Entries Tagged as 'Rick Renzi'

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Renzi Follow Up

Three years ago, you may remember that I wrote about something fishy going on around the US Attorney’s office investigation of Rick Renzi. My post got pooh-poohed even by some liberal bloggers and the talk of any investigation was dismissed out of hand by the Arizona Republic, but in the meantime, we’ve found out that [...]

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Lazy Posting: National Journal Liberal/Conservative Ratings

The National Journal has released their 2008 Vote Ratings. The results are really no surprise, but after the jump are the ratings for the Arizona delegation, broken up by “issue categories”. I’ll post the Senate ratings later.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

McCain Goes and Ruins Everybody’s Plans

I heard the news that John McCain has gone ahead and filed the initial paperwork to run for yet another term in the US Senate in 2010. By the way, should he be re-elected and serve out his term, that would be thirty years in the Senate, edging out Henry Fountain Ashurst’s 29 years, but [...]

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Breaking: John Shadegg is Not a Homewrecker

Well, so glad we cleared that up.
A bit of background here. A couple of days ago, John Shadegg’s campaign committee sent out a press release announcing that he’d won a settlement against an author for libel. There were no details given. I thought it sounded weird, so I just kind of filed it away in [...]

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I Really Don’t Want to Quote C + C Music Factory Here

Anyone out there have any idea why John Shadegg’s campaign has paid over $19,000 in legal fees over the past couple of months? Beseiged Alaska Representative Don Young has four different investigations going on him and he’s only paid a fraction of that. Maybe lawyers are just cheaper in Alaska.
It couldn’t have anything to do with [...]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

It’s a Rescue…or a Bailout…Depends on Your District

For those that have asked…here is the Arizona delegation’s vote on the “rescue package.” The rescue package…you used to get to buy that for those Adventure People figures, right?
Jeff Flake (R – Mesa)  – Nay
Trent Franks (R – Glendale) – Nay
Gabrielle Giffords (D – Tucson)  – Aye
Raúl Grijalva (D – Tucson) – Nay
Harry Mitchell (D [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Wow, That Made It Easy

The Yellow Sheet reported that Kris Mayes has decided against running for congress. Does this mean that her time working for Janet Napolitano gets re-inserted in her resume?
This leaves the Republicans’ “top” candidate mining lobbyist and knuckle-dragger Sidney Hay, who has already promised to be as good as Rick Renzi. For those who don’t have a [...]

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Finance Update

The first quarter is over, so this is the time that the various campaigns spin how wonderful or gawdawful their fundraising was in anticipation of the official numbers that will come out in a few weeks.
According to R-Cubed’s crack research team (yes, they are on crack), the only one to have filed their official report already [...]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Rick Renzi and the Failure of the Establishment

Back in 1997, I happened to be doing an off-site project for the company I was working for. This meant I spent the summer in Phoenix, where I learned that summers can, in fact, be worse than they are in Tucson.
So I was up there the day that J. Fife Symington III was convicted of [...]

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Aspiring New Captain of the Titanic Promises a Stay of Course

I want to demonstrate my commitment to maintaining the same level of availability that Congressman [Rick] Renzi provided to the citizens of eastern Arizona.
Sydney Hay to a meeting of the Graham County Republicans February 12th, Reported by the Eastern Arizona Courier February 25th.
To be fair to Hay, which is difficult for me, she said this [...]

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