Ann Kirkpatrick

NEW: “Dirty Trick” By National Republican Group Targeting Arizona Reps Given Pass By Dysfunctional FEC…After Five Years

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Five years ago, Arizona’s Politics helped report efforts by a “dirty trick” by the National Republican Congressional Committee (“NRCC”) against candidates nationwide, including the three Arizona swing-seat Democrats. The FEC finally gave the NRCC a pass and opened the file today.

(from SPOOF website)

The so-called attack microsites launched against Reps. Kyrsten Sinema, Ann Kirkpatrick and Ron Barber (and a couple of dozen other Democrats around the country) spoofed the candidates’ websites and tried to trick Googlers into donating to the NRCC.

National articles found a couple of the Arizona spoofs, and Arizona’s Politics located the third in February 2014. A follow-up later that month found that the NRCC had changed the donation pages to reduce the trickery level and to add security to its spoofs. (There are lots of images, ironies and fun facts in the older articles that will not be repeated here; please check out the links!)

One month later, national campaign finance watchdogs Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 filed complaints

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(UPDATED) Rep. Kirkpatrick a Late Co-Sponsor Of Resolution To Reverse President Trump’s Emergency

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(UPDATE, 1pm: Rep. Kirkpatrick’s office confirms to Arizona’s Politics that the Congresswoman has co-sponsored the resolution, although it was shortly after the deadline that had been set by prime sponsor Joaquin Castro and House leadership. The co-sponsor list will be updated on Monday, and Kirkpatrick’s name will be on it. Rep. Kirkpatrick remains opposed to … Read more

CD 2 Congress on Your Corner on Feb. 2nd

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“Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick will resume the tradition of holding one-on-one dialogues with residents of Arizona’s Second Congressional District. Rep. Kirkpatrick and district staff will be available to sit down and hear the concerns and opinions of community members.” Sat. Feb. 2nd, 10 a.m. to 12 noon Safeway, 6360 E. Golf Links Rd. Tucson https://www.facebook.com/events/390368241726244/ CD … Read more

Happy New Year from an improved Blog for Arizona (updated)

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Dear readers,

You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been having problems with our comments approving automatically (or not) for a few months. I’ve been approving the legitimate ones when I’m online.  Some spam ones have gotten through the filters, and I’ve been deleting those.  Because we haven’t been able to fix the problem, our webmaster consultant has recommended we migrate to a new Blog for Arizona blogsite, where I have been posting  quite a few upcoming Calendar items.  Also, for some reason a recent Word Press update stopped allowing me to publish them on this current, older website.  Bear with us as we transition shortly.

Here’s a Swearing In event at Pima County Dem HQ for Jan. 3rd, which is on the new blogsite Calendar, but not on this one.  Note below that flyer time has been updated.

 

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