Random Musings

 From NPR - SEASIDE, Calif. — Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and...

The City of Scottsdale has a task force reviewing its charter , looking toward voter approval of changes at a special election in March. Mo...

Tuesday's meeting of the Scottsdale City Council began as most of them do, with a local group of kids (a Brownie troop this week) reciti...

From The Hill - Norm Coleman has just made his appeal more difficult. Al Franken extended his lead in the Minnesota Senate race to 313 vote...

Edit on 12/8 to update County numbers, below... Post-General Election campaign finance reports are in, and normally this would be the time t...

...Stuff I was wrong about (and I'm not too happy that it is so)... When the Reps purged moderate professional public servants such as S...

Edited so as not to offend MSM sensibilities... A building full of GOTV volunteers in Tempe What it's all about...

On Monday, Governor Howard Dean, Chair of the Democratic National Committee and inspiration to Democratic grassroots activists everywhere, ...

Somehow I ended up on a mailing list used by Wes Waddle, one of the Republican House candidates in LD17. He sent out a south Scottsdale-spe...

Edit on 11/2 to correct an error pointed out in a comment... It all started on my way home from work tonight. - First up was the radio spot ...

Dan Saban , Democratic candidate for Maricopa County Sheriff, has been the subject of a robocall smear campaign conducted by Joe Arpaio . T...

...and the last-minute voter contact and 'Get Out The Vote' (GOTV) efforts are fully up to speed. Now is the time to redouble all of...

There is so much to write about - a McCain campaign aide's race-baiting , the irony of both Barack Obama and Sarah Palin pulling off of ...

Randy Pullen, current chair of the AZ Republican Party, may not have any significant skill at raising (the primary duty of any state chair o...

Info courtesy an email from the AZ Democratic Party... Date: Sunday, October 26 Time: 5:30 p.m. Place: In front of ASU's Hayden Librar...

As Election Day draws ever closer, the strong challenge that the Bob Lord for Congress campaign is mounting against incumbent John Shadegg ...

Early voting started in Florida today, and there were problems from the very moment the polling places opened. From MiamiHerald.com - Lines...

Due to the general hubbub of the myriad races on the ballot and the economic meltdown precipitated on Wall Street, and a change in my person...

Turns out a brief examination of the campaign finance records of Mark Thompson and Jesse Hernandez, Republican candidates for House and Sena...

Jesse Hernandez and Mark Thompson, two of the three Republican candidates for the legislature in LD17, have teamed up to air a campaign spot...