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It’s even worse than we said
Friday’s report detailed how Little’s newly amended June 30 campaign finance report now shows his campaign bank account dipping below zero on March 12 and not coming into the black for five days, but our analysis was incomplete – and is far worse for Little.
Was it BOGO day at the sign shop?
One detail included in attorney Lee Miller’s response to the complaints against Forese and Little arched many a political observer’s eyebrow: The declaration that the candidates purchased 600 signs at a cost of $12,972, or $21.62 per sign.
Behind the signatures
Attorney Lee Miller said that yesterday’s report on Forese and Little’s payments for signature gathering made some wildly off-base assumptions, and, as a result, jumped to erroneous legal conclusions.
Campaign-in-a-box: (now with in-house financing)
In his response to the Clean Elections complaints filed against Corp Comm candidates Forese and Little, attorney Lee Miller told the CCEC that the candidates’ general consulting firm, Americopy, extended the pair credit to purchase signs, banners and to pay signature gatherers.
The rarest of all political creatures?
It’s become commonplace for Dems in Arizona to round up a list of Republican supporters to show some bipartisan street cred in the hopes of swaying independent voters and left-leaning Republicans. Last night, it was the GOP’s turn, when Ducey announced Miranda’s endorsement during the gubernatorial debate on “Arizona Horizon.”
S1062 becomes focal point of Sec. of State race
Goddard went a bit off-topic with his first general election ad today, which features a lesbian couple criticizing Reagan for her vote last year on the controversial S1062.
Full-court press in effect
There is also a campaign to silence business groups on Prop 480. Political consultant Chuck Coughlin, whose firm is running the pro campaign, sent letters to board members of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and Arizona Chamber of Commerce to let them know it “behooves” them to stay on the sidelines on this one and let voters decide.
A tale of two polling memos
Two polls have been released on the governor’s race in the past 24 hours, each showing good news for the candidate supported by the group that commissioned the poll. Yesterday afternoon, the Arizona Free Enterprise Club released a polling memo showing Ducey with a 6-point lead over DuVal.
Pick-up chances narrow in November
By all accounts, there aren’t many credible opportunities this fall for either party to make pick-ups in legislative races, given the make-up of the districts and the candidates on the ballot.
It ain’t over till I say so
Mesnard said he has declined Gowan’s offer to appoint him as Commerce chair in exchange for giving up his bid for speaker. “This is still competitive and the caucus members deserve a choice,” he told our reporter.
Well, that changes nothing
In his resignation letter, Pearce sought to disavow the offensive remarks on his radio show by saying he “shared comments written by someone else and failed to attribute them to the author.” But many at the Capitol immediately dismissed that claim as a meek attempt to walk back his comments, and noted there was no indication that he was reading the remark or that it had come from somebody else[...]
Avoiding Arizona’s Akin
Politico observers awoke this morning (Sept. 15) to some surprising news: Russell Pearce had resigned his post as first vice-chairman of the Arizona Republican Party following a mini-furor surrounding comments he made recently on his weekly political talk radio show.
