Courtesy the Arizona Secretary of State -
* = incumbent
Only major party ballot candidates are included.
And this only includes numbers reported by the candidates themselves and doesn't include spending by PACs and dark money groups, of which their has been a lot of already.
Courtesy the FEC -
* = incumbent
Only major party ballot candidates are included.
And this only includes numbers reported by the candidates themselves and doesn't include spending by PACs and dark money groups, of which their has been a lot of already.
Sinema's number is included just for giggles - she isn't up for re-election this time.
Caveat: I've known Lauren Kuby, one of the candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission, for years and have donated to her campaign.
In school, most of us learned that there are three branches of government - executive, legislative, and judicial.
In Arizona, there's a fourth, constitutionally-recognized, branch - the Corporation Commission.
It regulates corporations (as its name suggests), utilities (perhaps its most important duty) and securities.
Lauren Kuby is not only someone who understands the impact of climate change on the average Arizona family and would be a tireless advocate for Arizona consumers, she's someone who takes elected office seriously (one of the things that's guaranteed to tick me off is when an elected doesn't doesn't take his/her job seriously, people who are legion here in AZ. Actually, I think we've reached the point where someone who takes the job seriously cannot win an R primary.)
Anyway, federal candidates on the AZ ballot are here; statewide candidates are here; legislative here; state-level judicial here; and ballot measures here.
Blog for Arizona has posts on the topics here, here, and here.
The last is on the judicial retention ballot; I won't be voting to retain judges appointed by Doug Ducey. The fact that Dougie likes someone doesn't speak well for their character.
Maricopa County candidates are here.
Engel is a former state legislator and current candidate for Congress.
Now that the primaries are over and the general election candidates have been determined, it's about to hit the fan and southern AZ.
Notice any similarities between the two PACs? Like everything, except the sponsors?
Blake Masters may be scrubbing his ass off, but he and Peter Thiel have thoroughly embraced the "spaghetti" model in campaigning (throw a lot of it against the wall in hopes that some of it sticks). His TV ads are as incessant as they are false.
My guess is that Engel's opponent will do the same.
The only question is will Thiel spread his largesse to another contest?
From the Phoenix New Times -
Arpaio Draws Cheers At Far-Right Conference For Saying He's "Biggest Racist In the Country"
When Joe Arpaio took the stage at the America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, he told the crowd that he was often called the "biggest racist in the country."
The crowd of hundreds erupted in applause and cheered loudly.
Arpaio appeared taken aback by the clamoring response.
Arpaio may be 89 now and he lost the race for Maricopa County Sheriff in 2016, but he's not totally irrelevant politically - now he's running for mayor of Fountain Hills (he, Ginny Dickey, and Kelly Smith have filed statements of interest for the spot).
Interestingly, in the one campaign finance filing that he's submitted so far (filed 1/10/2022), he reports receiving over $206K in contributions, yet only $1200 are from in-state contributors. And *none* of those contributions came from residents of Fountain Hills.
Of course, of the $206K, $200K was transferred from him sheriff reelection campaign committee.
Here's a wild thought:
Maybe he's not actually interested in representing the people of Fountain Hills.
From an email from her campaign -
I looked at campaign finance report (see! It isn't just Rs that I examine!), and I was impressed by two things:
1. The folks who know her best gave her seed money. As a "Clean Elections" candidate, she needed enough $5 contributions to qualify for CE funding, but she also needed "seed" money to get her campaign started. And many folks (including yours truly) contributed to her candidacy. The fact that the folks who know her trusted her enough for that speaks well of her character.
She knows a lot of folks, and the people she knows and who know her gave her money, including colleagues, friends, neighbors, office holders, former office holders, and candidates for office.
2. What I didn't see were contributions from organizations that are regulated by the ACC. That's been an issue with the ACC in the past.
Kuby's website is listed on the right side of this blog; if you want to electronically sign for Kennedy or to donate a $5 to her, follow the AZSOS E-Qual link below it.
Welcome to Arizona politics.
It's not like any of this is breaking news, but every so often, a reminder is called for.
From CNN -
Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events
Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced fringe far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy, a CNN KFile review of her appearances has found.
At a campaign event in late August, Lake posed for a photo and video with far-right personalities Ethan Schmidt-Crockett, the founder of the AntiMaskersClub, who harassed a store specializing in wigs for cancer patients this summer because it required customers to wear masks, and Greyson Arnold, a Nazi sympathizer who has a history of making White nationalist, racist, antisemitic and pro-Nazi statements, including once calling Adolf Hitler "a complicated historical figure which many people misunderstand."
From KTAR -
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be 90 by the time votes are cast, but on Tuesday he announced a 2022 run for mayor of Fountain Hills.
Arpaio has lived in the town about 30 miles northeast of downtown Phoenix for more than 20 years.
The professional bigot still can't spell though. Also from KTAR -
My guess (and it's only that) is that when it become time to put in some real work he'll beg off.
Guess being anti-vax/anti mask/anti society isn't a good way to attract voters.
Pointed to this by Taegan Goddard's Political Wire.
From OH Predictive Insights -
Kelly Leads in All Head-To-Head Matchups
Brnovich on Top in GOP Senate Primary
When Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Kelly was elected last November, he faced a rather unique position than most of his other freshman colleagues: U.S. Senators are normally elected to six-year terms, but Kelly – who won a special election to finish the late-Sen. John McCain's term – would have to face voters once again in two years for a fresh six-year term. According to OH Predictive Insights’ (OHPI) latest Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) survey, Senator Mark Kelly is leading the pack in all head-to-head matchups.
This Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) survey was conducted September 7th – September 12th, 2021 and surveyed 882 registered voters in Arizona and had a margin of error of +/- 3.3%.
[snip]
Toplines and crosstabs here;
From The Wrangler News (Tempe) -
Tempe Council member Kuby running for state Corporation Commission
Tempe City Council member Lauren Kuby announced on her twitter page that she plans to run for Arizona Corporation Commission, the state’s regulatory panel of utilities, among other things.
Kuby was elected to the City Council on a sustainability platform in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. The 34-year resident of Tempe is a long-time community leader who advocates for worker protections, equity and climate-change action.
Caveat: Not only do I support Kuby in her run for a spot on the ACC (three-word description of Lauren: "force of nature"), I have donated some "seed" money to her campaign, I've given a $5 toward her qualifying for Clean Elections funding, and I've signed her nominating petition online (all links at the right).
No new Democratic candidates at this time, and one R that I missed in a earlier post (apologies to readers for that omission),
Beau Lane is an R ad agency exec (candidate for AZSOS) and David Livingston (candidate for AZ Treasurer) is, well, "colorful".
Pic from an April 24, 2014 blog post, and pic courtesy the Twitter feeds of the AZGOPers who journeyed to the Bundy insurrection in NV.
Is there a legislator who isn't running for higher offiee?
I know there are, but sometimes, it seems that all of them are.
The one Democrat on this list, Aaron Lieberman, is a sitting legislator (LD28).
Shawnna Bolick, is also a sitting legislator, and unlike Lieberman, but like her Republican colleagues, absolutely hates the voters of Arizona.
Steve Gaynor, a Republican businessman and failed 2018 candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, is, for lack of a better word, "colorful".
Current and former legislators running for higher office:
Katie Hobbs (D), Lieberman (D), Kimberly Yee (R), and Matt Salmon (R) are all running for governor.
Diego Rodriguez (D) is running for attorney general.
Reginald Bolding (D), Bolick (R), Mark Finchem (R), and Michelle Ugenti-Rita (R) are all running for secretary of state.
Walt Blackman (R) is running for Congress.
That's 10 so far, but I'm guessing that won't be the final number.
Turns out that even political geeks like me can be wrong (I know, shocking, right :) ) but when I went to sign a few nominating petitions online, I found the names of a few folks who haven't formed committees yet with the AZ Secretary of State.
Some of the candidates have their online signature gathering statuses listed as "closed." I'm not quite sure what that means; it may be related to them not having formed a committee yet. Also, some of the candidates have been included in other posts.
Lastly, Democrats in other districts and Republicans may have other names available to them; in other words, this list is *not* meant to be comprehensive.
Nothing much to report now; just a couple of minor updates to the list of state-level candidates.
No new federal committees to report on, but per the AZ Secretary of State's website, Diego Rodriguez, an attorney and Democratic former candidate for state legislature (LD27), is running for AZ Attorney General.
Also running: per the same website, Libertarian Barry Hess, a perennial candidate (he's been running for something at least every four years since 2002) is running for AZ Governor.
Just a quick post with some new state level candidate committees, courtesy the website of the AZSOS.
Matt Salmon, Republican, is running for governor. He's a former member of Congress, chair of the AZGOP, and failed former candidate for governor (2002).
Kris Mayes is running, for, well, *something*. That's undefined at this point, which is not news. That usually indicates pursuit of a federal office, but I can't find anything on the FEC's website at this point.
Edited on 6/24 to update: The AZSOS' website now indicates that Mayes is running for AZ Attorney General.
Nope, the news part is that she is running as a Democrat. Given that when she was a member of the Corporation Commission, she was the only decent human being among the Rs on the ACC, this development isn't much of a surprise.
Adrian Fontes, Democratic former Maricopa County Recorder, is running for Secretary of State.
Reginald Bolding, Democratic leader in the AZ House of Representatives, is running for Secretary of State.
In which Mark Brnovich, AZ's Republican AG, makes clear his 2022 intentions (which were an open secret anyway).
First, the mundane stuff. - a list of AZ's Congressional representatives and their districts, the districts being subject to change after redistricting. The committees listed below list a district that they are running in, but those can, and almost certainly will, change.
CD1 - Tom O’Halleran
CD2 - Ann Kirkpatrick (has already announced that she is retiring after this term)
CD3 - Raúl Grijalva
CD4 - Paul Gosar
CD5 - Andy Biggs
CD6 - David Schweikert
CD7 - Ruben Gallego
CD8 - Debbie Lesko
CD9 - Greg Stanton
2021 committees -
