Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

Wyatt, wasn't this happening in your state?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html?_r=1

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.

Yes, but Wyatt is convinced that only Liberals engage in political dirty tricks. he seems to forget that the politician who put "dirty trick" in the public lexicon was none other than Republican Dick Nixon!

Let him keep his delusion that conservatives are principled.

JW to paraphrase a good friend..."it's local Az politics...so who gives a crap"....


actually Mr Opitz....in contemporary politics it was Chicago Mayor Daley for JFK with the grave yard votes... and the win for Camelot.

..the issue was dirty tricks....focus Mr Opitz...the win loss was a side bar...