The Hill last week announced that John Edwards has made public a list of twelve house members who have endorsed him. On that list: Raúl Grijalva.
This may be thought of as “letting the cat out of the bag,” but the bag was a clear plastic one. Grijalva was courted heavilly by Edwards back in 2002 […]
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 […]
Two years ago, a group of buisnessmen and moderate politicians of both parties formed the Project for Arizona’s Future. The group advocated for investment in education, veterans programs and biotechnology, as well as a middle of the road solution on illegal immigration. Because the group’s agenda mirrored that of Janet Napolitano, it was criticized by many […]
I finally recieved a mailer from Randy Camacho. I thought it was a bit unusual since it contained what was essentially a very wordy palm card, rather than a letter, detailing his 30/15/8 plan. I suppose that the card contained the same information that would be in a “Dear Democratic Friend” letter anyway. It just […]
Interesting bit in Roll Call yesterday. Should John McCain win the presidency, or even if he resigns his seat upon nomination, Governor Janet Napolitano would appoint a successor. Unlike in some states, any appointee has to be of the same party as the person they are replacing. This means that Napolitano would have to find […]
Last year, I published a top ten list of folks who had been mentioned on my blog. I’d be remiss if I didn’t do that for 2006 as well:
Rep.-elect Gabrielle Giffords - 92 mentions
Rep. Randy Graf - 85 mentions
Gov. Janet Napolitano - 67 mentions
Rep. Raúl Grijalva - 67 mentions
Sen. Jon Kyl - 65 mentions
Patty Weiss […]
I spoke to a Republican activist up in Phoenix and he seemed to feel that Lisa James had some momentum in the chairmanship race. His take: despite whatever problems the activists have with the consultants and the hierarchy, Randy Pullen is being seen in some quarters as someone who is looking at the chairmanship as […]
The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. - Speaker Thomas Bracket Reed
It seems that the Republican leadership at the legislature is already being punitive toward Democratic members. There has already been talk that their offices may be moved from the third floor of the capitol, where most of […]
As much fun as I’ve had poking at the Republicans, there is a race for Party Chair on our side too.
The last two years have seen three, yes three, State Democratic Party Chairs. Jim Pederson resigned to run for US Senate, his replacement Harry Mitchell resigned to run for US House. Mitchell was replaced with […]
The Republicans are gearing up for a fight for State Chairman. They lost two US House seats and more legislative seats than any observer would have expected even a few months ago. At least judging from the blogs, I don’t hear as much grousing about the governor’s race as I do about the legislative and […]
I ran into Phil Lopes yesterday, and he told me that he could take me. Okay, not really. But Lopes was having a problem that he didn’t anticipate. He had to make arrangements to move today’s Democratic caucus meeting to a different room to accomodate four members more than anticipated.
Not exactly the sort of problem […]
Just a couple of thoughts…I’ll write more later when I’m a little more awake.
Anyone remember fifteen months ago or so? I think the prediction was that J. D. Hayworth was going to demoish Janet Napolitano and the Republicans were going to get a bullet-proof 2/3 majority in both houses so even if Napolitano won, she […]
Some of you may have read last week that Roy Warden was aquitted on assault charges stemming from one of his many flag burning incidents. The obvious conclusion from last week’s news is that Pima County juries are incapable of convicting ex-Wildcat basketball players or xenophobic loudmouths.
Warden, emboldened by this, has sent a warning for […]
Over at Espresso Pundit, Greg Patterson has been responding to the Arizona Republic’s scathing endorsement of Harry Mitchell. He takes issue with the characterization of J. D. Hayworth as a “bully.” The gist of what he is saying seems to be that Hayworth is being attacked for his ideology and stance on illegal immigration.
Come on! […]
I spoke to a fellow political hack who pointed out to me that Democratic candidates often break late in Arizona. This is caused by the Republican registration advantage and our late primary.
One of the things that people forget about the 2002 campaign was that few, if any polls, showed Democrat Janet Napolitano ahead. For the […]
The results of the final Tucson Weekly poll on the CD 8 race have been posted at their blog, along with some quickie analysis of the numbers by Jim Nintzel. I imagine that a more complete analysis will be posted tonight as well as in the print edition that strikes the streets of the Naked […]
We here at R Cubed, we’re like the Pinkertons, agents all over. One of my high ranking opperatives spotted the weekly anti-war/pro-war protest over at Speedway and Euclid. These have taken an electoral tone as of late, with the pro-war protestors carrying signs for Republican candidates.
There was a group of people holding Jon Kyl and […]
The liberals are on the run! They know that the vast majority of Arizonans, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary (all polls that show people don’t share my views are obviously deeply flawed), don’t agree with their radical leftist vision for Arizona!
The DCCC is spending not one dime on the races of Raúl Grijalva […]
The Mallard has sent out an e-mail touting a new poll that shows him only six points behind Raúl Grijalva. I have a couple of reasons to be skeptical, or at the very least a couple of reasons to wait to see what this poll says. And yes, my reasons are better than “Raúl is […]
State Rep. Russell Pearce has proposed annother one of his incredibly practical solutions to our state’s border woes. He is drafting a bill to call for a referendum to ask for new taxes and fees to raise $580 million to build a wall along the border.
($580 million! Wow, we could use that to give away […]
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