(Photo by Steve Goldstein - KJZZ)

Chip Scutari and Stan Barnes

So Washington, D.C., is the biggest stage for political intrigue, along with backstabbing and backslapping.

But Arizona gets a lot of national attention for some of the interesting things happening at our state capitol. How much do we have in common with D.C.?

We talked about that with former state lawmaker Stan Barnes of Copper State Consulting and Chip Scutari of Scutari and Cieslak. Scutari used to cover politics and government for The Arizona Republic.