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Arizona: Scott Smith

February 17, 2009 - 06:53 pm
NEWS FEED: East Valley Tribune

McCain, Kyl sitting out Obama's speech

Arizona's top elected Republicans will be in short supply when President Barack Obama outlines his plans Wednesday in Mesa to fix the nation's housing crisis.

Mesa: Obama unlikely to tour neighborhood

Dobson buzzes with excitement over Obama

Hundreds camp out for chance to see Obama

Obama speech is toughest ticket in town

SLIDESHOW: Obama tickets

The state's two senators - Republicans John McCain and Jon Kyl - both plan to miss the event at Dobson High School. They say they were neither invited nor informed of the president's visit to their home turf in time to alter their plans and show up for the speech.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer greeted the president when he arrived Tuesday afternoon at Sky Harbor International Airport, and plans to attend the speech in Mesa, said spokesman Paul Senseman.

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January 29, 2009 - 05:08 pm
NEWS FEED: East Valley Tribune

Williams-Gateway Freeway funding in peril

The proposed Williams Gateway Freeway may fall victim to the needs of Arizona's cash-strapped lawmakers.

Soon, perhaps in today's early-morning hours, the Legislature is expected to take back $20.4 million already designated for designing what will be state Route 802. The money - a fraction of $580 million at risk of being "swept" from various special funds - then would be used to help shore up the state's $1.6 billion budget deficit.

Mesa warned about losing freeway funding

One Mesa official said losing that money would set back construction of the freeway by four years, to 2016.

Mesa Mayor Scott Smith was more pessimistic.

"If it were to totally go away, the freeway won't get built, is the reality of it," Smith said Thursday.

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Fri, 08/08/2008 - 11:52

This week's PolitickerAZ.com Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

[img_assist|nid=1325|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=420|height=107]Scott Smith is receiving praise for the way he has gone about his job so far.  Find out who joins the rookie Mayor in this week’s Winners & Losers.

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Fri, 05/23/2008 - 08:23

May 23, 2008

By Politicker Staff

[img_assist|nid=1325|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=420|height=107]This week there are a lot of new faces in East Valley government positions. Find out who joins Scott Smith on our weekly Winners & Losers list for May 23, 2008.

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Thu, 05/08/2008 - 19:12

Smith raises over $27K in 5 weeks

By Politicker Staff

Mesa Mayoral candidate Scott Smith has announced his latest fundraising numbers. The Mesa businessman revealed that he has raised nearly $27,000 over 5 weeks.

Full release

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Tue, 03/11/2008 - 22:10

Mesa Mayor’s race heading to runoff

By Politicker Staff

In the race for Mayor of Mesa, Scott Smith is leading Rex Griswold and Claudia Walters 38% to 34% to 28% with 30 of 41 polling places reporting. This is somewhat a surprise as Walters was expected by most to be in the top two. With no one rec

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