Graf leads GOP; 'Gabby wanted me, has me,' front-runner says

Arizona Star ^ | September 13, 2006 | BLAKE BLAKE MORLOCK and KOSTAS KALAITZIDIS

[ReignOfError]

Graf leads GOP; 'Gabby wanted me, has me,' front-runner says

Am I the only person who initially thought that this was a headline about women's tennis, and wondered when Steffi and Gabbi had come out of retirement?

[Marine Inspector]

Uh Pence is not an "amnesty" sellout,

Pence wants to change the current law that would not allow illegal aliens to get any visa for up to 10 years and allow illegal aliens to get a visa right now.

Changing the law to reward a group of criminals is a form of amnesty and allow criminals to get in line in front of non-criminals.

No matter how you dress a pig, it's still a pig!

[Iscool]

JMHO and FWIW, If I was Graf, I would build bridges with Mike Pence and not Tom Tancredo.

That's true...If he sides with Tancredo, you may not be able to get your green card...In fact, you may eventually have to go home...

[DLfromthedesert]

So you don't think the NRCC and the Republican parties in Colorado and Texas stabbed us(the ones working hard for Graf and/or Huffman)in the back?

Huffman ran a dirty campaign against both Graf and Hellon. AND he had LOTS of money from big donors, and the grass roots people STILL won the day.

[Iscool]

A Republican defeat turns into a Conservative victory...

[Kokojmudd]

Which is why the demoncrats wanted the Graf nomination. He'll be easier to demonize. I fear the loss of the seat to political purity.

Then it is time to go to work for the Graf campaign. The majority of republicans in pima county are not moderate/liberals. The state senate primary results (conservative Al Melvin vs moderate/liberal toni hellon) just proved that. I wouldn't give the demonrats too much credit for Graf's victory although the liberal republicans who have run pima county hq for too long are certainly using that as an excuse.

[MrEdd]

If you were Gaff you would have lost the primary, since Arizona Republicans want to secure their border with Mexico.

[Dane]

Then why did Goldwater lose the GOP gubernatorial nomination.

[mthom]

"And this was not really a "win" per se."

Lol Tell that to Huffman. Seriously, call him, he has nothing to do now that he lost. This meltdown of yours is damn fun to watch.

[BillyBoy]

>> Huh, and I didn't see Graf asking the DNC to discontinue their ads against Huffman. <<

Huh? You think the DNC would stop running campaign ads against Republicans if another Republican asks them too? Hahahaha. Yer killing me. I guess Ronald Reagan was SECRETLY working for the DNC because he didn't show up and tell them to stop running anti-Gerald Ford ads. That would have surely worked!