An e-mail came out last night from Jeff Latas. He’s thinking of running for congress now that Gabrielle Giffords is stepping down: In the next few days I expect to see plenty of speculation on what will be a very fast paced campaign and election. The lines will be the old 8th district, giving the [...]
Friday, November 11, 2011
The Star reports that Dave Sitton is running for congress. He’s got a high profile due to his being “the voice of the Wildcats.” Sitton had also been mentioned as a candidate back in 2006. Hm. So, he’s hoping that his television profile will help him defeat Gabrielle Giffords. How’d that work out for Patty [...]
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Greg Patterson of Espresso Pundit has predicted a seven point victory for Jesse Kelly over Gabrielle Giffords. Here is his past record of predictions in that district: Prediction Result ’06 Primary Patty Weiss Giffords by 23 ’06 General Randy Graf Giffords by 12 ’08 General Tim Bee Giffords by 12 I dunno, something tells me [...]
For some reason, one particular post in from June of 2006 became a favorite target of spambots advertising pornography. The “comments” that were posted would not have been a problem since the post was so old, except that they all showed up in the “recent comments” section on the side bar. Some of these were [...]
At 7:18 AM yesterday, Mark Kimble wrote this on the Tucson Citizen’s blog: [Tim] Bee plans to make it all formal Saturday morning at Palo Verde High School, where he is an alum. Maybe he should rethink the location. In 2006, Democrat and former television news anchor Patty Weiss showed up at Palo Verde High [...]
As much fun as I’ve had poking at the Republicans, there is a race for Party Chair on our side too. The last two years have seen three, yes three, State Democratic Party Chairs. Jim Pederson resigned to run for US Senate, his replacement Harry Mitchell resigned to run for US House. Mitchell was replaced [...]
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Also tagged Arizona Democratic Party, AZNetroots, David Waid, Ed Pastor, Gabrielle Giffords, Harry Mitchell, J D Hayworth, Janet Napolitano, Jeff Latas, Jim Pederson, John McCain, Phil Lopes, Raúl Grijalva, Spidel Net, Terry Goddard, Trent Franks
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Assistant Attorney General Paul Eckerstrom is being talked up as a candidate to run against Barbara Lawall for County Attorney. Eckerstrom had been talked about before, but the talk seems to be a bit more serious now. Eckerstrom has worked both sides of the courtroom, as a public defender and as a prosecutor. He currently [...]
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Also tagged Barbara Lawall, Bill Bradley, Bruce Babbitt, Colleen Bagnal, Erica Hartquist, Linda Ronstadt, Nina Trassoff, Paul Eckerstrom, Peter Eckerstrom, SEIU, Steve Farley, Terry Goddard
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