Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006...6:13 am

Chairmanship Race Looks to Be a Bore

I received a letter this weekend from David Waid, who is currently Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party. He is running for chairman of the party, which is highly unusual, but doesn’t violate any sort of rules. Heck, he’s been running the party for months anyway.

There was talk that there might be an exciting race, with Democratic Party Vice Chair and Gila County Democratic chairman Mark Reza vowing to run. Reza’s claim apparently was that the state party wasn’t “progressive” enough. Not progressive enough for Gila County?

Well, that claim aside, Reza was listed on Waid’s letter as a supporter, so I assume that he is no longer running. Rep. Ted Downing was spotted with a copy of the rules to run for chairman last week, but he’s got to many other fish to fry to run himself and he hasn’t been talking up any other candidates.

So, I guess this will be a dull, dull meeting. I’ll drive all the way up to Phoenix to vote for Waid, how exciting. With a dull meeting like this on tap, how will we drum up enough people for a quorum? Maybe we could do what a minor league baseball team does to drum up fans: a fireworks show! run the bases with the mascot! (who is our mascot?) dollar beer night! The possibilities are endless. The New York Red Bulls are desperate for fans, so they invited Shakira. I’d be up for that. Hey David, see what you can do about that.

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