Since being fired as state Republican Party executive director last summer, Brett Mecum has found work as a political consultant and is helping out on state Senator Frank Antenori’s Congressional bid.Antenori’s one of several Republicans seeking to fill the seat left vacant by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from…
Democratic Congressman Jim Himes’ observation that Congressman Ben Quayle’s being credited for a bill very similar to his own has people getting testy.Quayle’s office tells New Times that Himes’ accusation is “ridiculous,” meanwhile, Congressman Barney Frank lost his speaking privileges for the day on the House floor while getting heated…
With the blessing of the Obama administration, Republican congressmen are proud to announce the parts they contributed to the GOP’s Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, including Arizona Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.Problem is, a Democratic congressman from Connecticut says a bill in the package with Quayle’s name stamped…
If you’re a Washington Democrat, Republican, or just a “self-styled do-gooder,” Governor Jan Brewer says you’re not helping solve the illegal immigration problem.Brewer was the keynote speaker at the Border Security Conference and Expo in Phoenix yesterday, where companies were showing off products to be used in securing the border,…
The Phoenix human rights group Puente is planning a press conference and rally for Friday, March 9, to protest the Phoenix Police Department’s current operations order on immigration enforcement, which allows crime victims and witnesses to be questioned about their immigration status.The operations order was last revised in October of…
Republican Wendy Rogers — who lost her bid for a State Senate seat in 2010 — made it official today that she’s joining the Congressional race in Arizona’s newly formed Ninth District.Rogers joins what’s becoming an increasingly populated field of candidates, which already includes Republicans Don Stapley, Travis Grantham, and…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer last week, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070. Schumer’s office said the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law to be…
An assault rifle with loaded magazines and 40 pounds of marijuana are just some of the objects found during a clean-up of federal lands near the smuggling corridor of Interstate 8.Dennis Godfrey, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, says he’ll try to find out exactly what type of…
With more than 91 percent of the precincts reporting to the Secretary of State’s Office, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s going to win Arizona’s presidential primary.Shortly before midnight, Romney had 48 percent of the vote from Arizona Republicans, with Rick Santorum lagging behind him at more than 26 percent.A poll…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley has filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress in Arizona’s newly created 9th District.The County Supervisor has served as one of five members of the Board of Supervisors since 1996, and is currently suing the county for $15 million due to his…
UPDATE: We played phone-tag with Patterson for a few hours last night, but while we had him on the phone, he very much denied what he called “false” accusations.Sixteen Democrats in the Arizona House signed off on an ethics complaint against fellow Democratic Rep. Daniel Patterson, of Tucson, following a…
If anyone can match the millions raised by six-term congressman Jeff Flake in his bid to replace retiring Senator Jon Kyl, it’s Valley businessman Wil Cardon.It was Cardon’s family that provided $10 million to help build the Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa, and Cardon has put more than a…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer yesterday, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070.According to a release from Schumer’s office, the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law…
The Republican Presidential debate in Mesa just wrapped up a few minutes ago, and in the mid-debate words of Mitt Romney, “I didn’t follow all of that, but I can tell you this…” Among the few Arizona-related topics discussed included, unsurprisingly, immigration and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. CNN moderator…
For some reason, a few legislators weren’t fans of Arizona Congressman Trent Franks naming his bill for a federal ban on race/gender-based abortions after Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.The bill was submitted by Franks under the name “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Non-discrimination Act of 2011,” but…
Millions of people will tune in to the Republican presidential candidate debate in Mesa tomorrow, an event that could help decide the outcome of the upcoming primary election.Yet it’s possible (and just about as likely as a summer snowcap on Piestewa Peak) that voters have made up their minds based…
Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva released a statement about State Senator Sylvia Allen’s bill to create a volunteer militia to guard the border, and as you can imagine, he’s not too hip to the idea.”This legislation is not just silly and irresponsible, it’s a public safety threat,” Grijalva says. “To arm…
With nearly 200 days to go before the August 28 primary between Republican Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert in Arizona’s newly formed sixth Congressional district, there’s already drama.It started earlier this week, with the Schweikert campaign sending an email to supporters about Quayle’s intention to “carpetbag” into the new…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks recently addressed accusations that his attempt to ban the imaginary problem of race/gender-based abortions in the United States was just part of some agenda to end all abortions in the country.Well… yeah.Franks was on the Concerned Women for America radio show last weekend to pimp his…
There’s a new addition to the growing field of candidates eying the Congressional seat vacated by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — state Senator Paula Aboud announced this morning that she will seek the Democratic nomination for the seat.”We have all been moved by the strength and courage of Congresswoman Gabrielle…
Phoenix has made public portions of the logs that former Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail once maintained to track how they spent their time. Though much anticipated, the documents hardly read like declassified top-secret Pentagon documents. Partly because their release comes more than two years after they were originally requested…
Republican Arizona Representative Kimberly Yee has taken a page out of fagala-phobic abortion bully Trent Franks’ book, and is taking it upon herself to attempt to dictate when women in Arizona can have an abortion.Yee introduced a bill into the Arizona Legislature yesterday that would ban abortions of fetuses that…
