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Ouch

Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Daily Star had a story this morning that former Rep. Jim Kolbe will be chairing Andre Cherny’s campaign for state treasurer. Keep in mind that Kolbe is the only Republican that has represented Southern Arizona in the US House. In 2006, he all but publicly snubbed Randy Graf, and in 2008 he dropped his [...]

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NPR Follows My Lead

Thursday, November 19, 2009

All Things Considered had a bit about Carl Hayden last night featuring Jack August. This was obviously because they saw my post about Hayden yesterday morning and knew they had to catch up with me. The piece is up on their website. August made one error (admittedly a big one: getting Apaches confused with Navajos), [...]

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Arizona Loses a Record

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Quick, who was the longest serving member of Congress? Well, up until this week, you could have proudly mentioned Carl Trumbull Hayden of Tempe. As of this week, however, the good Senator Hayden has lost that distinction to Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Hayden served a term as Sheriff of Maricopa County, then ran for [...]

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McCain Goes and Ruins Everybody’s Plans

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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 [...]

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