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GOP fundraiser with ties to anti-pot campaign arrested in massive drug bust
Emily Pitha, a fundraiser for establishment Republicans, was arrested this week following a police raid on her Phoenix home that found a meth lab, cocaine, heroin, LSD, ecstasy and the beginning of a marijuana grow-house.
Trump supporters cry foul over AZ GOP proxy rules
Some of Donald Trump’s surrogates in Arizona are sounding the alarm about an Arizona GOP directive that they say may hurt the tycoon in his battle with Ted Cruz for delegates to the Republican National Convention.
DeWit feels Cruz campaign’s icy blast in delegate fight
DeWit agrees with a growing sentiment among some activists that the Arizona Republican Party’s requirement that district and county parties allow proxy votes in selecting state convention delegates hurts Trump and aids Cruz.
McCain to skip GOP convention to focus on election, campaign says
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, will not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July but will be “working and campaigning throughout Arizona,” a campaign official confirmed Tuesday.
The Never Trump strategy?
Some longtime Republican activists are speculating that the Arizona Republican Party’s decision to allow the use of proxy votes at the 40 district and county meetings (where 1,251 delegates to the party’s April 30 state convention were elected) is not only a break from decades of precedent, but potentially a strategy to undermine Trump.
Cruz, Trump move to next phase in Arizona delegate fight
In most presidential election years, the selection of delegates to the national conventions is of little import. But with Cruz and Trump preparing to slug it out at what’s expected to be the first brokered Republican convention in decades, those delegates have taken on a new significance.
GOP official rails over effort aimed at nomination rules
In an extraordinary display of internal discord, the chairman of the Republican Party's rules committee accused top GOP officials Saturday of "a breach of our trust."
Ducey will support Trump if he’s GOP nominee
As pressure ramps up nationally on Republicans to unify against Donald Trump’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Doug Ducey declined to join that camp and said he’ll support whichever candidate wins his party’s nomination.
Rep. Salmon announces retirement, backs Biggs as replacement
Conservative Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon says he will not seek re-election this November, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. He is endorsing Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs as his replacement.
Republicans begin drive to kill ‘open primary’
Unwilling to wait to even see what's proposed, the state Republican Party has started raising money to quash a plan to create an “open primary” system.
Another blow for Democrats: State Sen. Carlyle Begay switches parties
Democratic Sen. Carlyle Begay is now a Republican. The Ganado lawmaker announced Monday morning his switch to the Republican Party, a move he said is an extension of his independent streak at the Arizona Capitol. But Democrats categorized the move as no surprise for a lawmaker who often bucked his party to vote in favor of Republican-led bills.
Democrats’ conundrum: support or oppose the school finance deal
Each year without failure since the onset of the Great Recession, Democrats have denounced cuts to public education and clamored for more funding for K-12 schools, a demand that has gotten louder as the state’s economy improves.
