AZ: Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

[keepCAblue]

More lying, cheating and stealing from those "family values" Republicans:

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.

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.

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[Atlatl]

1. Democrats are doing the same thing in Michigan...

only using the Tea Party instead of the Greens. ; )

http://www.freep.com/article/20100903/NEWS01/9030387/Michigan-Tea-Party-has-some-Democratic-ties

[WhiteTara]

5. say it isn't so, bucky!

Oh that depresses me. We are better than that.

BTW...welcome to DU :hi:

[WhiteTara]

2. these people in the gop are disgusting

the "all's fair" motto certainly allows them to stoop very low.

[NC_Nurse]

3. They interviewed the Repub behind this on NPR this afternoon. Ugh.

What a smarmy asshole! He kept calling us the "Democrat" party, dontcha just HATE that? He was very smug about his little scam and kept acting like these candidates were serious folks. I'm sure he's getting off on pissing off Dems. Worked on me, I was screaming at him in my car. Sigh.

[RandomThoughts]

4. They also used the wave comments for their view.

Or the left points it as their view.

In the LA times article, they used lots of words for different reasons.

Same thing on ed where they showed an elephant on a wave? WTF was that.

The wave is a resonating burst of many smaller dominoes timed to sync and reach maximum impact.

The Republican wave if they had one, has already peaked and crashed.



I wonder why and how the Republicans get so many of the same ideas I say, yet use them backwards, or why the left on TV says the things I say are part of Republicans. Been happening for awhile.

Either it is the left trying to get someone to act like an enemy, and old ploy, get someone to take a strawman argument to help another side, then throw them under the bus and take what ever they have.

Or it is the right taking ideas and using them for themselves without showing original source ideas.

Or it is correlation without causation.



:shrug:

They will pay.