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In an interview with Channel 12's Brahm Resnik that will air on the station's "Sunday Square Off" program, Pearce says he didn't secure the votes needed to become president by agreeing to a moratorium on immigration legislation.

Tens of thousands of ballots have yet to be counted, and there are still a handful of legislative races that theoretically could still shift from one candidate to another, but there is a growing belief that the Senate will have a 21-9 split, while the House will be divided 40-20.

Friday was Rusty Bowers' last day as government relations director of the Arizona Rock Products Association. The former Senate Republican floor leader, who turned 58 last week, said his age and the grim economy convinced him it was time to move on.

Several sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed that ADEQ Director Ben Grumbles will leave sometime after the election.

A shell group for the Democratic Attorneys General Association is spending more than $600,000 on TV ads attacking Horne.

Gosar's campaign pulled the plug on a KAET Horizon debate with Kirkpatrick scheduled for tonight, and offered a bewildering explanation: Horizon wouldn't move the debate location to CD1, and have district voters ask the questions.

One GOP source said the McClung campaign's decision to not send unallocatable money to the state party has rankled party officials and is the latest in a series of decisions that has alienated them from major Republican groups.

A complaint leveled by Dems against Brewer's campaign, the state GOP and the Republican Governor's Association is likely to go nowhere, Citizens Clean Elections Commission spokesman Michael Becker said today.

Brewer's campaign had a good laugh yesterday at a Phoenix Business Journal blog posted by reporter Mike Sunnucks that proclaimed the governor would use a recent beheading in Chandler to back up her previously unsupported claims that there have been drug-cartel-related beheadings in Arizona.

Speculation about Brewer's health status heated up again late this afternoon when former Senate candidate and New Times scribe John Dougherty took to his Facebook page and declared Brewer has told several staffers that she has recently had a "biopsy for thyroid cancer."