Entries from June 2006

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Exploding. Plastic. Inevitable.

Patty Weiss’s campaign released one of their internal polls this week, showing that Weiss has a lead over Gabrielle Giffords, 32% to 22%. The poll also showed that Weiss has a 63% favorability rating among primary voters.
This brings up something interesting for political geeks like me. During this phase of the campaign, while most [...]

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

J. D. Says Back Atcha Sort Of

Harry Mitchell introduced a group of thirteen current and former elected Republican officials who have endorsed his candidacy. The group included former Senate president and gubernatorial nominee Leo Corbett and Tempe City Councilman Ben Arrendondo. They also included former Attorney General Grant Woods.
So, what is J. D. Hayworth’s response? “You’ve got thirteen, I’ve got [...]

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Endorsements

Following on the heels of the Sierra Club’s endorsement, the League of Conservation voters announced their endorsement of Gabrielle Giffords yesterday. Look for some of our loyal posters to twist this into more proof that the League and Giffords are some sort of Republican sell-outs out to destroy American democracy.
From the League’s press release:
“LCV is [...]

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

And One More Response to My Friend at Espresso Pundit

Espresso Pundit tried to play “gotcha” with Gabrielle Giffords and accused her of “waving the bloody shirt.”
One thing he took issue with was her supposed “claim” to be the youngest legislator. Well, the trouble was, she never made that claim.
Espresso Pundit pulls the offending quote from an article quoted on Gabrielle Giffords’s website. The original [...]

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Innuendo and Out the Other

Phx Kid, a huge fan of my blog…I’ll convert the guy yet, has taken issue with my characterizing Russ Dove as a Randy Graf ally. In a response to one of my previous posts, he said:
Tedski do you have any proof that Dove is working for a/the Republican(s)? Please provide it. It’s kind of like [...]

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

We Won’t Publish Personal Attacks, ‘Cept When We Do

I attended a breakfast meeting yesterday at Tucson Newspapers where candidates and politicos could hear from the editorial staffs of both newspapers and, oh yeah, meet their advertising staff too.
An interesting thing for me was when the editors of the papers went over their rules regarding letters to the editor. Some may remember that the [...]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

It Really Isn’t That Funny When Leno Does it Either

This is me doing more catching up on the things that have ticked me off over the last four or five days.
The Star has a new political reporter named Daniel Scarpinato. I’ve met him, and he seems to be eager to do a good job. I’ve actually liked what he has gotten in [...]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Yes, that’s Me. All Neglectful and Everything.

My adoring public has apparently noticed that I haven’t been posting much. I did warn y’all that this might happen.
Of course, you are all over me, but Mr. T goes unscathed despite the rampant sloth he has demonstrated on his blog. I would like to point out in my defense that my other blog [...]

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Did Dwight Read the Memo?

One reader noted that Dwight Leister’s website was changed over the last week or so such that the year is no longer listed as 2006 (although the domain name still says “2006″), reflecting the reality that he did not qualify as a candidate in this election.
Apparenly, Leister still thinks of himself as a candidate, as [...]

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Graf: Steve Who?

Randy Graf announced this morning that Steve Aiken is no longer a member of his campaign. Graf is saying that he had no idea how bad the charges were; he had originally said that they were no more serious than giving an underage person beer. Really, no one on your campaign knew how bad it [...]

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