Congressman Jeff Flake

Arizona GOP Senate candidate Wil Cardon is out with a new ad in an already nasty primary race, this time hitting opponent Jeff Flake on his international travel. "Flake travels the world on the taxpayer's dime, more than any Arizona congressman," the ad's ...  

Public Policy Polling has released a new poll showing that Republican newcomer is closing the gap with Congressman Jeff Flake in the race for the retiring Jon Kyl's U.S. Senate seat. Meanwhile, Flake continues to hold a 13-point lead over likely Democratic nominee Richard Carmona.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

In addition to writing for the Tucson Citizen, she writes for Latino Voices a(n affiliate of the Huffington post) when blogging for much needed Chicana/Latina political activism. DeeDee Garcia Blase is the foundress of the largest Hispanic ...  

Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)Photo: Brendan Smialowski / Getty Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is taking the typical anti-science agenda of the Republican Party a step further. Not content with the GOP simply being anti-science when it comes evolution, climate change, and other topics, he's adding political science to the list of taboo topics. That's right, political science -- the scientific study of how politics is done. Jeff Flake, a politician...  

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon's trailing fellow Republican Jeff Flake by 22 points in the latest poll of the primary race for the seat being opened by Senator Jon Kyl, and believe i...  

Jeff Flake's evolution on Iran since declaring a Senate bid ... repeatedly voting against sanctions on Ron Paul-like grounds that the United States should mind its own business. Several times he, like Paul, was among a dozen or two members ...  

The statewide pro-life organization Arizona Right to Life today announced it has endorsed Jeff Flake, a pro-life Republican congressman who is seeking the seat of retiring Senator Jon Kyl, who is pro-life. The Arizona Right to Life Political Action Committee said it endorsed Flake based on his strong pro-life voting record, which the National Right to Life Committee ranks at 98 percent. “AZRTL is proud to endorse Congressman Jeff Flake for U.S...  

Rep. Jeff Flake remains the frontrunner in the race to replace retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, but before Flake can begin to focus on Democrat Richard Carmona, he faces what looks to be an interesting primary against wealthy real estate investor Wil Cardon.  

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon's big-money advertising blitz last week turned negative against GOP primary rival Rep. Jeff Flake, with a new television commercial that the six-term congressman's campaign calls dishonest. Cardon's 30 ...  

I read that Jeff Flake, the ultimate career politician, visited Yuma. Flake worked as a lobbyist and for a partisan political group before becoming a congressman. Washington is broken because of politicians like him. They routinely put their desires...  

A new poll suggests Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon’s big-money advertising blitz has helped him gain ground on GOP primary front-runner Jeff Flake, but he still trails by a sizable 22 percentage points with only three months remaining.  

Nearly missed by the Beltway media, a tiny little amendment was brought to the House floor on May 9th by Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona. Here’s what the gentleman suggested should be law: None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to carry out the functions of the Political Science Program [...]  

On Thursday, on a mostly party-line vote, the House passed an amendment by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to prohibit the National Science Foundation from funding political science research. And, in doing so, it politicized one of the main ways this country ...  

The Arizona Republican Senate primary is officially a shooting war. Conservative self-funder Wil Cardon, who has been spending heavily to introduce himself on the airwaves, is up with his first direct attack ad against GOP front-runner Rep. Jeff Flake.  

Yet again, Republican Wil Cardon's U.S. Senate campaign has gone on the attack against his primary foe, Congressman Jeff Flake, over his travel habits.And yet again, Cardon appears to be confu...  

So this notion that I tried to hide my past is farcical," Flake told the AP. Flake's biography on his campaign website ... Flake's 2004 campaign website did not cite his lobbyist work in his bio, however. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine ...  

Last month, we spent some on time on the trail with Rep. Jeff Flake, the GOP front-runner in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). Below are excerpts from our interview with Flake after a town hall meeting in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Read full article >>  

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Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president.But as a result of the six-term congressman's work as a lobbyist two decades ago for a Namibian uranium operation with ties to Iran, a GOP primary opponent and Democrats are portraying him as a Washington insider who should not get to...  

Jeff Flake’s Senate campaign got a boost Monday afternoon from Sen. Jim DeMint ... Although the establishment vs. tea party proxy battle has played out in many races this cycle, what separates DeMint’s endorsement from that of some others is that ...  

Here’s what the gentleman suggested should be law: None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to carry out the functions of the Political Science Program in the Division ... as he trots out the old anti-spending canard, mining ...  

Led by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut funding for the National Science Foundation's political science program, which The Monkey Cage says "funds many valuable data collection efforts including the National Election Studies. No other program was singled out like this." Insider Higher Ed points out that several of the projects that Flake singled out "touch on issues such as whether policy makers do...  

You'll also see Congressman Jeff Flake, Ben Quayle and Ed Pastor mentioned. Quayle seems to be the lightest offender in the report. It said he gave $250 to his dad's company for facility rental and staffing services. The report claimed Flake reimbursed ...  

Arizona has one of five Republican-held seats targeted ... "I don't know how a congressman who claims to be transparent doesn't disclose this beforehand," said real estate investor Wil Cardon, Flake's opponent in the GOP primary Aug. 28.  

Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president. But as a result of the six-term congressman’s ...  

Tucson CitizenArizona Senate race heats upWashington PostJon Kyl (R-Ariz.), it appears the election will come down to former US surgeon general Richard Carmona (D) and Rep. Jeff Flake (R), who on Monday received an endorsement from Sen. Jim DeMint (RS.C.). But the Republican battle remains months from a ...SC Sen. DeMint Endorses Rep. Flake for Arizona's Senate SeatNewsMax.comDeMint backs Flake in Arizona Senate raceThe Hill (blog)DeMint...  

Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently ... government of Namibia emerge as a democracy and develop its economy. He says it’s ridiculous to imply that his work representing ...  

Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president. But as a result of the six-term ...  

Meet Jeff Flake from Arizona. His number one goal is the destruction of the federal government, one piece at a time. His first target: the National Science Foundation. The NSF funds a big chunk of the country’s basic research to the tune of about $7 billion/year, and Flake proposed cutting it by a billion dollars. [...]...  

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake unequivocally rejected suggestions that Barack Obama is ineligible to serve as president, drawing the ire of "birthers" and fringe right-wing bloggers who continue to argue that Obama's birth certificate ...  

Rep. Jeff Flake has said that his work as a Mormon missionary in Southern Africa in the early 1980s sparked his interest in foreign affairs. But what the Arizona Republican Senate candidate doesn’t often speak about is what he did after returning to the United States: work as a Washington lobbyist for an African uranium mine with financial ties to Iran.  

The race to become Arizona's first new U.S. senator in nearly ... Flake's campaign has also brought up comments made by Cardon that sounded as if he wasn't convinced President Obama was a U.S. citizen. But Martin said that is simply not true.  

U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon is liked by thousands of people.Unfortunately, most of those people are in Bangladesh, according to the campaign of his primary opponent Jeff Flake, which is thi...  

Resolution Cooper – the foreign owned company which conned the GOP House into voting for a land swap to trade federally owned land near Superior, AZ with one of the world’s largest cooper reserves for commercially worthless land out in the ...  

Carmona is running for retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl’s open seat this November. U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Mesa businessman and philanthropist Wil Cardon are running in the Republican primary. Flake is considered the favorite to win Kyl’s seat.  

Forbes magazine editor Steve Forbes says Arizona voters should elect Rep. Jeff Flake to the Senate as part of the “good conservative core” that will have a profound impact in Congress. Forbes, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in ...  

Rep. Jeff Flake raised $935,000 for his Senate bid in the first quarter of the year and ended March with about $3 million in cash on hand.  

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint today endorsed Rep. Jeff Flake in the Arizona GOP Senate primary.