Seems that an overly enthusiastic Gabby volunteer took a step over the line in preparing the Pima Democratic Party newsletter announcing the Labor Day AFL-CIO/PALF picnic. The volunteer very clearly implied that the event was a Pima Democratic Party event and that that the Party was endorsing the listed candidates. Join us at Reid Park … Read more

I really don’t get what everyone is squawking about over Weiss’ criticism of Gabby’s legislative record. All Patty did was use some statistics on Gabby’s voting record crunched by her staff, and made a very theatrical, and somewhat hyperbolistic, pronouncement about what they found. I don’t think it was particularly well-done (and I would have … Read more

Note: I have arbitrarily decided to simply not talk about any campaign that hasn’t yet topped $50K. It’s not because they aren’t competitive, it’s because their little pile of money isn’t very interesting, and there are just too many of them. They are like baby sea turtles. They may make it to the ocean and … Read more

Mike Cacciopoli is running for Congress. He’s one of five Democrats competing for the nomination to face off with Dick Renzi, the Republican incumbent in November. I interviewed Mike via a email with a series of key questions. There were no follow up questions. If you have follow-up or additional questions, please leave a comment … Read more

DEMOCRATS: Gabby Giffords: Leading the pack in fundraising again is Gabby Giffords, who raked in an additional $270K over the last two months. That pops the 1 million mark for Gabby, giving her a total $1.113 million raised for the race, and $334K cash on hand as of 8/23/06. Gabby raised most her money, $237K, … Read more

KVOA News 4 asked each of the Democratic Candidates what they thought the #1 issue was. Many of the answers staked out familiar territory and conformed pretty closely to the crosstabs of every poll on the race I’ve seen: Iraq (Rodriguez), Healthcare (Weiss), Immigration (Johnson). Every candidate had their own issue they were trying to … Read more

Susan Friedman is running for Congress. She is seeking the Democratic nomination in Congressional District 1 to square off with incumbent Republican Dick Renzi in November. The following biography was provided by the Friedman campaign. I interviewed Susan via email with a questionaire than included 20 key questions. No follow up questions were asked. If … Read more