Wednesday, January 24th, 2007...9:39 am
Knaperek: It Wasn’t Me, It Was All Pullen
According to the folks over at Sonoran Alliance, the latest jab at Randy Pullen comes from former State Representative Laura Knaperek. Once again this goes back to the $100 contribution that Pullen gave to Harry Mitchell, then a candidate for State Senate.
If you buy into Knaperek’s theory, that contribution to Mitchell led to a series of events that enabled Mitchell to defeat J. D. Hayworth and resulted in Republican legislative losses in the area this year. Given that Pullen gave a comparatively small contribution to Mitchell years and years ago, and that he hasn’t done that since, I guess this must be the political equivalent of the “butterfly effect.” Pullen’s contribution led not only to Mitchell and David Schapira being elected, recent gains by the Canadian Liberal party in local elections and probably the current tension between Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin as well.
You may have noticed that Knaperek is a “former” representative, and apparently she is looking for someone else to blame for her loss. As Tempe became more Democratic, she continued to vote down the line with the leadership and refused to see what was coming. That’s Pullen’s fault though.
Knaperek seems to have developed a habit of blaming others for her political decisions.
The Pullen faithful are rightfully indignant about the attacks over a paltry $600 in contributions given nearly ten years ago before he was an active Republican. However, I think they have only themselves to blame for this. You’ve got people like Rob Haney and his “purer than thou” crew supporting Pullen. Heck, Haney doesn’t even consider John McCain a real Republican for God’s sake. As long as your folks are demanding ideological purity, you’ve got to expect the other side to ask for it from you too.
2 Comments
January 24th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Hey don’t overlook that treasurer’s race! They’ve got a pedophile loving nudist camp owner running. Check out Sonoran Alliance’s piece on that.
Does it get any better than this?
January 25th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Knaperek, no matter what her party, was widely seen as a lightweight at the Capitol. I used to testify there pretty regularly, and I always winced when it got to her turn to ask questions. They were always the most asinine, yet lengthy, questions of anyone on the committee.
Even fellow Republicans would roll their eyes and tell me how she was “stupid.” In fact, I am a lawyer and one time got lectured on constitutional law (which I am well-versed in) by Laura Knaperek, who, at the time, did not even boast of any college degree whatsoever.
She should take her mousey face and voice and do something else, because politics is WAY over her head.
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