Thursday, January 14th, 2010...1:58 pm
Shadegg Announces Retirement…Again
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John Shadegg announced that he is not running for re-election. I don’t want to get too excited about this, given the brevity of his previous “retirement.”
Shadegg’s previous attempt at retirement set off some short lived jockeying for his seat among a couple of legislators. I’m trying to imagine how much worse the leadership crisis on West Washington will be now that there will undoubtedly be three or four legislators prancing around trying to get Tea Party votes in the District 3 Republican Primary.
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January 14th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
We should also retire another Arizonan, Harry Mitchell. http://www.retireharrymitchell.com
January 15th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Hey Dr. Salvino, stay out of politics and go back to liposuction. I love how you talk about hard work and perseverance on your Website, but encouarge people to take unhealth short cuts to lose weight instead of telling them about discipline diet and exercise. Moreover, the Health Plan will allow for Gastric by-pass, I am not sure you are qualifed top perform that procedure. I am sorry that insurance companies are reluctant pay fat suckers like you. Finally, you haven’t even lived in Arizona that long. Go back to Chicago or North Dakota or any of those other places you have lived, as your are genuinely not as cool as you think you are. Calling for Congressman Mitchell’s retirement the way you have is an example of know-it-all obnoxiousim, you are definitely a guy who deserves his ass kicked.
January 15th, 2010 at 9:49 am
I disagree with Tony. I think that we should replace a respected and effective leader who has worked in the community to make it a better place for decades with some guy who just moved here. Strong opinions and the ability to recite talking points are the most important qualification for any public office, far more important than the pedestrian concerns of “policy” and “constituents.”
(Note to Bruce Ash: This is sarcasm. Look it up.)
January 15th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
This is a serious blow to the GOP. They had hopes of picking up Mitchell, Kirkpatrick, or Giffords. Now they have an open seat to defend too. Just where o where will they find the money. AND, this will also be another one to watch a heated GOP primary that will be likely to include a tea party activist of some sort versus a more tradiational RINO type.
Their just aint that much money to go around to try to take back three seats and hold onto another open one (even if it is a GOP stronghold).