The Barack Obama campaign has announced the names of the former Bill Richardson Arizona steering committee members that have endorsed Obama. They are Rep. Chad Campbell, US Rep. Sam Coppersmith, Rep. Mark DeSimone, Rep. David Lujan, Rep. Tom Prezelski, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, Rep. Jackie Thrasher and Rep. Theresa Ulmer.
Whenever I write about endorsements, someone posts […]
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 […]
Randy Pullen’s has spent the last few months claiming that the Republican party has registered thousands of new voters. I’m assuming that the majority of these voters are Republicans, or it would defeat the purpose of the whole enterprise, wouldn’t it?
So, then the question becomes, where the heck are these folks hiding?
Take a look at what has happened to […]
I knew it wouldn’t take long, our friends on the other side have been pointing to the resignation of David Waid as some sort of sign that the Democratic Party is totally dysfunctional. Yep…the party is on the verge of imploding and going the way of the Anti-Masons in the 1830’s.
I guess they got tired […]
It looks as though Bob Walkup won’t have much of a race this year. The Democrats have largely abandoned the field, leaving Walkup to run against Green Party candidate Dave Croteau. I like what I’ve heard from Croteau, and I might even vote for him. As it looks right now, however, I can’t think of […]
Republican Mahout Randy Pullen blogged that Sen. Harry Reid should step down because of his statements about Gen. Peter Pace. For some reason, Reid is not allowed to say anything bad about the guy in time of war without it causing major damage, but the president can actually have the guy sacked in time of […]
The Republic’s Plugged In blog has reported that the finance director for the State Republican party has quit. She has only been there for two months. The previous finance director quit just minutes after the election of new chairman Randy Pullen.
Part of the trouble for these folks is that the “Country Club Republicans” that Pullen […]
We bloggers have been seeking out the infamous shot of Republican Mahout Randy Pullen at a press availability last week displaying a drawing of a middle finger that was sent to him to protest Jon Kyl’s support of the immigration compromise.
Pullen showed it to a television camera, but the only print photographer that managed to snap […]
You may remember that Republican Mahout Randy Pullen sent out a press release decrying the Senate immigration compromise, a fact that many of us have found interesting given that Jon Kyl has been credited for being the main guy pushing for it.
(Of course, many of the provisions of the bill were exactly the sorts of things […]
From Republican mahout Randy Pullen’s latest communiqué:
Yesterday, I expressed disappointment on behalf of the Arizona Republican Party at the Senate legislation addressing Comprehensive Immigration reform. Minutes ago, the U.S. Senate delayed further action until at least next month.
Dang! You the man!
Okay, I’m being a bit unfair, the e-mail is really about how Pullen has started a […]
Early last month, State Republican Chair Randy Pullen sent out a press release on the eve of President Bush’s visit to Yuma warning Democrats not to oppose the President’s stance on the border. Of course, Democrats were probably closer to Bush on the issue than Pullen himself was.
The press release, sent on April 5th, contained this paragraph:
Just […]
In the last couple of weeks, the Republicans have gone full bore on their push to dominate the internets. Recently, the Pima County Republicans finally took down the “coming soon” legend and have a brand spanking new website. I’d complain about the length of the URL, but I’m one to talk, eh?
The State Republican party has […]
Since the new regime has taken over the state Republican Party, Randy Pullen and Brett Mecum have put out several doozies of press releases. One may remember that Pullen had a finger wagging release that warned Janet Napolitano not to support a funding cut for the troops, even though she had already come out against […]
An article in the latest Roll Call (not linking article since a subscription is required) entitled “National GOP Hits Arizona Frosh” details the way the Republican Party has chosen to go after Harry Mitchell and Gabrielle Giffords. Of course they will: Giffords’s district had been represented by a Republican since 1985, and Mitchell’s has been since, […]
This here humble corner of Blogistan has made a couple of new forays into the Main Stream Media. How’s that for a mixed metaphor?
First of all, an oddly edited version of my post on the Bee family made it into the Yellow Sheet. They spelled the URL right, so how can I complain?
Secondly, Political Insider […]
Randy Pullen put out a press release Yesterday raking Janet Napolitano over the coals, for, apparently, something she has not said yet.
This isn’t the first time that Napolitano has been attacked for a position she might take. Back when they did this before, I called it the “Republican Leap.” Since they seem to be doing that […]
So, there is concern that a newly elected leader seeks to appoint a committee to ensure ideological purity among his constituents.
Wait, I’m not talking about Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua…I’m talking about Lyle Tuttle, the new chairman of the Maricopa County Republican party.
The boys (well, there’s a girl too) over at Politico Mafioso report that Tuttle has […]
The controversial HB 2286, that would classify groups like the Minutemen as terrorist organizations, is being heard on Monday.
Even though it goes after folks who I have barely any use for, I have some concerns about the constitutionality of this bill. You know what though? Those are things that can be debated by reasonable people, […]
Today was the day that everyone decided to write to me about the story printed in the Republic this morning that, apparently, the state Republican party will have no paid employees after next week. Yes, I knew this. I was first tipped of to this on Monday when someone named Mike posted it to this […]
Some of us were curious whether or not Republican activist Rob Haney would stage one of his dubious and slanted “straw polls” at the State Party’s reorganizing meeting on Saturday. Well, he didn’t but one of his allies, a guy named Mark Zemel, was handing out a palm card that detailed the goals of the […]
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