It appears that La Cervecera, should she choose to run for re-election, will have a primary challenger: former State Senator Karen Johnson.
What can I say here? I’ll just quote our frequent missivist Sonoran Sam: “Ya gotta be kidding me!”
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16 Comments
Karen,
Evan Mechan called form the 9th circle of Hell. You have his endorsement.
Awesome randomness.
This may actually help Brewer. She gets a hard-right fringe candidate as well as a Tusconan (Munger), splitting the vote three ways. That favors an incumbent. BUT… it makes her work harder and causes her to spend money in a primary; a scenario which the Ds will also likely face.
Awesome, this is hilarious!
Ah yes, democrats disparaging those who have different beliefs than they do. I was hoping they would want to discuss the issues even if they disagree with them but I guess today I get disappointed.
Right Thane. No one on your team has ever done anything like that before, ever.
What about Superintendent of Education Tom Horne? Isn’t he going to challenge Brewer as well?
Oops, I meant Supe of Public Instruction.
I think Horne is planning to run for AG, Carol, where he will likely face a primary with Andrew Thomas. What an AWFUL choice to have to make! Horne got into his current job by race-baiting ( a practice he returned to last year with his showboating crusade against TUSD’s ethnic studies departments) and has spent most of his eight years in office pounding the drum for an AIMS test that measures lower level thinking and encourages the teaching of multiple-choice test-taking strategies. Thomas, meanwhile, has been a right-wing apologist for Joe Arpaio and has done great damage to the credibility and integrity of the Maricopa County Attorney’s office. David Lujan, our likely nominee, will have a name recognition challenge running against either of these guys, but he is by far the better choice when one considers the track records of the two Republicans.
It will not surprise me, by the way, if Munger abandons his plans to run for governor and backs Brewer. The presence of Johnson in the race will help her to look more “moderate.” The business community is going to be solidly behind Brewer, thus cutting into any base Munger would hope to draw from. Notice how many business groups are backing her on taxes and the budget. Democrats should be planning to run against Brewer.
See here for how conservatives deal with logic and issues instead of personal attacks.
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/enemies_foreign_domestic/hint_to_james_w.php
Ah, yes, Karen Johnson.
I remember, the five time divorcee who got into a shouting match with fellow Republican Steve May on the floor of the house after she said that gay relationships weren’t in keeping with family values.
But that’s the problem here, isn’t it? Jan Brewer is still the same hardcore, conservative partisan she always has been but with people like Ron Gould and Karen Johnson saying she’s not conservative enough she ends up looking moderate. Sorta like Calamity Jane all over again.
Maybe the GOP puts the Russell Pearces, the Joe Arpaios, the Andrew Thomases, the Ron Goulds and the Karen Johnsons out there just to shift the Overton window and define ordinary rabid conservatism as the new ‘center.’
Hey Ted,
I think Johnson’s Candidacy is awesome because she has an “American name” she does not have a hook nose.
Signed, Barbara Blewster and that crazy lady from Texas who likes American Names
Does anybody remember the Democrats for Mecham? There were some overly clever folks on the Democratic side who thought it might be a good strategy to help Evan Mecham get the Republican nomination for Governor. After all, this guy was so batshit crazy that there was no way that he would ever actually get elected.
Thanks to those visionary individuals (I think one of them was named Kromko), Carolyn Warner was elected in a landslide and served two consecutive terms as Governor. Arizona has been a model of good government and progressive leadership ever since.
I would urge folks to be careful what they wish for.
“But that’s the problem here, isn’t it? Jan Brewer is still the same hardcore, conservative partisan she always has been but with people like Ron Gould and Karen Johnson saying she’s not conservative enough she ends up looking moderate. Sorta like Calamity Jane all over again.”
Ugh. So frustrating. Can someone explain to me why, exactly, being a ‘hardcore conservative’ is seen as a good thing to anyone? The GOP brand is trash now but ‘conservative’ retains it’s luster, while allowing Republicans to pretend to not be Republicans while pushing the same old Republican policies.
I spelled it it’s, but I meant its.