Random Musings

First up: The federal committee update. It's official - failed AG candidate Abe Hamadeh is in the CD8 R primary.  He's formed a comm...

* = Kari Lake entered the race too late to have to file a report this time around. Net contributions and refunds are for the reported quarte...

 From the FEC's website -  Both are Republicans. Crane is looking to run in CD1 against Tom O'Halleran; Winn is looking to be the R ...

There have been a few developments on the 2012 campaign committee front since the last update. ...In the race for US Senate, Don Bivens, ...

The Arizona Secretary of State's office has formulated new campaign contribution limits for statewide, legislative and local campaigns....

While any candidate who jumps into for the US Senate will be sure to start raising money, some potential candidates already have a head star...

David Schweikert (R-Club for Growth) was the subject of a recent puff piece on the conservative news site Human Events (of course, calling ...

Some of these are eye-opening... All info courtesy the website of the Federal Election Commission, reporting period 7/1/2010 thru 8/4/2010...

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...

Others have covered this area already, but have tended to focus on their own CDs; the basic raw numbers from all CDs with active committees ...

There's only two days until the deadline (July 15), but during an election year, most campaigns wait until the last possible minute to r...

They're not all into the FEC yet, so I'll update over the next few days. The quarterly numbers so far - CD1 (open seat) Shanker (D...

Edit to update: Turns out that Bob Lord's (D-CD3) financial report is up; I just missed it. I've updated the appropriate section o...

Updated on 10/16 with every incumbent now reporting; many of those who are just 'exploring' haven't filed yet. Many of those, b...

from the various Congressional campaigns. The list isn't complete (the due date is the 15th) but here's a partial summary of report...

The long-rumored entry of Maricopa County Treasurer David Schweikert into the Republican primary race to face Harry Mitchell next year is a...

and Republicans are back to acting like, well, "Republicans." Not that they ever stopped. :) ...Sen. Larry Craig (R- Needs a clue)...

From The Phoenix Business Journal - Former business lobbyist and congressional committee staffer Jim Ogsbury has announced he will challeng...

While he and his falling Congressional career look like burnt toast and smell like burnt toast, apparently he believes he has a chance of la...

The FEC has posted candidates' quarterly financial reports online. Summary of interesting stuff for Arizona's Congressfolk and would...