Entries Tagged as 'Carl Hayden'

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Ouch

The Daily Star had a story this morning that former Rep. Jim Kolbe will be chairing Andre Cherny’s campaign for state treasurer.
Keep in mind that Kolbe is the only Republican that has represented Southern Arizona in the US House. In 2006, he all but publicly snubbed Randy Graf, and in 2008 he dropped his support [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

NPR Follows My Lead

All Things Considered had a bit about Carl Hayden last night featuring Jack August. This was obviously because they saw my post about Hayden yesterday morning and knew they had to catch up with me. The piece is up on their website.
August made one error (admittedly a big one: getting Apaches confused with Navajos), which [...]

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Arizona Loses a Record

Quick, who was the longest serving member of Congress? Well, up until this week, you could have proudly mentioned Carl Trumbull Hayden of Tempe. As of this week, however, the good Senator Hayden has lost that distinction to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Hayden served a term as Sheriff of Maricopa County, then ran for Arizona’s [...]

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

McCain Goes and Ruins Everybody’s Plans

I heard the news that John McCain has gone ahead and filed the initial paperwork to run for yet another term in the US Senate in 2010. By the way, should he be re-elected and serve out his term, that would be thirty years in the Senate, edging out Henry Fountain Ashurst’s 29 years, but [...]

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