Len Munsil and the other Goldwater
I don't know how closely you are following the gubernatorial race in AZ, but it's looking like it's going to be a rather close race. For those of you who, unlike myself, have lives, here's the basic rundown.
First, we have the current Governor, Janet Napolitano. She was one of the Time Magazine top five governors, yada yada yada, that stuff all sounds nice, but the important thing to remember is that she's basically the reason AZ has not gone to hell in a handbasket in a variety of unpleasant ways. Case in point, the ELL bill(s).
Then there's this Len Munsil guy and he's involved with the Center for Arizona Policy. It's more or less your standard "let's prevent gays from being happy" outfit, but they do other things too, like letting uncertified people act as behavioral counselors (Clergy exemption from behavioral health licensing,) preventing state funding to cloning operations (most likely after seeing the second star wars movie,) and, according to their site http://www.azpolicy.org/html/billsintolaw.html, eliminating the "marriage penalty" tax twice, in both 1997 and 2005. They also have a really creepy "prayer center" on the site as well http://www.azpolicy.org/html/prayer.html. I'm no lawyer, but that may violate clean elections laws since you have to consider God's pro-bono work as an "in-kind" donation.
After Munsil (and of course J-Nap), there's sort of the will-call line for who gets to become Governor. These are the people that could become gov if Munsil and J-Nap were discovered to be operating an elite squad of call girls trained to steal people's organs during sex.
The front runner of the people that won't win is this guy by the name of Don Goldwater. He's the real Goldwater's nephew or something, and that's about it. He has this rather empty list of supporters on his website that has been made fun of by all of the AZ bloggers http://www.goldwater4governor.org/. I won't mock it now, because so many others have and he'll lose anyway, so it sort of seems petty, but it sort of makes sense that it's so empty. All he's done is post a suspicious Internet poll on his website that shows he will beat J-Nap.
But we're ok with that. Don Goldwater, like the person who's fame he is leeching, Barry Goldwater, is one of those libertarian Republicans. Personally, I'm ok with them. Not because I like what they think (I like poor people,) but because they never win. Like the real Goldwater, Goldwater 2 will do nothing other than lose and hopefully dilute the resources the Republicans put into the Gov race.

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