Dear Readers,
Last Saturday morning I went to my first Pinal County Precinct Committeeman meeting, where I had the pleasure of meeting several Republican candidates, including the remarkable Ruth McClung.
Ruth McClung is rocket scientist -really!- who’s emerged from the science lab and is now sauntering in the political arena. Her formidable foe is the thuggish and blubbery Democratic Representative Raul Grijalva.
Their gloves are coming off way down south in Tucson, in Congressional District 7, in the great state of Arizona.
Raul Grijalva is the guy who said he hopes other states and national organizations will boycott Arizona because of SB1070. And he supports universal, single-payer health care. And his supporters are unapologetic sign thieves!
But Ruth has the truth on her side, and conservative values, and family values, and a great website!
Will Ruth have you on her side?
http://www.ruth4az.com/
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
4 comments:
It is odd that there has been this big spike in right wing idiocy coming out of Arizona though. Texas has a higher background level of crazy and right now Arizona is like a supernova taking the attention. I wonder how long it will last.
Actually it isn't that strange. Arizona has been moving gradually towards the middle over the last twenty years. The population has doubled in that time and a big part of that spike wasn't old retirees who tended to be conservative, but a lot of younger families moving from blue states, etc. In 2008 McCain only received 53.4% of the vote here in Arizona, his sixth lowest vote total among the states he won. Now think about that, his home state was one of his least supportive states. Had McCain been from Texas, Florida, etc., he likely would have lost Arizona.
This state has a long history of very conservative, often racist politics and the supporters of those policies aren't happy that they are consistently losing ground to moderates and liberals (simply termed as liberals in their tirades). Because of how the state legislature is set up conservatives still have a major majority in both houses but, when Napolitano was governor, she vetoed a lot of their stupidity. In fact she set the record for vetoes in the history of the state. You take her away, bring in Brewer who is a wing-nut's wing-nut, and you see incredibly stupid legislation that was shut down by a reasonable governor make it out of the state house. At the same time you see an increase in non-conservative population as well as an increase in non-white population and the far white err, right is freaking out.
Conservatives are not idiots.
Far right conservatives are not racist.
Raul rhymes with "cool."
In the title to this post you spell Ruth's name "McCLung."
Your title is crying to you: "Get the L out of here!"
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