Some fundraising e-mails are incendiary, some are informational. Others are goal-oriented, still others are head-scratchers. Today's fits the latter two categories, reminding me of some of those multiple-choice exam questions that many of our school kids were taking this week or take to seek admission to college. It comes from Rep. David Schweikert's (R-CD6) re-election campaign committee.
Former Space Shuttle Commander, husband of retired Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and current gun violence reduction activist Mark Kelly took to Twitter this morning to gently chide his "friend", Arizona Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ). Flake voted yesterday against the Manchin-Toomey compromise amendment that would have expanded background checks on gun transactions. (Arizona's other Senator, John McCain,
Retired Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is listed as an "icon" in Time Magazine's annual list of the "100 Most Influential People In the World". Jim Brady, the Press Secretary for President Ronald Reagan, who was shot in the head in the 1981 assassination attempt, wrote up the accompanying explanation for Giffords' inclusion. Brady, who has been a sustained and ardent supporter of measures to
(Update, 12:45pm, AZ Time: The House adjourned for the day, but the bill is still slated for "this week", and the House will be in session on Friday.) The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to (this week) pass a bill giving the Pascua Yaqui Tribe 20 acres of land to help complete the golf course adjacent to the Casino del Sol. The bill is led by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-CD3) and is
Conclusion of Durbin's speech about the late Rickey Byrdsong, and his widow Sherialyn: (sorry, please refer back to full post for first part; Google's Blogger has some glitch embedding two videos with similar codes) We welcome your comments about this post. Or, if you have something unrelated on your mind, please e-mail to info-at-arizonaspolitics-dot-com or call 602-799-7025. Thanks.
Shortly before the Manchin-Toomey amendment on expanding background checks for gun transactions was put up for a vote, Arizona Senator John McCain (R-AZ) gave a 10-minute speech explaining why he would vote for the proposal. It was voted down 54-46 - it needed 60 votes to move forward - as McCain was one of only three Republicans to vote in favor of it. Arizona's other Senator, Jeff Flake (
(It has been pointed out that the two videos below are the same clip. They are, indeed. Google's Blogger apparently has some glitch in it that does not allow me to embed two videos that have very similar embed codes; it "auto-corrects". I do not have the time to keep playing with it right now, so I have posted the second clip in a separate post. Thanks.) Retired Congresswoman Gabrielle
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired Space Shuttle Captain Mark Kelly, were featured briefly last night on CNN in advance of the full interview being shown tonight. Anderson Cooper and reporter Dana Bash teased tonight's interview (airing at 5:00 and 7:00pm tonight, Arizona Time) last night by showing a snippet of Kelly shooting a 9mm Glock, the same type of gun
Arizona Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is being accused - in an ad running on the conservative news/meeting spot Drudge Report - of "supporting Obama's gun control" and "working with the gun-grabbers". McCain has advocated for expanded background checks in the past, and is seen as a "key Senator" in the current battle over expanding the checks made before some gun purchase transactions. Here is
This morning, I changed the settings for the display and format of comments. I did this primarily because there is a good discussion taking place on my post titled "Arpaio Recall Challenge Spurs National Battle Of Birther Heavyweights; Some Upset Arpaio Has Not Filed Criminal Complaint Vs. Obama".I do not wish to get in the way of that discussion by requiring moderation. (Also, I have seen a
Former Arizona Legislator David Burnell Smith - along with out of state attorney Larry Klayman - filed a complaint to stop the effort to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The legal action not only challenges the constitutionality of the recall, but claims that the recall violates the constitutional rights (due process, equal protection) of everyone who voted in the Sheriff's race last
Arizona's Senators were among the 26 who voted "nay" on the package to continue funding the federal government for the next six months. The Wednesday afternoon vote result was 73-26, and is expected to win approval from the House of Representatives on Thursday. John McCain and Jeff Flake were on the losing end of the vote, but were with a slim majority of their Republican colleagues. The GOP
Retired Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) has registered to lobby the federal government on behalf of Pima County. Along with Phoenix-based Capitol Strategies (Stephen and Karen Bloch), Kolbe will work to help implement the county's Aerospace and Defense Corridor and El Corazon de los Tres Rios del Norte projects. The lobbying registration of Capitol Strategies was noted by Politico earlier today
(2nd UPDATE, 3:325PM: All 4 of Arizona's Republican Representatives voted for the more-conservative-than-Ryan Republican Study Conference budget/CR amendment. It was defeated 104-132, with 171 Democrats voting "present". Arizona's 5 Democratic Representatives split between "no" (Barber, Pastor, Sinema) and "present" (Grijalva, Kirkpatrick). Please see the Politico link below for more
Respect Arizona ("RA"), the group attempting to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, did not directly answer Arizona's Politics' requests for a response to the final demand letter from Citizens To Protect Fair Election Results ("CPFER"). However, they did just send out an e-mail appeal for signatures and funds. Not backing down, the e-mail claims that "news of our impending demise, to
The attorney ready to file a lawsuit against those in charge of the effort to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made a national appeal for funding today, sparking a protest by well-known Obama Birther attorney Orly Taitz. Taitz urged birthers not to support the pro-Arpaio effort until the Sheriff files criminal charges against President Barack Obama. Local group Citizens To Protect Fair
The Phoenix-based U.S. Airways CEO Doug Parker and his American Airlines counterpart answered questions yesterday from the U.S. Senate's Antitrust subcommittee (of the Judiciary Committee), and indicated that the merger would not adversely affect travelers in Arizona (and elsewhere). Neither Arizona Senator was on the subcommittee, and no opposition to the mega-merger was expressed by the
