[RINOs] Hull, McCain Endorse Democrat for Phoenix Mayor

GOPUSA ^ | 17 August 2003 | Dennis Durband

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Tell Me Some News: Hull, McCain Endorse Democrat for Phoenix Mayor
By Dennis Durband
August 17, 2003

Can't we have just one year without our RINO opponents endorsing Democrats in this state? Apparently, that is asking too much.

With friends like Jane Hull and John McCain, who needs enemies? Both Republicans In Name Only have endorsed Democrat Phil Gordon in the Phoenix mayoral race.

If Gordon was the only candidate in the race, that might be understandable and unavoidable. Even then, there would be no excuse for Republicans lifting a finger to help a Democrat.

Loyal Republican Randy Pullen is being punished for being true to the party platform. Pullen is the Republican candidate for mayor of the nation's fifth-largest city, but he committed the cardinal sin of choosing to follow conservative ideology -- like a good Republican does.

Strangely, AZ GOP chairman Bob Fannin is sitting on his hands this summer, instead of preaching Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment. Heading into the home stretch of the primary campaigns last year at this time, Fannin invoked the 11th commandment, urging Republicans to speak no ill of fellow Republicans.

This year, former Republican governor Hull and Sen. McCain engage in treason of the highest GOP order and Mr. Chairman figurehead loses his voice. You couldn't pay me enough to swallow my integrity and serve as AZ GOP chairman. There is no fence wide enough to keep me from taking the conservative, party platform side.

For the record, GOPUSA/Arizona proudly offers a ringing endorsement of Randy Pullen for mayor of Phoenix, as well as endorsing Ephraim Cordova for Phoenix city council, and conservative candidates everywhere in the 2003 elections.

Please read more about Pullen on his website: www.pullenformayor.com.

If this is an off year for Arizona RINOs, we are all in trouble. I'd like to invoke the 12th amendment of GOP lore, which goes something like this: get the McCain recall effort revved up again.

RINO Cong. Jim Kolbe is also active on the renegade trail. Last month, the U.S. House voted to prevent $100 million of taxpayer money from going to the UNFPA's pro-abortion programs and President Bush requested that money be applied to life-saving aid in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kolbe not only voted against the move, but is now using his position on the conference committee to hold out $34 million of this money for the UNFPA. Women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan are being deprived of life-saving aid as Cong. Kolbe ties up the funds in committee. Can we do a package recall of McCain and Kolbe?

Notes

There is some good news in GOPland this week. The Arizona Latino Republican Association (ALRA), founded by Blanca Esparza, Jose Esparza and Jesse Hernandez, are bringing Latinos into the party. If they stick to the GOP platform, they will urge many friends that our party has a superior message to that of the Democrats. On October 11th at 10 a.m., ALRA is holding its first general membership meeting at the AZ GOP headquarters in Phoenix. Urge your Latino friends to attend.

Don't forget to attend the Take Back Arizona meeting in Phoenix Saturday, Sept. 6th. The luncheon begins at noon, at Beefeaters restaurant, 300 E. Camelback. TBA aims to select 4-5 key issues to monitor, build a huge network of conservative activists and advocate on those issues. If we all get involved in TBA, it will make a significant impact in restoring sanity and traditional values in our state.

The Arizona Republican Party will host RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie in a Sept. 3 luncheon at the Phoenix Airport Marriott. He will discuss Arizona's role in the 2004 presidential race.

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I am so utterly sick of the RINOs that run the GOP in this state. The Party, at the state level, is run by the Arizona congressional delegation lead by RINOs McCain & Kolbe. The grassroots, rank & file Republicans are just supposed to be cheerleaders and are mostly an annoyance to be barely tolerated or ignored by the state party leadership. Endorsing the Democrat over the conservative Republican (who just had Tom Tancredo as the keynote speaker at his latest fundraising dinner) is reason to have people kicked out of the party. But, no, the RINOs rule in Arizona. Dammit!

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Ping!

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

whoa, deja vu.

Change a few names and you've summed up the situation in California. Is this a national trend?

[Spiff]

Change a few names and you've summed up the situation in California. Is this a national trend?

Napolitano is a carpet-bagger from California. The "sinkhole de mayo" that is California is spreading to engulf Arizona and, soon, the rest of the nation. It hurts most that it tends to be Republicans (RINOs) who's betrayal is letting this happen. The socialists are taking advantage of this period of a lack of principle among leading Republicans to make many strategic advances.

[DLfromthedesert]

Jane Hull probably voted for Butch for governor.

Spiff, or any Phoenix area person, I thought the mayoral races in Phoenix were non-partisan.

[Spiff]

The race itself may not be partisan, but everyone knows who is the Republican and who is the Democrat.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The socialists are taking advantage of this period of a lack of principle among leading Republicans to make many strategic advances.

This is the best summary of the situation I've heard yet. I wish I could fit it on my tagline.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Better yet it deserves to be quote of the day (week, year...).

[ConsistentLibertarian]

I'm sick of the GOP in Arizona.

Jeff Grosscost?

And who is that crazy b!tch from Mesa who comes from the same district?

AZ Republicans are a different breed. It would be best if they were destroyed so that something better can rise from the ashes.

[uglybiker]

If this is an off year for Arizona RINOs, we are all in trouble. I'd like to invoke the 12th amendment of GOP lore, which goes something like this: get the McCain recall effort revved up again.

[Those_Crazy_Liberals]

"Don't forget to attend the Take Back Arizona meeting in Phoenix Saturday, Sept. 6th."

Who are they taking Arizona back from?

[c-b 1]

Jane Hull probably voted for Butch for governor.

I got word from someone on the inside, a year and a half before the election that Propane Jane was grooming Butch as her replacement.

[c-b 1]

Who are they taking Arizona back from?

We are taking it back from the Socialists!

[ConsistentLibertarian]

'Yo Mike.

Reality check on aisle 14.

[Those_Crazy_Liberals]

"We are taking it back from the Socialists!"

Where are they hiding?

[DLfromthedesert]

Well, she did a good job. Butch certainly looks like a groom.

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The Arizona Republican Party will host RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie in a Sept. 3 luncheon at the Phoenix Airport Marriott. He will discuss Arizona's role in the 2004 presidential race.

Wouldn't it be great if we organized a large group to protest the RINOs in Arizona party leadership and in the RNC at this meeting on 3 September?

[ConsistentLibertarian]

I think Ann Couter said (only) liberals attack women for their looks -- this being a most evil thing to do.

You're living proof that Ann Coulter is a lying liar who lies.

Maybe that's why she's ducking national TV appearances when asked to rebut the charge.

[squidly]

Man, seems like every time I go sticking up for McCain, he goes and pulls something like this. Now I can't say anything good about him for at least another 8 months or so. Hell, maybe I should just give up on him altogether.