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…
Ben Quayle to his immediate family — which one of his primary opponents suggested was “rented.”Quayle’s getting beat up in some local news outlets for a campaign mailer he sent out showing him with two toddler-age girls (they’re adorable).Check out the mailer after the jump…
Phoenix officials are scheduled to appear in Maricopa County Superior Court on September 27 to further explain why they are refusing to release Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail logs.A judge recently rejected a motion by Phoenix’s city attorney to dismiss the lawsuit, and the case continues to move through the legal…
A few short months ago, the U.S. Senate seat that’s up for grabs in this year’s election seemed almost certain to go to a Republican. The only question seemed to be which Republican it would be — J.D. Hayworth or John McCain.Things have changed, though, most notably for Hayworth following publicity…
Arizona politicians are getting a reputation throughout the country. Let’s just say Russell Pearce and Jan Brewer appearing almost nightly on national news programs hasn’t left the rest of the nation in awe of their smarts.That said, Arizona politicos owe Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Basil Marceaux a thank-you card or two because he…
Did you know that U.S. Senate candidate Jim Deakin’s house is in foreclosure? Well, it isn’t. But that didn’t stop one of his primary opponents’ campaign from spreading the false rumor.Over the weekend, news of the alleged foreclosure found its way to various news outlets, few of which bothered to ask Deakin if…
The Arizona Republic conducted a poll last month asking respondents if the debate over immigration caused by the SB 1070 fiasco has increased racism in Arizona.The answer, according to the Repub’s poll: yes…
Dan Saban, who ran twice against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has lost his appeal of a failed defamation lawsuit he filed three years ago against Arpaio and his office. The Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the September 2007 trial-court ruling against Saban’s lawsuit. The Appeals Court ruling seems to…
Since our earlier post about the number of arrests made during yesterday’s SB 1070 protests in downtown Phoenix, other law enforcement agencies that were slappin’ cuffs on protesters checked in and bumped up the total number of arrests by about 25.As we reported earlier, the Phoenix Police Department arrested 45…
We got word from Devin Fleenor, a vocal anti-Arpaio activist, on Wednesday night that he planned to chain himself to the Fourth Avenue Jail during yesterday’s SB 1070 protests with the hopes of being arrested.As you’ll see in some photos after the jump, Fleenor held true to his word. Sheriff’s…
There were no water cannons or police dogs. No riots or cops beating people with batons — you could probably say as far as protests go, yesterday’s demonstration in downtown Phoenix over SB 1070 was a bit of a yawner.People did get arrested, though.The Phoenix Police Department is done crunching…
Yesterday, a bullet shot through the window of Congressman Raul Grijalva’s Yuma office and there is no shortage of speculation as to who’s responsible.The bullet was found a day after Grijalva announced he was calling off his request for outside businesses to boycott Arizona.It also comes a day after a…
