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AZ GOP primary race centers largely on 3 gov. candidates, 3 businesses and a barrage of accusations
Three leading candidates for governor are seeing the vaunted business backgrounds that they’ve campaigned on being used against them. Doug Ducey, Christine Jones and Scott Smith are campaigning to various degrees on their success in the business world.
Ducey pumps $200,000 into his campaign for governor
Doug Ducey’s extensive fundraising may not be enough to keep up with prolific advertising, according to a recent campaign finance report.
Palin backs Ducey in governor’s race
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed Doug Ducey in the crowded GOP primary for governor, making her the most recent in a string of high-profile national Republicans to back the treasurer in the six-way race.
Jones calls Ducey ‘misogynistic jerk’
GOP gubernatorial candidate Christine Jones decried a disparaging comment that rival Doug Ducey made about her business experience as sexist, and said the state treasurer is being a “misogynistic jerk.”
That might leave a mark
The Pro-Jones Better Leaders for Arizona is releasing its second TV ad this week. While its first commercial hit Ducey over several issues, including “dark money” attacks on Jones and his tenure at Cold Stone, the second ad hammers Ducey solely on Cold Stone’s failures...
Pro-Jones ‘dark money’ group attacks Ducey over ‘dark money’ tactics
An Arizona conservative group released an ad Monday attacking GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey, alleging that Ducey has ties to attack ads from dark money groups that are smearing other candidates for governor.
Ducey officially kicks off gubernatorial campaign
There has been little about Doug Ducey’s gubernatorial campaign that would lead one to believe he has only been exploring the race, but that label officially came off as the state treasurer formally announced his bid for Arizona’s highest office.
Ducey files exploratory committee for governor’s race
State Treasurer Doug Ducey filed an exploratory committee for the 2014 governor’s race, taking the first steps toward his widely expected candidacy for the state’s highest office.
Late spending flurries fail to help Dems win in 2010
Final campaign spending reports from the 2010 election season revealed desperation by ultimately unsuccessful candidates who loaned their campaigns large amounts of money, as well as aggressive spending by winning candidates who likely didn’t need it.
Dems fighting to head off statewide sweep
Polling on Arizona’s statewide races has consistently shown GOP candidates on top, and Republicans are optimistic that the anti-Democratic mood sweeping the state and the country will give them total control of state government.
Only a couple of relatively competitive races stand between Republicans and their first sweep of Arizona’s six statewide offices since 1994, not including the[...]
Former Cold Stone franchisees, Cherny campaign slam Ducey
A group of former Cold Stone Creamery franchise owners accused Republican state treasurer candidate Doug Ducey, the company's former CEO, of using a raft of dishonest business practices to perpetuate a revolving-door system that lured in franchisees, bankrupted them and then pushed them aside to make way for new ones.
Wide-open race for state treasurer’s job
Three current or former Arizona lawmakers, a former presidential adviser and a business executive are among the candidates in Tuesday's primary election for state treasurer.
