Steller’s Friday Notebook: Sen. Kyl denies prior knowledge of Kavanaugh allegations
McCain, you may recall, stunned the country last year by walking into the
Now Sen.
Protesters are one thing; the people of
For weeks no one was answering the phones at his office. His new spokeswoman did not answer for six days a handful of questions I asked them about
Finally, Thursday, Kyl showed up in public, on the floor of the
"My assistance to
"At no time during my work with
He went on to praise Kavanaugh's judicial record and asked colleagues to judge his "judicial temperament," which came into question during Thursday's angry and disrespectful testimony, on his 12 years in the D.C. circuit court.
Kyl's speech did answer most of my questions. Most notably, he still supports Kavanaugh 100 percent. But I still have some niggling doubts about Kyl's lobbyist work in the months and years before he became a
In his
And in a disclosure form for the second quarter of 2017, the firm acknowledged doing paid lobbying work to "prepare for possible additional Supreme Court vacancy."
Thursday's speech helped. But by Kyl's behavior in office up to that time, he seemed not to have mentally left the more comfortable confines of his lobbying work.
He's in a different seat now, recently McCain's, and ought to act more like it. He represents us now, even if it ends up being just a four-month reprieve of his previous senatorial career.
Pro-127 ad hits AG
With all the political news of the season, one of the more eyebrow-raising episodes of the year has gone lightly covered. Now the forces pushing Prop. 127, the Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona initiative, have made an ad to ensure people hear about it.
Four years ago, when
Last month, Brnovich's office singlehandedly changed the description of Prop. 127 that voters will see, saying that the mandate for 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 takes effect "irrespective of costs." Perhaps not coincidentally, that same phrase had appeared in utility-sponsored ads against the measure.
In a late-August email exchange,
"You can call it corrupt," the female narrator says in the ad. "Vote no on Brnovich and yes on 127."
As it stands, there are 545,644 registered voters. Out of that number, 209,323 (38 percent) are
Statewide, there has been a surge of Democratic voter registrations, with 21,270 additional registered voters between March and the primary election.
But
The last day to register is
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