Five candidates are competing to become the supervisor for District 1 in Pima County after current supervisor Ann Day steps down later this year.

With staff in place, Barber opens offices in Tucson and Sierra Vista

As early ballots were counted and GOP candidate Jesse Kelly lost his early lead in the special Congressional District 8 race, the Republican said the voters have spoken and he respects that.

With 86.36 percent of precincts reporting, Democrat Ron Barber holds a comanding lead over GOP challenger Jesse Kelly in the special election for Congressional District 8.

With the special election for Congressional District 8 just days away, early voting may prove to be the decider in the race to finish former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ term.

Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will join Ron Barber, her former aide, at a concert to get out the vote for the June 12 CD8 special election next week.

The candidates running in the special election to replace former Rep. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords blamed each other last week for the negative ads being run by each campaign.

Early ballots in the Southern Arizona special election for Congressional District 8 will be sent out this week, with the General Election date just under a month away.

With promises that it will be scaled down, the Arizona Senate passed controversial House Bill 2625 Thursday, which will allow employers to deny women’s birth control coverage under health insurance plans.

On Tuesday, the Republican who will move forward to face Democrat Ron Barber in June’s General Election will be decided.

The four GOP candidates running April 17 in Arizona Congressional District 8, and later in the new CD2, are solid people. Hopefully, Republicans elsewhere are fielding others as impressive.

Congressional Candidate Ron Barber announced Monday that he will run for Congress in the regular 2012 election, in addition to the special election in June in which he is already a candidate in CD8.

Residents of Saddlebrooke had the opportunity to hear from the four Republican candidates running in Congressional District 8 when they gathered at the community’s Mountain View Club House on March 14.

Many of the state’s GOP Congressional candidates attended a Tea Party event in Tucson last week, where Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum appeared ahead of Tuesday’s Primary Election.

Accompanied by a group of friends, volunteers and supporters, GOP Congressional District 8 candidate Dave Sitton filed his nominating petitions today with the Secretary of State’s downtown Tucson office.

Democrat Ron Barber is receiving bipartisan support as he campaigns in the special election to take over former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' seat.

Most reporting about the current redistricting plans for both the Arizona legislature and the nine seats in the U.S. House put forward by the Independent Redistricting Commission failed to cover the system’s obvious flaws.

The race for the U.S. House seat in Congressional District 8 is close.

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Jonathan Paton

The first coalition was established when two cavemen teamed up to take down a mastodon. Later they may have fought over the tusks, but they both understood the primary goal.

Every election season brings complaints about "negative campaigns."