Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

There was a bit of gloating in the last post from Phx Kid about the DCCC pulling out of the CD 8 race, as if the D-Trip’s reasons were the same as those of the NRCC.
I was thinking of channelling the lame excuses from Randy Graf supporters on this one and making an implausible allegation […]

Ron Drake has finally spoken up! Coming off of his primary victory over Joe Sweeney and his bucket of wheat paste, he has taken to accusing Raúl Grijalva of insulting police, fire fighters and 9-11 victims. Oh, yeah, apparently he is against civilization too.
I thought we hadn’t heard much from Drake because he was […]

I’ve been mentioned over at Politico Mafioso now. I am such an important figure in Arizona politics that I’m worth mentioning.
Apparently, I’ve been demonizing that poor, innocent, unable-to-speak-up-for-himself, never-meant-any-harm-to-anyone whelp, Randy Graf.
The main thrust of the post is that the RNCC is being whimpy for not standing up for Graf. That has been the […]

Terry Goddard’s campaign has delivered a complaint to Todd Lang of the Clean Elections Commission alleging that Bill Montgomery’s campaign illegally spent $73,000 that were supposed to be spent for the primary on a television ad to be run afterward. It may seem nit-picky, but he did sign a Clean Elections contract, and such legal […]

A picture taken at the “Clinton Global Initiative” Conference. Have at it…

The Arizona Daily Star gave a thorn to the Democratic Party for revealing the link to Randy Graf on David Duke’s website. They have a point that any bozo can link to a website, and that doesn’t necessarily mean that any support is reciprocated.
But, take a look at David Duke’s website again. The only candidate […]

Terry Goddard scored a victory in court yesterday against Western Union, who attempted to block Goddard’s investigations into money transfers by coyotes.
Goddard has an ongoing operation to investigate both smuggling and the crimes that coyotes commit against the migrants that they smuggle. Because of the large ammounts of money that coyotes and the people […]

According the word out here in Blogistan, the NRCC has pulled its ads in CD 8. I’ll try to do a bit more to run this one down. Apparently, all the ads have been cancelled except for the ones on KVOA because its too late to cancel those.
The only downside is that this […]

The Arizona Daily Star ran a piece this morning on David Duke’s endorsement of Randy Graf and the fact that he featured a link to Graf on his website.
Of course, this led to protests by Republicans that just because Duke likes Graf doesn’t make Graf a racist. True ‘dat, but I’d like to know what […]

The Rumor Mill had it that Ted Downing was talking up a run against Supervisor Richard Elías in the next election. The rumor went that Downing was angry that Elías supported Paula Aboud against him for the State Senate.
Juicy enough rumor, ‘cept for one tiny problem. Downing lives in Supervisor District 3, which is represented […]

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research has released a poll showing Gabrielle Giffords at 52%, Randy Graf at 35% with Independent Jay Quick and Libertarian Dave Nolan each getting 5%.
Giffords is also at 78% name id, and has a 51% approval rating and a 18% disapproval rating. Graf, on the other hand, is better known at […]

Jim Nintzel of the Tucson Weekly called me yesterday to tell me that my numbers were based on early incomplete numbers, and that complete results are now posted.
Nintzel loves to find my mistakes. I still like to remind him that he confused me and my brother in “The Skinny” once. This wouldn’t have been so […]

So, check this out, these are Randy Graf’s vote totals:
2004 - 26,686
2006 - 23,949
So wait, Randy Graf got fewer votes, even though he did not have to run against an incumbent?
Well, his percentage didn’t change, in fact, it went up slightly (well, one tenth of a percent). But what did go down were the number […]

One of the things that is always hard to explain to many of my friends is why I and many other liberals still practice Catholicism. I usually give the glib answer that Roman Catholicism is like baseball. Millions and millions of fans still attend the games and follow every statistic obsessively even though the owners […]

Robert Novak comments on The Daily Show Jon Stewart:
[S]omebody mentioned the Jon Stewart program, I’ve never seen that in my life and I will go to my grave never having seen it…I don’t see any reason for it. It’s a comedian, self-righteous comedian taking on airs of grandeur and I really don’t need that.

The folks over at Sonoran Alliance are convinced that Janet Napolitano is going to get spanked in this election. I realize that as partisan activists, they have to convince themselves of this despite all evidence to the contrary.
They do have some numbers to back up their hypothesis, their argument goes beyond the “everyone that […]

I recieved an e-mail from Douglas Johnson, Vice-President of National Demographics Corporation, detailing some reasons the polling in the gubernatorial primary did not resemble the final results:
Here’s the answer to the question you pose about why CD 8 surveys were so accurate when the poll about Pima views on the Gov primary were so far […]

Quick question for all y’all: the polling in the CD 8 race seemed to be spot on. However, in the Republican race for governor, the polling was way off. Don Goldwater was supposed to have a 2-1 lead against Len Munsil. His Pima County number was negligible in one survey, but his final number […]

Before he was a lobbyist and activist advocating for strengthening the institution of marriage, Len Munsil was a divorce attorney.
Well, so says a site called Len Munsil Facts that has just gone up in the last week or so.
It turns out that Munsil merely worked for a law firm that handled divorce law, but he […]

I saw Steve Huffman today. I told him, “At least you did better than me…”
His Blackberry was going constantly. He must have some other irons in the fire.
I actually don’t know if he knew it was me. He knows my brother well, but I don’t think I have seem him in person since […]