Paul Gosar

Abdullatif Aldosary, Alleged Casa Grande Bomber, Now a Murder Suspect?

Abdullatif Aldosary -- the Iraqi refugee accused of detonating an "explosive device" outside the Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande in November -- apparently will be charged in a murder that occurred just days before the bombing.Orlando Requena, 26, was working the overnight shif ... More >>

Arizona's Republican Congressmen Take the Jan Brewer Route on Immigration Proposals

The anti-immigration-reform crowd's broken record is currently playing in the offices of Republican Congressmen Matt Salmon, Trent Franks, Paul Gosar, and David Schweikert.The congressmen, like Governor Jan Brewer, insist that they can only even fathom immigration reform proposals if the border is s ... More >>

Paul Gosar Asks Remington to Pack Up and Start Making Guns in the Colt Single Action Army Revolver State (Arizona)

Republican Congressman Paul Gosar has asked Remington Arms to move out of New York, and start making guns in Arizona.Why? Because people in the Colt Single Action Army Revolver state "cherish our Constitution, including the Second Amendment," Gosar wrote in a letter to Remington's CEO.

Is Paul Gosar's Demand for Answers on Bombing Suspect Totally Bogus?

Republican Congressman Paul Gosar claims he wants answers to his questions about alleged federal-building bomber Abdullatif Aldosary.A letter from Gosar's chief of staff to immigration officials says Gosar wants to know why Aldosary -- whom Gosar falsely claims is a "known terrorist" -- wasn't depor ... More >>

Debbie Schlussel: Why Did Paul Gosar Do Nothing About "Known Terrorist" in District?

Conservative political commentator Debbie Schlussel can sometimes wildly miss the mark on her points -- occasionally dabbling in conspiracy-theory-level stuff -- but she's got one hell of a question for Republican Congressman Paul Gosar.If Gosar knew in 2011 that Abdullatif Aldosary was a "known ter ... More >>

Abdullatif Aldosary Pleads Not Guilty to Charges in Casa Grande Bombing Case

Abdullatif Aldosary -- the Coolidge resident accused of detonating an "explosive device" outside the Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande a couple weeks ago -- pleaded not guilty today on two charges related to that bombing.Aldosary, an Iraqi refugee, faces just one charge related ... More >>

Paul Gosar Thinks Abdullatif Aldosary, Alleged Bomber, Is a "Known Terrorist"; He Is Not

Republican Congressman Paul Gosar wants Homeland Security officials to explain to him why Abdullatif Aldosary -- the Coolidge resident accused of detonating an "explosive device" outside the Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande last week -- has been allowed to stay in the United St ... More >>

Abdullatif Aldosary Held Without Bond in Casa Grande Bombing Case, Faces Deportation

A federal judge ordered Abdullatif Aldosary -- the Coolidge resident accused of detonating an "explosive device" outside the Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande Friday morning -- to be held without bond.In the detention order, the magistrate judge says Aldosary there's no possible ... More >>

Ann Kirkpatrick Called Winner in CD-1; Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally Sit on Leads

The Associated Press has called Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick the winner of the congressional race in CD-1, apparently defeating Republican opponent Jonathan Paton.For those waiting on the other congressional races -- Kyrsten Sinema v. Vernon Parker in CD-9, and Martha McSally v. Ron Barber in CD-2 -- ke ... More >>

Arizona's Congressional Elections: Good, Bad, and Ugly

As is the case every two years, all nine of Arizona's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for grabs, and some are closer than others.For example, if it's 8 a.m. on Election Day, and we're on the Secretary of State's website trying to find the name of the Democrat running against Congre ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema, Martha McSally, and Jonathan Paton Cling to Small Leads

Several of the races for Arizona's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives ended up close, and at the time of this post, we still don't have the answer in three districts.Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, Republican Martha McSally, and Republican Jonathan Paton are each hanging on to small leads in t ... More >>

Best Arizona Political Ad of 2012?

Yesterday, our colleague Stephen Lemons put together his list of the top 10 Arizona political ads of 2012.If you've turned on a television set over the past several month, then you've probably seen several of these -- over, and over, and over again, if you gaze into the TV often.See also:-Top Ten Ar ... More >>

Top Ten Arizona Political Ads of 2012 (So Far)

I don't think anyone will bemoan the end of the 2012 election cycle, except perhaps the TV execs and political consultants who're making a killing off the political ads bombarding us through the boob tube. Still, quite a few are memorable, and there is nothing more American than reducing your oppo ... More >>

Kirsten Sinema, Vernon Parker and Why Top-Two Was and Is a Dumb Idea

What's interesting about the result of the primary races in the newly drawn Ninth Congressional District is not that Republican Vernon Parker and Democrat Kirsten Sinema won their respective primaries. Rather it's that taken together, those primaries offer a textbook example of why the so-called Top ... More >>

Paul Gosar Beats Lawmaker-With-a-Shotgun Ron Gould

Republican state Senator Ron Gould will not be bringing his flat-top haircut, cowboy mustache, or his shotgun to Congress -- because he's not going.Freshman Congressman Paul Gosar will win the race fairly easily, especially since ebmattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu opted not to continue his ru ... More >>

Jeff Flake, U.S. Senate Hopeful, Chastises Congressman Todd Akin Over "Legitimate Rape" Comments, Yet He Co-Sponsored Legislation with Phrase "Forcible Rape"

Congressman Jeff Flake posted on his Facebook page on Thursday that during his campaign trail travels all over the state -- to places such as Superior, Miami, Globe, Payson, Show Low, Prescott, Flagstaff, Williams, Lake Havasu, Sierra Vista, Tucson, Kingman -- he had a revelation. "What I've found i ... More >>

Kirk Adams Gets the Nod From Sarah Palin, Which Actually Tends to Be a Good Thing

Former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams -- who's facing off against fellow Republican Matt Salmon in Arizona's Fifth Congressional District primary -- got the stamp of approval from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.A nod from Palin might scare the neighborhood liberals, but if history tells us any ... More >>

Arizona Congressmen Repeat "Lie of the Year" About "Obamacare," and Vernon Parker's Set to Run It on TV

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 outlet ... More >>

Ron Gould Blasts "Obamacare" With a Shotgun... 'Merica

Now that embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu isn't running for Congress in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District, the race is down to two Republicans -- Congressman Paul Gosar, and state Senator Ron Gould.

Paul Babeu Turns Distortion of Truth Into an Art Form

Wil Cardon's Huge in Bangladesh. Jeff Flake Campaign Thinking He's Really Not

U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon is liked by thousands of people.Unfortunately, most of those people are in Bangladesh, according to the campaign of his primary opponent Jeff Flake, which is thinking Cardon's the latest politician to fudge the numbers on a social media website in the name of popular ... More >>

SB 1070 Oral Arguments Wrap Up in Supreme Court; Some Believe Court May Uphold Part of the Controversial Law

Just as oral arguments wrapped up at the U.S. Supreme Court over SB 1070, Arizona's controversial immigration-enforcement law that essentially criminalizes an undocumented immigrant's presence in Arizona, Congressman Paul Gosar made an appearance on MSNBC. Gosar is running for a seat in Arizona's c ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Congressional Campaign Contributions Collapse in Weeks Following Allegations He Abused His Power, Threatened His Gay, Mexican Lover with Deportation

Contributions to congressional hopeful Paul Babeu barely trickled in during March, with the once-popular lawman pocketing a mere $6,700 in the wake of multiple scandals enveloping him, his agency, and his campaign.   By comparison, Congressman Paul Gosar, also running for a seat in A ... More >>

Babeu Bailout: Congressman Paul Gosar Taking Full Advantage of Budget Woes Faced by His Congressional Opponent, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu

Congressman Paul Gosar is spreading the word among voters in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District that there is no way that his opponent, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, is the face of fiscal conservatism. Not with a $1.6 million budget shortfall in Babeu's office, and especially not with Babeu ... More >>

Paul Babeu, Embattled Pinal County Sheriff, Struggles to Remain a Relevant Political Figure

​Earlier this month, the L.A. Times reported that "federal agents stopped the main target of the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious in May 2010" but released him after questioning and "he disappeared back into Mexico, and the program went on to spiral out of control." It was a stunning revelati ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Suspicious Past as School's Headmaster

Babeu's Reckless and Threatening Behavior Have Enmeshed Him in a Career-Ending Scandal

Paul Gosar: It's "Incomprehensible" That Paul Babeu's Trying to Play the Victim

After releasing two not-so-scathing statements through his campaign last week about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's Mexican ex-lover problems, Congressman Paul Gosar now sounds pretty peeved off with Babeu (he is one of his Republican primary opponents in the congressional race, after all).Instead ... More >>

Demands Grow for Full Investigation into Allegations Against Sheriff Paul Babeu

Paul Babeu Supports Gay Marriage and Gays in the Military

Dennis Gilman's raw footage of Babeu's Saturday presserIn addition to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's admission to being a gay man during a Saturday press conference, wherein he denied allegations published in my colleague Monica Alonzo's expose concerning deportation threats against his ex-lover, ... More >>

Paul Gosar Upset With Paul Babeu (Over Press Conferences and Collectible Coins)

​Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar released two statements over the weekend in response to the New Times story of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's ex-boyfriend claiming he was threatened with deportation.Gosar's not exactly complaining about the accusations from Babeu's ex-boyfriend -- he's more con ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation

State Senator Ron Gould (and His Mustache) Enters District Four Congressional Race

​Just days after Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced he's running for Congress in Arizona's fourth district, Republican state Senator Ron Gould announced that he, too, is entering the race. "After talking to residents of Arizona's Fourth Congressional District during my exploratory phase, on ... More >>

Sheriff Paul Babeu: "It's Time For a New Sheriff in Washington." Announces He'll Run For Congress

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: proud member of the "build the dang fence" club.​It seemed like only a matter of time, but Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced this morning that he'll run for Congress in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District."The American people are sounding a giant 911 ca ... More >>

Arizona's 10-Member Congressional Delegation is Collectively Worth More Than $60 Million

www.dollardollarbillsyall.comArizona's Congressional delegation could "make it rain"... for years.​The Center for Responsive Politics recently released its list of the net worth of every member of Congress, and we've learned a few things about Arizona's Congressional delegation.For starters, Arizo ... More >>

Arizona's GOP Congressmen on Joe Arpaio's Botched Sex-Crime Investigations: (Crickets)

Attention GOP congressmen: grow a set, would ya?​Since the old, 2009 Pulitzer Prize-worthy tale of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 432 botched sex-crime investigations was thrust into the national spotlight thanks to an oddly timed Associated Press article last week, two of Arizona's three De ... More >>

How Did Your Representative Vote on Debt-Ceiling Bill? Let's Take a Look

www.pcrf.com​The federal government avoided economic catastrophe today after the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to increase the debt-ceiling yesterday. The bill cleared the Senate this morning, and President Barack Obama signed it into law moments ago.The vast majority of Arizon ... More >>

John McCain's Bigotry Earns Hashtag, Near-Universal Ridicule, Help from Bigot-Boy Sheriff

TwitterNo hash pipe for McCain, but his stupidity has scored him his own hashtagGuess I've heard the last from U.S. Senator John McCain's haughty, over-paid flack Brooke Buchanan.Yesterday, in the midst of a PR meltdown that's turned McCain (once again) into a political laughingstock, his office iss ... More >>

Ben Quayle, Paul Gosar, and Jeff Flake Sleeping in Congressional Offices (Not Together). Watchdog Group Pissy

The Congressional Inn: No vacancy.​Several members of Congress -- Democrat and Republican -- have been sleeping in their Congressional offices in Washington D.C., as oppose to finding permanent lodging in the nation's Capitol, and a government watchdog group isn't happy about it. Three of those me ... More >>

Congressman Ben Quayle Bashed by Congressional Dems for Accepting Federal Health Care -- Only He Didn't

James KingBen Quayle did not accept government funded health care, despite what Congressional Democrats might have told you.​The egg is on the face of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this morning for calling Arizona Congressman Ben Quayle a "hypocrite" for accepting government fund ... More >>

Congressman Ben Quayle Among Several Lawmakers to Hitch Ride to Tucson With "Worst President in History"

Jamie Peachey​Congressman Ben Quayle may think Barack Obama is "the worst president in history," but he's apparently still good for a lift.Quayle is among several lawmakers who will hitch a ride from Washington to Tucson aboard Air Force One with Obama today in order to attend a memorial service f ... More >>

National Rifle Association Gave Gabrielle Giffords a 'C' During 2010 Election

​According to the National Rifle Association's list of grades and endorsements for Arizona's Congressional delegation, Gabrielle Giffords earned a 'C' for her stance on gun rights. The list, reserved for NRA members only, was obtained today by New Times from an NRA representative. For eac ... More >>

Arizona Democrats' Defeat Dissected and Why the Party Needs to Bust Out a Guillotine or Two

John McCain's Not the Star of GOP Election Night Party, as Jan Brewer Works Crowd into SB 1070-Fueled Frenzy

James King Jan Brewer, to put it politely, is terrifying. ​As predicted, the U.S. Senate race between Senator John McCain and his Democratic opponent, Rodney Glassman, was a blowout.McCain clobbered Glassman by roughly 25 percent of the vote, which wasn't even enough to make him the star of ... More >>

Arizona Election 2010: Goddard Concedes to Brewer Amid Conservative Field Day

Image: www.azsos.gov​Terry Goddard won't follow his father's footsteps as Arizona Governor, at least not this time.The high-profile Democrat was just one more body thrown on the pyre following the Arizona's Election Day slaughter by Republicans. Goddard conceded to Governor Janice Brewer at abou ... More >>

Is PR Stuntman Jason Rose "Wilting"? The Arizona Guardian's Winged One Gives Him a Feather-Lashing

Is Jason Rose still a political heavyweight?​Jason Rose has never been one to mince words or hold back on a stunt if he thinks it would win him political points. And points for his clients, of course. Rose has worked hard to earn a reputation as a straight-talking, political-bomb-lobbing pub ... More >>

Congressional Dems Scaling Back Ad Budgets for Arizona Candidates

www.kir.com​It seems some of Arizona's Democratic members of Congress aren't as vulnerable in their re-election bids as originally anticipated -- at least the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks they're not.The DCCC reportedly is cutting the advertising budgets ... More >>

AFL-CIO Won't Help Arizona's Democratic Congressional Races; Money and Ads Going to Other States

  ​You've probably heard the predictions by now: Democrats are going to be scarcer in Congress this November. The number of potential seats lost could be high, but there's only so much money to go around to help them campaign. The AFL-CIO, typically a stalwart money source for Democrats, ... More >>