Monthly Archives: February 2011
Maybe a certain blogger from New Jersey should speak at CPAC next year?
I have said repeatedly that some of the sharpest minds, and most creative belong to bloggers that toil in relative anonymity never receiving credit while other, more famous talking heads/columnists/pundits get more credit than they might actually deserve.
Take the case of Ann Coulter. She is funny, creative, and generally right. She is lauded with praise from Conservative talk hosts, and I enjoy her work. But, really, are there several bloggers, right here on my blogroll that are as sharp if not sharper than Ann Coulter? Certainly!
Take Chris Wysocki, of Wyblog fame for instance. The guy is every bit as talented and capable as most talking heads, and far more original than most. This is why I am featuring his blog as one of my blogs of the month this month. Today, Chris posts about something Ann Coulter spoke about at CPAC. Coulter said that unless the GOP nominates Chris Christie, the Governor of New Jersey, in 2012, they will lose. Chris, disagrees, and lays out a very strong argument
Ann Coulter has already sanctified Chris Christie as the GOP nominee for president in 2012. And Ann is a smart gal, a highly-paid pundit, and someone who knows her way around the conservative world. I’m just a nobody from New Jersey with a blog.
But, I gotta disagree with her.
Chris Christie has too many liberal policy positions which place him squarely at odds with most conservatives.
Dhimmitude, for starters. He’s awfully chummy with Islamists. He nominated Sohail Mohammed, board member of the radical American Muslim Union (AMU) and defender of Hamas’ man in Passaic, to a Superior Court Judgeship. Mr. Mohammed and the AMU are closely tied to the Islamic Center of Passaic County, which was founded by a Hamas operative named Mohammed el-Mezain. And the current Imam Mohammed Qatanani is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Imam Qatanani also pled guilty in Israel to being a member of Hamas, a fact he conveniently left off his application for permanent US residency.
Who defended Imam Qatanani at his deportation hearing? Sohail Mohammed.
So what, you say. That’s what lawyers do, they advocate for their clients in court. But Sohail Mohammed advocates for Islamists out of court too. It’s pretty much all that he does. He spoke up in defense of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian and dismisses any evidence that the Holy Land Foundation funnels money to terrorists as a “witch hunt”.
But hey, Sohail Mohammed is no Bill Ayers, so everything’s cool, right?
Wrong! Chris Christie courted the Muslim vote. And Imam Qatanani delivered. It’s not really a stretch to view elevating Sohail Mohammed to the bench as some kind of quid pro quo. And if along the way a little Sharia gets injected into New Jersey law, well why would you oppose that you intolerant bigot you.
Because if you want further evidence that Chris Christie has a soft spot for Islam in all its glory check out how he’s driving the PC train for “tolerance”.
The firing of a Quran-burning New Jersey Transit worker last year has morphed into a legal battle over free speech. But Gov. Chris Christie, in his first public comments on the case, said today he’s not worrying about it. “I knew he was going to be fired, and I had no problem with it,” Christie said during a Statehouse press conference. “And I still don’t have a problem with it.”“That kind of intolerance is something I think is unacceptable. So I don’t have any problem with him being fired,” Christie said. “You’ve got to make decisions in this job. I made one.”
Sure, let’s not be intolerant, especially toward radical Islam. Next thing you know people will be opposing contruction of the Ground Zero Death To America Victory Mosque. Which by the way, Christie endorses. Gotta love that tolerance!
I sort of expected a guy who prosecuted terrorists to understand a little more about Jihad. How about you?
Moving along, let’s talk about Chris Christie and Obamacare. Curiously he has not joined forces with the 26 states suing to block its implementation. In fact, his Attorney General, who would file such a lawsuit, is Essex County Democratic operative Paula Dow, a close crony of County Executive Joe DiVincenzo (also a Democrat). “Joe D” is the Robert Byrd of Essex County, nary an underpass gets built without his name being plastered all over it.
Not to mention that any governor serious about eliminating government waste would surely question the propriety of spending $4.8 million taxpayer dollars to construct a safari-themed mini golf course. Yet Chris Christie lauds Joe D as a model of fiscal responsibility! What’s up with that?
Go read the whole thing, I hope Chris does not mind me posting so much of his piece, but I want bloggers like him to get the damned credit they deserve. So, yes, I was very serious when I asked this question at the beginning of this post.
Maybe a certain blogger from New Jersey should speak at CPAC next year?
Noted Leftist Douchebag Commits Career Suicide By Mocking Rape Victim On Twitter
The End Of Nir Rosen – Human Events
Lara Logan is blonde, beautiful, and utterly fearless. The 60 Minutes correspondent has been covering the Egyptian uprising from Tahrir Square, at great personal risk. On the day Hosni Mubarak unleashed the Camels of Crackdown, and foreign reporters came under attack by regime supporters, she was detained by Egyptian security forces and forced to endure “a harrowing night of being held blindfolded and forced into a stress position,” according to a NY Daily News report. (Hey, has Illinois senator Dick Durbin compared those Egyptian security forces to Nazis yet, the way he described American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay?)
Logan did not flee Egypt after this experience. She was still in Tahrir Square to cover the jubilant celebration after Mubarak stepped down. According to a CBS News statement, she was surrounded by “a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy” and “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.” She is now safely back in the United States, at home with her husband and two kids, recovering from her injuries.
Logan’s horrifying experience and matchless courage did not impress Nir Rosen, a left-wing journalist and fellow at the New York University Center on Law and Security. Using Twitter, which is a loaded gun placed in the hands of idiots around the globe, he described her sexual assault as an effort to “outdo Anderson” – a reference to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who was punched in the head during the earlier outbreak of violence against journalists. While later conceding “it’s wrong what happened to her,” and “I don’t support that,” he mused that it “would have been funny if it happened to Anderson too.” He dismissed the brutal sexual assault on Logan by saying “she was probably groped like thousands of other women.”
Why was Rosen – who has been published by the likes of Time and The New Yorker – so callous in his dismissal of fellow journalist Lara Logan’s ordeal? Because she was a “war monger.” As he said during a later, exasperated Tweet after he came under fire, “Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger.” His contempt was earned by Logan’s defense of Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, after Rolling Stone ran a hit piece on him.
Rosen was initially annoyed by the firestorm of criticism against him, issuing a grudging and profanity-laced apology for “being insensitive” while insisting he was “rolling my eyes at all the attention she will get.” Eventually he downgraded his condition to “deeply ashamed,” offering “heartfelt apologies to Ms. Logan, her family, her friends, and all women too.” His last-ditch attempt to save his career ultimately failed, as he resigned from his fellowship at NYU this morning.
The Nir Rosen saga is the latest example of the Left’s doctrine of “conditional humanity,” in which the most vulgar and disgusting displays of contempt and hatred are acceptable against political and class enemies, because liberals reserve the right to rescind their humanity as punishment for dissent. Lara Logan was not a woman brutalized by a mob, or even a heroic journalist risking her life for a story, to Rosen. His reflexive response was to look at her politically inconvenient defense of designated liberal hate fetish Stanley McChrystal and devolve her from a woman, journalist, or human being into a “war monger” whose suffering amused him.
You get a lot of this garbage from the Left. Look at the clowns protesting outside the Koch Brothers estate, cheerfully calling for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be returned to the fields as a farm slave, or hung by the neck until dead, along with his wife. Look at the paragons of tolerance and love who filled the Internet with death threats against Sarah Palin, because they held her somehow responsible for the Jared Loughner shooting. Look at the disgusting AlterNet writer who called black GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain a “black Garbage Pail kid” who performs “authentic negritude” as “wish fulfillment for white conservative fantasies.”
Rosen is not an aberration – he’s an outspoken proponent of leftist philosophy with a long resume of publication, and academic credentials. He didn’t just squirt out one poorly-phrased Tweet that he instantly regretted. He invested a great deal of energy defending his position, becoming increasingly peevish with those who called him on the carpet. He’s not an outright loon like Debbie Schlussel, the “conservative commentator” who has been saying the attack on Logan “warms her heart” because she likes it when “reporters who openly deny that Islam is violent and constantly promote it get the same kinds of threats of violence I get every day from Muslims.”
Let me offer a bit of moral guidance for those who remain confused: People do not surrender their humanity when they adopt dissenting views. Rape and assault are horrific crimes to be unconditionally condemned without hesitation, no matter who the victim is, or what she does for a living. There is nothing “heartwarming” or “funny” about it. If you think there is, and you’re prepared to spend your days explaining your warm heart or tickled funny bone to the rest of us, it’s time for you to back away from the keyboard for a while, and think about the danger to your own humanity.
Would You Like Fries With Those Vows?
McDonalds Serves Up McWeddings – Yahoo News
In the buzzing financial hub known for its fast living, young Hong Kong couples can now grab love on the run at the city’s McDonald’s outlets, which are offering a burgeoning new sideline: “McWeddings.”
On Valentine’s Day at a downtown McDonald’s close to the financial district, the fast food joint was decked out with pink balloons, a “cake” stacked from apple pies, as well as a pair of tiny souvenir crystal M rings, for a surprise engagement bash thrown by Kelvin, a young model, for his girlfriend, Ashley.
The party is the first formal wedding event since the service was launched in January.
McDonald’s says the concept isn’t tacky and fills a niche in Hong Kong, where its restaurants are popular dating venues and the prices for more typical weddings run high.
“They date here, they grew their love here, so when they have this important day they want to come over here,” said Shirley Chang, the managing director of Hong Kong’s McDonald’s outlets.
The McDonald’s “Warm and sweet wedding package,” at HK$9999 ($1282) a pop, includes wedding gifts, pink invitation cards emblazoned with golden arches, decor featuring the likes of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar, and classic golden arches fare worth up to $385.
Additional items will cost extra, including a “white balloon” gown rental ($165), balloon corsage ($11), balloon wedding cake ($88), and a large pink McDonalds backdrop ($321).
“You can see the world changing, especially the young generation,” Chang told Reuters.
“They’re looking for out-of the-box thinking and ideas.”
With two wedding parties confirmed for this year and around 70 other couples in talks, the American fast food giant is hoping this sideline will take off at a time of economic uncertainty, particularly with traditional Chinese weddings and banquets often imposing a huge financial burden on young couples.
“I think it’s the best value for money,” laughed Chang. “Definitely.”
Man Had Blade In Face For Four Years
Man Had Blade In Face For Four Years – Orange News
Doctors in China examined a patient complaining of headaches and a bad taste in his mouth – and found a 4ins blade buried in his face.
They say it had been in Li Fu’s face for four years without his knowledge, since he was stabbed in a robbery while working as a cab driver.
Doctor Xu Wen, vice-director of stomatology at Yu Xi City People’s Hospital, said: “We were amazed to see such a long blade in his face.
“And it’s even more amazing to think that the blade had been there for more than four years and the patient was still living without too many problems.”
He is now recovering after surgeons removed the blade, which had penetrated his tongue root, muscles and brain, in a complicated four hour operation.
Li, 37, of Yuanjiang County, Yunnan Province, was stabbed in September, 2006, after he resisted a knifepoint robbery.
He was treated at a local hospital where doctors cleaned his wound and gave him disinfectant shots.
“The wound healed up gradually and I didn’t have any other symptoms, so I didn’t think of having further checkups,” said Li.
Police later caught the criminal and found the broken knife handle – but they never found the blade until Li was x-rayed at a county hospital.
Doctors there referred him to Yu Xi City People’s Hospital which agreed to waive some of the £5,000 fees for the complex operation.
Daily Benefactor News – Those Peaceful, Democracy-Loving, Egyptian Protesters The Left Keeps Telling Us About…
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CBS Reporter Gang Raped By Egyptian Protesters – Los Angeles Times
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan is recovering in an American hospital this week after being sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob in Egypt’s Tahrir Square late on Friday.
The same day that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Logan was surveying the mood of anti-Mubarak protesters for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team “were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration,” CBS said in a statement Tuesday. The network said that a group of 200 people were then “whipped into a frenzy,” pulling Logan away from her crew and attacking her until a group of women and Egyptian soldiers intervened.
Logan flew back to the United States the next morning.
During her time in Egypt, Logan had been outspoken about the Mubarak regime’s efforts to intimidate foreign journalists. “We’re being prevented from telling this story,” Logan said during a recent CBS broadcast. “People are increasingly afraid to talk to us.” Earlier this month, she was detained, accused of being an Israeli spy, and told to leave Egypt. She returned to the U.S. after her release, but came back to Cairo not long before Mubarak fled his office.
Logan has a long history of working in areas of turmoil. She made her name as a war correspondent for Britain’s GMTV at the beginning of the Afghanistan war in 2001 and later reported on the war in Iraq. She joined CBS News in 2002.
Judith Matloff, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism who has written about sexual assault on female journalists, praised CBS and Logan for going public. “It’s a pretty brave thing to come out and say that you’ve been sexually assaulted,” she said. “Generally, female correspondents do not come out and talk about it because they worry that they won’t get sent on assignments again.”
According to the Committee to Protect Foreign Journalists, a watchdog group in which Logan serves as a board member, at least 140 reporters have been injured or killed while covering the protests in Egypt since Jan. 30. “We have seen Lara’s compassion at work while helping journalists who have faced brutal aggression while doing their jobs,” said CPJ Chairman Paul Steiger in a statement. “She is a brilliant, courageous and committed reporter. Our thoughts are with Lara as she recovers.”
CBS said it would have no further comment on Logan’s assault.
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Good Religion, As I see It – By Edward L. Daley
My name is Edward L. Daley, and I’m what’s known as a deist. That is to say that I embrace no particular religious faith, yet I do believe in an eternal creator of all life and existence… as best we understand those terms. I simply do not claim to know the motives or methods of our creator.
As a deist, I’m generally regarded by most religious people as being a little weird, which suits me just fine, since I AM a little weird… and believe me, religion has absolutely nothing to do with that fact. Still, I’ve always been fascinated by religion, and that’s why I’m writing this article today.
For you see, I’ve come to conclude over the course of my 48 years on Earth that there are good religious practices and bad ones. I shall not name the various memberships of either camp here, but I will outline, in the simplest terms available to me, the necessary elements of what I believe to be a ‘good religion’.
In my view, a good religion is one in which its practitioners understand that a person cannot force another to honestly and wholeheartedly embrace any particular belief system. True faith can only be achieved of one’s own free will, devoid of coercion, bribery or any other illicit act.
Secondly, no good religion systemically endeavors to punish people for not embracing it. If one truly believes that one’s faith is the only means by which one may enter into the kingdom of God, such a person would necessarily pity a non-believer, and one does not punish those for whom one has sympathy.
Lastly, no practitioner of a good religion would seek to openly demean, degrade or defame the good religion embraced by another, even though one may strongly disagree with the latter’s method of worship. One may attempt to convert a person of a different faith to their own, but only via positive means, lest one be essentially corruptive in nature.
After all, if the point of embracing a religious faith is to find oneness with God (and please tell me, what other point is there?) what Godly purpose would it serve a person to embrace a religion which causes harm to non-believers for simply failing to share in said faith? Are not all people created equal in God’s eyes? And if one is judged wicked by God, isn’t it God who determines one’s ultimate fate?
I rest my case.
How to defeat Obama?
According to Stanley Kurtz, you simply have to tell the truth about how radical Obama really is H’T Jill!
Obama’s clever budget proposal has won him the advantage in the coming political showdown. Democratic grousing over limited cuts to discretionary spending will be used to paint the president as a fiscally responsible moderate. The Republican plan will be demonized as a heartless assault on the poor and elderly. Obama will do everything short of sending out an engraved invitation to provoke a GOP-led government shutdown. Whether or not the confrontation goes nuclear, Obama will enjoy the sort of upper hand Clinton had over Gingrich fifteen years ago. [. . .]
The country as a whole fails to grasp the magnitude of the coming fiscal crisis. Advantage, Obama. What to do?
The answer, I think, is to tell a (true) story about Obama’s long-term aims and intentions. If the word socialism makes you uncomfortable, try “unaffordable Euro-style welfare state.” [. . .]
Tea Party moxie and the shellacking notwithstanding, the GOP establishment remains reluctant to highlight Obama’s radicalism. I understand the reasons for this, and they are by no means trivial. While Obama’s policies are opposed by many, he remains personally popular. It seems disrespectful to attribute an ideology to the president that he himself won’t own up to. Words like “radical,” much less “socialist,” sound impolite. Yet, without defining the president in a way that happens to be not only politically advantageous, but true, I doubt Obama can be stopped. Telling the truth about this president is how we shellacked him to begin with.
I tend to agree that this is one of the strategies we must use. The trouble with it is that if done incorrectly, it will backfire. The media will never look deeply into Obama’s past, and that makes the task all the more difficult. There exists a fine line between sound kooky, and sounding authoritative. The question is can the GOP leadership thread that needle?
If there was a Pit of Absurdity……..
This woman would be at the bottom of it
Walmart wants to put a store the District of Columbia. Four, actually. Including one at Georgia and Missouri Avenues.
That’s a bad idea, according to Brenda K. Speaks, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, Ward 4B05. Why, you ask.
Okay, since you asked. She doesn’t want Walmart because it will cause kids to steal:
Addressing a small, anti-Wal-Mart rally at City Hall on Monday, Speaks said young people would get criminal records when they couldn’t resist the temptation to steal.
Good Freaking Grief! So, what this mental midget is saying is that the kids living in the area have absolutely no moral direction or compass. How insulting!
Debbie Schussel is a truly despicable woman
Mocking a victim of a savage sexual assault Debbie? Really? What a piece of work you are. Donald Douglas links to Debbie “Please someone tell me I am still relevant” Schlussel’s detestable rant!
UPDATE: This is beneath contempt, from Debbie Schlussel:
Hey, sounds like the threats I get from American Muslims on a regular basis. Now you know what it’s like, Lara.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.
I just love it when the people of the profession of “the public’s right to know” suddenly want “privacy.” Tell it to your next interview subject, Lara. Of course CBS has no further comment. Wouldn’t wanna impugn the “peacefullness” of “Religion of Peace” animals, would we? Now, if they were Christians or Jews, well, then there would be comments galore.
So sad, too bad, Lara. No one told her to go there. She knew the risks. And she should have known what Islam is all about. Now she knows. Or so we’d hope. But in the case of the media vis-a-vis Islam, that’s a hope that’s generally unanswered.
This never happened to her or any other mainstream media reporter when Mubarak was allowed to treat his country of savages in the only way they can be controlled.
Now that’s all gone. How fitting that Lara Logan was “liberated” by Muslims in Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the “liberation.”
Hope you’re enjoying the revolution, Lara! Alhamdilllullah [praise allah].
There some truly despicable, racist bastards on the Far Left!
Aleister nabs the Lefty site Alternet going THERE!
In the immortal words of Megatron in Transformers: The Movie, Herman Cain’s speech at CPAC really is bad comedy. As you know, I find black garbage pail kids black conservatives fascinating not because of what they believe, but rather because of how they entertain and perform for their White Conservative masters.
When race minstrelsy was America’s most popular form of mass entertainment, black actors would often have to pretend to be white men, who then in turn would put on the cork to play the role of the “black” coon, Sambo, or Jumping Jim Crow. Adding insult to injury, in a truly perverse and twisted example of the power of American white supremacy black vaudevillians would often pretend to be white in order to denigrate black people for the pleasures of the white gaze.
Read the entire thing, if you can stomach it. And trust me, it gets worse! Clearly Cain, as a Black man just does not “know his place” I guess? He should know the Liberals who claim to be the champions of equality, and diversity are only interested in Black people, or any other minority, if these minorities know that they must think and act like the Left wants them to act! If these minorities dare think of leaving what I call The Plantation of Accepted Liberal Ideals then the Left will turn on them, and, well, let us allow the bigots at Alternet show their true colors~!
We always need a monkey in the window, for he/she reminds us of our humanity while simultaneously reinforcing a sense of our own superiority. Sadly, there are always folks who are willing to play that role because it pays so well.
And to let everyone know the identity of the twisted thug that wrote this bilge here it is!
Editor and founder of the blog We Are Respectable Negroes which has been featured by the NY Times, the Utne Reader, and The Atlantic Monthly. Writing under a pseudonym, Chauncey DeVega’s essays on race, popular culture, and politics have appeared in various books, as well as on such sites as the Washington Post’s The Root and Popmatters.
DaleyGator DaleyBabe Playoffs Quarterfinals! UPDATE! Monica still unstoppable!
Sela Ward vs Monica Bellucci
DaleyGator DaleyBabe Playoffs Quarterfinals UPDATE! Shania pulls the upset
Shania Twain vs Kate Beckinsale
DaleyGator DaleyBabe Playoffs Quarterfinals! UPDATE! Alyssa reaches Final Four
Ah the Elite Eight! Let it commence!
Alyssa Milano vs Leeann Tweeden
House Votes To Extend Patriot Act Provisions
House Votes To Extend Patriot Act Provisions – New York Times
The House on Monday voted to reauthorize and extend through Dec. 8 three ways in which Congress expanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism powers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Last week, an effort to extend these provisions of the so-called Patriot Act and a related intelligence law failed to pass after falling just short of the two-thirds’ majority needed under a special rule. On Monday, however, the bill was able to pass with only a simple majority – and it did so, 275 to 144.
The provisions allow investigators to get “roving wiretap” court orders allowing them to follow terrorism suspects who switch phone numbers or providers; to get orders allowing them to seize “any tangible things” relevant to a security investigation, like a business’s customer records; and to get national-security wiretap orders against non-citizen suspects who are not connected to any foreign power.
Without new legislation, the provisions would expire on Feb. 28. House Republicans pressed the short-term extension so the Judiciary Committee, which is now under Republican control, could hold hearings on them.
During the debate on Monday, most Republicans argued in favor of the bill, while many Democrats criticized it. Still, the debate did not break down entirely along partisan lines.
Sixty-five Democrats voted for it, including Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, who argued that he thought it would be better to go even further and extend the provisions through 2013 – as the Obama administration wants to do.
And 27 Republicans voted against it, including Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, who said the American people had “a legitimate fear of out-of-control prosecutors and out-of-control spy networks.”
Because there is little time left before the provisions expire, it is likely that the Senate will approve the House’s bill – putting off a larger debate over the provisions until later in the year.
Senators have been debating their own proposals, which include reauthorizing the provisions through 2013 but imposing greater safeguards on them, or making the provisions permanent without modifications.
Congress overwhelmingly passed the original Patriot Act in October 2001. Over time, it became a symbol of eroding civil liberties and privacy rights for those who believed that government power had expanded too far. Supporters of the law have often accused its critics of exaggerating its risks and of being willing to endanger the country.
TSA Workers Admit To Stealing Thousands From Passengers
TSA Workers Admit To Stealing Thousands From Passengers – The Blaze
They’re supposed to keep airline passengers safe. But two TSA screeners in New Jersey did just the opposite, say Justice Department officials, and facilitated a crime ring that cheated screened passengers at Newark Liberty International Airport out of between $10,000 and $30,000.
According to a Justice Department release, Michael Arato, a 41-year-old TSA supervisor, admitted yesterday he accepted bribes and kickbacks from an employee who stole money regularly from passengers during security screenings. WNYW explains how the process worked:
Prosecutors say Arato permitted a worker he supervised to steal between $10,000 and $30,000 in cash from travelers’ bags over a 13-month period. In exchange, the subordinate would give a portion of the money to Arato. The subordinate, who was not named, cooperated with the federal investigation that led to Arato’s arrest in October.
Surveillance cameras caught Arato accepting over $3,000 in bribes during a single three-week period.
He pleaded guilty to the charges against him and faces 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He will be sentenced on May 24.
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‘Sheriff Joe’ Arpaio Leads In Arizona Poll For Senate Race – Roll Call
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio led a field of potential Republican Senate candidates in Arizona with 21 percent in a poll of likely GOP primary voters last week.
Rep. Jeff Flake, who announced his candidacy for the seat of retiring Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) on Monday, finished second with 16.8 percent in the Summit Consulting Group survey. Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth took third, with 16.6 percent. He was unsuccessful in his primary challenge to Sen. John McCain last year.
The auto-dial poll of 1,881 likely GOP primary voters was conducted Thursday. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points, which would put the top three finishers in a statistical tie.
Coming in fourth was former Rep. John Shadegg at 12 percent, followed by freshman Rep. Ben Quayle at 6 percent. A significant percentage of respondents, 27.5 percent, were undecided.
Arpaio has made national headlines over the years for his tough stance on crime and illegal immigration. It was unclear how much interest he has in running for Senate versus running for re-election as sheriff, but he is being urged by his supporters to pursue the Congressional seat, according to a GOP strategist in Arizona.
Summit disclosed in its polling memo that it is running Arpaio’s re-election campaign for sheriff, that it has previously worked for Flake and that a principal of the firm once advised Hayworth.
Summit conducted a second auto-dial poll Thursday of 1,469 likely Republican primary voters that did not test Arpaio or Quayle. Flake led with 22 percent, followed by Hayworth at 20 percent and Shadegg at 17 percent. It also had a margin of error of 3 points.
A whopping 41 percent were undecided in the second poll, which Summit said was not surprising, given that the survey was conducted so soon after Kyl announced Thursday that he would not seek re-election in 2012.
Both surveys were compiled with data from voters who said they had participated in the past two GOP primary elections, according to the memo.
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