The Arizona Republican Party is hosting a fundraiser next week where the featured speaker will be presidential candidate Herman Cain.
The October 17th event will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center. According to the Arizona GOP the event has become so popular it was moved to a larger venue.
Tucson is the only municipality in the metro area with city council elections this fall, and before ballots go out next week, the candidates will appear in a half-hour forum on Arizona Public Media's radio and TV shows.
Green Party candidate Mary DeCamp, Republican Rick Grinnell and Democrat Jonathan Rothschild will appear in a special Arizona Illustrated episode Thursday. The entire half-hour show will be devoted to the Tucson Mayor's race. That will air at 6:30 p.m. Thursday on PBS-HD Channel 6. It will be rebroadcast on KUAZ radio (89.1 FM) at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Rothschild, a lawyer, has the voter-registration advantage in Tucson. DeCamp ran for City Council in 2009, and hired her primary election opponent as her campaign manager for the general election. Grinnell has local business connections from his PR and lobbying firm. They discussed a selection of city issues in the forum this week.
Watch the half-hour special edition of Arizona Illustrated to hear from all three candidates.
In the meantime, check the AZPM city election website for more information on the candidates, plus their video bios and campaign finance reports.
Republican state Senator Russell Pearce is the first candidate to hit the airwaves in the Mesa recall election to determine whether he keeps his seat.
Pearce’s ad includes a message he has used before: that he’s done exactly what he said he’d do in office, and that’s why voters keep electing him. A narrator says Pearce balanced the state budget and passed a jobs bill and that his opponents are distorting his record. Watch the ad here.
Jerry Lewis, Pearce’s opponent, who is also a Republican, has some videos on his campaign website. In his, he says he won’t take gifts or a government pension, and he won’t call his opponents names if they disagree.
News, commentary, analysis from the AZPM political team: Christopher Conover, Andrea Kelly, Michael Chihak.
