Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

[jefferson_dem]

Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket
By MARC LACEY
Published: September 6, 2010

TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is having in advance of his coming televised debate is whether he ought to gel his hair into his trademark faux Mohawk.

Mr. Pearcy, 20, is running for a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public utilities, railroad safety and securities regulation. Although Mr. Pearcy says he is taking his first run for public office seriously, the political establishment here views him as nothing more than a political dirty trick.

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.


Benjamin Pearcy, 20, in white shirt, is running as a Green Party candidate in Arizona.

“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.”

But Steve May, the Republican operative who signed up some of the candidates along Mill Avenue, a bohemian commercial strip next to Arizona State University, insists that a real political movement has been stirred up that has nothing to do with subterfuge.

“Did I recruit candidates? Yes,” said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. “Are they fake candidates? No way.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html?src=twt&twt=nytimespolitics

[butterfly77]

1. This is the stuff ..

I have been waiting for. I have been listening to so called Independents for months say how they don't like what the Dems or Repubs are doing or I hear a repug say they will never vote for a Repug again but they can't vote for a Dems and that to me is their brainwashing and ignorance because they think they can't vote for a Dem because they are liberal.

I don't think that a lot of people are all liberal or all conservative I am a little bit of everything. These people who think they are proving something by voting for something else knowing damn well they can't win always pick a hell of a time to do it and these are the same damn people who say nothing is going to change. It won't because a lot of them don't know a damn thing about politics so the only thing the CONS have to do is repeat some lies over and over with out further explanatioh and they eat it up because the media doesn't do any follow up and if they do the repug usually won't show up.

Sharon angle,sarah p and R paul are the perfect example. They don't know shit and they won't answer questions but they let the bitch Palin go to far. Now,this bristol and levi thing, they will rake in as much as they can meanwhile they are fucking like rabbits and they all are laughing all the way to bank while there followers are losing jobs and still worshipping them with their stupid asses..

[Historic NY]

2. Its the only way pukes can win to siphon off votes.

[SoxFan]

3. Kick

There are a lot of deluded souls on DU who think that voting for these jokers is a smart way of teaching the Democrats a lesson. Take a look and see who you are really helping when you play those games.

[Phx_Dem]

4. This little plot smells alot like Alvin Green's candidacy.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Am I really to believe the assholes touting the Green Party here on DU are any different?

Really? :popcorn: