John McCain

How bad is the sting that presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain is feeling? Consider this write-up in

Jon KylU.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will take to the airwaves as a guest on the Michael Medved radio program at 1:05 p.m., Arizona time today, Tuesday, July 3, on KKNT 960 AM.Kyl, one of the architects of the failed Senate immigration reform proposal, will discuss the future of congressional immigration reform efforts. Previously, the Republican said those efforts likely would fall in line with the enforcement-first line of thinking.

Jon Kyl

This question comes from a reader who left a message on my voice mail at 9:29 a.m. Sunday. Alas, I can’t give him proper credit, because he didn’t leave his name.

Question: Yeah Paul, read your, ah, article on Jon Kyl on Page 2 of this morning’s Tribune. I think you totally mis-titled this thing. It says, “Burned by immigration bill, Kyl turning to new issues.” Ah, it should have been, “Kyl, who tried to burn the voter, his supporters with an immigration bill, ah, he didn’t get burned by it; he was just on the wrong side of the fence, no pun intended since there is no fence.” But, um, been a voter for Kyl since he was first elected, but, ah, he’ll never get another vote of mine. You oughta become a little more, ah, ah, objective in trying to tell it like it is rather than kiss his (expletive) all the time, too. Thanks Paul.

Answer: I didn’t write the headline; a copy editor did, of course. Still, I’m quit certain that your suggested alternate headline, “Kyl, who tried to burn the voter, his supporters with an immigration bill, ah, he didn’t get burned by it; he was just on the wrong side of the fence, no pun intended since there is no fence,” would have been way too long to fit the space requirements, which were 36 points, three columns, two decks. You’re welcome.

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Harry MitchellU.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell will hold his seventh

Arizona Democratic Party officers still are going through the receipts from the Bill Clinton fund-raiser dinner at the Phoenician Resort on June 25, but their initial estimate is that it brought in around $600,000, said party spokesman Jeff Stapleton today.That comes to an average of $500 from each of the 1,200 who attended. That

Jon KylU.S. Sen. Jon Kyl has been taking his lumps for his involvement with Senate