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Valleywise expanding mental health services in Arizona
Our ability to ensure access to quality mental health services is as important as our efforts to provide high quality medical care to all who enter our doors At Valleywise Health, we are dedicated to allocating the resources and attention that mental health deserves.
Dem candidate Chavez calls police on party officials
Cesar Chavez is back. The self-proclaimed “most well-known Cesar Chavez alive today” showed up at the Arizona Democratic Party headquarters on Nov. 17, questioning why party officials aren’t taking his campaign to represent the 7th Congressional District seriously.
Ruben Gallego cruises to victory
Former state lawmaker Ruben Gallego cruised to victory Tuesday night to represent Arizona’s 7th Congressional District.
Winning strategy in CD7: Gallego succeeds by going after neglected voters
Former lawmaker Ruben Gallego’s winning get-out-the-vote effort in the 7th Congressional District extended to voters traditionally ignored by candidates in primary elections, a strategy that could be a boon for future candidates running in the same area.
Congressional campaign finance reports show pre-primary strengths, weaknesses
Congressional pre-primary campaign finance reports filed in the past week offer a final look into the fundraising prowess of primary election candidates in three hot congressional races.
Turf war for CD7: Tech vs Tradition
Ruben Gallego and Mary Rose Wilcox are locked in a high-stakes struggle to win primary votes in a congressional district marked by low turnout and uncontested primaries. The race highlights a bitter schism among longtime Phoenix Democrats with community roots, and political newcomers eager for an opportunity to represent the state.
Wilcox takes aim at Gallego’s record on guns as CD7 race turns negative
Likely Democratic voters in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District have been bombarded in recent weeks by campaign mailers from Ruben Gallego and Mary Rose Wilcox.
Gallego narrowly leads Wilcox in CD7 fundraising
Ruben Gallego narrowly outraised his competition in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, considered a two-way race between the former state representatives and former Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox.
Responses to 9th Circuit Court ‘dreamers’ ruling
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on July 7 ordered that “dreamers” who the federal government allow to work in this country also be issued Arizona driver’s licenses, at least for the time being. The court rejected arguments by Gov. Jan Brewer that she was entitled to issue an executive order two years ago denying licenses to those in the federal government’s Deferred Action for Childh[...]
Well, which one is it?
In the same breath that she said the name-change issue concerning Gallego has “been put to rest,” Wilcox insisted last night (June 12) at an LD24 meeting that there nonetheless “still are questions” because he has used both Gallego and Marinelarena “several times” since legally changing his surname in 2008.
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.
Arizona election challenges go viral
It all started with Scott Fistler changing his name to Cesar Chavez. Then Republican and Democratic candidates were accused fo forgery and congressional candidate Mary Rose Wilcox mistakenly attacked Ruben Gallego over his own name change. The Arizona Capitol Times explores those and other 2014 election challenges.
