News from Pinal County Democrats http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news 2012-05-18T01:04:01+01:00 text/html 2012-05-17T07:00:16+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1527 A citizens group has launched an initiative to ask the public to fund state parks saying theyre frustrated by state lawmakers raids of park coffers and the states failure to provide adequate resources. text/html 2012-05-13T07:54:48+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1526 Sheriff Paul Babeus second in command was his first choice as successor.As chairman of the Steve Henry for Sheriff exploratory committee Babeu helped his chief deputy wade into political waters late last year while launching his own bid for Congress. text/html 2012-05-13T07:41:29+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1525 Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeus announcement Friday that he will drop out of the race for Congress in northwestern Arizona sets the stage for a gritty match-up between the two major remaining candidates a sitting member of Congress and his tea party rival. text/html 2012-05-12T05:15:44+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1524 FLORENCE Ariz. - The Pinal County Board of Supervisors has chosen Clark L. Smithson to be the new Supervisor for District Two.nbsp Smithson will be sworn in as District 2 supervisor in the coming days.nbsp A date and time was not determined at press time.nbsp He will represent the district text/html 2012-05-11T13:48:44+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1523 FLORENCE mdash Twelve people took the podium before the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday and explained why they should replace former District 2 supervisor Bryan Martyn for the remaining six-plus months of his term. text/html 2012-05-11T11:41:03+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1522 Paul Babeu the Pinal County Ariz. Sheriff who confirmed he was gay in February after allegations surfaced that he had threatened a Mexican ex-boyfriend with deportation announced that he was no longer running for Congress as a Republican in the states 4th District and would run for re-election as sheriff text/html 2012-05-09T06:37:07+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1521 Political moderates for years have bemoaned Arizonas partisan primary system.Voter participation is typically light they complain giving outsize influence to diehard party activists who often are either more conservative or more liberal than most rank-and-file party members and independents. And Democratic or Republican voters in districts dominated by the other text/html 2012-05-09T06:21:32+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1520 When Sheriff Paul Babeu announced in January that he was running for Congress he set off a free-for-all to succeed him in Pinal County.Now with less than three weeks to file for inclusion on the Aug. 28 primary ballot some of the three Republicans two Democrats and one independent who text/html 2012-05-06T06:59:55+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1519 Voters can walk into polling places wearing political T-shirts buttons earrings and anything else with a candidate or political-party logo under a new law that overturns a ban against most forms of electioneering. text/html 2012-05-06T06:49:48+01:00 http://pinaldemocrats.org/ http://pinaldemocrats.org/index.php?page=news&full=1518 Neo-Nazi J.T. Readys death Wednesday in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide in Gilbert has decapitated the border vigilante group he founded but anti-immigrant extremism is expected to continue in Arizona.The state has long had a homegrown fringe right-wing element but its more recent status as ground zero in the