Governor Jan Brewer’s plan to temporarily raise the sales tax by 2 percent may be headed to the polls, but both of Arizona’s U.S. senators have already made their decision: They hate it. Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl issued a joint statement this morning saying they don’t support the…
A man dubbed by New Times in a 2006 feature as the “Killer Candidate,” who beat a murder rap for shooting a woman and then ran for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives, is giving it another shot — politics, that is.Dan Coleman announced his candidacy for South Mountain justice of the peace,…
Oh, yeah, John McCain went there.Senator McCain’s campaign released a Web video today discussing his GOP primary opponent J.D. Hayworth’s connections to disgraced Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff.Check the video out here.We had a feeling bringing up Jack Abramoff would create a political pissing match over which candidate has the…
The Massachusetts Republican who eeked out an unlikely victory in his own U.S. Senate election last month will be in the Valley later this week to campaign for Senator John McCain, The Maverick’s campaign announced today.Senator Scott Brown, who won the hearts of GOPers everywhere by becoming the first Republican to…
The endorsement war is waging in the epic GOP showdown between Senator John McCain and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, but there is one conservative movement that’s staying off the battlefield — for now anyways.Arizona’s four largest Tea Party groups announced today that they will not endorse either candidate in the…
Ben Quayle, son of former Vice-President Dan Quayle, who made some waves a couple of weeks ago when his father announced his candidacy for Congress on Fox News, is one of three front-runners in the Republican primary for John Shadegg’s Congressional seat.Not bad for a guy who’s never voted in a…
Tucson’s vice mayor and a potential Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, says there is a new version of John McCain, and its even crankier than before. Glassman is bashing McCain over the president’s healthcare summit in Washington D.C. that McCain attended yesterday, at the exact same time J.D. Hayworth marched into McCain’s Phoenix…
In a doofy attempt at political theater this morning, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth marched into the Phoenix campaign office of Senator John McCain to hand-deliver a note challenging Arizona’s senior senator to a series of debates as the two battle in a heated GOP primary.As far as we can tell, phone…
The race war is on, but it’s probably not the “Helter Skelter” that Charles Manson had in mind. It’s waging between Senator John McCain and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth as each candidate’s campaign staff grapples to prove that the other has more knuckle-dragging, racist supporters.Yesterday, Hayworth got the endorsement of…
On the same day the anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration endorsed former Congressman J.D. Hayworth in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain as the GOP candidate for Senate, the McCain campaign is calling on Hayworth to disavow the endorsement.”J.D. Hayworth’s lavish praise for the social theories of…
John McCain picked up a big-time endorsement today from one of his old political foes within the Republican party, while his primary opponent, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, countered with a big one of his own — an anti-illegal immigration group.Surprise, surprise.Mitt Romney came out in favor of McCain today, despite…
Rodney Glassman, Tucson’s vice-mayor and lone Democrat mulling a run for John McCain’s Senate seat, says he’s holding off on making his candidacy official until a budget is in place for Tucson.That’s a nice change of pace from the several state legislators who abandoned ship to seek the congressional seat being…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth picked up an endorsement today that wasn’t Joe Arpaio or Minutemen co-founder Chris Simcox.The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association announced today that it would support Hayworth in his bid to try to unseat Senator John McCain in the Republican Senate primary.Hayworth cites similar stances between himself and police…
The race is on to see whom the GOP will choose as its candidate to defend the Congressional seat getting vacated by Congressman John Shadegg, and there’s a new kid in town hoping to get the nod.Phoenix attorney Paulina Morris announced her candidacy yesterday on the lawn of the Arizona House…
Two former Arizona governors jumped on board the McCain train, endorsing “The Maverick” in his bid to fend off former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, the senator’s campaign announced today.Former governors Fife Symington and Jane Dee Hull will both back McCain in this year’s Republican primary.Hull, who became governor when Symington resigned…
Where’s Ed Ableser’s head at? As the state marches toward bankruptcy, the Democratic lawmaker from Tempe has focused some of his attention on an event that happened before he was born: He wants the naughty United States to take responsibility for its role in the 1973 coup in Chile that brought a vicious…
A day after former Congressman J.D. Hayworth officially kicked off his campaign to unseat Senator John McCain as the GOP’s candidate for U.S. senator, “The Maverick” has received an outpouring of support from 31 Arizona mayors.Hayworth, on the other hand, has the endorsement of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.McCain picked up the endorsements…
Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and the latest addition to the jam-packed list of candidates for the District 3 congressional seat, hasn’t voted in a municipal election since registering to vote in Arizona in 1997, a new report claims.According to voting records dug up by the Arizona…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth made it official today that he will run against Senator John McCain in a Republican primary for the U.S. Senate.Flanked by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Minutemen co-founder Chris Simcox, Hayworth made his announcement from his Phoenix campaign headquarters.Hayworth kicked off his campaign with the announcement and will…
Joe the Plumber, a.k.a. Samuel Wurzelbacher, the “everyman” campaign tool from John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, says the notoriety he’s received as a result of McCain has ruined his life.”I don’t owe him shit. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it,” Joe the Plumber tells…
As New Times reported on January 29, there were rumors floating around that Ben Quayle, the son of former Vice-President Dan Quayle, was planning on running for Congress. Those rumors, we find out today, were true. Ben Quayle didn’t make the announcement himself, though. His pops let the cat out…
The president of the Conservative group Americans for Tax Reform gave Senator John McCain a ringing endorsement this week in his primary bid to fend off his GOP opponent, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth.Grover Norquist says McCain is best suited to not raise taxes and that he “consistently votes against tax increases…
