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A timeline – the tumultuous legal life of Arizona’s SB1070
Six years after its enactment, Arizona’s most famous anti-illegal immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, is now but a shell of its old self. The courts have defanged it, and a settlement reached recently between the state and its critics further defined and limited how the police may enforce it.
Former GOP county chairman coins a new rallying cry: ‘Never McCain’
Republican activist Rob Haney is prepared to betray his party in order to save it. Save it from U.S. Sen. John McCain, that is.
Trump vs. Flake: Political and temperamental opposites continue their tense standoff
The animus between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake is escalating to the point of no return.
In Arizona, conventional wisdom – money, name ID – rules
Donald Trump might have upended the conventional wisdom about political campaigns, and yet in Arizona, the conventional wisdom reasserted itself in the most conventional of ways.
Revered former lawmaker Carolyn Allen dies at 78
Carolyn Allen died on Saturday due to complications arising from her decades-long bout with rheumatoid arthritis, consultant Bert Coleman, who ran her legislative campaigns, confirmed. She was 78.
Brian Nissen: You might know him as ‘Dwain,’ a lovable redneck
Brian Nissen is an affable guy with an easy smile. But the moment he puts on a ball cap and sports a mullet-style wig, he transforms into “Dwain,” an affable redneck with an easy smile. Perhaps it’s the way “Dwain” looks into your soul – half squinting, wearing that self-assured grin of a kind-hearted but completely offensive hillbilly – that makes him such a believable prophet of po[...]
Pollster George Khalaf: His heritage drew him to the Republican Party
Growing up in Arizona, George Khalaf often heard stories about a distant land called Lebanon, from which his parents fled following that country’s civil war.
An Arizona delegate’s road to deflation
Out of the chaos in Cleveland comes yet another story of discouragement and deflation, as one veteran GOP activist from Arizona now contemplates leaving political activism altogether.
Here’s why Democrats’ elusive dream of a blue Arizona won’t happen this year – unless…
With only a 6-point difference in voter registration between the GOP and the Democratic Party and more than one-third of voters registering as independents, some experts view Arizona as a potential swing state.
Olson, Jones clash in 5th Congressional District debate
Rep. Justin Olson, R-Mesa, and former GoDaddy executive Christine Jones exchanged broadsides over residency and what it means to be a career politician during last week’s debate on the political talk show “Arizona Horizon.”
Bob Stump: Anger is conservatives’ proper response to Trump candidacy
Arizona Corporation Commission regulator Bob Stump is the highest-ranking Republican official in Arizona to publicly denounce GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
FBI interviews former Corp Comm chairman, Corp Comm staff in 2014 election probe
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation today interviewed former Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce and Corporation Commission staffers as part of a probe into the 2014 elections.
