Funny you should ask.
Earlier this week, Congressman Raúl Grijalva introduced the Clean Money, Clean Elections Act, which would in essence make Arizona’s Clean Elections System for state office holders the law for federal candidates as well. The bill has been assigned a number, HR 1614, and is also sponsored by Democrat John Tierney and Republican […]
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 […]
The National Journal released “liberal” ratings for members of congress. The Journal’s ratings gave our own Raúl Grijalva a 96.2 liberal rating. This puts Grijalva up there as the third most liberal member of congress. What? Only third? Such a sell out.
I joke about that, but give it time, I’ll have an encounter with a […]
Okay, my mistake. The Luis Armando Gonzales that filed to run for city council in Ward 1 is not the one that has made numerous attempts to return to public office since an ill-considered try to take out Mo Udall in a Democratic primary back in 1986. The Luis Armando Gonzales that filed is Luis […]
Los Angeles Dodgers fans, or for that matter, patrons of our local Asian eateries, may have noted that papers have been pulled by one Luis Gonzales to run in the Ward 1 Democratic primary. Some of you may want to note the spelling on the name “Gonzales” before you get too excited though.
I’m thinking that […]
Raúl Grijalva is scheduled to give a five minute floor speech on the House floor today sometime between 4:00 and 4:30 local time.
Regina Romero, an aide to Councilmember Karin Uhlich, is expected to pull papers today to run in the now open west side Ward 1 council race.
Romero’s husband, Ruben Reyes, works for Raúl Grijalva, and she herself has been very active in his campaigns since she was in college. My keen senses developed though nearly two […]
José Ibarra has announced that he is not running for city council in this year’s election, which leaves the Ward 1 city council race wide open. Ibarra has served on the council since being elected as a 25 year old in 1995 after being an aide to Raúl Grijalva (then a county supervisor) and a […]
Tonight on Fox News at 9, they will air a piece called “A Day in the Life of Raúl Grijalva.” A camera crew followed Grijalva around the capitol last month shortly after the start of the current session.
The piece will be aired locally at 9:00 PM (of course!) on KMSB channel 11. You can check KMSB’s […]
I added some things to the sidebar. I changed the “Blogroll” to be more like my old sidebar blogroll with the flags. The new “Election Aught Seven” category is for candidates that I’m supporting in this upcoming election. Under links, I limited who I listed to elected officials who actually are in my area, plus […]
Arizona Schools for the Deaf and Blind board member Sami Hamed recently reserved the domain name samihamed.com (don’t bother going there, nothing interesting yet). This little thing led to speculation that Hamed was laying the groundwork for a run for City Council in Ward 1, where he lives.
I decided to actually ask Hamed, who currently […]
Clarence Boykins is still being talked about as a candidate in Ward 2, but it seems that the ever eager Rodney Glassman has out maneuvered him in the early part of this race.
Last Thursday, Glassman turned in enough contributions to qualify for city matching funds. Long time City Clerk Kathleen Deitrick says that it’s the […]
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 […]
A quick visit to Randy Camacho’s website and you may notice some changes to his endorsement list.
One thing is that both Raúl Grijalva and Ed Pastor have disappeared from the list. Both had been touted early on as endorsers of Camacho, especially when it looked like the field would be open. Both of them have […]
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 […]
Raúl Grijalva submitted this statement to the Congressional Record today:
Madam Speaker, I believe this Congress has a mandate from the voters, to start bringing our troops home now. This is not an option to pursue at our leisure, this is a solemn obligation of absolute urgency. As we speak, preparations are being made to send […]
Both Raúl Grijalva and Ed Pastor are now part of the Democratic Party’s whip organization in the house. Pastor is a deputy whip, and Grijalva is a senior whip. I have no idea if either one of these titles comes with a badge.
Pastor is close to newly elected Democratic whip James Clyburn. Clyburn has also […]
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 […]
John Edwards was hoping to put off his presidential announcement until tommorrow, but apparently today his website became hot for a while and then was taken down.
No matter, really. I mean, who thought he wasn’t going to run?
He has made two excellent speeches in Tucson during the 2006 campaign. The speeches were not standard issue, […]
Greg Patterson flatters me too much over at Espresso Pundit by saying that newly elected congressman Gabrielle Giffords should hire me at her office. Well, thank you for the sentiment, Greg, but there are plenty of very well qualified people in line in front of me.
In fact, there has been a development on that point. […]
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