Tag: campaign finance

Arizona Morning Briefing, 10-13: Who Is Sending “Official” Campaign Texts? Why Did Corp. Comm Delete Open Meeting Video? Scottsdale Debate. And More

•MYSTERIOUS POLITICAL TEXTS–Arizona voters are receiving unidentified pro-Republican texts presenting an “official” independent voter guide that lists only GOP candidates. Another message reproduced a KJZZ story about Democratic superintendent candidate Teresa Leyba Ruiz but altered its headline and text to...
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Arizona Morning Briefing 10-7: Greene-Placentia Reports Sexual Assault While Campaigning, Turning Point Spends $18 Million on Biggs, Feely-Shah Debate, and More

• CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE REPORTS ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT–In a story that garnered significant national coverage, Democratic CD8 nominee Bernadette Greene-Placentia told the Phoenix New Times on Wednesday that two men allegedly  sexually assaulted her while she was repairing a campaign sign...
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Arizona Morning Briefing, 9-29: Eight Illegal Voters, Scottsdale Axon Opponents File Appeal, Treasurer’s Race Gets Dirty, and More

•EIGHT NONCITIZENS VOTE, DEMOCRACY IS IN DANGER–Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap’s dramatic noncitizen SAVE database sweep of the voter rolls ended up flagging 60 voting “noncitizens”, Votebeat reported yesterday. Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced Monday afternoon that her office...
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Arizona Morning Briefing, 9-25: Clean Elections Presses, Hobbs Files on Behalf of Tohono O’Odham, Police Charge Sinema’s Ex-Lover With Art Destruction, and More

•SINEMA’S HOME WRECKED–If you think you’re having a bad week, at least you’re not former Senator Krysten Sinema, currently party to a lawsuit in North Carolina under that state’s “homewrecker” law. In legitimate wrecking news, police charged Sinema’s former lover,...
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