Comments for ScrambleWatch 08

Comment on Robert Robuck: Voter Registration Form “Lost in the Mail” by Terra

Terra — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:19:58 +0000

Keep it up man.,

Comment on Tucson Weekly Endorsement: Clarence Dupnik for Pima County Sheriff by David Samms

David Samms — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:43:00 +0000

I want to thank those people for killing 75 people this year so far when you voted for Dumnik.

Comment on How Clean Elections Helped Conservatives Increase Their Seats in the Arizona Legislature by Jim Nintzel

Jim Nintzel — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:34:10 +0000

You seem to have missed the part where I said: “I’m sure there are plenty of reasons that Republicans were able to pick up seats in the House of Representatives yesterday…”

You’re right when you say there were a great many details I left out, but you have to keep in mind that this was a two-minute TV commentary, a format that doesn’t lend itself particularly well to pulling out spreadsheets full of campaign-finance data.

I think my overall point–that Clean Elections played a major role in helping social conservatives win–holds water just fine. It’s no secret; Al Melvin said as much on Arizona Illustrated during his debate with Pete Hershberger in the primary.

I didn’t say it was the only reason, just a particularly ironic one. The commentary wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive examination of every race. I’ll be doing that later this weekend and in next week’s TW, so check back in!

Comment on How Clean Elections Helped Conservatives Increase Their Seats in the Arizona Legislature by GOP Spartan

GOP Spartan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:30:51 +0000

You seemed to have left out the small detail that in District 30 it wasn’t a clean elections candidate that beat Dalesandro.

The Democrats and unions clearly targeted Antenori, who ran traditional. Antenori, with less than $25K was able to handle over $60K in negative mailers, radio ads and robo calls aimed directly at him by the Democratic Victory Fund and $139K in puff pieces on Dalessandro funded by the unions disguised as “Arizonans for a Healthy Economy” (yeah right).

You also failed to mention that Dalesandro was running as a clean elections candidate, who added another $40K in taxpayer dollars to the losing battle against Antenori. Bringing the total spent by the Democrats to close to 1/4 of a million dollars. Even if you combine Antenori’s $25K with Gowans $38K ($63K total) they still were outspent almost 5 to 1.

You definitely can’t call that “clean elections.”

Therefore, your hypothesis does not hold water.

Clean elections had nothing to do with Dalesandro losing in LD30.

If anything, Antenori should get kudos because he ran traditional and beat heavily funded clean elections candidates in both the Primary and the General, both of whom were backed with thousands of dollars in independent expenditures.

Mr. Nintzel, I know it is hard for you to accept the fact that sometimes good candidates win because of their message and not because of how much money they have, but to somehow imply that clean elections was the reason for the Democrat loss in LD30 is a bit disingenuous.

Comment on Not So Much by Georgia

Georgia — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:13:47 +0000

And exactly how much influence will southern Arizona have in this collection of Maricopa Co. folks?

Comment on Find Your Own Election Results by Jim Nintzel

Jim Nintzel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:07:19 +0000

Nellpost:

It looks like Nancy Young Wright and Vic Williams won LD26 House, although some votes remain to be counted.

Comment on Find Your Own Election Results by nellpost

nellpost — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:51:45 +0000

Who won District 26 State House of Representatives? I don’t understand the %, # of votes. Help, please.

Comment on Gay Marriage Ban by jim steinnecker

jim steinnecker — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:36:15 +0000

I’m very tired of the pro-homosexual (nothing gay
about them) movement making religion (i.e.
Christianity) the boogie man in this issue. I’ve
been a proud atheist all my life but have enough
common sense to understand that man-man sex
is repugnant to most people. Obviously the universe
has hard-wired our brains that way over hundreds
of millions of years of evolution. Accept it and move
on.

Comment on District 1 by AJB

AJB — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:06:56 +0000

“What is with Republican women and bad plastic surgery? I thought Brewer’s was bad. Day’s eyes now look like she is an alien.”-FGHH

It’s not plastic surgery. It’s actually called god-awful photoshopping (that’s a program that’s used to retouch photographs-remove wrinkles, blemishes, widen eyes, plump up lips, add more hair….-anything) skills, whomever she had retouch her photograph should never be hired anywhere again.

Comment on Gay Marriage Ban by Ken

Ken — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:44:45 +0000

If the “gays” want the same headaches and pitfalls as the rest of us poor married saps, then who are we to stop them?

Being gay should be a personal freedom in this country (which was FOUNDED on freedom), just as being not gay is. Its not as if gay marriage is even recognized in this state now. It is absolutely ludicrous to fret over something as stupid as this issue when there are so many other atrocities happening in the world today.