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Texas Border Coalition is supporting the nomination of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama said last week that he intends to nominated Napolitano for post.Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster serves chairman of the Texas Border Coalition and issued a statement about the intended nomination on Monday.   “The Texas Border Coalition welcomes Gov. Napolitano’s nomination to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," Foster said. “As governor of a border state, Gov. Napolitano understands from practical experience that securing our nation’s borders and maintaining an efficient flow of...

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF ARIZONA; AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION OF ARIZONA BY ADDING ARTICLE RELATING TO MARRIAGE. Arizona's Proposition 102 "ONLY A UNION OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN SHALL BE VALID OR RECOGNIZED AS A MARRIAGE IN THIS STATE." 56.5% Yes 43.5% No

DES MOINES, Iowa - In an audacious 11th-hour campaign move, Barack Obama is pouring resources into Arizona in an effort to humiliate rival John McCain on his home turf. Flush with cash and campaigning almost entirely on Republican territory in the homestretch, Obama's camp went on the airwaves for the first time yesterday in Arizona - a state that McCain has represented in the House and Senate for 26 years

John McCain’s lead over Barack Obama is down to just five points in his home state of Arizona. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds the Senator leading 51% to 46%. McCain is viewed favorably by 59% of voters in Arizona and unfavorably by 40%. Obama’s ratings are 49% favorable, 50% unfavorable. Voters in Arizona trust their state’s Senator more than Obama on the top issue of the economy by a 52% to 44% margin. However, voters not affiliated with either party trust Obama more, 52% to 39%. On national security and the War on Terror, voters...

"We have witnessed John McCain become a leader - not only of a delegation from a fast-growing Southwestern state, but into a national leader with a reassuring habit of stepping to the front when things seemed most difficult. Nobody in the country knows the Republican presidential candidate better than we do. And no one is better placed to judge whether he would serve honorably and admirably as president of the United States." -- The Arizona Republic "McCain: A Leader For These Times" Editorial The Arizona Republic October 25, 2008 Nowhere else in the country do voters know John McCain like...

John McCain's election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on the hotel's lawn. Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was due to space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point. McCain's remarks will be piped electronically into the party and media filing center, aides said. Only a small press "pool" — mostly those...

While picking up a handful of Republicans in McCain's home state may not seem like much, longtime pollster Bruce Merrill expects to see real changes when his surveyors start making calls later this week. This presidential election poses a host of new challenges for pollsters - including the proliferation of cell phones and early voting. Will Arizona turn blue? Probably not, Merrill predicted, but it could be decidedly purple. "My guess is that if I took a poll today that McCain would be ahead, maybe, but very slightly," said Merrill, professor emeritus at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism....

PHOENIX, Arizona, October 9 -- Volunteers with the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) were assaulted a tenth time on October 3rd while peacefully distributing literature in support of traditional marriage at Arizona State University. TFP has organized a 33-day tour of cities and colleges across California and Arizona to educate the public on the importance of preserving traditional marriage. The last assault occurred at Arizona State University when a pro-homosexual man leaned out of his car window and deliberately sprayed TFP members on the sidewalk with pesticide, saying: “Have a drink!" “Although most of...

Aggressive mimicry is a biological strategy where a predator or parasite will imitate a harmless or even helpful species to help attract their their prey—Aesop’s fable about a wolf donning sheep’s clothing was well-observed. This tactic is currently being used by the Treason Lobby in Arizona in an attempt to undermine the state’s tough laws against employers of illegal aliens. This November, the Arizona Ballot will feature Proposition 202, called the "Stop Illegal Hiring Act." The was summarized to petition signers and will be given to voters as... Limited to this information, any Arizonian would think they were voting to...

John McCain, in his home state of Arizona, now has a 21-point lead over Barack Obama, the biggest gap yet in the race.

The Arizona Republic is a Gannett rag (owners of the ultra-liberal USA Today) -- so we can't even excerpt the article. However, you can guess the gist of the piece from the headline, and you read the story itself here.

Gov. Sarah Palin's critics had better hope she doesn't sick America's newest brand of super hero on their heels. A group of women in Yuma say Palin is absolutely right, that no one has the same driven bark and protective bite as a hockey mom hustling to care for her brood. These ladies say they cheered Wednesday when the vice presidential candidate joked during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between hockey moms like herself and pit bulls is lipstick. "We're fierce, loyal and competitive, just as competitive as our kids," said Karen VanDeberg, whose son plays hockey...

Up from 9 pts in June.

PHOENIX - As a general rule, Senator John McCain does not alert the news media when he eats breakfast in Arizona. But on a Monday morning this month, Mr. McCain campaigned in a local diner, after a Sunday stop at his campaign office here, where he urged volunteers to “make sure we get our voters registered, to make sure we are organized.”

A famous Chinese proverb teaches that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. For Meg Sneed, a 25-year-old Arizona lesbian, journeys to change a thousand hearts begin with a single thought: There's power in sharing personal stories. In 2006, she and other young activists in Soulforce, a gay rights group devoted to the kind of peaceful confrontation practiced by Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King, traveled eight weeks by bus to evangelical colleges to share what it's like to be gay. The next year, Sneed, who was fighting cancer, was weak from chemotherapy but walked...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has added Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Flagstaff) and Bob Lord (D-Phoenix) to its Red to Blue program. Kirkpatrick is running against Sydney Hay (R-Munds Park) in the 1st Congressional District for the seat being vacated by Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Flagstaff). Lord is competing against current congressman John Shadegg (R-Phoenix) in the 3rd Congressional District. The Red to Blue program will provide candidates with economic and strategic assistance, including increased exposure. In the 2006 election cycle, the program raised nearly $22.6 million for Democratic candidates. Chris Van Hollen, Chairman of the DCCC, said in a statement, "The candidates...

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (the presumptive Republican presidential nominee), is facing questions about his ties to Arizona real estate developers and home builders. DNC Chairman Howard Dean and Arizona Democratic Party spokeswoman Emily Bittner pointed Friday to recent stories by 'The New York Times' and the 'Washington Post' on McCain backing land deals involving SunCor Development Co., Del Webb Corp., and developers Donald Diamond and Fred Ruskin. The deals involved parcels and projects in the Phoenix area, Northern Arizona and Nevada. Republicans dismissed the stories and Democrats' criticism, saying the deals had bipartisan support and were done to benefit...

Arizona blacks: Where's McCain? By JONATHAN MARTIN | 4/8/08 4:38 AM EST Text Size: Oscar Tillman heads the Phoenix area branch of the NAACP and is a former statewide president of the group. He has been a leader of Arizona’s small, tight-knit African-American community for decades. So it comes as something of a surprise to learn the name of one person, over all those years, with whom he has never spoken. It is the state’s senior senator better known these days as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. John McCain, said Tillman, “has pretty well zero relationship with the African-American community...

United States Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain visited Prescott, Ariz. on Saturday April 5, 2008. Staff photographer Matt Hinshaw was there and shares what he saw in this online gallery (More photos at Link) (Sen. Kyl at rt)

PHOENIX — A state legislator started a petition drive Friday to forbid all employers from discriminating against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. Existing law prohibits discrimination based on a number of factors, including sex. The initiative by Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, would define that term to also include gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. Sinema needs 153,365 signatures by July 3 to put the issue on the November ballot. The legislator, who describes herself as bisexual, said she intends to start gathering signatures immediately