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.
I’m the Green Party Candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, here’s my response from my blog joslynforsenate.com
Although the Arizona media has largely ignored the Republican dirty tricks directed at the Arizona Green Party, the New York Times put it on their front page this morning. Let me explain again that the founders of this republic specifically spoke out against the division of American politics into “two great parties.” We do not have a “two party system” in the United States. What we have is a political duopoly which does everything it can to keep competition off the ballots, and writes the statutes to sabotage any opposition. In this case the law that has allowed the homeless on Mill Ave. to steal our ballot lines on the November ballot with one vote was buried in the statutes. It was the two old parties that put it there.
To frame this as a case of the Green Party ruining the “two party system” is ludicrous. We have the worst economy since the Great Depression, a costly nine year war in which we can’t defeat an old man in a cave on a dialysis machine, and a health care system that costs us twice as much as the other leading countries. Meanwhile our Senators spend half of their time attacking each other and the other half raising money from special interests. The “two party system” isn’t the solution to our problems, it’s at the center of our problems.
Alfred thinks the Democrats invented dirty politics just recently to use against the Tea Party. How cute.
#41, and I’m sure the party of environmental Marxists is going to ride in and save the day, because they know the secrets that nobody else knows, right?
The GOP has been up to “dirty tricks” ever since the Nixon presidency. As if Watergate wasn’t enough of a failure and black mark. They’ve continued on “tricking” with Reagan and both Bush era elections. Using phonies like the so-called “Swift Boaters” to counter Bush Jr’s missing time as National Guardsmen, by claiming real war veteran Kerry had fake metals.
CBS fired Mike Wallace for daring to reveal Bush’s service record, without solid proof (which was probably covered up by the military). Shows you how NOT FREE the press really is, to cover the truth. So the GOP are better liars than any other party. Does that make them better leaders? A sad state of affairs, that some people believe so.
#41 How do we know you aren’t funded by the Regime whose evident plan (by doing everything the public hates) is to populate congress with Republicans…so Obama can blame them for the economy?
Just kidding. I agree with you. Unfortunately third parties usually dilute opposition to those you disagree with 100%.
So for now I’ll work within the Republican party…don’t want another “Perot” cause Obama keep winning.
#5 no. The Democrats learned it from “Tricky Dick” RMN or Richard Milhous Nixon..good lesson, afterall. Nickname: Tricky Dick
44 – Mike Wallace? Your facts are about as straightened out as the IPCC. (Unless you’re referring to the Germans bombing Pearl harbor.)
I think you mean Dan Rather. Good riddance to Dan by the way.