Specialist Jesse Latas, whose service in Iraq and struggle with leukemia inspired his father Jeff’s entry into politics, has died at the age of 22.
Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola:
Teach us, good Lord,
to serve You as You deserve,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not [...]
When I got word about Ann Kirkpatrick’s official entry into the CD 1 Derby, I realized that I hadn’t heard much about the goings on in the district, which, by the way, is the size of Pennsylvania.
(There is some rule out there that says that any mention of CD 1 has to include a citation [...]
Well, the new rumor being circulated is that Tim Bee is so intimidated by the piles of cash that Gabrielle Giffords has raised that he is reconsidering the race and may instead run for County Supervisor.
I don’t buy it. The field has been cleared for him, and all indications are that this will be a [...]
This picture ran in this morning’s Star. It features Justice Sandra Day O’Connor speaking to two people at the National Governor’s Association meeting. The caption identifies O’Connor and mentions the topics that she spoke about at the meeting. The caption fails to identify the women she is talking to, one of whom looks like Jennifer [...]
The Arizona Capitol Times is reporting that Ann Kirkpatrick has resigned her legislative seat and has announced that she is running against embattled Rep. Rick Renzi.
Kirkpatrick’s replacement, as per state law, will be chosen by the Coconino County Board of Supervisors and must be a Democrat.
Her starting the race this early is an indication that despite [...]
The latest rumblings are that Randy Graf, late of the Congressional District 8 race, is pondering a challenge to Ray Carroll. Carroll is regarded as moderate and definitely not Graf’s sort of Republican.
In the 2006 Republican congressional primary, Graf managed 43.0% in the precincts that make up Carroll’s district 4 (which is entirely in CD [...]
Candidate for State Democratic Party Chairman Don Bivens has spent the day meeting with local Democratic Party muckety mucks. I count this as a healthy sign. One weakness I saw with David Waid’s chairmanship was despite his administrative skills, he had an uneasy relationship with party activists.
The smart money says that Bivens is the prohibitive [...]
I didn’t post this weekend…recovering from Beckham hype…isn’t he so dreamy?
Over the last couple of weeks, I have had several conversations that started this way:
“Don’t use this on your blog, but…”
Don’t use this on your blog? What good does that do me?
I had one conversation like this months ago, so I kept my mouth shut. [...]
After the various fundraising scandals that sank many Republican political careers (our own J. D. Hayworth may have been torpedoed, in part, by his association with Jack Abramoff), the sick bastard inside of me worried that the Republicans would learn from these mistakes and not affiliate themselves with some of the more unsavory characters that [...]
So, one of our state’s many public policy advocacy organizations commissioned a poll. It wasn’t supposed to be on electoral politics, but included questions about some of our state’s politicians as a way to correlate the data.
When checking the crosstabs, they found some interesting numbers.
All Voters:
John McCain – Total Positive 41%, Total Negative 37%
Janet Napolitano [...]
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