Talk about dirty republican pigs - Steve May (R-Az) recruiting homeless to run for office in Green

[jillan]

Party.

Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket


snip -
Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks.

Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.

“These are people who are not serious and who were recruited as part of a cynical manipulation of the process,” said Paul Eckstein, a lawyer representing the Democrats. “They don’t know Green from red.”


Read the rest here -
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html?_r=2


Scumbags!!

[jillan]

1. Leave it to Rachel! She's reporting on it.