“As someone who had to continue working full-time after my husband died 13 years ago, in order to support my two children with special needs, I believe that I could give a fair opinion of the mother with a second (outside) career vs. the mother who chooses to stay at home to raise her children. I worked more than full-time for 25 years before taking retirement to keep a promise to my daughter, who was then completing chemotherapy. I can tell you without a doubt that being a stay-at-home mother is by far easier! Like Ann Romney, I have an autoimmune disease. Unlike Ann Romney, I did not have the luxury of millions of dollars to cushion our existence, but I hold no grudges. We each make decisions and take responsibility for our lives.”

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors solved one problem Monday morning and freely admitted creating another.  In a unanimous vote of the board, Rep. Judy Burges of Sun City West, R-District 4, was chosen to fill the vacancy left in the state Senate after Sen. Scott Bundgaard resigned two weeks ago. Burges will now vacate her seat to take Bundgaard’s.

Mesa state Sen. Rich Crandall sent an email out over the weekend apologizing for a "tasteless and juvenile" joke about wife beating that he made last week at a Valley Leadership event.

PHOENIX - Sen. Scott Bundgaard resigned from the Arizona Legislature on Friday, stepping down shortly before he would have testified to the Senate Ethics Committee on whether he should be disciplined for a February domestic incident involving a former girlfriend.

Tuesday’s recall of Russell Pearce creates a legislative power vacuum, with three lawmakers already trying to line up votes to become the next Senate president.

A relatively new Glendale petition firm may give voters the chance to do some of the things lawmakers will not, ranging from releasing non-violent inmates from prison to legalizing what some now consider "victimless" crimes.

A newly formed group launched an initiative drive on Wednesday that one member claims will end immunity for lawmakers.

Activists seeking to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce say they're on track to collect enough signatures for an election and that recent controversies have made their campaign easier.

State Sen. Scott Bundgaard should be charged with assault in a reported case of domestic violence involving an ex-girlfriend, Phoenix police said Thursday.

Concluding the measures go too far, state senators on Thursday rejected a package of bills designed to crack down on illegal immigration.

Scandal has cost the second-ranking Republican of the GOP-led Arizona Senate his leadership post.

How can one person be judged or handled differently, when both of them were being physical with one another? What kind of example does it set when a man gets no punishment after hitting a woman? This shows young children that women are no more significant now than they were many decades ago and propels our nation backwards after the many rights that women have gained and fought for over the years. Scott Bundgaard's position as a senator should not protect him from going to jail; it should instead set a higher standard on people like him. They are who we elect to represent us in political matters, and if they conduct themselves in this manner they should not be given this position of power. Furthermore, in the constitution it states that no man or woman regardless of social or political status is above the law. However, Bundgaard is treated as such. His status should have nothing to do with how his crime is handled and he should have to go through the same process as anyone else would in this situation.

State senators say Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard's plea to fellow Republicans to let him keep his leadership post included information that his ex-girlfriend handled a gun in his car during their altercation on a Phoenix freeway.

Senate Republicans refused Tuesday to remove Scott Bundgaard as their majority leader.

Capitol reporters are losing their privilege of being able to go onto the Senate floor before or after session to chat with lawmakers.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard is fighting off calls for an ethics probe from Democrats and suggestions from members of his own Republican party that he quit his leadership post.