Congressional candidate Ben Quayle isn’t backing off his claim that Barack Obama is the worst president in history — as made public in one of the lamest political ads to come out of this election season.In the ad, Quayle opens by saying “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.”…
We like to laugh here at New Times, so we were excited to learn that the Chicago-based sketch-comedy troop Second City had released a parody of Ben Quayle’s uber-awful campaign ad, in which he claims “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.”The ad sucks. It’s tacky, lame, and concludes…
If Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth was pissed off yesterday, he’s gotta be fuming today.In response to a comment Hayworth made that America is better off with Barack Obama as president than it would be with John McCain in the White House, the McCain campaign released a new campaign ad highlighting…
We just spent a few minutes chatting with Melissa Rein, the former director of public relations at Rose & Allyn Public Relations, the firm that likely planted the story about Congressional candidate Ben Quayle’s ties to The Dirty.If you’re unfamiliar with the saga, click here. She claims she’s not involved…
If you’re a political candidate considering taking a ride on Jan Brewer’s recently acquired, Greta-Van-Susteren-fueled coattails, you may want to reconsider — two candidates with Brewer’s stamp of approval lost their primary elections Tuesday.Not to say it’s Jan’s fault they lost, but it seems her super-star status after signing SB…
Senate Hopeful J.D. Hayworth is firing back after reports that he believes the country would be worse off if John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election.Check out our story on the matter here.At a campaign stop Tuesday night, Hayworth said “don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the guy…
Vernon Parker’s mouthpiece Jason Rose and other conservative politicos have been squawking much about the Ben Quayle connection to Nik Richie’s scandalously sexy website thedirty.com.It’s been part of the mudslinging campaign featuring Parker and Quayle — two of the candidates vying for a seat in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District.Ok, so…
John McCain’s campaign spokesman, Brian Rogers, says “The Maverick’s GOP primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, has “clearly lost it.” That would suggest at one point Hayworth had “it,” which we would say is a stretch, but Rogers’ comment was in response to something Hayworth said that, on the J.D. Hayworth scale…
Congressional candidate Ben Quayle apparently decided to tell the world how he really feels about President Barack Obama in a new Web ad posted on his Web site this morning. In the ad, Quayle says, in no uncertain terms, that “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.” He goes…
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has declined to stop Sheriff Joe Arpaio from pounding Tom Horne and Rick Romley in a televised attack ad. Judge John Buttrick stated in his ruling on the matter this morning that state election law provides remedies for complaints like Horne’s, and an injunction against…
One look at Jason Rose’s Twitter page and you’ll realize the dude’s got a hard on for Congressional candidate Ben Quayle.In the past few days, Rose’s Twitter page has been bash-Ben-Quayle central, and with the latest news that Quayle may have been involved in the early stages of The Dirty,…
Arizona lawmakers convened a special session today to fiddle with the language of a ballot measure intended to preserve secret-ballot elections in labor-union campaigns. Funny thing, though: Arizona’s got a lot of problems — and this ain’t one of them. We’ve written about the issue before: In a nutshell, labor unions — which have…
Randy Parraz has filed a federal lawsuit against Maricopa County and several deputies regarding his trumped-up arrest for protesting at a 2008 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. The pro-union, anti-Joe-Arpaio attorney-activist is currently running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat. If he manages to win over three other Democrats in the race (polls…
Well that certainly didn’t take long. Just hours after Senator John McCain’s campaign called “The Maverick’s” GOP primary opponent J.D. Hayworth “corrupt,” Hayworth’s campaign has fired back, claiming McCain tried to blackmail Hayworth into supporting his “amnesty bill” by threatening to discuss his alleged corruption with the media.Hayworth’s campaign released…
Steve Moak is one of 10 candidates in the GOP primary for the District Three Congressional seat. But before his bid to be the District’s next congressman, he was a businessman and philanthropist.The line between profit and charity appears to have been blurred for Moak, who, according to tax records…
Despite significant gains in almost every poll taken over the last month, Senator John McCain’s campaign continues to hammer away at The Maverick’s opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth.This primary has been one of the uglier political contests in the 2010 campaign season and, in its final stages,…
Congressional candidate Vernon Parker decided to pull out the race card last week, asserting that a phrase used by one of his primary opponents is racist.The phrase in question: “national poster boy.”The term was used by Ben Quayle in statement his campaign released in response to a different far-reaching attack…
Whether Vernon Parker’s assertion that the term “national poster boy” is racist warranted a response, the Quayle campaign is offering one.We contacted the campaign earlier today to see if it wished to respond to the charges made by Parker. Nobody immediately got back to us.Since our last post about “boy-gate,”…
Straight from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me files, a Valley civil rights advocate is calling on Congressional candidate Ben Quayle to apologize — or at least explain — his comment that one of his opponents, Vernon Parker, a black guy, could become a “national poster boy” for Democrats. As we explained earlier, Parker…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth’s latest TV ad has given the John McCain campaign an opportunity to re-package the old “wrestling match with a pig” analogy. As the saying goes, getting into one is a bad idea because “you both get dirty and the pig likes it.”The McCain campaign would argue…
Get out your race cards because Congressional candidate Vernon Parker wants to play.Parker released a statement a few minutes ago claiming the term “national poster boy” is racist.It’s not so much the “national” or “poster” that put a blip on Parker’s racial radar, it’s the word “boy,” which his campaign has…
On Tuesday, the Arizona Capitol Times ran a story with the headline “Quayle Mailer Not Actually What Meets the Eye.”The article bashes District 3 Congressional candidate Ben Quayle for distributing campaign literature showing a picture of him with two toddler-age girls. The criticism is that Quayle doesn’t have kids and…
