The Arizona Democratic Party is comparing the way Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey ran Cold Stone Creamery to a Ponzi scheme. To push the point, the party held a bit of an ice cream party at its Phoenix headquarters today, showing off gallons of ice cream labeled: “Doug Ducey’s Pistachio…
Representative Trent Franks, Arizona’s abortion obsessed Congressman, got a failing grade from an atheist coalition for, basically, draping himself and his political office with a robe of Christianity and proposing legislation based on his religious views. As one would figure, that wouldn’t go over well with the Secular Coalition for…
Republican Representative Steve Montenegro plans to introduce legislation that would require Arizona high school students to pass a civics test before graduating. The test would be based on the 100-question exam that immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens must pass, which includes general knowledge questions about the country, like who…
A report by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency says this year’s influx of Central American migrants has begun to decline, but it calls on Congress for support in keeping the crisis in check…
Ray Chatman has been behind bars since 1970, when he was convicted of killing a Circle K clerk in a robbery at age 17. He was supposed to spend the rest of his life in prison, but he’ll soon get out because of efforts by prosecutors at the Maricopa County…
David Garcia wants to become Arizona’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction. And if he beats his challenger, Republican Diane Douglas, Garcia would be the first Latino elected to statewide office in about four decades. The Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hopes that happens. The business association is giving its support…
Last night’s first gubernatorial debate between Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal largely focused on the two candidates’ bread-and-butter issues: business growth for Ducey, and education for DuVal. The most contentious parts of the debate were over DuVal’s record on the Arizona Board of Regents, as Ducey repeated lines…
Fred DuVal’s campaign for Arizona governor has been airing campaign ads featuring Republican Grant Woods, a longtime friend and college classmate of DuVal’s. DuVal, the Democratic nominee, is running against Republican Doug Ducey in the November general election. Sure, Woods, a former Arizona attorney general, may have chaired Governor Jan…
So how does a crazy lady like Sylvia Allen become a member of the Arizona Legislature? Some dude has to fall off a horse. Literally. Back in 2008, it was state Senator Jake Flake, uncle of now-U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and former Speaker of the state House, who got bucked…
The attack ad that hits Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred DuVal for voting for tuition increases as a member of the Arizona Board of Regents isn’t going away. In fact, it’s now in Spanish, too…
David Leibowitz, a political consultant who’s helping Felicia Rotellini, the Democratic candidate for Arizona Attorney General, posted a tweet implying that her opponent Mark Brnovich is being followed by thousands of “fake twitter accounts.” Funny because a quick (an inexact) check of Leibowitz’s more than 26,000 followers on twitteraudit.com estimates…
It took about a week, but the match-ups for all nine of Arizona’s congressional races have been decided. The Republican primary in Congressional District 1 had been too close to call since the primary election last Tuesday, but businessman Gary Kiehne has conceded defeat to Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin…
Supporters of Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey aren’t taking Democratic challenger Fred DuVal lightly. With the primary election barely over, Ducey supporters had a DuVal hit on TV, spending more than a half-million dollars to slam DuVal — a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents — for college…
Primary day 2014 was a beautiful day for moderation in Arizona politics. A perfect day? Hardly, but disappointments in the Republican field offer opportunities for Arizona Democrats in the general election. Former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith’s second-place finish to state Treasurer Doug Ducey was anticipated, though the severity of the…
On Election Night, Public Policy Polling released a survey of Arizona voters revealing that a general election race between Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey and the Democrats’ Fred DuVal would be even matched — at least in the beginning. It gives hope to Democrats trying to gain leverage in a…
Ruben Gallego’s political star has ascended quickly in Arizona politics. Last night, the 34-year-old beat out a politically connected and well-known Democrat in a race for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District…
Four Arizona lawmakers appear to have lost their primary races. Three Democrats and one Republican are losing races in which all or nearly all of the voting precincts have reported their results, and each lawmaker facing a loss is doing so under different circumstances…
The morning after Arizona’s primary election, there’s still one race to be settled among the state’s nine congressional districts. Former Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin has a lead of just a couple hundred votes over Gary Kiehne in the battle to take the Republican nomination in Arizona Congressional District 1,…
State Treasurer Doug Ducey cruised to an easy win Tuesday night for the Republican nomination for Arizona governor and will take on Democrat Fred DuVal in November. The results were not so good for another pair of Republicans in state government — scandal-plagued Attorney General Tom Horne lost his primary…
Please see updates and Horne’s concession statement at the end of this post. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne stubbornly refused to concede as his Republican primary foil, former state gaming director Mark Brnovich, did a victory lap Tuesday night at the Hyatt in downtown Phoenix, where GOPers gathered to watch…
Arizona Public Service’s apparent “dark money” spending for two Arizona Corporation Commission members appears to have paid off. Four Republican candidates were vying for two open seats on the commission in Tuesday’s primary election, and the two who APS allegedly preferred were comfortably in the lead…
Doug Ducey promised on Tuesday night to “set Arizona on a better path” following his decisive win in the state’s GOP primary for the governor’s race. Ducey spoke to an excited crowd of Republicans at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix after his closest competitor in the six-way primary race,…
