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August 27th, 2010
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Stephen Colbert might be the conservative alternative to Jon Stewart, but they both offered congratulations to McCain on his primary victory earlier this week.
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Politico looks at Southern Arizona’s Congressional District 8:
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has built a political fortress here in this southwestern swing district that shares a rugged, sparsely populated 114-mile border with Mexico.The Arizona Democrat’s $1.9 million war chest is more than twice the size of that of any other House candidate in the state and her politics are perfectly calibrated for the seat.…
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Investigative reporter John Dougherty, one of four Democrats who want a shot at U.S. Sen. John McCain in November, is sending tweets from his four-day, 40-mile hike as he wraps up his campaign. Follow ’em here.
Meanwhile, Feathered Bastard amplifies the ongoing turmoil for Democrat Rodney Glassman’s team here.…
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Republican Jesse Kelly, whose comments about Sarah Palin have become the talk of his Congressional District 8 Republican race with former lawmaker Jonathan Paton with just days to go before the Aug. 24 primary, doubled down on his statement rather than walking it back during an appearance on the Jon Justice radio show this morning. Said Kelly:
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Well, it wouldn’t be a Republican primary if Sarah Palin didn’t somehow get involved.
Robert Mayer, the former Tucson Tea Party activist who is now backing Jonathan Paton in the Congressional District 8 race against Jesse Kelly, has posted two videos in which Kelly busts on St. Sarah for endorsing too many moderates.…
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The Roundtable gang talks about the fight between Jesse Kelly and Jonathan Paton in CD8, Andrew Thomas’ troubles in the AG race and more on Arizona Illustrated’s Friday Roundtable.
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Republican Jonathan Paton has a new ad in the Congressional District 8 primary. We couldn’t find an embed code, so you’ll have to click here to watch it, but it features his former Sunday school teacher and other friends talking about him and concludes with fellow CD8 candidate Brian Miller, who dropped out of the race yesterday, endorsing him.…
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You know that $600 million for border security that the U.S. Senate finally passed last week? The New York Times reports that the spending package has hit a procedural snag in the House of Representatives:
With the House coming back, the Senate then gave surprise 11th hour approval to a $600 million immigration enforcement measure and a child nutrition bill intended to reduce child obesity, a priority of Michelle Obama, in the hope that the House could send both measures to the president as well.But House leaders are raising jurisdictional issues over the immigration bill, saying that fee increases included in the measure to pay for added border enforcement violate the Constitutional requirement that revenue measures originate in the House. House leaders could decide Monday to send it back to the Senate with no action, a process known in Congressional parlance as blue slipping.
That result is certain to disappoint lawmakers, particularly endangered House Democrats in Arizona who had hoped to show residents that Congress was getting tough on border control.
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We can’t wait to see how Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will turn tonight’s CD8 Republican debate soundbites into attack-tweets.
Luckily, we don’t have to wait long. The debate started at 6 p.m. tonight KUAZ Channel 6. Check out @giffords2010.
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Rasmussen provides some new Arizona poll numbers:
A new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey finds Brewer leading Democrat Terry Goddard by a 56% to 37% margin. That’s little changed from a month ago. Just two percent (2%) prefer another candidate while five percent (5%) are undecided.Brewer’s prospects dramatically improved after she signed the much talked about immigration law that has become the subject of a national debate. In Arizona, 65% of voters continue to favor the law while just 27% are opposed. Nationally, most voters would like a similar law in their own state.
By a 60% to 34% margin, Arizona voters oppose the Justice Department lawsuit against their state. Opposition to the lawsuit is similar nationwide. The law is scheduled to go into effect on July 29 and a federal court is currently hearing the federal government’s claim that the law should not be implemented.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters in Arizona want President Obama to send more U.S. troops to their state in an effort to help secure the border. Only six percent (6%) believe there are already too many troops in the state.
Forty percent (40%) believe that the immigration law has had a positive impact on the state’s image while 46% believe it’s had a negative impact.
Forty-three percent (43%) believe the law is good for the state’s economy while 37% say it’s bad for the economy.
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