Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon earlier this week defended hiring Sue Lindmeier, sister of his girlfriend’s business partner, saying former Phoenix City Manager Frank Fairbanks and City Attorney Gary Verburg reviewed and approved her contract.Fairbanks, who retired in November, said today it isn’t true that he approved Lindmeier’s contract.”I’ve never heard of her in…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth released poll numbers today that he claims show he’s inching closer to dethroning Senator John McCain as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate.A Rasmussen poll released today finds that McCain’s lead over Hayworth is only five percentage points, and in the release, the pollster…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has established a new policy: He will no longer speak personally with New Times or the Arizona Republic. He will only accept questions from the publications if reporters submit them in writing.How very Joe Arpaio-esque.What’s next? Will the mayor start banning reporters who ask tough questions from…
As we reported earlier, Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth released his much-anticipated list of donors to his Freedom in Truth trust — something John McCain has been requesting for months — but the McCain campaign says the list only contains half of the information it requested.”We appreciate the fact that after…
Just as Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth has been promising for months, the former congressman today released the names of contributors to a trust fund he set up to defend against possible charges stemming from Hayworth’s relationship with shamed D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Hayworth was never charged with any crime relating to the Abramoff…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth did a Web cast this morning where he — in his best stuffed-shirt, white-guy voice — referred to New Times as a “counterculture newspaper” and this writer as having a “troubled mind.”We’re not too tore up over it — we’re not the ones ranting and raving…
As you may recall, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth has pledged for months that on April 15, he will reveal the names of those who’ve donated money to a trust fund he set up to help pay legal bills he incurred defending himself from potential charges over his relationship with shamed…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth has scheduled two debates with Senator John McCain, seemingly based on a New Times article featured in Valley Fever yesterday.As a side note to a post about the McCain campaign’s latest Web video — to point out that McCain says he welcomes debates with Hayworth –…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth is taking a stand against Senator John McCain’s potential support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hypothetical nomination to the Supreme Court.There’s only one problem: McCain has never said whether he would support her nomination, and the White House told Politico yesterday, “The president thinks Clinton…
The City of Phoenix continues to refuse release of Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail logs –kept by members of his security team who track Gordon’s daily activities. They contain information such as where they dropped off and picked up the mayor and who was traveling with him.New Times, the Arizona Republic, other…
John McCain’s latest Web ad has created a little controversy, and now his opponent in the GOP primary for Senate, J.D. Hayworth, is speaking out about it. In case you missed it, the ad is billed as a J.D. Hayworth campaign ad, where he discusses some of the serious problems…
Someone over at John McCain’s campaign headquarters has a hell of a funny bone.For the second time in two weeks, a McCain press release has given us a chuckle at the expense of his GOP Senate primary opponent J.D. Hayworth, and the latest seems to wrap all of Hayworth’s boneheaded…
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is wasting no time in attacking his GOP primary opponent for attorney general, Maricopa County’s former brown-bashing County Attorney Andrew Thomas.Thomas quit his gig as county attorney last week to run for state attorney general — a job Horne has been eying for the better part…
A version of Mayor Phil Gordon’s 2009 calendar released this week to New Times is missing some bits of inflammatory information that were present last year.When city officials provided some of the same public records last year, the calendar revealed that on at least two occasions, Gordon’s girlfriend Elissa Mullany was the contact…
Senator John McCain picked up the endorsement of the National Federation Of Independent Business yesterday, but he seemed to need a little reminder as to the name of the organization endorsing him.McCain took a brief tour of the Central Bindery Company in Phoenix before NFIB President Farrell Quinlan stepped to…
See update here.Local spin-doctor Jason Rose, who has represented Ellman over the years, said Mullany was not working for Ellman, but he would not give a direct answer to whether she had worked for him in the past. Gordon refused to comment on Mullany’s clients, saying questions should be directed to her. He wouldn’t…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to rattle his political sabers (and keep the media foaming at the mouth), claiming now that he’s taking the next step in getting his name on the ballot for this year’s gubernatorial election.Arpaio, who has been stirring up rumors that he would run for…
Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, and Congressional candidate for the House seat getting vacated by Congressman John Shadegg, picked up the endorsement of Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the campaign announced last night. Quayle is one of nearly 10 Congressional hopefuls in a crowded field of GOPers seeking the seat,…
Rodney Glassman, the baby-faced former vice mayor of Tucson, officially entered the 2010 Senate race yesterday, after months of speculation that he would run. Glassman resigned his post as vice mayor yesterday to run because of Arizona’s resign-to-run law, and based on statements the new candidate is releasing to the media,…
What do you call a vampire who’s running for the U.S. Senate? Don’t bother asking Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth because the guy’s apparently humorless, can’t take a joke.Hayworth seems to think that a vampire quip made by former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods was a death threat, and is demanding an apology.In an…
John McCain’s maverickness is getting called into question after an interview the senator gave this week, where McCain downplays the nickname and denies ever viewing himself in that regard. “I never considered myself a maverick,” McCain tells Newsweek. “I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to…
In celebration of the beginning of baseball season, Senator John McCain announced today that he has the support of former Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Luis Gonzalez in his bid to fend off J.D. Hayworth, his Republican U.S. Senate primary opponent.While we don’t recommend that you take your voting cues from a…
