Election Campaigns

Joe Arpaio-Foe Paul Penzone Blasts Sheriff's Hypocritical New Ad

Speaking before a crowd of seniors in Sun City Wednesday morning, Democratic sheriff's candidate Paul Penzone took aim at a new campaign ad for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, one in which Arpaio asserts that Tent City has been a money-saver for county coffers. Currently in heavy rotation on local cable channe ... More >>

Robert Meza, State Senator, Uses Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton's Family Photo on Campaign Flier Without Permission

See also: Local Latino Activists Target Unlikely Politician See also: Meza Accused of Threatening DREAMer With Defamation Lawsuit See also: Meza Files Election Complaint Against Team Awesome See also: How Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change Phoenix's City Council Campaign fliers sent out by Senat ... More >>

Senator Robert Meza Files Election Complaint Against Team Awesome, A Volunteer Group of Mostly Students Campaigning for His Opponent

See also Local Latino Activists Target Unlikely Politician Senator Robert Meza is accused of being out of touch with the mostly Latino community that he represents. And he isn't doing himself any favors with a complaint he filed with the Secretary of State on July 16 against a group of student vo ... More >>

Local Latino Activists Target Unlikely Politician

Russell Pearce's Radio Show and Its Potential Legal Problems

The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa's Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he's running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him ju ... More >>

Rick Perry Bails on Presidential Campaign; Joe Arpaio Picks the Wrong Horse...Again

​If you happen to be running for president, do yourself a favor and avoid Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio like grim death -- for the second time in two presidential elections, Arpaio's horse in the race has crashed and burned.Just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Texas Govern ... More >>

El Mirage Responds to AG's Investigation of Allegations Officials Used City Resources To Win November Bond Election

​The Arizona Attorney General continues its inquiry into El Mirage and allegations that city officials used city resources to influence the outcome of an $8.5 million bond election on November 8.The bond passed with a mere three-vote margin.El Mirage provided some rather interesting responses to q ... More >>

How Greg Stanton, a Fair-Haired, Blue-Politicked Lawyer, Became Phoenix's Next Mayor

Lawyer Tom Ryan Attempts a Hail Mary Legal Pass to Boot a Fraudulent Candidate Off the Recall Ballot

GOP Presidential Hopefuls Should Ask Joe Arpaio About His Elvis-Themed Panty Parties

James KingPresidential hopefuls (allegedly) want to talk to Joe Arpaio about immigration. They should ask about some of his other passions, including the Elvis-themed panty party he threw at his Tent City jail earlier this year. ​According to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ghost-"tweeters," ... More >>

Palin Invasion of Arizona Continues: Sarah Palin Would Base Presidential Campaign in Scottsdale, According to Rumor Mill

Arizona could be the base for Sarah Palin's presidential campaign.​Fresh from the rumor mill: if Sarah Palin runs for president, she will base her campaign out of Scottsdale, continuing the Palin family's invasion of Arizona.As you know, Palin's daughter Bristol recently/inexplicably bought a home ... More >>

Wes Gullett, Former John McCain Operative, to Run For Mayor of Phoenix

www.uli.org Wes Gullett​We heard a little rumor the other day that Wes Gullett, a deputy campaign manager for Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and a long-time operative within Arizona's GOP, planned on running for mayor of Phoenix. Today, Gullett confirmed the rumor -- ... More >>

Candidate for Treasurer Andrei Cherny's Wife has Baby Just in Time For Election Day. Naturally, We're Suspicious

Andrei ChernyAndrei Cherny, his wife Stephanie, and their new addition, Arabelle Sophia​Attention, Andrei Cherny: we're hip to you.As we've seen throughout the 2010 election season, family values matters to Arizona voters, and in a final push to drum up support for his campaign for Treasurer, Demo ... More >>

Congressional Candidate Jon Hulburd Dumps $250k of (Ahem) His Money Into Campaign

SC Jon Hulburd​Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has found himself smack-dab in the middle a closer-than-expected race that, according to the only poll released on the matter, has him leading his Republican opponent Ben Quayle by two points. So he's decided to dump a ton of his ... More >>

Morning Poll: Who Benefits Most From Dean Martin Suspending his Campaign for Governor?

Dean Martin ​And then there were two -- legitimate GOP candidates for governor, that is. Dean Martin suspended his gubernatorial campaign on Friday leaving accidental Governor Jan Brewer and businessman/ rich-guy Owen "Buz" Mills as the last remaining candidates (with active campa ... More >>

Augustus Shaw, Candidate for State Legislature, Ran Afoul of Campaign Rules in Tempe

  ​Augustus Shaw, a Republican running for State Legislature, failed to close out a political action committee he started when he ran for Tempe City Council in 2004, officials say. Because of state campaign-finance laws, Shaw should have either terminated the PAC or filed finan ... More >>

U.S. Supreme Court Clean Elections "Matching Funds" Block: What It Means for Arizona

Attorney Nick Dranias' efforts will change the 2010 election cycle.​As attorneys at the Goldwater Institute stressed in a conference call with reporters this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to block matching funds -- effectively stopping their dispersal for the 2010 election cycle ... More >>

John McCain Hires New Campaign Manager After Last Week's Shake-Up

James King​Senator John McCain's re-election campaign announced today that it has found a replacement for former campaign manager Shiree Verdone and it's opted to go with a familiar face.Mark Buse, "The Maverick's" former Senate chief of staff, and one-time intern when McCain was in the House of R ... More >>

Phoenix Councilwoman Peggy Neely Expected to Announce on Friday What Everyone Already Knew: She's Running for Mayor of Phoenix

Peggy Neely takes oath of office in January​Phoenix Councilwoman Peggy Neely is expected to officially announce her bid for mayor of Phoenix this morning at the Westin Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale. (It's really in Phoenix, but they like to use the Scottsdale address. Adds a little panach ... More >>

Rodney Glassman Names Political Fossils Rose Mofford and Dennis Deconcini to Chair His Probable Senate Campaign

www.sulekeh.comRose Mofford with President Obama. Yes, Rose, he's black​With John McCain and J.D. Hayworth engaged in an all-out war for the Republican nomination for Senate you may have forgotten that at some point one of them will have to run against a Democrat. That Democrat is likely to be Tuc ... More >>

Andrew Thomas' Top Donors: We Crunch the Numbers

​In this week's print edition, New Times examines Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' habit of hiring pricey outside lawyers -- and then letting them run up huge bills for less than stellar work.We couldn't help but notice that some of the same firms billing the county for the biggest sums ... More >>

The Bird Claws at State Democrats and Likens the GOP's SCA-gate to the Granddaddy of Political Scandals

McCain Is Slammed for Using Another Unauthorized Song in His Campaign, and We Have Some Song Suggestions for the Republican Party

Postmodern John McCain: the presidential candidate some Arizonans know — and loathe

Corporation Commission candidate Sam George is Sam Vagenas with a new name and old tricks

State Rep. Russell Pearce's wacko, wing-nut contributors...

Daddy's Little Girl

What do you do when the biggest name in the race is the least qualified?

Doubting Thomas

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has approved lucrative contracts to Andy Thomas' old law firm

Doubting Thomas

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has approved lucrative contracts to Andy Thomas' old law firm

Jailgate Explodes

A new poll shows Outlaw Joe Arpaio's popularity plummeting among county Republicans

Special Treatment

Is justice for sale? Ask privileged characters like Jerry Colangelo

Winging It

Marla Wing is a political activist and a lot of other things. You figure it out.

Yippee

Infighting and back-stabbing are still in fashion this political season

Letters

Skipping to Re-election

Three men and some babies, or how Phoenix is choosing its next mayor

The Tony and John Show

Ten years of greasing the wheels for a real estate big shot make Tony West a spooky choice for voters

The Bench Warmer and the Straggler

Gubernatorial candidates have been playing the usual political game. One of them lost a long time ago.

Tom and Janet's Excellent AG Venture

Tom McGovern and Janet Napolitano are running close in a cordial race for attorney general. But somebody has to win.

The Work of Art Hamilton

For years, House minority leader Art Hamilton has used every trick in the book--the House rules book--to influence the Republican majority; now he's running for secretary of state

3-D Vision

Mind Your JPs and Qs

Six-figure campaigns, questionable addresses and church politics cloud justice court races

The Clash of '98

John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

Butt Out

Campaign reform head, tobacco lobbyist at odds over alleged contribution

Young and Arrestless

Law enforcement neophyte narrowly fails to make ballot; will continue write-in campaign against Arpaio

Flashes

POLS TO THE WALL

BLAND AMBITION

HE'S RUNNING FOR THE U.S. SENATE ADS AN OUTSIDER, A BORING STRAIGHT ARROW WITH THE COMMON TOUCH.

THE RUNNING MANPAUL JOHNSON'S POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS ONLY BEGIN IN PHOENIX

THE COUNCIL'S BROKEN PLAYWHEN THELDA WILLIAMS GOT THE TEAM TO PUNT ON GAY RIGHTS, CITY HALL KICKED OFF A WHOE NEW BALL GAME

THERE GOES THE "JUDGE"

DID AZSCAM RUIN THE CAREER OF STEDINO SQUEALER GARY BARTLETT? DID GARY BARTLETT EVEN GAVE A CAREER?