Election Campaigns

Arizona AG Tom Horne's Sex Scandal Scuttles Gubernatorial Bid

Democrat Rich Carmona Races Toward the U.S. Senate

Glendale Mayoral Candidate Says He Was Attacked After a Tea Party Debate By Man Suspected of Removing His Campaign Signs

Walt Opaska, a candidate running for mayor of Glendale, says he was attacked after a Glendale Tea party debate last night in a Denny's parking lot. Opaska says that, at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, as he was walking out of the restaurant near 51st Avenue and Thunderbird Road, someone told him ther ... More >>

Paul Babeu Turns Distortion of Truth Into an Art Form

Paul Babeu Quitting Congressional Campaign; Now Confirms the Rumors His Office Has Been Denying

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is calling it quits in his Congressional campaign and plans instead to run for re-election as sheriff. Babeu would have us believe that his decision has nothing to do with the polls that show he has no chance of winning a seat in Arizona's Fourth Congressional Distri ... More >>

Michael Monti Brings Out Mark Mitchell's 1993 "Arrest"; Mitchell Says Monti's "Really Hitting the Bottom of the Barrel on This One"

Back in 1993, Mark Mitchell -- who's running for mayor of Tempe -- was involved in an incident with police at a Mill Avenue bar.Mitchell's opponent in the mayoral race, Michael Monti, is now making it a campaign issue (in 2012), claiming Mitchell's "distort[ing] the truth" about what happened.It boi ... More >>

Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' House Vandalized; Campaign Cites Left-Wing Blog Commenters

​Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers says her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks "the Left" might have something to do with it.An email from the Rogers campaign says her Tempe home was vandalized on Saturday night, about 12 ... More >>

Phoenix Mayoral Candidate Wes Gullett's Story Is More Complicated Than It Looks

Russell Pearce's Brother Judge Lester Pearce Campaigns for Russell Despite Ethics Rules

The judge plays defense for Pearce loyalist Pat Oldroyd at a recent LD 19 meetingLester Pearce, brother to state Senate President Russell Pearce and longtime Justice of the Pearce for the North Mesa Justice Court, allegedly has been campaigning on behalf of his embattled sibling, despite a prohibiti ... More >>

Joe Arpaio to Pay $76,000 Over Illegal Mailers Attacking Rick Romley

Joe Arpaio's gonna have to cough up $76,000 over illegal attack ads on his arch-nemesis Rick Romley. ​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't admit any wrongdoing in his campaign mailer attacks on former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley during last year's special election for county attorney, ... More >>

Peggy Neely and Greg Stanton Show Early Leads in Phoenix Mayor's Race, Poll Reveals

Four candidates vying for the Mayor's Office in Phoenix City Hall. ​It's way early in the Phoenix mayor's race, but for political junkies to want a glimpse of what might be, here are the results of a poll conducted by the Motola Group, a Phoenix based-public advocacy firm. While some 40 percent of ... More >>

Rodney Glassman Dropped $460K on Campaign in Two Months

This is the result of some of Rodney Glassman's campaign spending.​There's money well-spent, and then there's just money spent -- and Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman seems to be burning through the latter.Glassman released his campaign finance report on Friday and the candidate spent n ... More >>

Congressional Democrats Charge John McCain With Violating Same Campaign Finance Rules He Created

The Mav​Two new campaign ads funded by -- and starring -- Senator John McCain have Congressional Democrats in a huff.The ads are for Congressional candidates Jesse Kelly and Ruth McClung and are similar-in-nature to "campaign ads" run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in which he didn't so mu ... More >>

John McCain Campaign Responds to Campaign Finance Complaint

The Mav​Since our earlier post about a complaint filed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee against Senator John McCain regarding some TV ads The Maverick funded, and starred in, the McCain campaign has responded to the charges.The DCCC feels that two ads McCain released violate the ... More >>

Terry Goddard Tells Jan Brewer to Give Campaign Manager the Boot After Gay Remarks

​Since the moment Governor Jan Brewer's campaign manager suggested that her opponent in the gubernatorial election, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, was gay, Goddard has insisted that he's not (insert standard "not that there's anything wrong with that" comment here).During a no-holds-barre ... More >>

Rodney Glassman Solidifies Runaway Staff With New Campaign Manager

Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman​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 ... More >>

Governor Jan Brewer and the Hypocrites of Clean Elections

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon Is Paying His Girlfriend, Elissa Mullany, Big Bucks

Mayor Phil Gordon and His Girlfriend/Fundraiser Elissa Mullany Have Some Explaining To Do

Mayor Gordon is paying -- and dating -- his fundraiser, Elissa Mullany.​Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon hasn't needed to raise money since he waltzed to reelection in the fall of 2007, leaving a war chest stocked with $370,000. Yet in the last two years, Gordon has paid his chief fundraiser big bu ... More >>

Phoenix City Hall Finally Shutters Michael Booher's Rave Scene, Yet the Party Goes On. And What About Clean Elections Cheat Doug Quelland?

The Dirty Truth about "Clean" Elections

Michael Nowakowski’s unlikely Phoenix City Council win puts him on Big Money’s radar

Enemies List

Paranoia aside, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas just may be targeting you

Send in the Clowns

Don't bother, they're here. After a decade of voter-mandated reform, the Arizona Legislature is as out of touch as ever

Vote For Me Or I'll Shoot This Dog

Just Kidding. But Phoenix City Council candidate Jessica Florez is trying to soften her tough-girl image.

Muck My Day

Sheriff candidate fears dirty politics

Posse Galore

Staking out Maricopa County's wildest political race -- to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Wash Daze

Now in its first cycle, Arizona's new Clean Elections law is putting bureaucrats and candidates through the wringer

Haunted by Spirits

John McCain derived his wealth from his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, whose father started his road to riches as a bootlegger. As a politician, the senator has remained beholden to the liquor industry and the family business

Prisoner of War Chest

McCain should put his campaign money where his mouth is — or, at least, online

An Endowed Chair

Senator John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped make him a presidential contender. Donations from special interests that appear before his Senate Commerce Committee haven't hurt, either

McCain's Gravy

Don't buy his poor-boy claims — he can raise big bucks. But will it be his undoing?

Arroz con Polling Place

Mexicans living in the U.S. may no longer have to go home to vote in Mexico's elections

The Serene Clean Elections Machine

For all that's at stake, the state's most influential lobbyists and businesses are strangely silent on Proposition 200, which would remove them as the primary financiers of election campaigns

Silent Running

Gallant Effort

Arizona and the Siege of the Rangers

Cheer and flag clothing on the campaign trail, 1998

Sam I Am

How a baton twirler from Filer, Idaho, grew up to be Scottsdale's Mayor Sam Campana

Waiting for McCain

Is the nation's leading proponent of campaign-finance reform turning his back on a homegrown effort?

Hee-Haw Politics

Clinton won, Fife lost, and now state Dems have high hopes for '98. But they're in for a wild-ass ride

The Pampered Politician

Arizona Senator John McCain is ready for a presidential run — if the national press corps has anything to say about it

Halloween VI: Election Fright!

In the sixth congressional district, J.D. Hayworth and Steve Owens have run campaigns so devoid of content it's almost scary

LIBERAL TO A FAULTA LONG-RUNNING POLITICAL FEUD HAS BROUGHT DEMOCRATIC SOUTHWEST PHOENIX LITTLE BUT INTRIGUE, PARANOIA--AND A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION

Pols to the Wall

DEARTH WATCH

PHOENIX'S MAYORAL CAMPAIGN OFFERS NEITHER INSPIRING VISION NOR CONCRETE PROPOSALS. WHAT IT OFFERS IS SKIP OR LINDA.

REINVENTING THE BIG WHEEL

DERAILED BY AZSCAM, DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE MIKE CRUSA HAS WAGED HIS BEST CAMPAIGN YET---TO SALVAGE HIS OWN CAREER

FIFE'S BENEVOLENT CREDITORS

NO EVIDENCE OF PAYMENTS ON $1 MILLION-PLUS IN CAMPAIGN "LOANS"

CORPORATION MEN

TO RETAIN HIS SEAT ON THE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN JENNINGS TAKES HIS GLOVES OFF AND BATTLES TURNBUCHLE TOM

Right Time for Sargent?

Look out, McCain. There's a woman after you.

THE DISTRICT SIXTHIS CONGRESSIONAL MATCH WAS MADE IN HEAVEN