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…
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…
