Saturday, January 21st, 2006...7:43 am
Who’s Out, Who’s In
Dr. Richard Carmona made a barely noticed announcement on Tuesday that he will not be running for congress. Most people had already assumed that he was not going to make a go of it.
Why no story about it on here? Well, I could say that I just didn’t want to scoop C. J. Karamargin and Jim Nintzel. You know, let the pros get one in once in a while. Well…um…no…I just totally missed it.
I’m not hearing Dave Sitton’s name as much anymore, but I’ve been told that Bruce Ash has been making more moves towards running. Also, Nintzel named someone else new, a fella named Dr. Wayne Peate. Someone told me that Carmona had something to do with recruiting Peate, but I have no way of knowing this for sure.
There is the possibility of another name on the Democratic side: Cochise County Supervisor Paul Newman. I’m not sure how much of this is just talk, but apparently he has mentioned it to more than one person. Newman is the only Democrat on the board out there, and last year managed to get a victory when stopped an incinerator from being put in near Whetstone. He also previously served in the legislature and ran a nearly successful campaign for Corporation Commission. (The man who won, Tony West, had to be thrown out of office.)
This is the only picture I could find of Newman, I’m assuming the men with him are the other two members of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors.
We have another new entry in the governor’s race: Rep. Ted Carpenter. Who?
The talk at the legislature, what there was of it, was that Carpenter is termed out and this seemed to be a good way to move up. Rumors swirled about his running earlier in the week, but few people took it seriously.
Carpenter is the chairman of the Financial Institutions and Insurance committee. That means he’s the guy that makes sure that no one ever gets to vote on one of those pesky bills to protect service members and other working folks from predatory lenders.
By the way, he announced his plans at a anti-immigration rally. At what point are there so many Republicans running on that one that it ceases to be an advantage?
2 Comments
January 21st, 2006 at 11:29 am
oh my lord…newman. ted you need to mention his two scandals last year.
coming out in a parade in cochise, with his re-election banner while driving the county car, burning county taxpayer gasoline.
second, being caught with a small amount of marijuana(what’s small??)
January 21st, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I like Paul Newman and who knew both he and Alex Rodriguez would run for the same seat - but if he does join the fun, it looks like, yet another candidate finishing ahead of this websites favorites, Latas and Giffords….