Ex-Tempe City Council member Ben Arredondo is nothing more than a crooked politician who took advantage of his position of power for personal gain.

"Regarding the article on the ferret that attacked the baby: It makes me angry that this poor baby has to live the rest of his life with only a few fingers. If you can't take responsibility for your child then you should not be a parent. I think they should have their child taken away from them because they were not there to protect their 4-month-old baby."

“I read the article on Sunday about Shakira, stating the ‘Latinos in U.S. will have “justice.” ’ Like they do in Colombia, Shakira? Why doesn’t she clean up her own country before invading ours?”

Andrei Cherny is running for State Treasurer to help turn our economy around. He's not part of the mess in state government - he's going there to clean it up. As an Arizona state prosecutor, he amassed a 100% conviction rate in taking on corporate crooks, financial fraud artists, and illegal immigrant smugglers. In the private sector, Cherny ran a business and worked with some of America's top companies. And as a White House aide and nationally-recognized economic policy expert, Cherny helped develop the ideas at the center of 2010's historic Wall Street reform.

“A Mesa Mormon auditioning for ‘American Idol’ and Simon vowing that she will see her first R-rated movie while in Hollywood reminds me of that old song, “Lose the ways of a small-town saint.” (singing) ‘Arizona, see things my way.’ I’m cheering for Brooke to sing great and to stick to her standards.”

“How can the Tribune print that on the front page (Saturday) with Jeff Groscost being such a tremendous leader when he cost every taxpayer in this state a lot of money?”

“This is for the little Halloween trickor-treaters. If the house is dark and there’s no light at all, don’t stop there. Don’t aggravate the people. Many times they’re old and just don’t feel like coming to the door or otherwise participating.”

“Just heard on the news there’s a threat against NFL stadiums. Well, the Cardinals won’t have to worry. They play in a university stadium.”

“It’s totally amazing to me that … Arizona is ranked 50th now in the country for education, and we have all of this state trust land being sold off. Where is our money going to? It’s certainly not going back into our school system.”

“To the Venter who wants over-65s taken off the road if taking several prescriptions, maybe he also would like to take all of the teenager and middle-age druggies off the road for the same reason.”

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March 13, 2005

Given how quickly political fortunes can rise and fall in Arizona, calculating who the Republicans will be running for governor in 2006 is no easy task.

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An outspoken critic of city politics died Thursday morning in a fire that destroyed his Mesa home.

There has been tremendous controversy over the new Arizona immigration law (SB 1070), including protests and national boycotts against Arizona from a number of cities.

LOS ANGELES - The good ol' boys of "The Dukes of Hazzard" crashed past another pair of joke-cracking buddies to the top of the weekend box office.

As the four Republican presidential candidates sparred inside the Mesa Arts Center during Wednesday’s nationally-televised primary debate, a healthy dose of political activism and locals raising awareness for various issues and causes took to the streets outside the facility.

WASHINGTON — Before her Supreme Court nomination, Sonia Sotomayor put some crooks in prison and cut others some slack.

NEW ORLEANS - Fed up with crime and political corruption, New Orleans’ business leaders in 1952 organized to flush out the twin poisons they believed were harming economic development.

Developer Jim Rhodes probably will not have to explain why he kept a crooked Nevada politician on his payroll for years as he finalizes his plans for a massive development on state land in Apache Junction.

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Life in Arizona has gotten tough for developer Jim Rhodes. In recent weeks the Las Vegas homebuilder has lost a major lawsuit that will likely cost him several thousand acres he wanted near Kingman.

Armed with a deeply ingrained sense of civic responsibility and reams of information about candidates and ballot initiatives, seniors are as engaged as ever in Arizona politics, even though the issues that most directly affect them are being routinely ignored in this year’s midterm elections.