In a unanimous 5 – 0 vote, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has appointed Peoria resident Phil Lovas, 43, to the open House seat in Legislative District 4 formerly occupied by state Rep. Judy Burges.  Burges replaced former state Sen. Scott Bundgaard last month.

Lovas says he intends to run for the House this fall in the newly reconfigured District 22, which covers Peoria, Glendale, Sun City West and Surprise. He is employed as a regional director of development in the hospitality...

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Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 6:00 pm AZ time — 8:00 pm ET

Where: Mesa Arts Center — Mesa, Arizona, 

Live Stream: CNN

Sponsors: Republican Party of Arizona in conjunction with CNN

Moderator: John King
Participants: Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

For real-time debate coverage of the Arizona primary, go to CNNPolitics.com or to the CNN apps or CNN mobile web site.

Check out the latest results in the national presidential tracking polls, courtesy of Rea...

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Stunning straw poll results

Watch Republican Cardon’s powerful video as he takes on Jeff Flake.

The extraordinary straw poll results from yesterday’s GOP Lincoln Day Awards luncheon can be viewed here. Keynote speaker, presidential candidate Rick Santorum was the runaway First Choice winner with 64.2% of the vote.

And in the Arizona race for U.S. Senate, Wil Cardon carried 50.9% as compared to Jeff Flake’s 38.2%. However, Flake was the winner in the Least Acceptable category, with 46.3% ...

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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race”

The U.S. Supreme Court announced today (scroll down to page 6) its intention to hear a challenge to the University of Texas’ affirmative action program. The program  has been used in categorizing applications after the automatic admission of all in-state applicants who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

Texas’ “top 10 percent” law was passed with...

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Staggering and underreported losses of Obama economy

From time to time we examine the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) list of bank closures. This list includes banks which have failed since October 1, 2000.

Two Arizona banks are among the 52 institutions which have failed since the beginning of the year. The three branches of Western National Bank, in Phoenix, Arizona have been acquired by Washington Federal, of Seattle, Washington.

Summit Bank in Prescott, Arizona has been acqu...

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A Public Policy Polling survey released today shows Arizona’s presidential primary race to be close.

Mitt Romney maintains a slight lead over Rick Santorum, 36 – 33 percent, while Newt Gingrich trails at third, holding a mere 16 percent of GOP primary voters. Ron Paul is at 9 percent.

Also included were questions regarding Republican candidates in Arizona’s U.S. Senate race.

The Democrat-leaning pollsters performed the survey February 17 and 19, and has a higher than usual 4.8 per...

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Letters exchanged between lawyers for Paul Babeu and his Mexican ex-lover

As everyone knows by now, the allegations are that Pinal County Sheriff and Congressional District 4 aspirant Paul Babeu threatened his Mexican national ex-boyfriend with deportation if “Jose” disclosed information regarding their romance and Babeu’s homosexuality.

Although Babeu has now publicly acknowledged he is “gay,” he denies threats were made and is determined to move forward with his congressional campai...

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With Obama vulnerable on everything from the sagging economy, massive debt, out-of-control spending, nationalized health care and continued joblessness — to his malaise-inducing disconnect with the American public on a wide range of issues that hit households hard on a daily basis — we read about talk of a brokered GOP convention. Without a doubt this is a risky strategy guaranteed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Republicans want the perfect candidate, when in fact one has...

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Consequences accompany Sheriff Paul Babeu’s reckless behavior

As scandal rocks Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, he has stepped down from his position with Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in Arizona.

Today Romney’s campaign sent this message to media outlets: “Sheriff Babeu has stepped down from his volunteer position with the campaign so he can focus on the allegations against him. We support his decision.” CNN has more here.

Although Babeu was schedu...

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Records request for Richard Miranda’s financial reports

The daily answers some questions regarding the hasty departure of Democrat state Rep. Richard Miranda. The newspaper reports that in the weeks leading up to Miranda’s abrupt resignation from his legislative post Thursday, the IRS’s investigations division was looking into his financial-disclosure records. In his resignation letter to Speaker Andy Tobin, Miranda cited family and health reasons.

On January 4 a public records req...

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Sheriff Paul Babeu’s lawyer threatened to deport his gay, Mexican, former lover

The Phoenix New Times has a stunner of a report on Pinal County Sheriff and Congressional candidate Paul Babeu. The four-page exposé complete with astonishing photos, might just bring an end to the political aspirations of the man who jumped to John McCain’s aid during his worrisome 2010 Senate race. Babeu, it will be remembered, provided border hawk cover to the amnesty-prone McCain as the duo trekked along the...

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Jesse Kelly, the conservative candidate in CD 8’s special election has caught the eye of the insiders at POLITICO.

They report that in a Wenzel Strategies survey, paid for by Citizens United Political Victory Fund, Kelly has surged ahead of his nearest GOP primary challenger by close to 25 percentage points.

The poll, taken Wednesday and Thursday of this week, puts Kelly at 43 percent to state Sen. Frank Antenori’s 18 percent and sports commentator Dave Sitton’s 10 percent. Twenty...

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Nation’s motto E pluribus Unum (“Out of many, one”) loses relevance in Obama’s separatist view of America

This ad by Barack Obama, appealing specifically to black Americans and identifying a particular website for them to visit in support of his election, signals a new low in American politics. It is race-based divisiveness intending to polarize as well as incite class warfare. 

Listen closely as Obama issues a socialist call for income redistribution so that everyone will get their fa...

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The news that AZ Legislative District 13 Democrat Rep. Richard Miranda submitted his resignation from office today is causing many to wonder what has driven the hasty departure.

Miranda was first elected to the state senate in 2002. He was currently representing LD 13 in the House of Representatives and had recently filed his intent to run next session with the Secretary of State.

In a letter to Speaker Andy Tobin, Miranda reportedly cited “health reasons and personal family issues” as his ...

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Gingrich tanking in Arizona

The American Research Group has released its findings in a new survey of 600 registered Republican voters taken February 13 – 14, in advance of Arizona’s February 28 presidential preference primary.

Mitt Romney leads in the primary with 38%. Rick Santorum nips at his heels with 31%, Newt Gingrich garnered 15%, and Ron Paul 11%.

The numbers remain fluid. In a similar survey conducted January 25-26, 2012, Romney was tied with Gingrich at 32% each, followed by ...

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Amid all of the hullabaloo of Arizona’s centennial celebration, you can forgive yourself for having missed the really big news of Newt Gingrich’s huge political endorsement.

Buz Mills has come out for him.

Remember him?  Owen “Buz” Mills was the momentary 2010 gubernatorial candidate who pulled out of the race before it concluded, amid a flurry of fraud allegations and after being taken to the Arizona woodshed for alleging that “we don’t have in immigration problem.”  Gingric...

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 Be aware, be wary, don’t be conned again

Liberal songbird Linda Valdez is back on her leftist perch today trilling for open primaries.  After all, the deceptive practice worked so well in the recall of her nemesis  former Senate President Russell Pearce, author of SB 1070.

Valdez has been on this toot previously, revealing her true motives by declaring open primaries “give candidates a better chance of surviving primary elections,” where the “party faithful favor more extreme candid...

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Yesterday the state Senate Judiciary Committee passed Senate Bill 1449. The bill would require recall elections to include a partisan primary. In the event of a runoff, all voters could participate, similar to regular partisan elections. It also allows for party designations on the recall ballot.

Prime sponsors of the bill are Steve Smith (LD-23), Sylvia Allen (LD-5), Judy Burges (LD-4), Lori Klein (LD-6) and Andy Biggs (LD-22). Co-sponsors are Ron Gould (LD-3), Rick Murphy (LD-9), and Don Shoot...

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Today is much more than a Valentine’s Day celebration.  Arizonans proudly note our state’s 100th birthday on this day.

Reporter Scott Craven gives a charming insight into that momentous occasion in How Phoenix celebrated Arizona‘s Statehood in 1912.  Take the time to read his nostalgic article that inspires pride and wonder at the changes which have taken place in the lives of everyday Arizonans over the past century.

Newcomers, whether recent or decades old, will enjoy the captivating w...

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It has just been confirmed that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will speak at the Lincoln Day Luncheon.  The event will take place on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the El-Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, 552 N. 40^th Street, Phoenix. The event begins at 11:30 am with former Sen. Rick Santorum scheduled to speak at 12:00 noon.

Call and make your reservations today: (623) 977-4532. The price is $30 per person. For more information visit Maricopagop.org.