A recent AZ State Dems newletter suggests (carefully) that GOP vandals are behind a recent incident of vandalism at the Pima County Dems HQ: Democrats Targeted for Vandalism If all of this wasn’t enough, we learned Friday that the Democratic Party Headquarters in Tucson was vandalized and the phone lines to the call center were … Read more

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Via AZ Daily Star: McCain supports Graf for House seat WTF? Wow, has McCain no standards left whatsoever? The Straight Talk Express has just taken a detour into the racist KKK militia mosh-pit. I don’t think this helps Graf as much as it does McCain. Moderates know that McCain is playing in the shallow end … Read more

Via CQPolitics.com: NRCC Spends Nearly $8 Million in One Day on Tight Races. In Arizona’s 5th District Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth gets $240K with which to bash the hell out of Democratic state Sen. Harry Mitchell. That little piggie went to market. In Arizona’s 8th District Republican bete noir Randy Graf got $0 to beat … Read more

Via Stateside Dispatch: "The National Labor Relations Board ruled this week that a range of professionals, estimated at 8 million workers, are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. What this means is that an estimated 8 million workers who say a positive thing about unions can be fired at will … Read more

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an inlocutory injuntion on the use of ID standards mandated by 2004’s Prop 200 in the 2006 general election and for voter registration until close of registration on Oct. 7th. The stay is temporary until the substantive question of the appeal, whether Prop 200 violates federal election laws, … Read more

Link: RealClearPolitics – Polls. The latest Zogby-Reuters poll is showing a narrowing gap (8 points) between Graf and Giffords. Graf basically hasn’t moved at 37%, but the poll is reading a drop off in support for Giffords to 45% and concominant increase in undecided voters to 16% The poll was taken between 9/25 and 10/2 … Read more

Link: www.explorernews.com. Steve Farley, Democratic nominee for State House in LD 28, former Tucson city council candidate, and public transportation activist, has been catching some flak from the red end of the media spectrum for some of his remarks about some of the GOP nominees for state lege in southern Arizona. Farley laid down some … Read more