Arizona: Jim Pederson

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Jim Pederson, former Arizona Democratic Party chairman and a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, has been "exploring" running for governor.

Pederson tests the waters with this recent guest opinion in the East Valley Tribune Pursue better choices for state budget

By Jim Pederson, Commentary – 4.18.09

I cannot stand quietly by and only watch what is happening to Arizona. It is time to speak out.

Barely three years ago, we were talking about Arizona’s future, its spectacular growth potential and how we would best manage and leverage that growth. We were talking about transportation, better jobs and more jobs in important growth sectors: high-tech, bio-tech, innovation, science and sustainability.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Tucson Weekly has its "Scramble Watch" to engage in wild political speculation. Here we just call it SWAG - "silly wild ass guesses" (with a measure of fact and solid rumors). Today's focus is on the potential and rumored Democratic candidates.

For those of you who would like to play along at home, here is a link to the Arizona Secretary of State's Campaign Finance - Committee Search page. For a general search, go to "committee search - by type" and use the "select" cursor to select "candidate" and "2010." When the page comes up, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to find the most recent entry, and work upwards.

Somebody keeps commenting under the name “Jim Pederson.” I’ve deleted these comments, but the person posting them has put up new ones.

These comments are obviously a joke, but given how many times I’ve written posts that I thought were obviously satire that were taken seriously (and how many people continue to take Republitard’s comments at face value), I have taken the posts down to eliminate any possibility of confusion. As silly as it sounds, these posts get left up and the next thing you know, somebody is quoting the real Jim Pederson as actually writing them. Sounds dumb, but given the sort of e-mails I’ve gotten, it is a possibility. Also, the fact that this person continues to post even after I deleted them tells me that his aim isn’t entirely humorous.

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The buzz among Phoenix area politicos the last 36 hours has been about the fact that Greg Stanton is resigning his Phoenix city council seat to work in the Attorney General’s office.

It is a bit unusual for someone to resign a political office unless they are getting a higher profile elected or appointive office. Stanton was on track to run for mayor when Phil Gordon is done with his current term (unless, as is the buzz among his detractors, he pulls a Michael Bloomberg).

Here is why this is interesting for those of us who aren’t from Phoenix: Stanton is giving up a seat he could easily be re-elected to, and is on a fairly sure path to a higher office, to work for a guy that is termed out at the end of next year.