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Category Archives: Pinal County Politics

Quick Take

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Tim Stellar has a piece in the Star this morning about Paul Babeu using Pinal County Sheriff’s Department employees in an ad, even though he’s under federal investigation for using his employees for his congressional campaign on county time. I’m not stunned that he’d do such a thing; I’m stunned that he’s still running for [...]

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Babeu Bait and Switch

Monday, August 30, 2010

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 [...]

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Good News From the House of Labor

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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 in [...]

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

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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 [...]

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Not A Song By Genesis

Monday, April 28, 2008

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 [...]

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

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

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 [...]

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Thursday, November 16, 2006

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 [...]

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