Arizona Capitol Times Your Inside Source for Arizona Government, Politics and Business

In a bitter rematch, incumbent Sen. Martin Quezada defeated Lydia Hernandez in the Democratic Legislative District 29 Senate race.

Republican Frank Schmuck upset incumbent Sen. Jeff Dial in the Legislative District 18 Senate primary, capitalizing on a campaign mounted almost exclusively on Dial’s questionable status as an Army veteran.

The “Clean Team” was victorious in Tempe’s Legislative District 26 as Democratic Rep. Juan Mendez is leading in the district’s Senate Democratic primary, and his running-mates, political newcomers Isela Blanc and Athena Salman, took the top two spots in the district’s House primary.

With outside groups carrying almost all the water for his campaign, Republican Rep. Rusty Bowers coasted to re-election, while Republican candidates Michelle Udall beat Ross Groen their party’s nomination for the second House seat in their East Valley district.

Some voters who cast ballots for his opponent are “ignorant, c---sucking idiots,” according to Rep. Sonny Borrelli.

Republican candidate Diane Landis is on an all-out blitz to knock Rep. Steve Montenegro out of public office.

A team of Democratic candidates competing in Tempe’s Legislative District 26 is making waves in Democratic circles for two mailers they sent out claiming they are the “only candidates” who support education and women’s rights.

A school choice group’s independent expenditure committee is spending in support of two House Republican candidates in Legislative District 5 and against the GOP incumbent.

Sen. Martin Quezada and Lydia Hernandez have called one another many things via Facebook and Twitter in the Legislative District 29 Democratic Senate primary. One thing neither could be called this election cycle is civil.

The Democratic primary for a southwest Phoenix district’s seat in the state Senate is a family affair. The challenger is a hungry newcomer looking to strip the title of senator from the defending incumbent: her stepmother.