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8th District Republican candidates forum Campaigning tactics a sore spot for some By Daniel Scarpinato arizona daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.31.2006 Voters are "going to see an awful lot of Steve Huffman" over the next two weeks, congressional candidate Randy Graf said at a forum Wednesday night, citing rival Huffman's advertising support from national Republican Party leaders. The comment came after the National Republican Congressional Committee made the unusual move of deciding to spend more than $122,000 on local advertising to promote Huffman in the District 8 GOP primary. "They're going to try to re-create Steve Huffman,"...

THURSDAY NEWS UPDATE. ARIZONA: NRCC BACKS GOP CENTRIST IN OPEN CD-8 PRIMARY. Retiring eleven-term Congressman Jim Kolbe (R) is strongly supporting State Representative Steve Huffman as his successor -- and now Kolbe has some powerful allies in his vocal efforts to derail the candidacy of former State Representative Randy Graf. The National Republican Congressional Committee spent $122,292 to purchase TV time for a spot in support of Huffman scheduled to start airing later this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal also reported the individual leadership PACs of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Majority Leader John Boehner and...