Following Governor Jan Brewer’s jaw-dropping performance in the last gubernatorial debate, she reaffirmed her vow to not participate in more debates — despite challenges from her Democratic opponent, Terry Goddard. Last month, we called Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign to throw her handlers a hypothetical: if the other candidates scheduled a debate…
Bill Montgomery hasn’t been elected Maricopa County Attorney yet, but he’s already formed a transition team and has been meeting with elected officials. Can’t say we blame him, since there isn’t a snowball’s chance in Phoenix that he’ll lose November 2’s general election to Libertarian Michael Kielsky. Montgomery won the Republican primary election…
Like a lot of states, Florida has recently drafted its own version of SB 10-70, Arizona’s controversial immigration bill. The bills are very similar, but there is one difference: Canadians and people from certain European countries get a free pass because people from those countries are usually white thanks to…
The Arizona Democratic Party launched a website poking fun at Secretary of State Ken Bennett for getting chummy with the lobbyists that he is “duty bound to ensure … are regulated and kept in line.”The website, Lobbyists Love Ken, is dressed in pink, covered in hearts and even comes with…
As always, we take all polls with a grain of salt. And two polls — one released by the Arizona Republican Party, and one released by the Republican candidate for Attorney General, Tom Horne — are part of the reason why.The Arizona Democratic Party feels it owes the GOP a…
To quote Senator John McCain’s campaign spokesman, Brian Rogers, “We don’t live and die with every poll.” Rogers prefaces nearly every poll-related e-mail with that grain of salt, especially when the poll favors McCain, because pollsters are often biased — Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen leading the pack.That said, the first…
U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman should stick to arid-land-resource sciences because any hopes of a singing career — or a career in the Senate, for that matter — were probably damaged beyond repair by his latest cringe-worthy campaign video.It was a regular WTF moment this morning when we got an…
Since the moment Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign manager suggested that her opponent in the gubernatorial election, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, was gay, Goddard has insisted that he’s not (insert standard “not that there’s anything wrong with that” comment here).During a no-holds-barred exchange between the candidates last night in Tucson,…
Medical marijuana has the most support of any ballot proposition for the November 2 election, a new survey of likely voters shows. Fifty-four percent of registered voters, and 52 percent of likely voters, would vote “yes” on Proposition 203, says the latest Rocky Mountain Poll. If you’re thinking, “There’s no way it…
The Congressional candidates for Arizona’s Third District debated last night at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. There were a few surprises — Democratic candidate Jon Hulburd said he doesn’t know if he’s qualified for the job, Republican candidate Ben Quayle finally went negative, and…
An apology for offending people with a political smear isn’t the same as apologizing for the smear, but that’s the best anyone’s getting out Chuck Coughlin, Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign advisor. Following his random, gay-baiting smear against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard yesterday, Coughlin posted the smarmy “I’m sorry” message on his…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has based the majority of his campaign around attacking his opponent, Ben Quayle, over his ties to The Dirty, a raunchy, Scottsdale-based gossip site, to which Quayle admits contributing a few satirical posts.Hulburd opened his campaign by saying “this race is now between Jon Hulburd and…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard went on Fox News this morning to pimp his latest probe into mortgage companies he says provide flawed foreclosure documents.He came across well — for example, he didn’t say anything like “we have did what’s right for Arizona,” as his opponent in the gubernatorial election,…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer may think that she has “did what is right” for Arizona, but an independent analysis by the financial news Web site 24/7 Wall St. disagrees. The site has issued its “State of the States” rankings and Arizona has been ranked 48th on its list of well-run…
The campaign of Rodney Glassman, the Democrat trying to unseat Senator John McCain in this year’s election, is in rough shape, according to a new poll released today.Glassman’s campaign has taken some hits since the last poll was conducted — most notably, the news that he plagiarized parts of his…
Jan Brewer’s campaign fought back hard today against rumors that the Arizona governor’s health is in question — by questioning the sexuality of her opponent. Brewer issued a strong statement today denying rumors that she might be too ill to serve a four-year term. Former New Times reporter John Dougherty repeated the rumor on…
Remember when Politico claimed Congressional candidate Ben Quayle lied about his connection with the raunchy Web site The Dirty? And the news that he lied spread like wildfire around the Internet, ultimately making its way to the front page of the New York Times? The (ahem) funny thing about that…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard isn’t as down and out of the Arizona governor’s race as once thought — if you believe the latest poll numbers, that is.A Rasmussen poll released last week had the race broken down as follows: – Brewer: 55 percent.- Goddard: 39 percent.- Other candidate: 3…
Eight congressmen and congresswomen from the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, will be in Arizona this week as part of a delegation to study immigration and security issues. The delegation will be traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, naturally, but will also meet on Thursday evening in Phoenix with business leaders, government officials…
Conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen has released his latest poll on the Arizona governor’s race and Democratic candidate Terry Goddard has gained a little (very little) ground.Rasmussen loves two things: push polls and seeing his name in the paper, so we take his polls with a healthy serving of salt.That said,…
U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman, as well as several other Democrats running for office this year, were at the University of Arizona yesterday for a rally. It didn’t go well.It went so bad, in fact, that the university’s newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, wrote a scathing editorial with the headline “AZ…
UPDATE: Here’s a short clip from Cornel West’s address on Saturday, October 2: We’re not the only ones to have noticed that progressives, Democrats, and their ilk don’t currently have a central charismatic leader whose every utterance is sociopolitical Gospel, the way Glenn Beck seems to affect many right-wing Tea…
