Arizona: Mitt Romney

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The GOP establishment's National Council for a New America held its first "listening session" last Saturday in a pizza parlor in Alexandria, Virginia. (See earlier post GOP Launches Second Rebranding In a Year) A wealthy D.C. suburb? Not venturing beyond the Beltway bubble? Baby steps, I guess.

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.) explained their visions for reviving the GOP.

The leaders received positive feedback from the crowd, which included reporters, Republican aides and their friends, but not many new ideas.

Ed McKee, the owner of Pie-Tanza, invited many of his regular customers, who sat in chairs around Romney, Cantor and Bush.

Russell Pearce is sponsoring SB 1158, which would put citizenship requirements on presidential candidates who run in the Arizona primary.

Well, it seems that this is another attempt by Pearce to stir the anti-immigration pot. He’ll tell moderate voters that this is about limiting the number of candidates on the ballot and prevent “voter confusion” (even though few, if any, of the dizzying number of candidates who filed last year would be ineligible to run under this statute) while at the same time winking at the mouth breathers who will see this as a way to keep immigrants in their place. Also, it probably is yet another shot in the

Leaders of the Democratic parties of several Western states held a conference call today to discuss what they see as Sen. John McCain's vulnerability in the traditionally Republican Rocky Mountain region, including Arizona. 

"The winds of political change are definitely blowing across the inner mountain West," said Todd Taylor, Executive Director of the Utah Democratic Party.

CNN is reporting that Mitt Romney will formally endorse Sen. John McCain today at a press conference in Boston, Mass.

Dana Bash, correspondent for CNN, reported just now that fmr. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will hold a press conference at 3:30 EST this afternoon to throw his support behind Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain.

McCain so far has a delegate total of 827 to fmr. Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's 217. McCain needs to pick up an additional 364 delegates to reach the 1,191 delegate threshold that secures Republican presidential nomination.