Saturday, September 20, 2025
According to Polymarket, There is a 1% chance that Richard Grayson will win the September 23 special election in Arizona's 7th Congressional District
Monday, September 15, 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Mohave Today article on Gosar D.C. proposal mentions Richard Grayson as Gosar's 2022 AZ-09 election opponent
Paul Gosar was reelected in both 2022 and 2024 general elections with significant majorities against his opponents Richard Grayson (97.8% vs 1.8%) and Quacy Smith (65.3% vs 34.7%).
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
Tucson Sentinel publishes article by Richard Grayson, "The best move for America – and Arizona: Beg Britain to take us back"
Today, Friday, September 5, 2025, the Tucson Sentinel published an article by Richard Grayson, "The best move for America – and Arizona: Beg Britain to take us back."
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
Friday, August 22, 2025
Arizona Daily Star column, "Political Notebook: Rule keeps two on CD7 ballot from debate," mentions No Labels Party Candidate Richard Grayson
Today, Friday, August 22, 2025, the Arizona Daily Star published a column by Tim Steller, "Political Notebook: Rule keeps two on CD7 ballot from debate," discusses No Labels Party candidate Richard Grayson and Green Party candidate Eduardo Quintana's exclusion from the debate between the major party candidates in the September 23, 2025 special election in Arizona's Seventh Congressional District.
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.”
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.
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.”
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Arizona Daily Star/Tucson.com publishes letter by Richard Grayson, "Arizona No Labels Party is not Andrew Cuomo’s No Labels"
As the first Arizona No Labels Party candidate to appear on the ballot — in the September 23 special election for the state’s 7th Congressional District — I want to make something clear: Arizona’s No Labels Party has no connection with the national group of the same name. That organization has endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal, in the New York City mayoral race.
Our state party’s new chair, former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson, has already emphasized this separation. Although I initially opposed his proposal to change our party’s name, I now realize I was wrong. I do not want to be linked with Andrew Cuomo in any way.
I am a progressive who opposes sexual harassment of women, believing that I share these values with Green Party candidate Eduardo Quintana and Democratic nominee Adelita Grijalva.
Richard Grayson
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Richard Grayson Letter Opposing Changing No Labels Party's Name in Arizona Republic
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