The Phoenix City Council appointed Bryan Jeffries today as an interim representative for District 2. He fills the seat left vacant by Councilwoman Peggy Neely, who resigned to run for mayor.Jeffries was one of four candidates vying for the interim appointment, and has indicated that he does plan to run…
A group of doctors in town for their annual meeting held a press conference in front of the Arizona statehouse today to declare their opposition to anti-immigration legislation, particularly proposed bills mandating doctors ask their patients for immigration papers. New York Doctor Christina Gonzalez emceed the event, declaring the group…
DeeDee Blase, Arizona’s Republican immigration activist, has a message for the Tea Party: “Move aside, the Tequila Party is here,” she said at an afternoon press conference. The Tequila Party is a non-partisan voter-registration outfit designed to increase Latino political participation across the country. Blase announced at today’s event that…
While Governor Jan Brewer is pretty sure she can run for a third term (which she can’t), her camp is already cooking up some wild explanations to let it happen.Brewer’s spokesman Matthew Benson tells New Times that folks inside the governor’s office believe that the law stopping her from running…
Governor Jan Brewer is trying to weasel her way into a third term as governor by calling the Arizona term-limit law “ambiguous.”Brewer is convinced that she can legally be governor for another term, even though the Arizona Constitution says she cannot.The governor seems to think that since she took over…
Despite that it’s unclear whether Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will be physically able to run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl, she already leads every Republican in the field — at least according to the somewhat left-wing pollsters at Public Policy Polling.PPP released the results of a…
politisite.com A poll of 623 Arizona voters released today reflects a couple things — almost nobody likes Donald Trump, and most people would prefer Sarah Palin not move here. In the poll — from Public Policy Polling — opinions are recorded about possible GOP nominees for the 2012 presidential election,…
Leave it to facts and statistics to blow holes in stereotypes that have been widely accepted by racists everywhere.According to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Mexicans work more than anyone else on the face of the Earth. As a friend asked, “even the Japanese?”…
Cronkite News Christian Lira: an undocumented student whose scholarship is running out. State Republicans can pat themselves on the back: fewer undocumented students are getting educated. Which is what constitutes success in the Arizona Legislature. In spring 2007, there were 1,524 undocumented students in Arizona’s public universities. That number dwindled…
Greg Stanton today turned in petitions with more than 3,000 signatures nominating him as a candidate in the upcoming mayor’s race.While the signatures will go through a vetting process to make sure they are all valid and come from registered voters, Stanton essentially is the first horse officially in the race.Signatures will…
Citizens for Phoenix, a coalition of neighborhood leaders, is sponsoring a mayoral debate on May 3 at the Phoenix Theatre, 100 E. McDowell Road. It is expected to be the first debate with all five mayoral candidates in attendance. Thane Eichenauer, Phoenix lobbyist Wes Gullett, Councilman Claude Mattox, former Councilwoman…
Governor Jan Brewer vetoed Senate Bill 1322, a measure that would have required the state’s large cities, namely Phoenix and Tucson, to open up certain city services to competitive bids from private companies. Brewer said it was “riddled with shortcomings””It’s a good victory for now,” says Luis Schmidt, vice president of AFSCME (American…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne turned over some of the investigation into the Fiesta Bowl corruption fiasco to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office citing a conflict of interest that exists because many of the people being investigated are “clients” of the AG’s office because they’re elected officials.However, he’s hanging onto…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne announced today that he’s turning over some of the investigation into the Fiesta Bowl fiasco to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office because a conflict of interest exists between his office and elected officials who allegedly accepted — and failed to report — gifts and tickets to…
Former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth’s ego may have met its match — in the form of Congressman Jeff Flake and his well-stocked campaign coffers. We’re told by those in the know that Hayworth has decided to not square off against Flake in what would be a GOP primary for the…
Arizona Legislature Self-promotion is the law in Steve Yarbrough’s perfect world. Jan Brewer again rejected a bill increasing the amount of money Arizona taxpayers can write off on their tax bills and give to private-scholarship charities, denying state Senator Steve Yarbrough’s second attempt to raise the amount of money each taxpayer…
The first person to stand up and address the board at yesterday evening’s Maricopa Community College Board meeting wanted to inform them about the Model UN team’s successes at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The next 25 were there to condemn the board’s recent tuition hike for “out of state” students, a…
Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams (left) will step down from his post on Thursday as a likely step toward running for Representative Jeff Flake’s seat in Congress. Flake’s planning a run for U.S. Senator Jon Kyl’s soon-to-be-vacant seat, and Adams has been among the possible candidates for Flake’s Congressional District…
News Mild Undocumented students walk through a minefield of laws in pursuit of higher education. Some bills die on the floor of the statehouse. Others die on the governor’s desk. Sometimes, they die in the courts. And then there are those that die in a legislative committee, along party lines,…
Just when you give Governor Jan Brewer a little credit, she takes it way, way too far… Not only does Brewer find the debate over President Barack Obama’s citizenship to be a “distraction,” but she also thinks it’s leading America down a doomsday-ish “path of destruction.”The Birther movement is stupid,…
Maricopa Community Colleges board member Debra Pearson can expect an earful at tomorrow’s meeting in Tempe. The Maricopa Community College Governing Board is meeting tomorrow at the District Support Services Center in Tempe and it’s expecting company — protesters demonstrating against the district’s recent decision to raise tuition on “out-of-state”…
A bill allowing the creation of license plates featuring the Gadsden Flag, the adopted symbol of the Tea party movement, is awaiting the signature of Governor Jan Brewer, and people — a New York congressman, in particular — aren’t happy about it.Anyone who wants a Gadsden Flag plate would have…
