Wednesday night, Adams announced that McCain will be holding a press conference at the former speaker’s Mesa campaign headquarters on Friday morning.

Even though the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t block death-row inmate Samuel Lopez’s execution, it took a dim view of Arizona’s lethal-injection procedures, particularly the secrecy that veils executions.

Though Commerce Authority officials have said they are reviewing whether they will release the names of the finalists being considered in the search for a new CEO, current CEO Don Cardon told our reporter today that the selection committee doesn’t even have a list of finalists.

By all accounts, Saturday’s Arizona Republican Party convention was an organizational disaster that resulted in Ron Paul supporters repeatedly disrupting the proceedings, mass confusion during voting of delegates to the RNC convention and a loss of quorum after more than 12 hours that necessitates a mail-in run-off election for national committeewoman.

Babeu exited the CD4 race the same way he entered it and handled every major announcement his campaign made in between: by scheduling the release to hit the morning news cycle in DC.

Pierce yesterday went on KJZZ’s “Here and Now” to praise the budget and describe another of his key session objectives: Keep crazy to a minimum.

The Arizona Commerce Authority thus far has not released its list of finalists for outgoing CEO Don Cardon’s job, but one source who’s familiar with the search said Arizona Chamber of Commerce President Glenn Hamer is in contention and has been interviewed for the position.

Add Mesnard to the list of House Republicans who are interested in Court’s majority leader position.

The work of the 50th Legislature is officially completed, but rumors were circulating last week that some Republicans are – or will be – working on a referral to compete with the Open Government initiative, which seeks to overhaul the state’s elections system by allowing everybody to vote in an open primary with the top two winners, regardless of party, competing in a runoff.

Gallardo yesterday led the Latino charge against the two recent FAIR Trust lawsuits against the IRC’s maps. With an eye directed primarily at the legislative map, he, Lopez and Quezada teamed up with Mary Rose Wilcox and attorney Danny Ortega to denounce the lawsuits as a dishonest and racist Republican attempt to maintain control of the Legislature.