Best wishes for her continuing recovery. She is very courageous and made the right decision. Her constituents have been without effective representation for over a year now.
This may be a GOP pick up as Jesse Kelly, who lost to Giffords by a small margin in 2010, has declared again.
While I didn’t like Ms. Giffords’ voting record, I never disliked her personally and I’m sure that we all wish her a full recovery and a happy future.
You should have seen his facebook page after the shooting. It was bombarded with people declaring he was responsible because he ran negative ads against her in the election, others said it was because he held a fundraiser at a shooting range, and still another I saw was asking if he hired the perpetrator as a hit man on her because he had lost the election...
He has already declared? Good news! He will win this time.
I commend her for finally doing right by her constituents.
We only have 4 safe seats out of the 9.
The 4th, were 1st district freshman Paul Gosar (wuss) is running
The 5th being vacated by Senator-Elect Flake
The 6th were freshmen Quayle and Schweikert are stuck together.
And the 8th (Trent Franks swapping district numbers with Giffords seat)
The competitive seats are
The 1st which freshman Gosar has fled for the safe 4th, the rat he beat is running again.
It is less Republican now, 51% McCain down from 54%.
The 2nd which is also less Republican down to a narrow Obama win
And the open new 9th in Tempe. 51 Obama to 47 McCain
The remaining 2 seats are safe rat, I guess Grijalva could be upset like he almost was in 2010 but I don’t think so.
What a clusterscrew. Why the hell does this state have an “independent” commission draw the lines and why the hell hasn’t the Republican legislature done something about it?
There should be 2 democrats from this state, 3 tops. They could get 5 of 9.