Tuesday, July 29th, 2008...7:06 am
Phil ‘Er Up
At this weekend’s Democratic Party meeting up in Flagstaff, Phil Gordon will be attending the Hispanic Caucus. Gordon’s staff requested the chance to address the group, and at first I had the impression that he would be doing a one man show there (and that he’d even buy us lunch!) but now that I’ve recieved the final agenda, it looks like he is part of a panel with several others.
It’s too bad, because I was hoping that there would be room for us to ask him questions. He finally woke up a few weeks back and realized that Joe Arpaio is a jackass. God only knows why it took him so long to figure this out, but hey. I guess it is a good sign that he wants to make nice with the Hispanic Caucus, but that doesn’t mean that he still doesn’t have some ’splainin’ to do.
I’m taking this as a sign that the on-again-off-again speculation that he wants to run for governor is now on again. He is still testing the waters, even though it seems like some of the folks who were talking up his candidacy have moved on to Jim Pedersen. There has been talk that private polls are being done by both pro- and anti-Gordon forces that show that Gordon would have a great deal of trouble even carrying his constituents Phoenix against Terry Goddard. Polls that I’ve seen are very limited, but they bear this out as well (anyone that has access to one of these polls, you know where to find me).
A free R-Cubed T-shirt to the person that asks Gordon if he still supports John McCain for president.
NB – Tony Cani wrote me to say that I didn’t link to an article about Gordon’s McCain endorsement. The trouble is, the article that I had originally found it in is no longer available online. I linked and quoted from the article here, and the I posted a response from a Gordon staffer here. The response, by the way, seemed to confirm that Gordon had endorsed McCain.
3 Comments
July 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I would do it for a date but not a tee shirt.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
http://www.azcentral.com/business/abg/articles/2008/07/24/20080724abg-governorpoll0724.html
Small business backs Goddard
f small-business owners have their way, Terry Goddard could finally get to be governor – a post that has eluded him twice before – according to a new poll.
A survey of Arizona Small Business Association members found that 43 percent of the 250 companies who responded to the survey preferred Goddard. The former Phoenix mayor ran successfully for attorney general in 2002 after twounsuccessful bids to be the state’s chief executive.
The closest competition Goddard has, according to pollster Mike O’Neil, is current Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, another Democrat. He was the choice of 21 percent.
Otherwise, we could also vote for our “independent senator” Jim Pederson. LOL
July 30th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Gordon has been endorsing Republicans for decades; the Weiers, Thomas and McCain endorsements are only the freshest s**t on the pile. He has offended so many activist Dems over the years that he would have no chance against anyone of stature in a contested primary. I don’t wish him ill while he holds down the big chair in Phoenix, but I will campaign actively for “anybody but Phil” in any future race. If he chooses to, and gets his elbows out soon, Terry Goddard will body-slam this DINO clown and rid the body politic of the Gordon cancer once and for all. Just a friendly note from a longtime Dem activist, born on Davis-Monthan, multi-generation native Arizonan here.