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That probably couldn’t have gone worse
The Wilcox campaign was left with an omelet’s worth of eggs on its face today after a ballot challenge to Gallego that it touted turned out to be utterly without basis.
Discriminating taste
The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce today (July 10) endorsed 39 legislative candidates. Unsurprisingly, many supported the business community’s position to expand Medicaid, such as Brophy McGee and Driggs, and helped to kill legislation against Common Core.
Put this poll in your pipe and smoke it
Rose+Moser+Allyn Public and Online Relations released a poll today showing Ducey with a double-digit lead in the GOP primary for governor. The live-caller poll of 400 self-identified likely Republican primary voters had the majority of respondents undecided.
All the spontaneity of a flash mob
Ducey joined the chorus of outrage over US Customs and Border Protection busing more than 1,000 illegal immigrants caught in Texas, most of whom are from Central America, and dropping them off at bus stations in Phoenix and Tucson.
Sure, I hate it, but what can I do about it?
There was some disagreement over the future of Arizona’s Common Core standards and Brewer’s Medicaid expansion. Some candidates, notably Melvin and Riggs, were committed to scrapping both. Riggs said he would roll AHCCCS coverage back to 100 percent of the federal poverty level, and seek to exclude able-bodied, working-age childless adults
Everything is awesome!!!
The pro-Ducey IE Conservative Leadership for Arizona released another poll today that shows Ducey with a substantial lead in the governor’s race, though one that has shrunk slightly since the group’s last poll about three weeks ago.
Putting the 5Cs out to pasture
Jones today (June 4) unveiled her economic development plan, which proposes five pillars – she calls them the 5 Ts: technology, training, transportation, tourism and taxation – that will supplement the traditional drivers of Arizona’s economy over the past century.
A million here, a million there
Campaign finance reports aren’t due until June 30, but Ducey and Scott Smith both jumped out early to announce their million-dollar fundraising hauls for the last period, which wrapped up at the end of May.
Take your litmus tests and shove ’em
The big question facing the Arizona Chamber of Commerce as it hunkered down to pick candidates to support this year has been answered, and the answer is pretty definitive: The group did not hold opposition to two of the chamber’s biggest policy positions against many incumbent legislators.
Let the challenges begin
As of the end of business yesterday (May 29), the secretary of state has received requests to inspect 81 candidates’ qualifying signatures. Depending on what they find, those requests can become the precursor to candidate challenges.
Bing, bang, boom
The second special session of the 51st Legislature officially ended today at 12:56 pm. Only a single vote was cast against the CPS reform package, with Ward voting no on S1002 (appropriations; Dept of Child Safety)
The reason for the rubbernecking
There was a reason why yesterday’s first day of special session got off to a slow start – Biggs and other conservative lawmakers wanted to hold back some of the funding for more staffers until certain benchmarks were met, our reporter was told.
