A certain Samuel Pearson Goddard III, also known by the alias “Terry,” has filed an exploratory run for governor. The web page for his explorations is up too.
Since everyone knew this would happen, it is my job to make this interesting by harping on some minor facts.
Goddard’s campaign chairwoman is former Arizona Cantaloupe Queens pitcher [...]
Fife Symington bowed out of the governor’s race to endorse John Munger…
…and Charlie Crist too.
Public Policy Polling has a new poll out that isn’t good news for Republicans thinking that they can hold the Governor’s office next year. Well, one bit of good news for them: Jan Brewer is nearly as popular with Barack Obama voters as she is with John McCain voters. Of course, when only 28% of [...]
A correspondent sent me a link to this post, which talks about the possibility of Fife Symington running for public office and makes reference to an odd incident where he may just have met the wife of the new Japanese Prime Minister.
Some of you may remember that Symington made noise in 2006 about a comeback. [...]
Many of you have been reading about the latest row between Jan Brewer and Terry Goddard. Those of us that have been watching Arizona politics for a while have seen this show before (Evan Mecham versus Bob Corbin, Fife Symington versus Grant Woods) and have also seen how often governors seem to come out on [...]
Many of you have no doubt heard the news that Chuck Coughlin will be heading up Jan Brewer’s transition team. Coughlin, along with fellow transition team member Doug Cole, were both high placed staffers with Fife Symington’s administration.
Coughlin and Cole run a consulting firm called HighGround which has found a rather lucrative business model: do [...]
Jan Brewer is keeping mum about the possibility of becoming governor, but this morning on KUAZ she was quoted as saying “I am not a tax and spend politician.”
Okay, we’ve got that settled, she will neither tax nor spend. Or, does she mean that she will tax but not spend…spend but not tax, maybe?
So glad [...]
So, what exactly do you call an initiative that guts the initiative process, anyway?
You can call it “Majority Rules – Let the People Decide,” since it hasn’t yet been given a number.
Here’s what it does, from the text of the initiative:
TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH TRUE MAJORITY [...]
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