Arizona voters sent a strong message to labor unions in today’s election, appear to have banned affirmative action in state and local government programs, and rejected the idea of getting forced to buy government health insurance.The ballot measures supporting the above (mostly symbolic) ideas won by large margins with 96…
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 the show at the GOP election night party at the Hyatt in…
Despite only winning the GOP primary with about 20 percent of the Republican vote — meaning about 80 percent of the Republicans in his district didn’t vote for him — some of the loudest applause at the GOP election night party was for Congressman-elect Ben Quayle, who has unofficially defeated…
A crowd of Congressman Harry Mitchell’s supporters gathered at Tempe Mission Palms, waiting for the defeated congressman to arrive. Mitchell, a Democrat who represented Congressional District 5 for two terms, lost his seat to Republican David Schweikert.It was not a good night for the Dems,Supporters applauded and chanted for a…
As we reported, more than 70 percent of precincts have delivered voting results — and Proposition 203, Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Initiative, is losing by a narrow margin. As this is being written, Prop 203’s down by less than a percentage point. In other words, Prop 203 looks like it’s…
The medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 203, is just one of several statewide races that look like they might end in a photo finish. At 10 p.m. approaches, here are some of the closest ones according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office: * Prop 203 — With 70 percent of…
Congressional candidate David Schweikert is up by nearly 12,000 voters as early polling numbers start rolling out. The margin has been widening between Schweikert and his opponent Congressman Harry Mitchell. Schweikert: 59,134Mitchell: 47,148And his fellow-Republicans appear to be on the same path to victory. There was a brief burst of jubilation…
We feel confident enough at 9:30 p.m. to call a few of the bigger races tonight, even with lots of precincts still counting ballots. Jan Brewer over Terry Goddard, Governor John McCain over Rodney Glassman, U.S. Senate Trent Franks over John Thrasher, Congressional District 2 Ed Pastor over Janet Contreras, CD4…
As initial poll results start to come in, Proposition 203 — the Arizona Medical Marijuana Initiative — is losing by a small margin. The mood at Alice Cooper’stown– where supporters of Prop 203 have gathered to await election results — is one of reserved excitement and hope…
We bumped into an old friend as we stepped into the moribund Democrat headquarters in downtown Phoenix a bit ago. He’s a old-school pol, a friend of gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard (who is about to go down to his third loss for the state’s highest job — twice to…
Proposition 203 is failing to live up to expectations of a landslide victory as very early ballots come in, with the medical-marijuana measure trailing 52 percent to 48 percent. These are the results of about 430,000 early ballots in Maricopa County. The early votes show Democratic Congressman Harry Mitchell trailing Republican David Schweikert by a hefty 10…
David Schweikert back in the day David Schweikert might just have stumbled into politics because it was “too hot outside.”That’s the story that Lois Fitch just told New Times at Schweikert’s campaign headquarters in Scottsdale.Fitch, a former American History teacher at Saguaro High School, started the Teenage Republican Club there…
Tonight is election night, and chances are you want the inside scoop on the results before anyone else. Well, you’re in luck — New Times staffers will be camped out at election headquarters, as well as at various election night parties, to make sure our readers get the results — and…
Um, we’re pretty sure that the Maricopa County Election officials aren’t scattering broken glass — or hot coals, bear traps, or land mines, for that matter — in front of polling sites.This is one of the photos that greets you on District 5 Congressional candidate David Schweikert’s campaign Web site. …
Attention, Andrei Cherny: we’re hip to you.As we’ve seen throughout the 2010 election season, family values matters to Arizona voters, and in a final push to drum up support for his campaign for state Treasurer, Democratic candidate Andrei Cherny ordered his wife to have a baby last night — just in…
An hour-long hearing at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco signals a mixed bag for both supporters and opponents of Arizona’s harsh anti-illegal-immigrant law. A story in the Washington Post claims that “deep skepticism” by one judge about the Obama Adminstration’s challenge to the law makes it “uncertain” that the…
A Valley painter apparently thought he’d try to cash in on the down-on-brown mentality gripping many Arizonans at the moment by making the slogan for his business a racial slur about Hispanics.It seems to have backfired.The business card of Russell Lewis, of Russell Lewis & Son Painting, has an American…
There’s a video making the rounds in the blogosphere of a man, who is supposedly a supporter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, choking a supporter of her opponent, Republican Jesse Kelly. Conservative bloggers are using it to discredit the Democratic congresswoman and her supporters. Check it out here. At first glance, we concluded that either the video’s bullshit…
Comedian Steve Hofstetter spent an hour standing in front of Governor Jan Brewer’s office asking white people if he could see their birth certificates. He videotaped his findings and the end result is hilarious. The video is obviously designed to point out the hypocrisy of the new law, and those who…
Nik Richie, founder of the sex-steeped Web site The Dirty, is gonna be pissed. The latest campaign ad for Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd is a little different from literally every ad the candidate has released before today. In other words, it’s not just 30 seconds of free promotion for Richie’s raunchy Web site. Hulburd today…
Apparently New Times isn’t alone in trying to get Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon to answer legitimate questions he finds tough or uncomfortable.Gordon & Co. also are blowing off Fox 10 because, according to a story posted on its Web site, Gordon didn’t like its line of questioning. Who does the mayor think…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s been screeching about the importance of pinching the city’s pennies, which would be encouraging for the cash-strapped metropolis if the mayor hadn’t just hired a pricey PR firm to handle his media relations detail.Last week, the City Council approved a contract for PR honcho David Leibowitz…
