It’s only 2010, and Sarah Palin hasn’t said whether she’ll be running for president in 2012, but all indications suggest she will (you don’t quit your gig as governor of Alaska and travel around the country lending teabaggers a wink and a ‘you betchya’ for nothing).But Arizona Senator John McCain isn’t…
There’s money well-spent, and then there’s just money spent — and Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman seems to be burning through the latter.Glassman released his campaign-finance report on Friday, and the candidate spent nearly half-a-million dollars over a two-month period…
Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has found himself smack-dab in the middle a closer-than-expected race that, according to the only poll released on the matter, has him leading his Republican opponent Ben Quayle by two points. So he’s decided to dump a ton of his wife’s own money into his…
A group of Hispanic Republicans released its list of Hispanic-friendly candidates in the 2010 election, and, somewhat surprisingly, the majority of them are Democrats. Of the 14 races the group Somos Republicans is watching, it claims only three Republican candidates are “Hispanic friendly.” The group prefaces the list by…
We’ve spent the last two weeks trying to get Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd to respond to a few questions, to which voters might want to know the answers before heading to the voting booth. It’s been two weeks and he hasn’t given us one actual answer.In the past, Hulburd’s campaign’s…
Since our earlier post about a complaint filed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee against Senator John McCain regarding some TV ads The Maverick funded — and starred in — the McCain campaign’s responded to the charges.The DCCC feels that two ads McCain released violate the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform act…
Two new campaign ads funded by — and starring — Senator John McCain have Congressional Democrats in a huff.The ads are for Congressional candidates Jesse Kelly and Ruth McClung and are similar-in-nature to “campaign ads” run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in which he didn’t so much hype himself,…
Senator John McCain recently released a campaign ad for Congressional candidate Jesse Kelly, which wouldn’t be a big deal if Kelly weren’t endorsed by the same anti-immigration group that gave The Maverick’s opponent in the GOP primary a nod — an endorsement McCain quickly asked his opponent to disavow.Earlier this…
As you probably know, there was some shocking news out of the District Three Congressional race earlier this week — according to a new poll, Republican candidate Ben Quayle trails his Democratic opponent, Jon Hulburd, by two points, 46 to 44 percent.If the poll, funded by a liberal Web site, is to…
Following Governor Jan Brewer’s jaw-dropping performance in the last gubernatorial debate, she reaffirmed her vow to not participate in more debates — despite challenges from her Democratic opponent, Terry Goddard. Last month, we called Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign to throw her handlers a hypothetical: if the other candidates scheduled a debate…
Bill Montgomery hasn’t been elected Maricopa County Attorney yet, but he’s already formed a transition team and has been meeting with elected officials. Can’t say we blame him, since there isn’t a snowball’s chance in Phoenix that he’ll lose November 2’s general election to Libertarian Michael Kielsky. Montgomery won the Republican primary election…
Like a lot of states, Florida has recently drafted its own version of SB 10-70, Arizona’s controversial immigration bill. The bills are very similar, but there is one difference: Canadians and people from certain European countries get a free pass because people from those countries are usually white thanks to…
The Arizona Democratic Party launched a website poking fun at Secretary of State Ken Bennett for getting chummy with the lobbyists that he is “duty bound to ensure … are regulated and kept in line.”The website, Lobbyists Love Ken, is dressed in pink, covered in hearts and even comes with…
As always, we take all polls with a grain of salt. And two polls — one released by the Arizona Republican Party, and one released by the Republican candidate for Attorney General, Tom Horne — are part of the reason why.The Arizona Democratic Party feels it owes the GOP a…
To quote Senator John McCain’s campaign spokesman, Brian Rogers, “We don’t live and die with every poll.” Rogers prefaces nearly every poll-related e-mail with that grain of salt, especially when the poll favors McCain, because pollsters are often biased — Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen leading the pack.That said, the first…
U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman should stick to arid-land-resource sciences because any hopes of a singing career — or a career in the Senate, for that matter — were probably damaged beyond repair by his latest cringe-worthy campaign video.It was a regular WTF moment this morning when we got an…
Since the moment Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign manager suggested that her opponent in the gubernatorial election, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, was gay, Goddard has insisted that he’s not (insert standard “not that there’s anything wrong with that” comment here).During a no-holds-barred exchange between the candidates last night in Tucson,…
Medical marijuana has the most support of any ballot proposition for the November 2 election, a new survey of likely voters shows. Fifty-four percent of registered voters, and 52 percent of likely voters, would vote “yes” on Proposition 203, says the latest Rocky Mountain Poll. If you’re thinking, “There’s no way it…
The Congressional candidates for Arizona’s Third District debated last night at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. There were a few surprises — Democratic candidate Jon Hulburd said he doesn’t know if he’s qualified for the job, Republican candidate Ben Quayle finally went negative, and…
An apology for offending people with a political smear isn’t the same as apologizing for the smear, but that’s the best anyone’s getting out Chuck Coughlin, Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign advisor. Following his random, gay-baiting smear against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard yesterday, Coughlin posted the smarmy “I’m sorry” message on his…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has based the majority of his campaign around attacking his opponent, Ben Quayle, over his ties to The Dirty, a raunchy, Scottsdale-based gossip site, to which Quayle admits contributing a few satirical posts.Hulburd opened his campaign by saying “this race is now between Jon Hulburd and…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard went on Fox News this morning to pimp his latest probe into mortgage companies he says provide flawed foreclosure documents.He came across well — for example, he didn’t say anything like “we have did what’s right for Arizona,” as his opponent in the gubernatorial election,…
