Chuck Gray!

Dear Readers,

The other night I went to a Meet and Greet for Chuck Gray, a guy who’s running for Congress for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District. I really liked him and all his positions. I’ll vote for him for sure. Well, I'm pretty sure I'll vote for him. He’s super conservative about everything.

Go to his official campaign website here.

But I don’t feel like campaigning for him because I don’t think he has much of a chance of winning. He’s running against Matt Salmon and Kirk Adams. Both of those guys have pretty big name recognition around here, and they both have lots of money and important political contacts. Matt Salmon used to be the Representative of CD 6, before Jeff Flake was, but then he honored his term limit pledge and left Congress. (But in a way, Matt Salmon never really left Congress. He’s been a lobbyist for the past decade. I guess you could say he moved from the congressional chamber to the congressional lobby.) And Kirk Adams has been in the Arizona legislature a lot, and he has the endorsement of Senator Jon Kyl. But Salmon has the endorsement of Sheriff Joe, so that’s pretty cool. Anywho… blah blah blah…

Maybe it’s not right that you have to have all that fame and money to win an election, but that’s the way politics are.

After I put my heart and soul into Jeff Smith’s campaign in 2010, I’ve come up with this maxim: If a candidate has enough time to come to my house and talk with me, then he’s not famous enough to win. It’s kind of like Groucho Marx’s famous quote: “I would never want to belong to a club that would have a guy like me as a member.”

However, things are going to be confusing because Arizona is getting another congressional district, due to population growth. So all the lines might be changed around. So maybe Chuck Gray won’t be running against Matt Salmon and Kirk Adams after all. Maybe Gray will run for a new congressional district. And maybe he’ll win. But we’ll just have to wait until December, when the wizards behind the curtain unveil the new map.

And whatever happened to Jeff Smith? Are you going to run again, Jeff Smith? If not, who are you going to endorse? If you’re not going to run, you should definitely publicly endorse somebody. Your endorsement would mean a lot to me.

OK, see you later.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa