Saturday, June 17th, 2006...6:42 am
Graf: Steve Who?
Randy Graf announced this morning that Steve Aiken is no longer a member of his campaign. Graf is saying that he had no idea how bad the charges were; he had originally said that they were no more serious than giving an underage person beer. Really, no one on your campaign knew how bad it really was?
Here is what Jade Stokes, a Graf campaign aide, posted last night to Blake Morlock’s original article:
I, as Randy’s chair on his Sr. Advisory board, investigated the whole story. And found no merit on it’s face. Steve talked about it on his radio show, and in his book, everyone who knows Steve and Randy knows the details.
So, this guy had talked about this on his radio show, in his book and Graf’s “senior advisors” knew the full extent of the charges, but Graf was totally unaware, eh?
Graf’s campaign is a confederation of all sorts of iffy characters. When I was on staff for the party in 2002, a couple of us discovered that Stokes was using fraudulently using press credentials to tape Democratic party events for the Republicans (we made a call to the station that had hired him, and they weren’t happy to see their equipment used this way). Graf is apparently still happy to have a convicted felon like Russ Dove working for him, despite his history of intimidating Hispanic voters and making threatening statements to opponents.
The Graf people are already spinning this as coming from the Steve Huffman campaign. Why? Because nothing is ever a Republican’s fault, it’s those nasty “LIEberals.” In Graf’s odd view of the political spectrum, Huffman is a liberal. I’m waiting for Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore to be behind this too. Easy to blame Huffman, really, since the Democrats would have rather launched this little rocket round about September 13th. I don’t know though, if I were Huffman, I would have waited until about August to do this. Graf has fired this guy, and by the primary, it could be old news and no good to Huffman at all.
9 Comments
June 17th, 2006 at 8:17 am
For a timeline of the story see http://thinkrightaz.blogspot.com/
June 17th, 2006 at 8:19 am
I love the photo Gallery on Aikens website! He looks like a real creepy guy, lurking behind people while someone else snaps a quick photo.
He’s wearing an earpiece with a wire running down his front. Is he trying to pose as Secret Service to get as close as possible to the Reich Wing Celebs?
JC Watts looks startled as is if the pedophile has just creeped up behind him!
He’s standing behind Gary Bauer and others while they are sitting and talking. How can you say, “I got my picture taken with . . .” When your skulking around behind people while some unseen sidekick is snapping away on the Polaroid!
June 17th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Re-posted “The Fix” blog:
3. Arizona’s 8th District: Much of the vulnerability of this seat depends on whom Republicans put forward in their primary later this summer. Former state Rep. Randy Graf is the best known of the candidates and also the least likely to hold the seat in the fall. Retiring Rep. Jim Kolbe (R) has said Graf cannot win a general election and has endorsed moderate state Rep. Mike Huffman, who led the GOP field in fundraising through the first quarter of the year. Democrats have a competitive primary of their own between former state Sen. Gabrielle Giffords and former television anchor Patty Weiss. We still expect Graf to be the GOP nominee, which is why this race stays so high on the Line. (Previous ranking: 4)
June 17th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Tedski, I thought you said this guy was associated with Graf? Now I read he is working for a Democrat.
http://www.azcentral.com/blogs/index.php?blog=85&title=mexican_flag_burner_running_dem_s_campai&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&blogtype=Pluggedin/
June 17th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
He’s doing both…that’s one of the reasons the Democrats were unwilling to give Dove access to the voter file.
June 18th, 2006 at 7:12 am
toc-
Let’s be fair, he’s not a pedophile, but an ephebophile.
June 18th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Tedski do you have any proof that Dove is working for a/the Republican(s)? Please provide it. It’s kind of like saying Gabrielle Giffords is a lesbian because she served in the Legislature with Kyrsten Sinema. Maybe we should all stay away from innuendo and guilt by association unless we can produce evidence.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:19 am
Gabby never served with Kyrsten Sinema.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:53 am
They were never in the LEGISLATURE at the same time?