Wednesday, May 24th, 2006...6:49 am
J. D., You Lost Grady Gammage?
This is where I need help from some of you up in the Valley of the Yakes Sun. What is going on up there? I just heard that Grady Gammage Jr. is endorsing Harry Mitchell for Congress. Not just endorsing, he’s a campaign co-chairman.
Am I wrong here, isn’t Gammage a Republican? From what I’ve read about this guy, he’s not exactly the model of a “swing” voter. So, a long time Republican is not supporting an incumbent Republican congressman?
Well, this isn’t the first possible endorsement Hayworth has lost. I’m only saying this because it seems he’s having trouble finding anyone.
I’m not too comfortable with Gammage. Time and time again, he has come out for big time developers against conservation and neighborhood interests. But the fact that a guy like this would rather throw in with a Democrat than Hayworth tells me that he is in big, big trouble.
7 Comments
May 24th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Hayworth used to be the congressman from up here, until we got our own district and Richmond Ricky.
The problem with Hayworth (even for Republicans) is, if you need a rhetorical bomb thrown, he’s great, but as far as actually being a guy who solves problems (and isn’t this what Congress is supposed to do?) he’s a zero. I mean, Congress’ business is to legislate, but look at the legislation he’s pushed– a resolution giving a choice of ‘withdraw from Iraq by dropping your guns and running’ or ’shut-up and support the war,’ or making illegals felons. Not the sort of stuff designed to produce a consensus, just more of a partisan divide.
When the biggest problems facing the country were what Monica did with the cigar, maybe Republicans could tolerate a blowhard like this, but living in an age when we are faced with problems that threaten the future of the Republic (and whatever your stands are on issues like Iraq, how to pursue the war on terrorism, health care costs increasing at a double digit rate, rebuilding New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, and protecting against future catastrophes of this magnitude, skyrocketing oil prices, immigration and the border, the deficit and in particular why the Chinese are buying so much of it, nuclear proliferation and similar issues) this is the time for reasoned and rational debate designed to produce a consensus that most of America can support as a national policy, and as we well know, that isn’t J.D.’s strong suit.
May 24th, 2006 at 9:12 am
“…the fact that a guy like this would rather throw in with a Democrat than Hayworth tells me that he is in big, big trouble.”
or that Harry is more pro-development and/or less enviro than you’d like to believe.
Don’t be so surprised. Mitchell is a politician, not a saint (although you’d never know it by reading the fawning praise from the young leftie posters around these parts).
May 24th, 2006 at 10:06 am
I never said Mitchell was a saint…I just said I’d like him to replace Hayworth. Although, I suppose I should wait until someone absolutely ideologically pure comes along before we replace him.
May 24th, 2006 at 10:30 am
For I second I thought you were talking about the auditorium. I’m thinking, how the hell does an individual lose an entire auditorium? That’s got to be a political setback. Then I saw you were talking about the guy. Whew!
May 24th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Harry Mitchell has consistantly scored 100% on the Arizona League of Conservation Voters scorecard, and was one of only 3 senators last year to do so. Likewise, he was one of only 3 senators to score an A+ on the Sierra Club’s 2005 Scorecard. It’s actually funny that this is coming up today given that just last night, at an AZLCV event, Harry was recognized for his years of work on behalf of Arizona’s natural resources.
Those environmental groups and their fawning praise!
May 24th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
“I’m not too comfortable with Gammage. Time and time again, he has come out for big time developers against conservation and neighborhood interests.”
Nothing has changed - Gammage is fronting a movement to give Papago Park in Phoenix and Tempe to developers to put condos, houses and commercial buildings on.
Opposing viewpoints (and the 2nd is Gammage’s)
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=64185
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0430gammage0430.html
May 24th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
tedski,
that remark wasn’t addressed to you as much as it was to the beatifcation advocates in Tempe and its environs.
screaming,
hilarious!
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