David Garcia wants to become Arizona’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction. And if he beats his challenger, Republican Diane Douglas, Garcia would be the first Latino elected to statewide office in about four decades. The Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hopes that happens. The business association is giving its support…
Last night’s first gubernatorial debate between Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal largely focused on the two candidates’ bread-and-butter issues: business growth for Ducey, and education for DuVal. The most contentious parts of the debate were over DuVal’s record on the Arizona Board of Regents, as Ducey repeated lines…
Fred DuVal’s campaign for Arizona governor has been airing campaign ads featuring Republican Grant Woods, a longtime friend and college classmate of DuVal’s. DuVal, the Democratic nominee, is running against Republican Doug Ducey in the November general election. Sure, Woods, a former Arizona attorney general, may have chaired Governor Jan…
So how does a crazy lady like Sylvia Allen become a member of the Arizona Legislature? Some dude has to fall off a horse. Literally. Back in 2008, it was state Senator Jake Flake, uncle of now-U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and former Speaker of the state House, who got bucked…
The attack ad that hits Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred DuVal for voting for tuition increases as a member of the Arizona Board of Regents isn’t going away. In fact, it’s now in Spanish, too…
David Leibowitz, a political consultant who’s helping Felicia Rotellini, the Democratic candidate for Arizona Attorney General, posted a tweet implying that her opponent Mark Brnovich is being followed by thousands of “fake twitter accounts.” Funny because a quick (an inexact) check of Leibowitz’s more than 26,000 followers on twitteraudit.com estimates…
It took about a week, but the match-ups for all nine of Arizona’s congressional races have been decided. The Republican primary in Congressional District 1 had been too close to call since the primary election last Tuesday, but businessman Gary Kiehne has conceded defeat to Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin…
Supporters of Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey aren’t taking Democratic challenger Fred DuVal lightly. With the primary election barely over, Ducey supporters had a DuVal hit on TV, spending more than a half-million dollars to slam DuVal — a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents — for college…
Primary day 2014 was a beautiful day for moderation in Arizona politics. A perfect day? Hardly, but disappointments in the Republican field offer opportunities for Arizona Democrats in the general election. Former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith’s second-place finish to state Treasurer Doug Ducey was anticipated, though the severity of the…
On Election Night, Public Policy Polling released a survey of Arizona voters revealing that a general election race between Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey and the Democrats’ Fred DuVal would be even matched — at least in the beginning. It gives hope to Democrats trying to gain leverage in a…
Ruben Gallego’s political star has ascended quickly in Arizona politics. Last night, the 34-year-old beat out a politically connected and well-known Democrat in a race for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District…
Four Arizona lawmakers appear to have lost their primary races. Three Democrats and one Republican are losing races in which all or nearly all of the voting precincts have reported their results, and each lawmaker facing a loss is doing so under different circumstances…
The morning after Arizona’s primary election, there’s still one race to be settled among the state’s nine congressional districts. Former Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin has a lead of just a couple hundred votes over Gary Kiehne in the battle to take the Republican nomination in Arizona Congressional District 1,…
State Treasurer Doug Ducey cruised to an easy win Tuesday night for the Republican nomination for Arizona governor and will take on Democrat Fred DuVal in November. The results were not so good for another pair of Republicans in state government — scandal-plagued Attorney General Tom Horne lost his primary…
Please see updates and Horne’s concession statement at the end of this post. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne stubbornly refused to concede as his Republican primary foil, former state gaming director Mark Brnovich, did a victory lap Tuesday night at the Hyatt in downtown Phoenix, where GOPers gathered to watch…
Arizona Public Service’s apparent “dark money” spending for two Arizona Corporation Commission members appears to have paid off. Four Republican candidates were vying for two open seats on the commission in Tuesday’s primary election, and the two who APS allegedly preferred were comfortably in the lead…
Doug Ducey promised on Tuesday night to “set Arizona on a better path” following his decisive win in the state’s GOP primary for the governor’s race. Ducey spoke to an excited crowd of Republicans at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix after his closest competitor in the six-way primary race,…
Mary Rose Wilcox called Ruben Gallego before the night was over to concede the race in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District. Watch the video below:…
Three of the four competitive primary elections among Arizona’s congressional districts have been decided early. Former state Representative Ruben Gallego has defeated Mary Rose Wilcox in Congressional District 7’s Democratic primary, to replace retiring Democratic Congressman Ed Pastor. While votes are still coming in, retired Air Force pilot Wendy Rogers…
Arizona Senator Steve Gallardo is leading former Phoenix Councilman Michael Johnson in the race fo ther Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. “The night is still early and not all the polling places have reported,” says a cautiously optimistic Gallardo. “However, we feel very confident that our lead will continue to…
Doug Ducey has a lock on the Republican primary race for Arizona governor, judging from early results that show him trouncing his closest contender. With about one third of voting precincts reporting statewide at 9 p.m., Ducey had 36.7 percent of the vote compared to 23 percent for former Mesa…
The crowd of Ruben Gallego supporters gathered at Club Downtown is jazzed after Gallego’s wife, Phoenix Councilwoman Kate Gallego, announced that Mary Rose Wilcox “graciously” phoned her husband and conceded the seat for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District. When Gallego came on stage, his supporters chanted his name. And during his…
