Candidate for Liquor Control Board?
Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is having in advance of his coming televised debate is whether he ought to gel his hair into his trademark faux Mohawk.
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Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.
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“These are people who are not serious and who were recruited as part of a cynical manipulation of the process,” said Paul Eckstein, a lawyer representing the Democrats. “They don’t know Green from red.”But Steve May, the Republican operative who signed up some of the candidates along Mill Avenue, a bohemian commercial strip next to Arizona State University, insists that a real political movement has been stirred up that has nothing to do with subterfuge.
“Did I recruit candidates? Yes,” said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. “Are they fake candidates? No way.”
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“Are you fake, Thomas?” Mr. May shouted in the direction of Thomas Meadows, 27, a tarot card reader with less than a dollar to his name who is running for state treasurer. He similarly disagreed.
If you vote Republican this November (or just stay at home), you’re voting for a whole lot more homeless… maybe including YOU.
Reagan philosophy: “The government which governs the least, governs the best.”
Current conservative philosophy: “The government which governs the worst, governs the best.”
#19 Slick Bobbo, Democratic talking points is to deny Obama’s record of accomplishments…his wasting a year of Obama care etc when we begged him to fix the economy…
He passed Obamacare.
He passed harmful Wall Street regulation
He Kept troops off the Arizona,Texas border so undocumented Democrats could flood in and (I hope take your job.)
He reads miranda rights to combantants in Iraq and Afganistan, something denied GM and Chrysler Republican auto deealers.
His Marxism is transparent to anyone conscious.
You should be happy, you got everything you voted for.
But its precisely for those things, he will be voted the worst Anti-American President this country ever had.
Imam Barrack Husseain Hamamosquema.
GregAllen, isn’t that statement from Thomas Jefferson?
Voting is a complete waste of time anyway. There is virtually no probablity that any one individual vote will determine the outcome of a large election, and even less that it will influence subsequent policy decisions.
Who says a homeless person is ineligible for political office? I would say they are more eligible, since they could certainly use the salary, while for many people running it is a cut in pay.
On top of that, a homeless guy could then hire his homeless buddies to be on his staff, Distinguished Gentleman style.
#24 “GregAllen, isn’t that statement from Thomas Jefferson?”
I guess you mean the one about least government. It was HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience.
Here’s the irony.
http://bartleby.com/73/753.html
The motto Thoreau referred to was almost certainly that of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, a literary-political monthly: “The best government is that which governs least.”
The New Right’s play cards are also being used in local council elections here in New Zealand. Dozens of no hopers suddenly gripped with a fervour for public office, the far right candidate only needs to stay sober and remember to shave to win.
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Well, Bobbo, I’ve always maintained that the GOP has no souls and the Democrats have no spines.
#5
Coolidge/JFK/Reagen tax breaks and less regulation of business does work.
Did you like how well the economy ran during Eisenhower?
If so his tax rate was higher than today.
Higher taxes are good when they are not misused.
Taxes are the fuel that runs a republic.
#11
Republican core belief is love of the constitution, personal freedom, and the right to own property.
Then why has the constitution been abandoned by the republicans under Bush? Why was personal freedom curtailed due to restrictions under Bush? Was he not a republican?
And why were they not restored under Obama? Is he a republican in the style of Bush?
Perhaps these are the same critters, just one with stripes and the other with spots. And you won’t be able to elect them out when all you got to pick from is critters.
Live in your dream world of 18th century revolutionary politics. I’ll still remain unsatisfied until the nation drags itself out of the past and into the present.
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Finally we get a third option?
Holy Crap, I love Tempe maybe I should run on Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican party platform.
States Rights
No National Bank – kill the fed and the IRS
Strict constructionism
A big FU to the Federalist One World Monarchy
#25 Yes, don’t vote. Convince your fellows here to do the same.
It is a waste of your time.
If these people want to run they should be allowed to run. If a significant percentage of the voters vote for them rather than some other Democrat I’d say that speaks for itself.
#34 I agree…voting for these reveals the thought behind the vote…zip.
Anyone slightly aware of history realizes repeating FDR’s prolonging the depression with high taxes and regulation is not sane..
Its the Democratic/Obama way…but its not sane.
So if Democratic voters are fooled…its for the greater good.
It could be considered part of the system’s “check and balance”.
But most here shouldn’t vote, you might be fooled by these candidates…
Or you just get Bush lite anyway…
Don’t vote…its rigged…its a waste of your time…
You show em, don’t participate…
#35
So if Democratic voters are fooled…its for the greater good.
The end justifies the means.
At any cost.
For the greater good.
I don’t care what it takes.
All smack of pure evil and the go to statements of any despot.
Nice.
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You don’t want this guy elected. He’d just cash in his lobbying cheques at the nearest Money Mart and blow it on booze, or arts funding, or something.
#36 The greater good is served because those who would vote for those candidates shouldn’t be voting…
Lets not forget the trick was invented by Democrats against the tea party, my folks.
While I decry deception, if these candidates are this open about who they are, and people still vote for ‘em, the greater good is served.
#37 So unlike those who wrap their money in aluminum foil and store it in freezers, or buy property overseas, this guy would stimulate the economy…mmm.
And who says humor is lost on the right?