Harper won’t run for re-election, but he still hasn’t scratched everything off of his political bucket list.

With Gosar’s move to CD4 now official, Tobin said he has already heard from some of the eastern Arizona constituents that Gosar is leaving behind in CD1.

Mum is almost the word when it comes to the prospects of Republicans filing a lawsuit in hopes of altering the districts drawn by the IRC.

At this month’s Arizona Republican Party mandatory meeting, state committeemen will have the chance to return Pearce to an elected post.

Polling has already begun for the CD9 Dem primary, and rumor has it that Sinema wasn’t painted in a very flattering light.

Stanton was sworn in as mayor this morning and local Dems couldn’t tweet fast enough to offer their congratulations.

The 2012 session is off to a good “screw the feds” start with HCR2004, which would ask voters to amend the Constitution to give Arizona control over all the natural resources within its borders.

Last week’s announcement from Pierce and Biggs that they would work next year to roll back an increase in state employee retirement contributions caught most observers off guard.

Bundgaard’s attorney, Andre Merrett, argued in his filing that issuing a temporary restraining order against the committee wouldn’t be a case of the courts intervening in a political matter, as the court is not being asked to perform functions delegated to the Legislature by the Constitution.

The IRC’s rearrangement of the LD lines in Pinal and Pima counties put Melvin and Smith in the same district, but Melvin is hoping both can return to the Legislature in 2013.