There are now 4 announced Republican candidates running for the party's nomination in 2010. This time 2 years ago we were still 6 months away from Tim Bee's announcement. The candidates are Jesse Kelly, Andy Goss, Tom Carlson, and Brian Miller. They are all new to politics but one of [...]
Dave Croteau, the Green Party candidate in Ward 6, withdrew from the race on Friday, June 19th. He needed a minimum of 7 signatures to get on the ballot and could have turned in a max of 12. There are 272 Green voters in Ward 6 and Dave only turned [...]
We've removed this posting.The Pima County Republican Cigar Club had a great first meeting for 2009. We swung by for a quick picture and found a packed house with Rep. Vic Williams in attendance. CD 8 Congressional candidate Jesse Kelly was there along with U.S. Senate candidate Chris Simcox.
This Thursday, June 18th is will be a very busy day for Tucson area Republicans. There are 3 great events happening at the same time. It is a great time for people to get engaged with the issues and work on a campaign.
The Republican Tucson City Council candidates will be [...]
We are launching a new contest this week. It called My favorite pot hole in Tucson. No we are not talking about the city council members. This contest is about the sometime large holes in the streets of Tucson. As the council scrambles to fund the arts and feed the [...]
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is a typical liberal. In this YouTube video she lectures us about riding motorcycles to save fuel and urges riders to wear proper protective gear. Here are two photos that show what a total hypocrite Giffords is. First, when she poses by her motorcycle she is [...]
Yesterday the Arizona Daily Star ran a story stating that the a bill to place a stadium tax on the ballot in Pima County was dead. The Arizona House is reporting that Rep. David Stevens has picked up the bill that Vic Williams introduced [...]
Channel 9 has video coverage of the Tucson City Council tax increase. They even interviewed one of the dogs outside the meeting, bow wow!Last night the Tucson City Council voted to cut funding for TUSD. No, they did not lower the money they send to TUSD (if they provide any.) The city council voted to raises expenses for TUSD by $655,000 a year. The net effect is to cut their funding the [...]
While Nina Trasoff and Karin Uhlich were collecting their pay-to-play funds, Ward 6 challenger Steve Kozachik was finding strong support from a broad group of neighborhood activists, business people, and community leaders. A reader sent us this picture from his fundraiser last week. From what we hear, the [...]
Tucson fires Mike Hein and what changes? Two of his deputies get moved from the City Manager's office to the Downtown Tucson Partnership but stay on the city payroll. Congratulations to Jaret Barr for keeping his $94,000/yr salary. We know the Sheraton Hotel' [...]
Senator Al Melvin (LD 26) will hold 4 Town Hall meetings tomorrow, Saturday, June 6th. Here is the schedule. Senator Melvin will give updates on the budget that just passed in the Senate and House as well as other legislative matters.SaddleBrooke - Desert Theater, 9:00 am [...]
On Monday Sonoran Alliance ran a story about Rep. Jeff Flake. They think he might be running for Governor. Flake was in Tucson on May 8th and hosted an evening reception put on by the local party. While there we did not hear the Congressman once mention a distinctly [...]
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been ranked third out of The 10 Sexiest Women on Capital Hill by vetocorleone.com. The author wants to get a little fresh with some of the other winners but with Gabby it's strictly platonic:
She's the sexy shrink you might [...]
The Ben Buehler-Garcia campaign (Ward 3) turned in signatures on Wednesday of last week.
Ben Buehler-Garcia submitting signatures, May 27th 09
Two days later on Friday, Shaun McClusky (Ward 5) also turned in his signatures. That means all 4 Republican candidates have turned in their [...]
State Senator Jonathan Paton was pretty fired up at the Tucson Tea Party. We came across a YouTube of the speech just the other day so here it is. You, tell 'em Senator. Video courtesy of Conservador Sonora.
We had been remiss in not offering our sincere sympathies to Dean Martin for the loss of his wife. Then we read the news of his son's death.This is such a huge loss it is difficult to know what to say. We only can' [...]
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has thrown in the towel on his attempt to save a failing newspaper from the realities of the market place. More details at the Arizona Daily Star.
[...]The Giffords team was out in force last night for her Health Care Forum at Sahuaro High School. Her Solarness showed up again in her Toyota 4x4 4-Runner. Yes, Ms. Environmental drives a foreign made, gas sucking SUV and she was the only one in the vehicle. (The rooftop solar [...]
The event on Friday was a great success. Thanks to Greg and all the others who worked hard to put it together. There were lots of new people who came out to hear the speakers and to get more involved.
Frank Antenori talking about [...]
Tucson City Council candidate Judith Gomez just filed her signatures this morning. She is well ahead of the deadline of June 3rd and can now focus on talking with voters and fundraising.We are hearing that the other Ward 5 Republican, Shaun McClusky, is planning on filing [...]
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has failed in his bid to force Gannett to keep printing the Tucson Citizen.
Goddard's legal maneuver was problematic at best because the market place is what really killed off the Citizen. People simply stopped reading the paper. What is' [...]
One might think that after the drubbing that the Republicans took in the last congressional election, Giffords over Bee by 12 points, that no Republican would want to run again anytime soon. It looks like quite the opposite.
Jesse Kelly is building support for his campaign [...]
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has filed a lawsuit to prevent Gannett from closing the Tucson Citizen. The Citizen was down to printing 17,000 papers in a region with over 1,000,000 people. According to a Howard Fisher story Goddard claims Gannet and Arizona Daily Star owner Lee [...]
At times like this you just have to miss Lew Murphy. He was Tucson's Mayor for 16 years from '71 to '87. A lone Republican with six Dems on the Council. Probably had to fight them every step of the way but he was not' [...] There is a lot happening this weekend for conservative political junkies. Friday evening the Pima County Republican Party will host an event featuring Congressman Jeff Flake. The cost is $40 and you can call the county HQ at 321-1492 to see if there is still room to attend.
Saturday starts [...]
The Tucson Association of Realtors is reporting that CEO Rick Hodges has resigned from the organization. TAR was planning on backing a public safety initiative in the Tucson election. No word yet if this has anything to do with the initiative or why Rick moved on. [...] 
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