Entries Tagged as 'Pinal County Politics'

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Babeu Bait and Switch

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is making much of his call for Barack Obama to stop all political fundraising activities until he fixes the border. I know this because Babeu’s demand is detailed in a political fundraising e-mail I recieved from him today.
This from his e-mail:
I have been targeted with death threats from these cartels [...]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Good News From the House of Labor

I recieved this missive yesterday from Molly McGovern of SEIU:
Today we passed a meet and confer ordinance in Pinal County! The Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 to give employees a voice at work. Congratulations to Supervisors David Snider, Sandie Smith, and Lionel Ruiz for their leadership in making Pinal County the second county [...]

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Hershberger is Just Like Bruce Cockburn: He Doesn’t Believe in Generals

Many of us on the Democratic side thought that Pete Hershberger’s selling point to Republican primary voters would be something along the lines of: “Yeah, I’m moderate, but look what happened when you picked Al Melvin before.” For those of you who didn’t keep track: Melvin defeated Toni Hellon in the primary which many people [...]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Not A Song By Genesis

There has been a bit of a scramble on the part of local Democrats to find a candidate to run for State Senate in District 26 after Charlene Pesquiera’s withdrawl. It appears that they have settled on one: local consultant Cheryl Cage.
I first met Cage when she was part of an informal group of Wesley [...]

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Lamb, and Romley Shall Work for Goddard

Here’s a strange story: former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley has apparently started doing work for Attorney General Terry Goddard.
This all started when Romley was handling the corruption case of Pinal County Manager Stanley Griffis and used space in the Attorney General’s office. Goddard has decided to make the arrangement a little more formal, and contract Romley to [...]

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

I got an e-mail yesterday saying that in the continuing count in Yuma County, Amanda Aguirre pulled ahead of Russ Jones in the District 24 State Senate race.
At the time, Aguirre was about 251 votes ahead. According to the Secretary of State’s website (last updated at 8:17 last night), that lead is at 150 votes. [...]

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