Arizona Gun Hater, E.J. Montini, Cheers when City Officials Violate the Law

Gun Watch ^ | 19 October, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

E.J. Montini, an Arizona journalist and opinion writer, has been a reliable gun hater.  He is quite willing to call for the legislature to pass laws that chip away at the Second Amendment.  I suspect that he wants people to follow them.

But when the legislature passes common sense laws that limit cities’ power, he is all for city officials breaking the law.  From azcentral.com:

Finally, it looks like someone is standing up to the biggest bully around, the Replican-controlled Arizona Legislature. As well as its sidekick and enforcer, the gun lobby.

Last session, Senate President Andy Biggs pushed through Senate Bill 1487, which would deny state-shared revenue to local governments that violate state law or the constitution. It also empowers any lawmaker who thinks that may have happened to ask for an investigation by Arizona’s attorney general.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking.  The State has a constitutional mandate to protect the people of the state from lower level governments.  City governments are creatures of the state.  Democrat party power, voter fraud, and corrupt political machines, have always been concentrated in cities.  It is much harder to run a corrupt machine in rural areas.  The people there are more independent, less subject to machine politics, and elect local sheriffs, instead of depending on police chiefs appointed by the political machine.  Rural areas have less political patronage to give out to pay for a political machine.

To characterize the legally elected legislature as a “bully” makes some sense.  Governments depend on power to enforce the laws.  But our system depends on checks and balances to limit government power.  One of those balances is that of the State government to prevent abuses by local governments.

[marktwain]

Call for citizens to disarm, and for city governments to ignore the law.

[Luke21]

Montini is a fossil. He is one of the reasons “People’s Republic” went from a conservative newspaper in 1980 to the leftist armpit rag it is now.

[DarthVader]

He looks like a gay blade.

[PAR35]

Looking at that picture — Which team does he play for?

[marktwain]

For what it is worth, He has at least one grandchild.

[Tijeras_Slim]

He’s got that latent neck-shooting Kommissar look going on.

[PAR35]

Not worth much, based on some I’ve worked with who have ex-wives and children.

[Cheerio]

I quit buying that RAG about 15 years ago and where I have coffee each morning they have a free shared copy which I started reading after refusing to spend on thin penny to purchase. About 5 years ago I refuse to even put my fingers on that nasty piece of “JOURNALISM MALFEASANCE” after it became the worship house organ in Phoenix for the first half-white/half-arab Muslim in the Rainbow Hut. Montni has always been a Conservative HATER.

[beelzepug]

“He looks like a gay blade.”

He sure does! My shields went up.

[ozzymandus]

Looks like an AIDS patient to me.