Rose’s Twitter page and you’ll realize the dude’s got a hard on for Congressional candidate Ben Quayle.In the past few days, Rose’s Twitter page has been bash-Ben-Quayle central, and with the latest news that Quayle may have been involved in the early stages of The Dirty,…
Arizona lawmakers convened a special session today to fiddle with the language of a ballot measure intended to preserve secret-ballot elections in labor-union campaigns. Funny thing, though: Arizona’s got a lot of problems — and this ain’t one of them. We’ve written about the issue before: In a nutshell, labor unions — which have…
Randy Parraz has filed a federal lawsuit against Maricopa County and several deputies regarding his trumped-up arrest for protesting at a 2008 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. The pro-union, anti-Joe-Arpaio attorney-activist is currently running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat. If he manages to win over three other Democrats in the race (polls…
Well that certainly didn’t take long. Just hours after Senator John McCain’s campaign called “The Maverick’s” GOP primary opponent J.D. Hayworth “corrupt,” Hayworth’s campaign has fired back, claiming McCain tried to blackmail Hayworth into supporting his “amnesty bill” by threatening to discuss his alleged corruption with the media.Hayworth’s campaign released…
