Abandoning a sinking ship — more times than not — is a good decision. Jumping aboard, not so much.That’s what crossed our minds yesterday when we heard U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman’s campaign manager had bailed on the campaign and had been replaced. Today, just a day after announcing he…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon isn’t supposed to be meddling in discussions or matters involving Veolia Transportation, the company that operates most of the city buses and has Gordon’s girlfriend on its payroll. Gordon declared a conflict of interest during several public meetings and abstained from voting on (most) council agenda…
It’s been fairly clear the past few days that former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was gonna lose the Republican primary for state attorney general to Tom Horne. But he refused to concede.Can’t blame the guy for not throwin’ in the towel — it was a close race. But today…
Rodney Glassman, the Democratic Senate candidate hoping to unseat Senator John McCain, has filled one of the several holes that were left in his campaign staff following the alleged “jumping ship” of three of his top aids.The new kid on the block over at Glassman HQ is veteran Democratic strategist…
As absurd as it may sound, Hooman Karamian (a.k.a. “Nik Richie”), the founder of “The Dirty” is taking some of the credit for Congressional candidate Ben Quayle’s victory in the District 3 Congressional primary.In case you forgot, which we’re sure you haven’t, Richie’s the guy who outed Quayle’s ties to…
Former Tucson City Councilman (if you ask him “vice mayor”) Rodney Glassman is off to a sluggish start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.His former colleagues are bashing him — hard — and people on his own campaign have abandoned ship because they aren’t happy with how he…
News release from county just in: 2010 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS August 26, 2010, 4:25PM, Phoenix, AZ – Maricopa County Recorder, Helen Purcell, says every effort is being made to complete final counting for the August 24 Primary Election by Saturday, August 28, 2010. “We’ve tabulated 57,231 early ballots today. We…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman certainly isn’t getting off to a good start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.Last week New Times reported that several of Glassman’s staffers had quit because they were unhappy with how the candidate treated people working on the campaign. And today one of…
As we sat at former Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth’s primary night headquarters, we found it rather odd that his opponent, Senator John McCain, gave his victory speech before Hayworth showed up to concede — there was a reason.Traditionally, the loser of an election calls the winner to concede and offer…
It’s still officially unofficial. The GOP primary for attorney general is still undecided and will likely remain so until at least tomorrow.As of last night, Tom Horne has a 419-vote lead over Andrew Thomas in the race with about 100,000 votes left uncounted.The majority of the uncounted votes come from…
About 12,000 provisional ballots were amassed today at the Maricopa County Elections department, officials say, bringing the total number of uncounted votes in Tuesday’s primary to at least 133,000. The provisional ballots are from voters who didn’t have proper identification at the polls, recently moved or had some other minor technical…
Ben Quayle, the Republican nominee for Congress in Arizona’s 3rd District, concluded his primary campaign this afternoon with a touch of humor.At the office of his PR firm, Quayle thanked supporters and addressed the media for the first time since becoming the GOP’s nominee. When he took to the mic,…
Election officials tell us that at least 116,000 119,000 ballots remain uncounted in Arizona.That’s more than enough to flip the close race for state Attorney General again – maybe even a couple more times. The nail-biter of a Republican primary had Andrew Thomas in the lead for most of the…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin, who suspended his gubernatorial campaign in early July, is toeing the party line, announcing today that he is officially endorsing his one-time opponent Jan Brewer in the Arizona governor’s race.At one point Martin led in the polls in the gubernatorial primary, but with the flick of…
In the stop-the-presses department comes the following comment made during last night’s primary election coverage. was attributed to our own local Pinocchio, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in regards the decisive victory of Bill Montgomery over interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. “That’s going to make my job very easy,” Arpaio said…
Attention Arizona Capitol Times, KTAR, ABC 15, The Huffington Post, and all the other media outlets who ran with Cap Times reporter Jeremy Duda’s claim last week that Ben Quayle had fallen from frontrunner status in the District 3 Congressional primary: we hate to say we told ya so, but…
As of early this morning, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne was clinging to a 373-vote lead over former Maricopa County Attorney Tom Horne in the GOP primary for attorney general.The shocking results came late last night after Horne appeared to have lost the race — at one point…
The voters of Maricopa County have spoken and it appears another Joe Arpaio lap-dog will be the next county attorney.Former Assistant County Attorney Bill Montgomery pulled out a win against former, and interim, County Attorney Rick Romley.Montgomery has the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the two appear…
As of about 30 minutes ago, Ben Quayle holds a 5-point lead over his closest opponent in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary, Steve Moak, with about 80 percent of all precincts reporting.Quayle leads Moak by about 3,000 votes on a day with a surprisingly low voter turnout.Vernon Parker and…
Not even 10 minutes into our time at J.D. Hayworth’s election night festivities — at the posh Marriott Mountain View Hotel in north Scottsdale — did we run into an old friend. We were walking down the stairs into the less-than-packed ballroom when a man passed us. We instantly said…
Rick Romley and Tom Horne seem to be two casualties of the public’s desire to stick it to illegal immigrants, as we’ve reported tonight. (NOTE: As the votes came in, Horne took the lead and later won). David Schweikert, a Republican candidate in Congressional District 5, also made illegal immigration central to…
It’s looking dismal for Romley, an honorable man who won appointment to his former post a few months ago when Andrew Thomas resigned to run for Arizona Attorney General. (Romley served as County Attorney for 16 years until he retired in 2004, sadly paving the way for Mr. Thomas–a demagogue…
