Former Alaska Governor/the best person Governor Jan Brewer could find to write the foreword to her new book, Sarah Palin, isn’t going to run for president this year — but there’s a Senate seat in a certain Southwestern haven for far-right-wing-nuts that she’s rumored to have been eying for several…
This weekend is the 11th annual International Accordion Festival in San Antonio, Texas. It’s a three-day gathering of accordions, polka music, and, of course, beer.But if you ask Gwen Rivera, director of the International Accordion Festival, it’s more than just a gathering of polka fans who sit around and consume…
Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, the man who hopes to unseat Joe Arpaio as Maricopa County sheriff, announced Friday that he’s switching party affiliation to run as an Independent.It’s probably a pretty good move — Stauffer originally was running as a Republican, which means he would have had to face Arpaio…
Thomas Vickery lit a fire under the butts of city officials earlier this year, shaming them into finally moving a fire hydrant that blocked a curb ramp on a sidewalk.Now he wants the city of Phoenix to move up its schedule to do more improvements along Bethany Home Road that…
An illegal immigrant with epilepsy who crashed into the squad car of Phoenix police officer Jason Schecterle in 2002, burning the officer severely, has been deported to Mexico.Rogelio Gutierrez, 45, was marched across the border in Nogales on September 12 after spending the last nine years in an Arizona state…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that CNN will produce a “major” debate in Arizona between GOP presidential candidates.Jan’s “thrilled.””I’ve been in politics a long time, but I can’t remember a more critical election than this,” she says. “When it comes to some of the hallmark issues facing our country…
Steve Chucri, CEO of the Arizona Restaurant Association, announced plans today to run against Don Stapley in 2012 for a seat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”It’s time for new ideas … it’s time for a new day at the county,” says Chucri, who’s been head of the restaurant…
There’s been much squawking in Phoenix about the need to outsource, to privatize and to slash government costs — and it was a pledge that many of the six mayoral candidates made as they ran in the first leg of the Phoenix election.Now that the field of candidates in the…
Former United States Congressman Matt Salmon and former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams are both eying the Congressional seat getting vacated by Congressman Jeff Flake, who is running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.The two are both Republicans, both Mormon, and both have some big names…
Congressional candidate Kirk Adams got a political tip-of-the-cap from Congressman Ben Quayle yesterday. Meanwhile, his opponent in the GOP primary for the District 6 Congressional seat, former Congressman Matt Salmon, boasts the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a man he doesn’t like, doesn’t respect, and compares to Barney…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chairman Don Bivens announced yesterday that he’s running for the United States Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl…as a Democrat.Aside from the obvious challenges Bivens faces by being a Democrat in a “red state” like Arizona, he’s also likely to have to face Congressman…
Wes Gullett, a Phoenix mayoral candidate, doesn’t mince words when it comes to his opposition to the most recent water rate increase in Phoenix.”I opposed it,” he said during the first mayoral debate in the runoff election between him and his opponent, Greg Stanton. “We didn’t need it … It…
Don Bivens, the former chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party, made it official this morning: he’s running for the United States Senate.Bivens, a Phoenix-based attorney, announced on his campaign website this morning that he’ll seek the Democratic nomination to run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.”I’m…
Someone slashed Phoenix mayoral candidate Greg Stanton’s tires last night while he was at a fundraising event at an art gallery in Sunnyslope.A witness from a restaurant across the street reportedly saw a large male wearing a hood over his head slash two of the tires on Stanton’s gray sedan…
If you’re interested in doing your part to put an end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tyrannical reign over Maricopa County, here is your chance.Arpaio’s opponent in next year’s GOP primary for sheriff, Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, is holding a meeting tomorrow night for anyone who wants to lend their time…
Congressman Jeff Flake has picked his horse in the GOP presidential primary — and it’s not Michele Bachman.Former Massachusettes Governor Mitt Romney announced today that Flake — who is running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl — has endorsed his candidacy. “This election will be an…
Wes Gullett’s has built his mayoral campaign on being an outsider, not part of the status quo and on not being beholden to “big labor” (um, unions).In fact, Camp Gullett put out a press release today knocking Greg Stanton for winning the endorsement of the firefighters’ union. One glaring omission…
Most Phoenix voters don’t like the city’s 2 percent temporary tax on food. That was the big reveal in a poll conducted by Summit Consulting Group of likely Phoenix voters — 58 percent of those surveyed oppose it, 41 percent of them “strongly oppose” it. Chad Willems, President of Summit…
In the battle of endorsements by former mayors of future mayor-wannabe’s, it looks like it’s Greg Stanton 2, Wes Gullett 1-ish.It would be 2 if you include someone who only served as mayor for 10 days. Gullett has been endorsed by former Phoenix mayors Paul Johnson and John Nelson, now…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, leaving office in just a few months, has stayed out of the endorsement business in the upcoming mayor’s race between former Councilman Greg Stanton and lobbyist Wes Gullett. But Paul Johnson, one of Gordon’s BFF’s who served as mayor from 1990 to 1994, is throwing his…
The poll commissioned by Greg Stanton, a candidate in the Phoenix mayor’s race, reveals he has maintained a strong lead over his challenger Wes Gullett.(Of course it does … otherwise he wouldn’t have released it and a detailed memo Camp Stanton received from Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3),…
Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett responded sharply to Greg Stanton’s criticism of a tax increase for art Gullett proposed during a mayoral candidate forum in June.”Greg Stanton continues to show that he is willing to say anything to win an election,” Gullett says to New Times in a statement. “Stanton…
