The audio clip above — a voicemail from Republican state Senator Rich Crandall to fellow Republican Senator Brenda Barton — is apparently enough to get an ethics complaint lodged against Crandall.This all started (as so much drama does) over a campaign-sign feud, in which there are photos of two women…
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There are reasons political campaigns send “trackers” to follow every public move of their opponents, and collecting soundbites is one of the primary reasons.Republican Congressman Jeff Flake’s U.S. Senate campaign has provided a couple soundbites that were likely collected by “trackers,” in which Flake’s primary opponent Wil Cardon drops a…
Republican Congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-congressional candidate Matt Salmon promises he’ll “join the fight to repeal Obamacare” if he’s elected to Congress this fall.If you ask his primary opponent in the state’s Fifth Congressional District, former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams, Salmon already joined that fight — except he was lobbying for the bill’s…
If you trust politicians (ha, ha), then get this — many local Republicans believe people need to go to prison for selling porn, and tipping strippers should be illegal.The lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy released the candidates’ answers to their questionnaires for this year’s elections, which is not…
John Philip Sousa IV runs an independent-expenditure committee called “Americans for Sheriff Joe.”Sousa and his committee have started running TV ads on Fox News, and those ads are absolutely awful…
Republican U.S. Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl announced their endorsement of Congressman Jeff Flake for the Senate seat being vacated by Kyl.That brings Flake’s tally of endorsements from sitting Senators to five, in addition to Congressman Paul Ryan and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.Flake’s primary opponent, Wil Cardon, is still…
Over the weekend, the Arizona Republic took a look at Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon’s record of being a “job creator,” in which he’s repeatedly claimed that he’s created “hundreds of jobs.”Turns out, the Republic found Immigration and Customs Enforcement records stating that a bunch of the employees of…
When word got out last week that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Carmona gave some medical advice to a Republican campaign worker with an apparent leg injury, fellow Democrats were loving the feel-good moment.The Arizona Republican Party — or at least, its spokesman — is suspicious of a “hypothetical situation”…
It ain’t no party about off-the-wall statements by Arizona politicians unless Governor Jan’s invited. Last week we took a look at some of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s most puzzling moments of 2012 (so far). Given the infamous embarrassing moments the Guv has did have — such as the brain-fart of the…
Rebecca Larios and her team, Rise of the South Phoenix, spent a few hours on Tuesday night recruiting new neighborhood activists — and several agreed to join the cause. “It’s time to rise,” Larios told the crowd of several dozen people. “It’s time to get up. We need you to…
Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but Congressman Ben Quayle thinks Barack Obama is the “worst president in history.”Quayle’s got a new TV ad out in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District ahead of his August primary with fellow Republican Congressman David Schweikert, and sure enough, Quayle’s going with his old…
Sharon Holmes — the state GOP delegate accused of pulling a gun on a repo man before losing a police chase to the Kingman cops last week — offered the Kingman Daily Miner an extremely poor denial to the accusations.Holmes, 68, reportedly wrote in an email that she didn’t run…
People around the country reacted differently to last week’s Supreme Court decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.”Amber Leah Gardner sure had a unique reaction.Gardner’s apparent response was to go to a Mesa deli with a stone hammer, rant about Obama and shout…
Also see: Scott Bundgaard’s Attorney: Senator Resigned Because Ethics Hearing Was Unfair and Scott Bundgaard’s Police Report: Bundgaard Invoked Immunity Scott Bundgaard resigned from the state Senate in January, but he just doesn’t know when to quit.The disgraced ex-lawmaker whines that he’s the victim in a diatribe posted on the…
The thought that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as “Obamacare” — is a “government takeover” of health care has been repeated over, and over, and over again since the spring of 2009.That thought earned the label of “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, a fact-checking…
Here’s something Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin will learn today: when you’re posting in a public forum on the Internet, everyone can see it.Like this morning, when he called Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard “very ghetto.”Gaspard drew the ire of many people who weren’t happy with the Supreme…
Representative Luis Gutierrez of Illinois conducted a pop quiz on “spot the immigrant” this morning on the House floor while discussing the Supreme Court decision to allow the “papers please” provision of SB1070 to stand. Too funny. On this C-SPAN video (fast-forward to 15 seconds), Gutierrez blasts the law as…
Don Kenney, the former “quarterback” of one of Arizona’s most notorious scandals, AzScam, stole his son’s personal info in 1998 to work as a real-estate broker in San Diego.This month, following a brief expose by former Arizona Republic reporter Lily Leung, Kenney’s son agreed to surrender the real-estate license that…
The campaign manager for independent Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Mike Stauffer says the challenge to Stauffer’s nomination signatures has been dropped.With the support of Democratic candidate Paul Penzone, plaintiff Lois Pfau filed the claim, alleging 12,726 of Stauffer’s 29,794 submitted signatures were invalid, for various reasons.Stauffer needed 19,410 valid signatures…
When Governor Jan Brewer’s being dumped on by her compadres at Fox News for something, it would seem to be an indication that she may not have the brightest idea about what’s going on…
Sharon Holmes was picked by the Mohave County Republican Party to head to the state GOP convention last month for a shot at becoming a delegate for the Republican Party National Convention.She didn’t win that spot, nor did she win a car chase with Kingman police Sunday evening.According to an…
