Two candidates who will appear on the ballot for the special election in Congressional District 7 won’t be part of Tuesday’s televised debate.
, is the Green Party candidate, and Richard Grayson, of Apache Junction, is the No Labels candidate. Neither one of them got 1% of the total votes cast in the July 15 primary election.
by the debate hosts, the Arizona Media Association and the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, that means they are not invited. The two candidates who won their primaries and did reach that threshold were Democrat Adelita Grijalva and Republican Dan Butierez. They’ll debate at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at Arizona Public Media. It will be broadcast live on Arizona Public Media and possibly other stations, and the public is not invited to attend live. Quintana said he considers the rule “unfair,” noting that one percent of the primary vote is “more than all of our registered voters.”
Richard Grayson, left, the No Labels candidate, and Eduardo Quintana, right, the Green Party candidate, won’t be included in the upcoming debate for Congressional District 7.
Quintana is a Raytheon retiree and environmental activist who ran for U.S. Senate as the Green Party’s candidate in 2024. “The main reason I’m running is because of the Palestinian question,” Quintana said. “Our country is carrying out an illegal genocide with Israel.” “I want to use this campaign to bring that issue to the fore, as well as other issues that are important to us,” he said.
Adelita Grijalva, left and Daniel Butierez, right, the two major party candidates for Arizona’s Congressional District 7, will be participating in a televised debate Aug. 26. Two third-party candidates are excluded.
The Green Party’s slogan, he noted, is “People, planet, peace.” Beyond wanting the United States to cut off aid to Israel, Quintana said, he supports healthcare-for-all and a Green New Deal. Grayson’s candidacy is a little — let’s say a lot — less earnest. He’s a perennial candidate who has the distinction of having run in states across the country. This time, he ran in part to tweak the No Labels party. Last year, the party won a judicial order preventing him and others from running as primary candidates under the No Labels banner. This year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling, opening the door for Grayson and others to pursue the party’s nomination. He barely won it: One voter in Cochise County wrote him in, the only valid vote for a No Labels candidate in the primary. Grayson’s sincere political beliefs more or less align with the Democratic Party, he said, and he expects Grijalva to win the race and replace her father, Raul Grijalva, who died March 13. “It’s fun to be on the ballot. This is a hobby. I’m an old man,” Grayson said. “If anyone wants to vote for me, I assume it will be a mistake or they hate the other candidates on the ballot, or they’re mentally ill.”
New candidate in CD6 Dems
While the race for the Democratic nomination in Congressional District 6 lost one candidate last week, with the end of Mo Goldman’s campaign, another candidate has joined. Samantha Severson has filed with the Federal Elections Commission to run for the right to challenge U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, a Republican. The other candidates are JoAnna Mendoza and Chris Donat.
as a “pragmatic economic populist” who supports establishing a single-payer healthcare system, term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices, and universal background checks for gun purchases, among other positions.
‘Resistance’ training
The people who organized frequent protests around Tucson this spring are hosting a workshop on the “strategy and tactics of non-cooperation.” Democracy Unites Us, which formed in the wake of early protests, is hosting the “Freedom Trainers” workshop. It will run from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m on Saturday, Sept. 6. To sign up, you can go to
: https://tinyurl.com/NoncooperationWorkshop9625
Medal for border service
Not much may be going on at the U.S.-Mexico border these days, but now troops who serve there will be eligible for a new medal. The U.S. Defense Department confirmed this week the creation of the new “Mexican Border Defense Medal,”
reported this week. Previously, troops deployed to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection were eligible for the Armed Forces Service Medal for Department of Defense Support to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. People who previously received that medal can apply for it to be replaced by the new version.
Two candidates who will appear on the ballot for the special election in Congressional District 7 won’t be part of Tuesday’s televised debate.
Eduardo Quintana, of Tucson, is the Green Party candidate, and Richard Grayson, of Apache Junction, is the No Labels candidate.
Neither one of them got 1% of the total votes cast in the July 15 primary election. Under a rule adopted by the debate hosts, the Arizona Media Association and the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, that means they are not invited.
The two candidates who won their primaries and did reach that threshold were Democrat Adelita Grijalva and Republican Dan Butierez. They’ll debate at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at Arizona Public Media. It will be broadcast live on Arizona Public Media and possibly other stations, and the public is not invited to attend live.
Quintana said he considers the rule “unfair,” noting that one percent of the primary vote is “more than all of our registered voters.”
Richard Grayson, left, the No Labels candidate, and Eduardo Quintana, right, the Green Party candidate, won’t be included in the upcoming debate for Congressional District 7.
Quintana is a Raytheon retiree and environmental activist who ran for U.S. Senate as the Green Party’s candidate in 2024.
“The main reason I’m running is because of the Palestinian question,” Quintana said. “Our country is carrying out an illegal genocide with Israel.”
“I want to use this campaign to bring that issue to the fore, as well as other issues that are important to us,” he said.
Adelita Grijalva, left and Daniel Butierez, right, the two major party candidates for Arizona’s Congressional District 7, will be participating in a televised debate Aug. 26. Two third-party candidates are excluded.
The Green Party’s slogan, he noted, is “People, planet, peace.” Beyond wanting the United States to cut off aid to Israel, Quintana said, he supports healthcare-for-all and a Green New Deal.
Grayson’s candidacy is a little — let’s say a lot — less earnest. He’s a perennial candidate who has the distinction of having run in states across the country.
This time, he ran in part to tweak the No Labels party. Last year, the party won a judicial order preventing him and others from running as primary candidates under the No Labels banner.
This year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling, opening the door for Grayson and others to pursue the party’s nomination. He barely won it: One voter in Cochise County wrote him in, the only valid vote for a No Labels candidate in the primary.
Grayson’s sincere political beliefs more or less align with the Democratic Party, he said, and he expects Grijalva to win the race and replace her father, Raul Grijalva, who died March 13.
“It’s fun to be on the ballot. This is a hobby. I’m an old man,” Grayson said. “If anyone wants to vote for me, I assume it will be a mistake or they hate the other candidates on the ballot, or they’re mentally ill.”
New candidate in CD6 Dems
While the race for the Democratic nomination in Congressional District 6 lost one candidate last week, with the end of Mo Goldman’s campaign, another candidate has joined.
Samantha Severson has filed with the Federal Elections Commission to run for the right to challenge U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, a Republican. The other candidates are JoAnna Mendoza and Chris Donat.
Severson describes herself as a “pragmatic economic populist” who supports establishing a single-payer healthcare system, term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices, and universal background checks for gun purchases, among other positions.
‘Resistance’ training
The people who organized frequent protests around Tucson this spring are hosting a workshop on the “strategy and tactics of non-cooperation.”
Democracy Unites Us, which formed in the wake of early protests, is hosting the “Freedom Trainers” workshop. It will run from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m on Saturday, Sept. 6.
To sign up, you can go to this website: https://tinyurl.com/NoncooperationWorkshop9625
Medal for border service
Not much may be going on at the U.S.-Mexico border these days, but now troops who serve there will be eligible for a new medal.
The U.S. Defense Department confirmed this week the creation of the new “Mexican Border Defense Medal,” the Military Times reported this week.
Previously, troops deployed to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection were eligible for the Armed Forces Service Medal for Department of Defense Support to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. People who previously received that medal can apply for it to be replaced by the new version.
