AZ Politics

This Friday, 1/18, at 10 a.m., the Pima County Board of Supervisors will meet to select the new State Representative for LD 26 to replace Lena Saradnik, who recently resigned for health reasons. By Monday a new Representative will be driving up to Phoenix to join the budget battle.

The elected LD 26 PCs tonight selected the slate of three nominees from which the Board will select that new Representative. The PCs preference, and that of Lena Saradnik, couldn’t have been any more clear: they want Don Jorgenson as their new Representative.

Link: Arizona 8th: Very early polling. I was going to write a little post excoriating the ‘poll’ that the Bee campaign has been shopping to the media to demonstrate Bee’s viability. But then I read one the most intellectually honest posts I’ve seen on any conservative blog over at Arizona 8th, by Kelly, and I … Read more

The meeting to fill Lena Saradnik’s open seat in the state legislature may be more lively than I expected. More candidates have entered the ring and there will be interesting maneuvering over the weekend as hopefuls try to line up PC support. I expect every elected PC in LD 26 will be getting several hopeful … Read more

Will they? Or won’t they? It seems like a happy victory-day dance is in the works for the many committed citizen activists who have worked for years here in Pima County to improve election security and assure proper public oversight of our entire elections process by the political parties. The Board has voted unanimously to … Read more

As expectations here in Arizona of Governor Napolitano’s endorsement of Obama for President are firming up to the point that Arizona’s volunteer Obama staff are saying it’s in the bag, I just feel compelled to share this little morsel from Ted Rall: I especially love the Hello Kitty Obama sign. Precious.