There's a group called the Center For Arizona Policy-- so official sounding!-- hustling for signatures on the position. Last I heard, they hadn't gotten all the signatures they need to get it on the ballot.
What scares me is "their" gubanatorial candidate, Len Munsil, the former president of the CAP. Munsil has recently made a few statements about the universality of all citizens and other lip service to equality, but if you scratch his former history and statements, he's a theocratic whackjob.
I fear, with the immigration furor, they will paint our current Governor Janet Napolitano as weak on border issues and Munsil as the sane, reasonable alternative and therefore get votes from folks who aren't theocratic whackjobs. Napolitano has also consistently vetoed anti-choice legislation, another item to whip up the base.
Also, the representative in my district is a member of the Concerned Woman for America. She lives in Anthem, a gated enclave in North Phoenix, and came from somewhere in the midwest to get a communications degree from ASU. So far as I can tell, her communcations firm mostly manages her campaigns. Meanwhile, my family has lived out here since Anthem and everything around it was desert and my Grandfather hauled water to his house from a metal tank by I-17. I yearn for the day when we meet face to face.
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Date: 2006-06-07 05:46 pm (UTC)What scares me is "their" gubanatorial candidate, Len Munsil, the former president of the CAP. Munsil has recently made a few statements about the universality of all citizens and other lip service to equality, but if you scratch his former history and statements, he's a theocratic whackjob.
I fear, with the immigration furor, they will paint our current Governor Janet Napolitano as weak on border issues and Munsil as the sane, reasonable alternative and therefore get votes from folks who aren't theocratic whackjobs. Napolitano has also consistently vetoed anti-choice legislation, another item to whip up the base.
Also, the representative in my district is a member of the Concerned Woman for America. She lives in Anthem, a gated enclave in North Phoenix, and came from somewhere in the midwest to get a communications degree from ASU. So far as I can tell, her communcations firm mostly manages her campaigns. Meanwhile, my family has lived out here since Anthem and everything around it was desert and my Grandfather hauled water to his house from a metal tank by I-17. I yearn for the day when we meet face to face.