Jennifer Burns has announced that she is not running for re-election.
This is the culmination of her getting shunned by her party for, horror of horrors, actually voting with her constituency. Her constituency, by the way, is the oddly gerrymandered District 25, which is fairly conservative for a Democratic district. So, according to the political calculus [...]
We will soon be blessed with another candidate for Corporation Commission, Cochise County Supervisor Paul Newman. Yes, check your calendars, it is not 1998.
Some of you may remember that the then-State House member from Bisbee narrowly lost a race for the Corporation Commission to State Treasurer Tony West. As it turned out, West was ineligible [...]
There is a bit of controversey in Willcox possibly ginned up by the Republican presidential primary. A Baptist church there displayed the phrase “Mormonism is not Christianity” on its markee. The community has a large Mormon population (one estimate is more than 700 of its 3700 residents), so this has raised a lot of hackles in the [...]
Cochise County Supervisor Paul Newman is not going to run for another term. Newman has been serving on the board since 2001. He worked hard on conservation and environmental issues, which didn’t win him any friends among his colleagues or the county’s buisiness establishment.
Occasionally, his fights against the “development at all costs” attitudes and the [...]
The Nation had a reporter at the College Republican National Committee meeting last week. Which gives me a chance to put this fine picture of the aptly named Paul Gourley back up. I wondered if I was taking potshots at some young guy that didn’t deserve to be picked on. Boy, was I ever wrong. [...]
Hoy es jueves, which means the Tucson Weekly is out today. A couple of stories in there caught my eye that I’d like to file under the “Cranks Always Win” category. In other words, you keep up the fight long enough, people will eventually hear you.
One is the story of John Brakey, a Democratic Party [...]
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