Is Anybody Listening?

NJ.com has footage of a meeting where the crowd shouted down a wheelchair-bound woman with "two incurable auto-immune diseases" who tried to ask a question.

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Arizona Republican Party Chairman held a press conference asking Attorney General Terry Goddard to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate both Mr. Goddard and Representative Kyrsten Sinema (D-15) for possible violation of the "Resign to Run" law. Here is video provided by the AZ GOP, the content of the video is theirs and theirs alone.

A question about charges Senator John Huppenthal (R-20) apparently engaged in gathering signatures was put to Pullen. Chairman Pullen, who also serves as the Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, seemed to be waiting for the question although his explanation seemed, well, goofy.

The "Resign to Run" law is almost as goofy. For example, Representative Ray Barnes (R-7) has had a Campaign Committee for his district's Senate seat, currently held by Jim Waring since February of this year. The title of this post is his official committee number as assigned by Secretary Ken Bennett. A screen capture of his filing is below:

So, according to Randy Pullen's version of integrity, one can file all the paperwork necessary for a campaign as in Ray Barnes' example, a full 629 days ahead of time, but one must not publicly utter the word "intend" when asked about a future office. In Randy Pullen's world a Facebook fan page is more of an indication of running for office than gathering signatures on a petition.

Of course, the more we speak of this press conference the less we write of Randy Pullen's LD-6 escapade when he attended a meeting of PC's and called out Senator Pamela Gorman for not being loyal enough to his sensibilities.

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Gratuitous Renato Ferreira Post

Gratuitous Renato Ferreira Post: "

Another sweaty outtake from his spread in this month's issue of Junior, via his twitter account.

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Sonoran Alliance makes Gun Joke in Reference to President Obama

One of the more disturbed persons writing for the blog "Sonoran Alliance," a site suffering from multiple personality disorder, closed a post with this paragraph:

Decision Time … as they say in the marriage vows;  If there’s anyone here that feels this administration’s actions should not be allowed to stand, let them speak now … or forever hold their piece.

Perhaps this was just in poor taste or perhaps someone pried the spell checker from the cowardly Veritas Vincit's cold dead hands? But then in the comments section we get some correction:

1. False Hope -- Please keep the Change Says:
   August 7th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

   I think you mean “peace.”

   But I would like to forever hold my piece, in spite of laws trying to make that ever more difficult.

No telling which state "False" lives in, but it's obviously not AZ as our gun laws are not “more difficult” but instead have been re-jiggered so you can finger your piece almost anywhere, including bars, you know, so you can impress the chicks! But wait! There's more from our “author”:

1. Veritas Vincit Says:
   August 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

   Hmmm… which is it? Since the word “hold” proceeds it I was inclined to us “piece” since that’s what you can “hold”.

   On the other hand, ‘keep the peace’ seems related to ‘hold your peace’ so perhaps that is correct?

   Is there a non-activist English major in the house?

   False Hope, I too am thinking of ‘holding my piece’. ;-o

Wow! A paranoid grammarian! VV lies, VV blogs, VV believes!

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