Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket To Split Dem Vote

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Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

By MARC LACEY
Published: September 6, 2010


TEMPE, Ariz. — 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.

Anthony Goshorn is running as a Green Party candidate in Arizona. Democrats say all three candidates were recruited by a Republican in an effort to split the Democratic vote.

Mr. Pearcy, 20, is running for a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public utilities, railroad safety and securities regulation. Although Mr. Pearcy says he is taking his first run for public office seriously, the political establishment here views him as nothing more than a political dirty trick.

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.

“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.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html?hp

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicon Family Pharisee Values

Why do Republicons hate honor and integrity?

[catgirl]

2. Because they lack it.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Yup - sounds about right

Alas for America and Americans who must endure the plague of RepubliCONism.

[Blue Meany]

4. An old GOP trick; they do this all the time in tight elections n/t

[Bitwit1234]

5. Gee and look at them trying to arrest the Democrats

because they tried something like that in , was it Michigan or Wisconsin. Again. Republicans they think they are allowed to do anything, just don't let those Democrats try.

[Overseas]

6. K&R -- Modern Republican values at work. //nt

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

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