Friday, September 15th, 2006...7:08 pm
I’m Still Mad I Don’t Get to Post that Picture of Don del Oro Anymore
Before he was a lobbyist and activist advocating for strengthening the institution of marriage, Len Munsil was a divorce attorney.
Well, so says a site called Len Munsil Facts that has just gone up in the last week or so.
It turns out that Munsil merely worked for a law firm that handled divorce law, but he personally could have not handled divorces at all. He could have worked the firm’s other specialty: personal injury. I take it we won’t see any standard issue Republican talking points railing against “trial lawyers” and for tort reform over the next two months.
The site is interesting. It includes tidbits from his career as the arch-conservative editor of the State Press, where he questioned the sanity of opponents of South African apartheid. In the mid-eighties, defending apartheid was a cause célèbre among campus conservatives. By the time I had gotten to the U of A, they had moved on to complaining about the Martin Luther King Jr. holliday. Neither of these had anything to do with race, I’m sure.
One question among some of us is, who the heck is funding the site? The site is paid for by the Arizona Conservative Trust. I guess this would imply that it is a Republican group. However, no one seems to have seen this site before the primary. The last filing shows no activity, but lists a Debra Dennis as chairman and a Thomas Kennedy as treasurer.
The “paid for by” statement declares that funding also came from another group called the Arizona Values Coalition. This group registered on September 5th, after the last filing period. The two officers listed have the improbable names Beau Memory and Seamus Perry.
Without a little mystery, what fun is life?
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