AZ Congressional Delegation

10 Great Reasons to Support Mark Kelly’s Run for AZ Senate

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Let’s face it, there is no such thing as a “good” politician. But those who come to the dark art of politics later in life – those who are forced into the immoral world of politics out of a genuine, and often desperate necessity for change – are our best hope. Those who spend most … Read more

Retired astronaut Mark Kelly announces U.S. Senate bid (updated)

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This has been a long time in coming, but it’s now official: Mark Kelly, an American astronaut and husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, is running for US Senate in Arizona in 2020. Former astronaut Mark Kelly announces his Arizona Senate campaign:

Kelly announced on Tuesday that he would seek the late John McCain’s seat, which Sen. Martha McSally was appointed to last year after losing her Senate race to Kyrsten Sinema. The emotional four-and-a-half-minute video starts with Kelly recalling his first sunrise in space, traces his family history, and then turns to Giffords’s shooting in 2011 and the themes on which he will run in the upcoming campaign.

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“What I learned from my wife is how you use policy to improve people’s lives,” Kelly says, citing health care, economic stagnation, and climate change as challenges that need to be addressed.

“Solving some of the problems requires one thing, and that’s teamwork,” Kelly says. “Partisanship and polarization and gerrymandering and corporate money have ruined our politics and it’s divided us.”

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UPDATE: Sinema, McSally Both Vote “Aye” To Help Pass Mideast Bill Package

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Arizona’s Senators both voted to help pass the Senate’s Mideast Bill Package this afternoon.  S.1 passed by a 77-23 vote as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) first legislative priority for this session – began while avoiding a vote on the then-shutdown; its future in the Democratic-controlled House is uncertain. While all of the Republican Senators but one … Read more

AZ GOP in disarray, AZ Dems united (updated)

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The political parties held their statutorily required reorganization meetings on Saturday, and what a stark contrast they produced.

Arizona GOP chairman Jonathan Lines, who oversaw unprecedented Republican losses in November, and who along with President Trump made baseless election fraud allegations to explain away those losses, AG suggests measured words when making allegations of fraud in election, ran for reelection as “the establishment syndicate [candidate] with longtime ties to John McCain,” as the right-wing fringe Seeing Red AZ blog describes him.

Lines was backed by the state’s GOP “establishment syndicate,” including U.S. Senator Martha McSally, Governor Doug Ducey, former Senator Jon Kyl, and former Governor Jan Brewer.

Lines was opposed by two-time senate GOP primary loser Dr. Kelli “Chemtrails” Ward, the favored candidate of the right-wing fringe.

Ahead of the reorganization meeting, Seeing Red AZ blog and the Gateway Pundit blog accused Jonathan Lines of corruption. McCain’s corruption still haunts AZ GOP in advance of state meeting:

Dirty laundry, it is said, should be aired in private. But when it is downright filthy, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Gateway Pundit, a nationally well-respected conservative site provides that sunlight as it exposes the internecine chaos via a shocking, leaked, Arizona Republican Party internal memo which raises serious concerns about unethical use of party resources and systematic failures that Deputy Communications Director Robert Maxwell fears will lead to a loss in 2020. The two-page memo to Executive Director Kyle Pierce can be read here.

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Politico Updates Rural Arizona Transit Woes Due To Government Shutdown – “We’re Out of Business”

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Politico has updated an earlier Arizona Republic story about effects of an ongoing federal government shutdown threatening rural Arizona transit service. In fact, Yavapai Regional Transit could be “out of business.” The shutdown is now into its second month, and today’s votes in the Senate mean that there is no solution currently in sight. Yavapai Regional Transit Board Chairman Ron … Read more