Last night on Grassroots Interviews I interviewed Howard Sprague a House candidate in LD 7. There are seven people running for two House seats.

Largely, I agree with Howard Levine’s analysis of the LD 7 House candidates. I part with Howard on his analysis of David Burnell Smith. First, as I’ve said multiple times, Ray Barnes scores slightly to the left of Sanctuary Six Nancy Barto according to Goldwater and other conservative scoring organizations. David Smith scored considerably to the left of Ray. Mr. Smith has also been removed from office due to Clean Elections violations. Smith is, to say the least, a colorful character who claims he’s not going to engage in any “sign pollution.” If he’s not going to use one of the most visible means of campaigning, I’d like to know exactly what his campaign strategy is. Finally, Mr. Smith is one of only two candidates that stood me up on Grassroots Interviews without even a courtesy phone call or e-mail. For those reasons I have serious concerns about Mr. Smith holding office.

I had ONE concern with Howard Sprague before the interview: that he was touting having been Dean Martin’s campaign manager the first time Dean ran for the Senate in 2000. Howard was absentee. However, Howard gave me an answer I agreed with 100%: Dean didn’t need a campaign manager. Dean was just that astute of a campaigner. He new how to do his own bulk mail and could design his own mail pieces. Dean, a political newcomer at the time, defeated the RINO House member Tom Horne in that race. Too bad it wasn’t Horne’s political obituary for eternity.

During the interview, Howard’s support for Jim Waring for Congress in CD 3 made me uneasy since Waring is a McCain staffer and because of that past, he will be all too willing to help McCain if both should be elected. If you look at the Roundtable Politics show I just posted, I predicted that Jim would win the CD 3 race since he has long been considered a frontrunner, Waring has tirelessly been knocking on doors, and Quayle may suffer from his involvement with dirty.com. Be that as it may, I will not be voting for Waring since he is not the most conservative candidate in the race and with so many people in the race, a candidate needs fewer and fewer votes to win. Additionally, Jim refused to come on my show even after I clearly stated that I would be willing to change my schedule to accommodate him. I may be critical of Jim, but I have given EVERY candidate a chance to respond, uninterrupted, to any concerns I may have. I might have disclosed who I am voting for in the aforementioned Roundtable Politics episode. My choice has always been between Gorman and Crump. I worry about their ability to fundraise. While Crump apparently supported a tax increase for a road in California, Gorman has supported moderate candidates Tony Bouie (I do like Tony on a personal level and I truly do appreciate the fact that he came on the show and I do want to remain friends with him. Luckily, I’m not in LD 4 and don’t have to cast a vote in that race!) and Peggy Neely. In my opinion, conservative candidates should NEVER support moderates. Moderates are a poison that lead to minority status.

So, as a conservative that believes moderates are responsible for our minority status, I have to vote for who I believe is the most conservative candidate that has at least a snowball’s chance. Also, since no one will agree with any candidate 100%, you have to choose the least flawed candidates. As I state in this interview with Howard, as an individual, I am endorsing Howard Sprague and Mike Farrar for the two LD 7 House seats. I strongly urge all LD 7 voters to go to the polls and cast their two votes for Mike Farrar and Howard Sprague.

Crank up your volume. The sound quality on this recording is awful.

Link to interview with Howard Sprague

I was honored to have the Majority Whip, Andy Tobin, agree to appear on Grassroots Interviews. He is facing a contested primary for a House seat in Legislative District 1. I wish him luck.

Link to interview with House Majority Whip Andy Tobin

At the beginning of the week on Roundtable Politics, James Allen, Rachel Alexander and I interviewed Chris Cook of ModernConservative.com. After talking to Chris about the site, we made our predictions in the Congressional races.

Link to August 16 Roundtable Politics with Chris Cook

Last night on Grassroots Interviews I interviewed LD 6 House candidate Steve Kaiser. He has a pretty crowded race including two incumbents. I wish him luck!

Interview with Steven Kaiser

Tonight, I interviewed Guy Phillips, a conservative candidate for Scottsdale City Council. There’s six people in the race running for three open seats and that somehow avoids a primary (three Republicans and three Democrat candidates?), so, Mr. Phillips’ name will be on the November 2nd ballot. I wish him a lot of luck. City politics aren’t known for conservatism and neither is Scottsdale. We need conservatives in office at ALL levels of government.

Link to interview with Guy Phillips

Saturday morning on Grassroots Interviews, I was thoroughly honored to have interviewed Eddie Farnsworth, the former state legislator that is running for the open House seat in Legislative District 22 vacated by Andy Biggs. Andy is running for the Senate and has no primary or general election opposition and pretty much has his Senate seat locked up. Eddie’s scores from Goldwater Institute are phenomenal and he has racked up some of the most coveted endorsements for conservatives for this election cycle, namely Sheriff Joe and Russel Pearce. Without dispute, Eddie is one of the most conservative legislators we’ve had at the state legislature in recent history. We need people like him in office across the board both in the party and in the legislature. I wish him the best of luck in his race and I’d caution that voters of LD 22 that they’d be foolish NOT to elect Mr. Farnsworth.

Link to Eddie Farnsworth interview

LD 30′s Sen. Frank Antenori was one of my very first interviews and he was interviewed before Shane suggested I post my interviews here. I was honored to have Mr. Antenori on Grassroots Interviews. He was appointed to the Senate seat when Jonathan Paton resigned to run in CD 8 against Gabby Giffords. One thing is clear: Sen. Antenori is the conservative choice in the LD 30 Senate race. Marian McClure, his opponent, is a moderate “Republican.”

Link to audio interview with Sen. Frank Antenori

I interviewed Dr. Barton before Shane started allowing me to post my interviews here. Dr. Barton is running for the House in LD 7. There are quite a few people running in that race. To me, Dr. Barton’s support for Prop. 100 and defense of high administrator pay categorized him as a bit of an educrat. I think Howard Levine had a good rundown on the things that LD 7 voters should keep in mind when going to the polls. I’m not in lockstep with Mr. Levine’s thinking, but it’s a good start.

Whoever wins in LD 7, House and Senate, rest assured, I’ll be watching them very carefully and will expose any movement to the left.

Link to Craig Barton interview

A couple of nights ago on Grassroots Interviews, I interviewed Ray Barnes. He’s termed out of the House and making a run for the Senate. The LD 7 Senate race has four Republican candidates: Barnes, the Sanctuary Six Nancy Barto, Bob Greene who was decertified for Clean Elections funding after they determined a number of his $5 qualifying contributions were forgeries, and TEA Party candidate Brad Buch. Nancy is NOT termed out of the House and I sorta think it’s bad form to challenge Ray “just because.” I was shocked to see that Ray consistently scores to the left of Nancy when you look at a composite of the scores from Goldwater, AFP, and Pachyderm. What was even more shocking to me is that Ray outscored David Burnell Smith (making a run for the House in LD 7 again) according to Goldwater for the year that DBS was in the House with Ray.

Link to interview with Ray Barnes

I recently interviewed Steve Moak, the CD 3 candidate. Of course, he is hoping to win the crowded August 24 primary and win the seat John Shadegg is vacating in the November 2 general election. I want to thank him for being willing to reschedule the appearance after I ran into technical difficulties the first time around. I asked Steve about all the tough questions that I dug up and he answered those questions very well. I wish him luck.

Link to Steve Moak interview

A couple of days ago, I interviewed Brett Petillo, the LD 22 House candidate. He seems like a genuinely Christian, socially and fiscally conservative guy. I wish him a lot of luck in his race. There are six people running for two seats: Eddie Farnsworth, Steve Urie, Kelly Townsend, Paul Howell, Laurin Hendrix, and Brett Petillo. IMHO, while Brett seems like a good candidate, he faces some tough opposition: Farnsworth, the conservative former legislator; Townsend, the TEA Party leader; and Laurin Hendrix, the incumbent.

The following comments are my own and they shouldn’t be attributed to Brett in any way: I want to warn LD 22 voters about one candidate, Paul Howell. He’s a big-government, pro-status quo in education educrat that’s pro-Prop. 100 (that means he’s a tax and spender), and pro-amnesty. I’d suggest LD 22 voters vote for anyone BUT the Democrat in Disguise (DID), Paul Howell.

Link to Brett Petillo interview

Archived Roundtable Politics interview with Joe Arpaio hosted by Rachel Alexander, James Allen, Nancy Huzar, and myself. The Sheriff should do more interviews like this, his humorous side really shines through and he even talks about his love of animals. The Sheriff, however, doesn’t want to be classified as a softie at heart because he wants crime rates to stay low! Laughs were had by all when he asks what “social media” is and he talks about not having a computer, but a Smith-Corona typewriter instead. Gee, I wonder who runs his Facebook page and his Twitter account if he doesn’t know what social media is? Sound quality is not the best because of a last minute change in equipment and the wrong computer settings. Still a great interview.

Special thanks to the Sheriff for doing the show in the first place! We understand that he normally only does national media and he made a special exception in our case. I hope to have the Sheriff on Grassroots Interviews after the general election.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio interview

Watch Roundtable Politics interview Sheriff Joe Arpaio live tonight at 7pm PST on ustream.tv as he talks about SB1070, the Tea Party protest against the Board of Supervisors’ attempted bailouts of themselves this Wednesday, and a fundraiser he is hosting for Andrew Thomas on Tuesday.

Since I recently wrote about interviewing Mr. Wilson, I thought it was high time I posted my interview with Ruth McClung. She was an earlier interview. We broadcast the video but were unable to record it via the internet, so we recorded it on a camera. We got it archived shortly ago at Grassroots Interviews.

By all accounts, Ruth is the frontrunner in the CD 7 race. I wish her a lot of luck!

Ruth McClung interview

Last night on Grassroots Interviews, I interviewed my client, Jerry Walker. He’s currently on the Maricopa County Community College Board and is running for re-election. It’s a non-partisan race, so his name will not appear on the ballot in the primary, but it will be on the November 2 general election ballot. There’s one seat the voters will be filling and Jerry has drawn a very liberal pro-tax and spend opponent.

Jerry would be a prime example of needing to retain an incumbent over a challenger because Jerry’s challenger is a liberal educrat that will protect the status quo. Jerry has opposed tax and tuition increases because he puts students first, then the taxpayers.

I heartily urge commenters to WATCH THE VIDEO first.

Jerry Walker interview