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Live Blogging the Arizona Democratic Party Meeting

14:30 Bill Roe announces the Democratic Electors: Don Bivens, Leena Flower, Calvin Goode, Pam Grissom, Jim McLaughlin, Verma Pastor, Bill Roe, Jeff Rogers, Nicole Stanton, Daniel Valenzuela, Ann Wallack

14:25 Corporation Commission Candidate Marcia Busching addresses group.

14:20 A guy named Mikel Weisser is talking. His campaign poster looks a bit too much like the cover of Rage Against the Machine’s Battle of Los Angeles, complete with a Statue of Liberty.

14:18 Gene Scharer speaks. Mention of the name of his opponent, Trent Franks, fills place with boos.

14:16 Congressional Candidate Matt Jenni addressing group.

14:10 Secretary Sharon Thomas is absent today. Chairman Roe reports that she’s working on her master’s degree so she can run for State School Superintendent. I’ll reserve judgement.

13:35 Ate at probably the only Mexican restaurant in Payson. Preliminaries have included a heckler. Blogger Dee Dee Blaise used a bullhorn to complain that Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Paul Penzone was addressing the group. He isn’t.

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This was written by Tedski. Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2012, at 2:05 pm. Filed under Party Inside Baseball. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

6 Comments

  1. AZW88 wrote:

    No degree or educational background is required to be AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction.
    See Horne, Huppenthal

    Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 4:12 pm | Permalink
  2. Jeff Latas wrote:

    Sharon’s there!??? Who said she’s not?

    Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 4:21 pm | Permalink
  3. Tom Prezelski wrote:

    Maybe she was hanging out with Paul Penzone.

    Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 6:32 am | Permalink
  4. Tedski wrote:

    Jeff-

    The chair reported that she was not there.

    Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 11:02 am | Permalink
  5. Jeff Rogers wrote:

    She was there at the end. Of the 250 or so people, she was the only one who voted against our endorsement of the Quality Education and Jobs Initiative.

    Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm | Permalink
  6. RepTroll wrote:

    Perhaps it was Matt Jette addressing the crowd. He ran for governor 2 years ago… Someone needs to do some fact checking. And by fact checking I mean google searching.

    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 12:40 am | Permalink