The nation’s largest humanist charity is raising funds to offer legal assistance to the unaccompanied immigrant children flooding over the border. The Humanist Crisis Response program will donate the funds to two organizations that provide attorneys for minors in immigration hearings — the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in…
As early ballots begin arriving in mailboxes across Arizona, Mayor Greg Stanton is throwing his political support behind Michael Johnson, who is running for a seat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Johnson, a former Phoenix city councilman, is running against fellow Democrats Steve Gallardo and Marie Lopez Rogers,…
A candidate with forged signatures on his nominating petitions won’t be removed from the ballot, despite the existence of a state law against petition forgery.Although Republican Senate candidate Toby Farmer attested to being present when these phony signatures were signed, the Arizona Supreme Court is allowing him to stay on…
Campaign literature is filling mailboxes across the state as the August 26 primary election approaches. In Arizona’s Seventh Congressional District, political attacks documented in ominous black and white flyers are in full swing. Former Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox knocks competitor Ruben Gallego in her flyers for earning a…
UPDATE: Wilcox’s spokesman has responded to the poll. See updates below. A recent poll solicited by Congressional candidate Ruben Gallego reveals that he’s eight points ahead of his primary challenger, Mary Rose Wilcox. The survey released by Camp Gallego finds that Gallego has 32 percent of voters on his side,…
Now just four weeks away from the primary election, the latest poll of Republican voters shows half are undecided on a candidate for governor.Of the Republicans who have made up their minds, former GoDaddy executive Christine Jones is the leader with 18 percent, followed by Treasurer Doug Ducey at 16…
This Election Day, young voters may have the most impact in two of Arizona’s congressional districts.The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), a think tank that studies youth voting habits, believe the districts currently occupied by Democratic Congresswomen Kyrsten Sinema (CD-9) and Ann Kirkpatrick (CD-1)…
No surprise here: Disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has the most intense border-security plan of any of the Republican candidates for governor.Thomas is proposing 3,000 National Guardsmen on the border, along with double-layer fencing either along the border or along a “fall-back line” within the state…
Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, wants Americans to know that executions are dirty, “savage” business. In his written dissent to a Ninth Circuit ruling on Monday that puts the death penalty on hold for an Arizona killer, Kozinski appears to praise the guillotine…
Today in Found at the Border: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found two assault rifles hidden inside the dashboard of a Mexican national’s car.The car was headed back into Mexico, through the Port of Lukeville, according to the agency. According to federal court documents obtained by New Times, 45-year-old…
Republican congressional candidate Adam Kwasman has become the latest in a long line of Arizona politicians to be the butt of Stephen Colbert’s jokes on the Colbert Report.His appearance results from his confusing of a bus full of kids from the YMCA as a bus full of migrant children getting…
Disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney and current Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Thomas has released a very Andrew Thomas-y campaign ad.By “Andrew Thomas-y,” we mean there’s a crossed-out Mexican flag, and Thomas claiming to stand up to the “gay lobby.”…
We’re still a month away from the primary election, but Arizona’s politicians already have managed to turn campaign season into a full-blown circus.Here are the worst missteps, mistakes, and bone-headed moves from candidates already this year:…
Darlin Adonay Peña has a headache. On a Wednesday afternoon in May, he takes a break from his job flipping burgers at a McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Phoenix to sit down and talk, sipping a frozen caramel coffee drink and rubbing his almond eyes. A brown rosary peeks from…
Congressional hopeful Ruben Gallego, a former state lawmaker, is boasting a campaign war chest of nearly $435,000 from almost 1,500 political supporters — more than $272,000 of that money has been collected April through June. Gallego’s camp, in a press statement, say he has more than $300,000 cash on hand…
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee identified Arizona as a state where Democrats could either make significant gains or seize control of a state legislature.Recall that just four years ago, Republicans won a super-majority, occupying two-thirds of the seats in both the Arizona House and Senate…
The primary election is only about six weeks away, but the latest poll in the governor’s race shows about half the Republicans surveyed don’t have a pick.The poll released today by local political consulting firm Highground shows Treasurer Doug Ducey in first, at just 17 percent…
Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake have announced plans to introduce a bill in an attempt to deal with the influx of unaccompanied children from Central America arriving at the border.Generally, the bill would make it easier to turn around the children and send them home, but the legislation also…
Fred DuVal, the presumptive Democratic nominee in Arizona’s gubernatorial race, has joined the chorus of politicians — many of them Republicans — in calling for President Obama to visit the border.DuVal certainly isn’t the only Democrat calling on Obama to make this border visit in the wake of the influx…
Every day seems to be a bad news day lately for Attorney General Tom Horne.Yesterday, it was that Horne’s going to be investigated for allegations that he had employees doing his campaign work on state time. Today, it’s Governor Jan Brewer endorsing Horne’s opponent in the Republican primary, Mark Brnovich…
Today in Found at the Border: Elmo is for the birds.More specifically, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say a California couple attempted to smuggle a pair of parrots into Arizona from Mexico, by cramming the birds inside a stuffed Elmo doll…
Frank Riggs, a former California Congressman who wants to be Arizona’s next governor, is “proud” to have the support of recalled State Senator and scandal-magnet, Russell Pearce. Riggs is one of six candidates vying to win the Republican primary on August 26, which in red-state Arizona could be the deciding…
