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On Friday, Vice-President Joe Biden spoke to a large group of survivors of military casualties. The normally plain-spoken Biden was true to form, showing an emotional, personal side, something that usually isn't shown by politicians.
The video of his short but intensely heartfelt speech can be found here, at Huffington Post; good news coverage of the event can be found here, courtesy the National Journal/Govexec.com.
Most candidates submit their petitions as late as possible in order to maximize the number of signatures, but a few do so earlier.
Among the most interesting of those:
- Doug Quelland, a former Republican state representative who was removed from office and still owes fines because of some campaign finance violations, is making a run for the state senate in the new LD20 as an independent (filed directly for the November ballot).
piece full of speculation on possible Republican candidates for governor in 2014.
Out of a sense of fairness, I'm now doing one on potential Democratic candidates.
Out of a sense of partisanship, it will be less snarky...at least, less snarky toward the Democratic candidates. :)
As with the prior post, no actual discussions with the potential candidates took place in the production of this post. In no way does a mention in this post indicate that someone is planning or interested in running f...
The USDOJ filed a motion in their case against Rep. Ben Arredondo, one Arredondo agreed with, to keep records of the investigation secret in order to protect some ongoing investigations.
...A motion filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court by DOJ attorney Monique Abrishami asks Judge Fredrick Martone to issue a protective order for “all discovery materials provided in this matter.”
“If this information were to be disclosed, such disc...
weasel her way into a run for a third term and AZ Secretary of State Ken Bennett trying to clear the primary field for his run for governor (he has since backed off a little, but look for more moves like his attempt to knock President Obama off of the ballot), it's time to start talking about who might be running for governor in 2014.
Yes, it is early, but since at this point of this year's election cycle, it's "hurry up and wait" time until we see which candidates become known as candi...
Mitt Romney is renowned for his penchant to change his position on an issue, any issue, when he thinks it may be politically expedient.
He may be the consummate flip-flopper in American politics today.
Now Ken Bennett, Arizona's Secretary of State and Romney's campaign co-chair in AZ, is flip-flopping on a fundamental issue for his own political expediency.
Even before the mayoral candidate forum held on Thursday night, I was leaning toward supporting John Washington for Mayor of Scottsdale.
Thursday's forum confirmed and strengthened that support.
One candidate, Jim Lane, is the incumbent. He has a track record of kowtowing to lobbying group the Goldwater Institute to the point of ignoring neighborhood interests and desires in favor of implementing GI's preferred policies.
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has asked government officials in Hawaii to verify that Barack Obama was born in the island state for the president's name to appear on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Bennett, who is exploring a 2014 gubernatorial run, told The Republic on Friday that he made the request on behalf of a constituent who was unable to make the request himself. Bennett said Hawaii statute provides for out-of-state government officials to re...
For those of you who thought the mayor's race in Tempe was the end of campaign season...oh, who am I kidding? If you're reading this blog, you already know better. :)
The Community Council of Scottsdale held a forum for the three candidates for mayor in Scottsdale on Thursday evening in the Granite Reef Senior Center.
Initially, restaurant owner Michael Monti was ahead of City Council member Mark Mitchell by more than 200 votes.
Yesterday, after some provisional ballots and early ballots turned in at the polls were counted, the margin dropped to less than 150, in favor of Monti.
Today, after more provisionals and drop offs were counted, the margin is now 139, in favor of Mitchell.
Final results will be released on Friday, so stay tuned...
Update: Apparently, today's numbers *are* the final results, except f...
indictment of State Representative Ben Arredondo was released.
It alleges that Arredondo accepted slightly less than $6300 in tickets to sporting events and charity events in exchange for influence used on behalf of the givers of the largesse, FBI agents working undercover as representatives of a fake company seeking to do business in Tempe.
The matter is still unfolding, and more news will break before it is over.
Arredondo will have his day in court, and as someone who knows and likes him,...
However, one thing he has been completely consistent about is his utter disregard for people who work for a living.
When he ran Bain Capital, Bain's business MO (modus operandi) was to acquire successful companies cheap and run them into the ground in the way most profitable to Mitt and his cronies.
That way always included cutting the pay and benefits of the workers who made those companies successful before Mitt et. al. came along.
Mitt may not be "in business" any longer, at least officia...
And before any Republican readers of this blog (yes, there are a few :) ) whine about "class warfare" or some such claptrap, I would remind you of observations of one Newt Gingrich, hardly a champion of the middle class -
Gingrich has maintained that negative and false ads launched by Romney supporters dragged his campaign down from a onetime frontrunner late last year.
He said Romney is a Massachusetts moderate “would be pretty good at managing the decay of Washington” with little hope of ch...
At the time, there wasn't much information available on the "foundation", but given the newness of the foundation, a low profile wasn't too surprising.
It's been a year, however, and the Pearce Johnso Foundation isn't just "low-profile", it seems to be "no-profile".
In the "not surprised by the move, just that it took so long" department:
- Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination in the CD4 primary. Maybe it was being outed as gay (the kiss of death to a political career in Republican circles), maybe it was threatening to use his position to have his ex deported (an allegation that Babeu has denied, but not exactly helpful to any variety of political career), or maybe it was the investigation...
In a baseball game when a pitcher knows that the batter is going to lean out over the plate and try to lay down a bunt, and the pitcher delivers his first pitch high and tight to back the batter off of the plate.
It doesn't exactly endear the pitcher to the batter, but so long as there is no attempt or intent to cause physical harm, it's considered to be just "hardball."
There might a few hard looks exchanged, and some chirping from the benches, but not much more (ok, usually not much more :) )
Kind of like "Short Attention Span Musing", but without much musing. :)
...The Democratic candidates for the new Ninth Congressional District all attended, spoke, and took questions at Tuesday's meeting of the LD26 Democrats. Because I support State Sen. David Schapira in that particular race, I won't comment on the event other than to say that he did well.
Note the lack of comparative words (i.e. - "best", "better than", etc.) favoring Schapira. They aren't appropriate for this forum ...
announcing that there is too much left to do to the state at the state level.
More likely, he saw the calendar for collecting nominating signatures getting short (due at the end of the month) and he would be trying to raise money in a field that already has three experienced Republicans running.
On top of all that, it's simply just easier to get on the ballot as a legislative candidate than as a Congressional candidate (compare the signature requirements for LD1 with the requirements f...
Channel 12 in Phoenix airs Sunday Square Off, a weekly political discussion show. When discussing issues and matters where there is a partisan divide, host Brahm Resnick will bring in a lineup of guests that crosses that partisan divide; when discussing issues and matters that are less partisan and more observational, a panel of journalists and Capitol observers are brought in.
This week's episode was primarily focused on the wrap-up of the legislative session, so the panel was le...
sine die, meaning that on Thursday, the lege engaged in a marathon session (though not as "marathon" as some sine die sessions from years past). They passed some very bad bills, but at least it's over until January
The end of the legislative session marks the unofficial start of campaign season (ok, people have been campaigning for months, but now it's really going to ramp up). However, some folks have been getting a head start.
