News release from county just in: 2010 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS August 26, 2010, 4:25PM, Phoenix, AZ – Maricopa County Recorder, Helen Purcell, says every effort is being made to complete final counting for the August 24 Primary Election by Saturday, August 28, 2010. “We’ve tabulated 57,231 early ballots today. We…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman certainly isn’t getting off to a good start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.Last week New Times reported that several of Glassman’s staffers had quit because they were unhappy with how the candidate treated people working on the campaign. And today one of…
As we sat at former Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth’s primary night headquarters, we found it rather odd that his opponent, Senator John McCain, gave his victory speech before Hayworth showed up to concede — there was a reason.Traditionally, the loser of an election calls the winner to concede and offer…
It’s still officially unofficial. The GOP primary for attorney general is still undecided and will likely remain so until at least tomorrow.As of last night, Tom Horne has a 419-vote lead over Andrew Thomas in the race with about 100,000 votes left uncounted.The majority of the uncounted votes come from…
About 12,000 provisional ballots were amassed today at the Maricopa County Elections department, officials say, bringing the total number of uncounted votes in Tuesday’s primary to at least 133,000. The provisional ballots are from voters who didn’t have proper identification at the polls, recently moved or had some other minor technical…
Ben Quayle, the Republican nominee for Congress in Arizona’s 3rd District, concluded his primary campaign this afternoon with a touch of humor.At the office of his PR firm, Quayle thanked supporters and addressed the media for the first time since becoming the GOP’s nominee. When he took to the mic,…
Election officials tell us that at least 116,000 119,000 ballots remain uncounted in Arizona.That’s more than enough to flip the close race for state Attorney General again – maybe even a couple more times. The nail-biter of a Republican primary had Andrew Thomas in the lead for most of the…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin, who suspended his gubernatorial campaign in early July, is toeing the party line, announcing today that he is officially endorsing his one-time opponent Jan Brewer in the Arizona governor’s race.At one point Martin led in the polls in the gubernatorial primary, but with the flick of…
In the stop-the-presses department comes the following comment made during last night’s primary election coverage. was attributed to our own local Pinocchio, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in regards the decisive victory of Bill Montgomery over interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. “That’s going to make my job very easy,” Arpaio said…
Attention Arizona Capitol Times, KTAR, ABC 15, The Huffington Post, and all the other media outlets who ran with Cap Times reporter Jeremy Duda’s claim last week that Ben Quayle had fallen from frontrunner status in the District 3 Congressional primary: we hate to say we told ya so, but…
As of early this morning, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne was clinging to a 373-vote lead over former Maricopa County Attorney Tom Horne in the GOP primary for attorney general.The shocking results came late last night after Horne appeared to have lost the race — at one point…
The voters of Maricopa County have spoken and it appears another Joe Arpaio lap-dog will be the next county attorney.Former Assistant County Attorney Bill Montgomery pulled out a win against former, and interim, County Attorney Rick Romley.Montgomery has the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the two appear…
As of about 30 minutes ago, Ben Quayle holds a 5-point lead over his closest opponent in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary, Steve Moak, with about 80 percent of all precincts reporting.Quayle leads Moak by about 3,000 votes on a day with a surprisingly low voter turnout.Vernon Parker and…
Not even 10 minutes into our time at J.D. Hayworth’s election night festivities — at the posh Marriott Mountain View Hotel in north Scottsdale — did we run into an old friend. We were walking down the stairs into the less-than-packed ballroom when a man passed us. We instantly said…
Rick Romley and Tom Horne seem to be two casualties of the public’s desire to stick it to illegal immigrants, as we’ve reported tonight. (NOTE: As the votes came in, Horne took the lead and later won). David Schweikert, a Republican candidate in Congressional District 5, also made illegal immigration central to…
It’s looking dismal for Romley, an honorable man who won appointment to his former post a few months ago when Andrew Thomas resigned to run for Arizona Attorney General. (Romley served as County Attorney for 16 years until he retired in 2004, sadly paving the way for Mr. Thomas–a demagogue…
Early results in the Democratic primary put Felecia Rotellini well ahead of David Lujan for state Attorney General, while a former New Times reporter pulled in decent numbers for a political novice. With early ballots and 10 percent of the votes recorded, Rotellini was winning with 47 percent of votes to…
Senator John McCain, former deputy county attorney Bill Montgomery and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas are beating their competitors as initial election results come in. The Republican primary election results are disappointing those hoping for end to the political chaos in Maricopa County. But if the leads hold, the election…
Campaign ads are horrible. Nobody wants to have their living room invaded by local politicos who want nothing more than to talk about how great they are — or how much the other guy sucks.We would argue that all political ads are awful but this primary season has been exceptional…
Primary day is finally upon us, folks, and we’re a little bummed out. The daily bickering between candidates and the cruel-but-entertaining political attacks will be coming to an end.We’ve been blessed with some fairly ugly campaigns this primary season, which have only been made better by the fact that those…
In order to give candidates equal time following our earlier post, Five Reasons to Vote for J.D. Hayworth for Senate, we thought we’d share a few things about John McCain that may be helpful to know when you go to the polls tomorrow.In our Hayworth post, we said we wouldn’t…
In a refreshing and unexpected turn, and after much reflection, we’ve come up with a list of ten reasons you should vote for Andrew Thomas for Arizona Attorney General in tomorrow’s GOP primary. Yes, you read that right. Sort of. 1. If elected, Thomas may finally be able to realize his dream of…
