Recent Articles from Yellow Sheet Report
Don’t count out Gosar yet
Gosar’s announcement last week that he is running for re-election in CD4 and has no plans to seek another office may not have been as definitive as it sounded. To... […]
Don’t bother raising your hand, you still can’t speak
Burns and Forese this week clashed over placing an item on a meeting agenda, with the senior commissioner accusing his chairman of “silencing” him and creating a “dangerous” precedent. To... […]
The Super Bowl of crybabies
Arizona Chamber of Commerce chief Glenn Hamer encountered a wave of criticism on social media after he called teachers’ unions “crybabies,” as first reported in Yellow Sheet Report last Thursday.... […]
John Huppenthal feels your pain
The Republican primary for superintendent of public instruction got a little more crowded on Wednesday after Tracy Livingston, a longtime teacher and Maricopa County Community College District governing board member,... […]
Let the battle commence
Leach and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce have launched a major offensive against the initiative process with H2404 (initiatives; circulators; signature collection; contests). If approved, the bill would make the... […]
Republicans, Dems come out swinging over SCOTUS pick
Opinions from Arizona politicos on Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the US Supreme Court were predictably divided along partisan lines. Flake and McCain, who are among Trump’s fiercest critics... […]
Put up or shut up
At a conference for Koch donors in Palm Springs, Ducey said he wants to see the federal government give states more power, according to a Washington Post story yesterday. To... […]
A senator, a dentist and a treasurer walk into a primary…
While DeWit weighs his options for 2018, including whether to run for US Senate, another potential Flake challenger is emerging. Gosar told our reporter that he’s considering running against Flake in next year’s primary, although he hasn’t made a decision.
Blurred Lines
Opinions varied among GOP insiders about whether Jim O’Connor or Jonathan Lines has the upper hand going into the chairman’s race. The more prevalent opinion seems to be that Lines is the favorite.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered
As previously noted, fiscally conservative groups have been largely mute when the governor proposed to add a billion dollars to Arizona’s outstanding debt load of $7.3 billion.
Ask your school board, not me
AZ Schools Now, the coalition of education groups that asked Ducey on Monday for a four percent across-the-board pay raise for teachers, is likely out of luck.
If you’re not doin anything on Saturday
Newly elected Maricopa County GOP Chairman Chris Herring issued a Facebook broadside against AZGOP chairman candidate Jim O’Connor on Friday, alleging that the former LD23 chairman lied to him about... […]