Many Phoenix voters have already cast a ballot. Some, perhaps even twice. For those of you who haven’t, today is the day. Don’t forget that Phoenix is now using voting centers, which have replaced the traditional polling places. The Maricopa County Elections Department, which is running school district elections in…
With just two weeks before Election Day, Phoenix’s two mayoral candidates aren’t letting up — taking political swings and slinging mud at each other. Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett says that if his opponent, Greg Stanton, is so adverse to lobbyists’ influence in city government, then why did he take…
A website touting support for a proposed $8.5 million bond in El Mirage is not only missing disclaimers about who paid for the site — it’s also misleads residents about who created it.And MoiaGroup, the Tucson-based web-design firm incorrectly linked to the site is pretty upset. So upset, in fact,…
As communities across Arizona — across the country — are desperately trying to attract new businesses and corporations to boost local economies, El Mirage is creating a headache for the city’s only gas station.We recently wrote about El Mirage city officials yanking their business from the Shell gas station on…
On a warm October afternoon, Wes Gullett climbs the steps of Phillips Memorial CME Church, a weathered red-brick building tucked away in a South Phoenix neighborhood. He walks through a small foyer and into a larger gathering room where about two dozen people sit- in folding chairs. A couple of…
There is “reasonable cause” to believe that Arizona Citizens United, an independent expenditure organization that has poured more than $100,000 to ensure that Wes Gullett is Phoenix’s next mayor, has violated state campaign finance laws.Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett forwarded the case on October 13 to the Attorney General…
Mark Kelly, husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, spoke during an Arizona Democratic Party fundraiser at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix to salute the party’s grassroots volunteers.During his speech, the retired NASA astronaut, told the crowd that Giffords was excited for Greg Stanton to be Phoenix’s next mayor…
A Washington, D.C.-based firm conducted a poll in the Phoenix mayor’s race that reveals Greg Stanton has a 19-point lead over his opponent Wes Gullett.Robbie Sherwood, a spokesman for Stanton, said the poll wasn’t commissioned or paid for by the Stanton for Mayor campaign.”I haven’t seen that poll and don’t…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is endorsing Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett, saying that he would work with them to fight illegal immigration. “Wes Gullett understands that the most sacred responsibility of city government is public safety,” Babeu said in a press release. “He’ll work with us, not against us,…
There’s been much squawking in Phoenix about the need to outsource, to privatize and to slash government costs — and it was a pledge that many of the six mayoral candidates made as they ran in the first leg of the Phoenix election.Now that the field of candidates in the…
It’s election night, and the crowd is exuberant inside the auditorium at Civic Space Park on Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus. The celebration on August 20 is about the re-election of Councilman Michael Nowakowski and the victory of Greg Stanton, a mayoral candidate who ended the night with the…
Wes Gullett, a Phoenix mayoral candidate, doesn’t mince words when it comes to his opposition to the most recent water rate increase in Phoenix.”I opposed it,” he said during the first mayoral debate in the runoff election between him and his opponent, Greg Stanton. “We didn’t need it … It…
There they were. All in one room. And there was remarkably no blood spilled.Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Attorney General Tom Horne. Gerald Richard, a law enforcement policy advisor for the AG’s Office. Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner. Among others…
Someone slashed Phoenix mayoral candidate Greg Stanton’s tires last night while he was at a fundraising event at an art gallery in Sunnyslope.A witness from a restaurant across the street reportedly saw a large male wearing a hood over his head slash two of the tires on Stanton’s gray sedan…
El Mirage city officials, cops and firefighters filled up their gas tanks at the city’s only gas station for more than a year and a half without any qualms about the fuel prices.That’s back when Joe David, the shop owner, was a political ally.But now that David started opposing a…
No More Deaths, a Tucson-based human-rights advocacy group, continues its push to end the abusive treatment immigrants suffer while in U.S. Border Patrol Custody.The group shares the stories of abuse, neglect, and humiliation of 13,000 people detained by the Border Patrol in a report released today — “A Culture of Cruelty:…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has reportedly pulled today’s City Council’s agenda his recommendation to appoint his girlfriend, Elissa Mullany, to the Phoenix Aviation Advisory Board.Gordon wanted to appoint her to the aviation board to replace Art Hamilton, whose four-year term is expiring in December.The recommendation — as with all appointments…
Union leaders trying to negotiate a contract for bus drivers in Phoenix and Tempe aren’t making any progress with Veolia Transportation, the international firm that runs the cities bus operations.”A strike appears to be inevitable,” Michael Cornelius, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433 tells New Times about the…
Wes Gullett’s has built his mayoral campaign on being an outsider, not part of the status quo and on not being beholden to “big labor” (um, unions).In fact, Camp Gullett put out a press release today knocking Greg Stanton for winning the endorsement of the firefighters’ union. One glaring omission…
Most Phoenix voters don’t like the city’s 2 percent temporary tax on food. That was the big reveal in a poll conducted by Summit Consulting Group of likely Phoenix voters — 58 percent of those surveyed oppose it, 41 percent of them “strongly oppose” it. Chad Willems, President of Summit…
In the battle of endorsements by former mayors of future mayor-wannabe’s, it looks like it’s Greg Stanton 2, Wes Gullett 1-ish.It would be 2 if you include someone who only served as mayor for 10 days. Gullett has been endorsed by former Phoenix mayors Paul Johnson and John Nelson, now…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, leaving office in just a few months, has stayed out of the endorsement business in the upcoming mayor’s race between former Councilman Greg Stanton and lobbyist Wes Gullett. But Paul Johnson, one of Gordon’s BFF’s who served as mayor from 1990 to 1994, is throwing his…
