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The3rdOne — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:05:30 GMT

Arizona Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

CIVIL unREST — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:10:12 GMT

By MARC LACEY

Published: September 6, 2010

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.
�These are people who are not serious and who were recruited as part of a cynical manipulation of the process,� said Paul Eckstein, a lawyer representing the Democrats. �They don�t know Green from red.�
But Steve May, the Republican operative who signed up some of the candidates along Mill Avenue, a bohemian commercial strip next to Arizona State University, insists that a real political movement has been stirred up that has nothing to do with subterfuge.
�Did I recruit candidates? Yes,� said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. �Are they fake candidates? No way.�
To make his point, Mr. May went by Starbucks, the gathering spot of the Mill Rats, as the frequenters of Mill Avenue are known.
�Are you fake, Benjamin?� he yelled out to Mr. Pearcy, who cried out �No,� with an expletive attached.
�Are you fake, Thomas?� Mr. May shouted in the direction of Thomas Meadows, 27, a tarot card reader with less than a dollar to his name who is running for state treasurer. He similarly disagreed.
�Are you fake, Grandpa?� he said to Anthony Goshorn, 53, a candidate for the State Senate whose bushy white beard and paternal manner have earned him that nickname on the streets. �I�m real,� he replied.
Gathered around was a motley crew of people who were down on their luck, including a one-armed pregnant woman named Roxie whom Mr. May befriended sometime back and who introduced him to the rest.
The Democratic Party is fuming over Mr. May�s tactics and those of at least two other Republicans who helped recruit candidates to the Green Party, which does not have the resources to put candidates on ballots around the state and thus creates the opportunity for write-in contenders like the Mill Rats to easily win primaries and get their names on the ballot for November. Complaints about spurious candidates have cropped up often before, though never involving an entire roster of candidates drawn from a group of street people.
�It�s unbelievable. It�s not right. It�s deceitful,� said Jackie Thrasher, a former Democratic legislator in northwest Phoenix who lost re-election in 2008 after a Green Party candidate with possible links to the Republicans joined the race. �If these candidates were interested in the democratic process, they should connect with the party they are interested in. What�s happening here just doesn�t wash. It doesn�t pass the smell test.�
Arizona, where Democrats, Republicans and independents each represent about a third of the populace, is known for its political hardball. Challenging nominating petitions is common. Election-related lawsuits are filed with regularity. This is not the first election in which a party has accused another of putting forth candidates to hoodwink voters.
Besides the Mill Rat candidates, the Democrats smell a rat in other races, including one in which a roommate of a Republican legislator�s daughter ran as a Green Party candidate in a competitive contest for the State Senate. They cite a variety of state and federal election laws that the Republicans may have violated in putting forward �sham� candidates for the Green Party.
The view, though, is different along Mill Avenue, where the first-time candidates appear to have been emboldened by the exercise, as Mr. Pearcy�s street corner campaign speech last Thursday night attests. Dressed up spiffily, he described himself as the illegitimate son of a stripper who had had run-ins with the law and a tough childhood but who had pulled his life together.
�I�ve been homeless,� he said, his eyes darting back and forth. �I got a place. Anyone can do it. We�re all good enough.�
There was nodding all around, more than when he went into his pitch to solve the budget deficit through the installation of solar panels. As Mr. Pearcy went on, Mr. May whispered �focus, focus, focus� into his ear to get him back on track and help prepare him for a debate in early October, which will be televised across the state.
Reading tarot cards has taught Mr. Meadows, who is known for his purple and green jester hat, to talk a good game. �This is not the land of the free,� he told the loungers on the sidewalk, pitching himself for treasurer. �It�s the land of what�s for sale.�
Grandpa, widely known in the area through the pedicab he drives for hire, is against higher taxes and for God in the classroom. The other night, he was supposed to debate his Democratic and Republican rivals in the race but after seeing only the Democrat on stage, he decided to watch from the back. �I got a bad vibe,� he said.
Mr. May, who served as a Republican legislator from 1998 to 2002, said, �Even if I wanted to control these guys, they�re uncontrollable.�

22 adults in backyard pool party where kid drowns

B.K. — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:46:51 GMT

I'm toldthis is an everyday occurrence out here

Alex Jones Interviewed by Nightline

CIVIL unREST — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:20:07 GMT

Hip Hop Trivia: Who was the first hip hop act to perform on SNL?

TRUE Machete — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:26:30 GMT

Hint, answer was mentioned on BET's documentary My Mic Sounds Nice

Who watched last nights debates?

Perra — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:49:58 GMT

I think it's pretty safe to say Jan Bruja has NEVER taken a speech or debate class. Her opening statements are classic!:cheesy:

And Joey is getting sued by the feds finally

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/feds-sue-sheriff-arpaio-in-civil-rights-probe

Another Oil rig explosion

The3rdOne — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:49:29 GMT

While all yall are concerned with TI...this is happening

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02...ident-in-gulf/

Posted at 11:53 a.m.] U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that 12 people from the production platform are in water immersion suits as they await rescue.

Colclough told CNN there are reports the production platform, which is for both oil and natural gas, is still on fire.

"We don't know what caused the rig to catch on fire," he told CNN, noting the incident is under investigation.

Asked about concerns regarding oil leaks or pollution, Colclough said "there are reports the rig was not actively producing any product, so we don't know if there's any risk of pollution."

Mariner Energy is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company in the Gulf of Mexico. About 85 percent of the company's production comes from offshore assets, with a growing share of that coming from deepwater developments.

The explosion comes nearly five months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 people and causing oil to gush into
the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

SB1070 & Jan Brewer

A.D. — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:24:23 GMT

Jan Brewer has ties to a Private Prison company CCA - which holds the US government contract for imprisoning immigrants(CCA & ICE). So the Bill SB1070 would increase business for the private prison companies..... damn, everyday the news just reveals that everywhere on the planet CORRUPTION rules! even those miners in South America are down there because the mining company took safety shortcuts and reopened that mine which was condemned (ironically, condemned for not having an escape route)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908...show/#38965161

Haile Selassie

TRUE Machete — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:46:53 GMT

Hard to believe 4 days ago in 1975 a man reverred as Christ incarnate to Rastafarians returned to the essence, feels like that shouldn't be so recent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie_of_Ethiopia

Lt. Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr.....

TRUE Machete — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:08:55 GMT

became the first African American in space today in 1983
PEACE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guion_Bluford

Emmet Till

TRUE Machete — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:03:14 GMT

Two days ago in 1955 was murdered in Money, Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. His mother insisted for an open casket funeral so the whole world could see what they did to her baby she said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmit_Till

Charlie "Bird" Parker

TRUE Machete — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:54:03 GMT

ok, I know this is MJ day but also today in 1920, jazz saxaphonist, Charlie "Bird" Parker was born in Kansas City, KS
PEACE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_parker

Who Voted In The Primaries?

CIVIL unREST — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:06:43 GMT

Let me guess like five to ten cuz erbody else sooooo gangsta huh:cheesy:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

keep up the good work yaw

Native Americans in Arizona vow to deport all non Native Americans

TRUE Machete — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:20:30 GMT

did anyone ever see this?

http://glossynews.com/other-world-ga...ive-americans/

Categorized | News In Your Briefs

Native Americans in Arizona Vow to Deport All Non-Native Americans

Posted on April 29, 2010. Tags: Apache, Arizona, Gov. Brewer, Hopi, illegal immigrants, Navajo
Posted by P. Beckert
Navajo Nation – The Navajo, Hopi, all Apache Nations and all other Native Americans who presently reside in Arizona have joined forces in an effort to show the haughty Arizona residents just exactly who has every right to be in that State.
Said Chief Standing Wolf, “it is not those of European decent who should be making the laws of this state, but we, the tribal people, who have been suppressed for too long. Our ancestors have been here for thousands of years, while the white man only came a few hundred years ago. Yet, it is the white man who wants to make ridiculous laws and keep everything lily white. We can no longer stand by and let this happen.”
Short of declaring war on the Arizona government, Chief Standing Wolf instead issued a warning “reverse your laws entitling only English-speaking people to inhabit Arizona. Only then will we back down and allow peace to again grace Arizona, but if you deny our fellow red and brown men their rightful place in this state, there will be bloodshed.”
Of course, Chief Standing Wolf was speaking in his native tongue, so the lawmakers in the State weren’t exactly sure what the message was.

Tea Party "Movement" is a front for a billionaire agenda

konceptjones — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:19:04 GMT

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...0fa_fact_mayer

My vote for Pimps of the Decade goes to the Koch Brothers. These dudes have put every Tea Party member out on the track like some hoes, puttin in work for 'em and they don't even realize they're being used.

David and Charles Koch are the primary backers of the Tea Party, the so-called grassroots movement that's been attacking the governments policies for last couple of years. Grassroots??? Yeah, FOH with that, the Tea Party has corporate backing from big oil tycoons AND what's craziest is that if you were to ask one of the brothers what their agenda is, they'll GLADLY tell you.

The article is 10 pages long, and you all should read every last word of it. For those that don't want to, but still want to catch some of the info, listen to yesterday's broadcast of "Fresh Air" on NPR here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundown...ate=08-26-2010

Click on the link "The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political And Playing To Win" or read the transcript here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcr...ryId=129425186