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Jul 19, 2024, 11:31AM MST

Meet Democratic candidates for Corporation Commission

Three Democrats are hoping to drastically change the makeup of the Arizona Corporation Commission this November and give the regulatory body a Democratic majority. Three of the five seats on the commission are up for grabs this year and the other two are occupied by Republicans. Republican Chair Jim O’Connor and Democratic Commiss[...]

Jul 19, 2024, 11:02AM MST

CD3 Democrats squabble over big spending outsiders

Heavy outside spending flowed into the Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District in the past weeks, as candidates Raquel Terán and Yassamin Ansari trade barbs about their financial backing. Terán, former chair of the Arizona Democratic Party and minority leader of the state Senate, and Ansari, former Phoenix vice ma[...]

Jul 18, 2024, 1:43PM MST

Conservative group targets non-citizens on voter rolls

A group headed by a former Trump adviser is threatening to sue the state's 15 counties if they don't try to check on whether there are non-citizens on their voter registration rolls. In a letter to each of the 15 county recorders, James Rogers, senior counsel for America First Legal Foundation, is demanding they each request the Dep[...]

Jul 12, 2024, 5:47PM MST

Heap’s former role with county attorney unclear

State Rep. Justin Heap, a Republican candidate for Maricopa County recorder, once worked under disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. According to an oath of office obtained from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, Heap was sworn in as a special deputy county attorney by Thomas in July 2009. Just months late[...]

Jul 11, 2024, 12:08AM MST

Abortion ballot measure heads to court

Arizona for Abortion Access filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to push back on what they call “politicized language” in the publicity pamphlet summary for their citizen initiative, which would permit abortions up to fetal viability. The suit is against the Legislative Council, a committee of lawmakers whose role is to analyze the pr[...]

Jul 10, 2024, 12:00AM MST

Group to sue over GOP lawmakers’ description of abortion ballot measure

A pro-abortion group plans to file a lawsuit Wednesday over the way their initiative is set to be summarized in the information pamphlet that is sent to voters ahead of the election, a spokeswoman told the Arizona Capitol Times. The group, Arizona for Abortion Access, is planning to sue in order to “ensure Arizona voters are prese[...]

Jul 7, 2024, 5:27PM MST

Hobbs focused on flipping Legislature

Gov. Katie Hobbs believes she can help do something that hasn't happened since before she was born: Put the state House, Senate and governor's office in Democratic hands. And she's so focused on that goal that she's willing to use some of the money she's collected for her own reelection campaign in 2026 to make that happen this year[...]

Jul 4, 2024, 12:29AM MST

Arizona to vote on rash of ballot measures

Arizonans may get a chance in November to make what could be an earth-shattering change in state politics. A new initiative filed Wednesday would eliminate partisan primaries. That would mean all candidates of all parties would run against each other in a bid to gain a spot on the general election ballot, with all voters of any affi[...]

Jul 3, 2024, 11:58PM MST

Broad abortion ban appears headed to November ballot

Backers of a measure to guarantee the right to abortion turned in what they said was more than 800,000 signatures on July 3 to put the issue on the November ballot. If approved, what's dubbed the Arizona for Abortion Act would insert a provision in the state Constitution guaranteeing the right of women to terminate a pregnancy. That[...]

Jun 30, 2024, 10:20PM MST

Republicans pack ballot with measures to bypass governor’s veto

Voters across Arizona will see their November ballot stuffed with 11 measures referred by Republican lawmakers that cover a wide range of GOP priorities, from tough on crime issues, new limits on how voters can put their own proposed laws on the ballot and reining in the so-called ``regulatory state.'' But at the top of the GOP wish[...]

Jun 25, 2024, 10:36PM MST

Judge disqualifies himself from lawsuit challenging ballot measure on judicial retention

A trial judge recused himself Tuesday from deciding the legality of a ballot measure that would give him and his colleagues lifetime appointments. But the move leaves unanswered who is qualified to hear the case. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner stepped away after noting that the lawsuit involves a bid by lawmake[...]

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