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In case you missed Congressman Ann Kirkpatrick’s well-controlled telephone town hall meeting, we have it on YouTube (courtesy of Republican candidate for CD-1, Bradley Beauchamp).
We’re assuming that Congresswoman Kirkpatrick was on the line from an undisclosed bunker somewhere in the district but its quite possible she was somewhere abroad.
Here are those town hall phone conversations. You gotta love technology and the web!
Matt Benson with the Arizona Republic posted an interesting insider story on some changes taking place with the Arizona Daily Star and Arizona Capitol Times. Daniel Scarpinato who wrote for the Star recently accepted a position with the Capitol Time’s Yellow Sheets as the replacement to Phil Riske’s retirement.
Whether or not Riske’s departure from ACT was an actual retirement or firing is at question.
Benson, who writes for one of ACT’s competitor, provides another perspective. I’m assuming he spoke with Riske over what actually happened but according to Benson’s Political Insider:
But Riske, who had been with the Capitol Times for seven years, said he was fired earlier this month following a dispute with Publisher Ginger Lamb.
The publisher and I had a disagreement on Aug. 7 over promised freelance work for Arizona Capitol Times after retirement. She demanded I leave immediately,” Riske wrote the Insider in a statement. “The publisher appointed a friend to stand over me as I cleaned out my desk, all in front of two dear, perplexed colleagues. It was a humiliating and scarring way to end a 43-year career in journalism.”
Ouch. Nothing like ringside seating to the politics of political reporting.
Incidentally, while I on the topic of political reporting let me make a shameless plug. Sonoran Alliance is always looking for creative and politically conservative writers. Since our arrival on the scene, we’ve been a launching point for several other political blogs here in Arizona – some of them well known. If you’re interested in writing for Sonoran Alliance, please send me a writing sample via email to sonoranalliance@gmail.com.
Plenty of views of this new video on computers all over the Capitol, you can be sure of that. It appears to have come from within LD6, first appearing on an email sent to LD6 PCs, urging them to contact Senator Pamela Gorman and speak with her about the budget package that hinges on her vote.
