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Forget facts, it’s more fun to talk about Obama!
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s secretly funded campaign backing Forese and Little continued this week with a folded four-page mailer that contrasts the APS-favored team with primary opponents Mason and Parker vis-à-vis “Obama’s energy agenda.”
Damn the legal challenges, full steam ahead!
The Clean Elections Commission today (July 17) unanimously voted to fight Horne’s lawsuit, which is seeking to stop the CCEC from investigating former AG staffer Sarah Beattie’s claims that he and his top aides were using his office as the headquarters of his re-election bid.
Continuing the narrative
An autodial poll of high-efficacy Republican voters conducted yesterday by GOP political consultant Bert Coleman largely backs up other recent surveys of the gubernatorial field, though it shows Smith within striking distance of both Ducey and Jones.
Too hot for television
Riggs is going on the airwaves in a way few, if any, candidates for governor have ever gone before: topless. In a new statewide ad that will be airing on cable for at least the next ten days, Riggs declares that he is the “clear choice” for governor because he’s tough enough.
Livingston: Give Bundy his day in court until he wins
Livingston had an op-ed published in today’s USA Today in which he blamed the federal government for the “mess” surrounding Cliven Bundy and his cattle, and said the matter ought to be sorted out by the courts.
Pendulum of political power swings in voters’ favor
In her order, trial court Judge Katherine Cooper delved into what has become the signature question the judiciary has had to grapple with in the last few years: Can the courts tell the Legislature, which is vested with the constitutional authority to appropriate, what to do when it comes to funding?
Outside spending in guv’s race breaks $1 million
The pro-Jones IE Better Leaders for Arizona disclosed yesterday that it forked out $775,000 to pay for ads advocating for Ducey’s defeat, bringing its total spending in the governor’s race to roughly $856,000.
When trouble rains, it pours for some
Displaced momentarily by Huppenthal at the top of a public relations nightmare chain, Horne is back in the limelight with only three weeks left before Republican voters start picking their nominee for Attorney General.
Pro-Jones IE: Electioneering money came from AZ
Virginia Simpson insisted that none of the money from Friends of the Majority went to pay for her group’s electioneering activities in the governor’s race.
Is a pattern emerging here?
The $186,000 in spending by the Free Enterprise Club on the secretary of state and Corp Comm races has led to rampant speculation about the group’s source of funds – particularly since it only spent roughly $90,000 in the previous two election cycles combined.
Seel struggles while Townsend stumbles
Medicaid expansion opponents Seel and Townsend are the only incumbents who are seeking Clean Elections money but have yet to qualify for funding. Townsend, who claims Seel as her political mentor, initially filed to run traditional, but changed to public financing after struggling to raise money.
Some candidates are more equal than others
Thanks to her deep pockets, Jones is leading the money race in the gubernatorial contest. But Ducey, DuVal and Smith have also raked in considerable amounts of cash.
