John McCain « Maricopa County Republican Committee

Nov 182010

Pullen won’t seek re-election as GOP chief after stunning ouster

FYI, for those will be attending and voting at the state party organizational meeting, January 22.

Randy Pullen won’t seek another term as chairman of the Arizona Republican Party after a shocking loss in his re-election bid for state committeeman.

Pullen, who has served as chairman since 2007, announced Nov. 18 on Twitter that he wouldn’t run for a third term.

“I will not seek re-election as AZ GOP chairman on Jan. 22. It has been an honor to serve these past four years as chairman. God bless,” Pullen wrote on his Twitter account.

The loss stunned Arizona’s Republican establishment. Pullen has been a controversial chairman due to what many complained was his lackluster fundraising and his vocal criticism of Sen. John McCain, which led McCain to divert money from the Republican National Committee to the Yuma County GOP instead of the state party.

But supporters also gave Pullen some of the credit for the recent election, in which Republicans ousted two Democratic incumbents in congressional races, swept the slate of statewide offices and gained supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature.

Maricopa County GOP Chairman Rob Haney, who also lost his bid for state committeeman, blamed allies of McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl for his and Pullen’s losses.

“It shouldn’t have been (a surprise). McCain forces are at work,” said Haney, who said he plans to run for another term as county chairman. “We’re about the tea party movement from the grassroots. The heirarchy did not want to respond to the grassroots.”

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Apr 062010

My, Oh My! JD Hayworth to Speak at Maricopa County Republican Lincoln Day Luncheon

Oh! The scandal of it all! A contested Primary and the Maricopa County Republicans are having JD Hayworth speak at their annual Lincoln Day Luncheon WITHOUT inviting Jim Deakin or Senator McCain! For Shame! For Shame!

This was the newest bone of contention to rile the august body of Republicans at last night’s (Thursday, April 1st) Maricopa County Monthly EGC Meeting. The McCain people were unhappy because of what they claim appears to be an endorsement of JD Hayworth over incumbent Senator, John McCain.

One member of the council raised the issue under new business and quoted the by-laws prohibiting anyone on the council from endorsing anyone in a contested primary on behalf of the council without a 60% approval vote by the council. This council member then attempted to one up the by-laws by calling for the council to raise this threshold to NEVER endorse anyone in a contested primary. The motion was declared out of order which started another fight over the authority of the Chairman to declare a motion out of order. A roll-call vote was taken and passed in the Chairman’s favor (10 – 8, ~5 abstaining).

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Mar 182010

Rep. Andy Tobin Endorses John McCain

State Representative Andy Tobin

Representative Andy Tobin was among a disturbing list of current and former state legislators endorsing John McCain for reelection issued today. Some of the names on that list were a bit of a shock, others not so surprising, like Rep. Bill Konopnicki.

Tobin comes as a bit of a surprise due to his persistent hints that he may get into the way-too-crowded CD-1 race. Rural AZ’s district is not friendly ground to McCain. This country is where the “Grass Roots” run the deepest. Calling them religion belivin’, gun clingin’ rednecks is a complement.

Either Tobin has resigned his ambitions for CD-1, or he is naive enough to think that this will help him. Either way, this was not a good move, unless you hope to enlist the support of the McCain Machine…. which still won’t help you!

Below is the list on legislators endorsing McCain, as published earlier by the MAC Camp:

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Mar 082010

Dietary Supplement Makers Up As McCain Withdraws Bill Support

Shares of nutritional supplement makers climbed Monday as Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz) withdrew his support for legislation to regulate dietary supplements.

“It looks like it will be an easier world to be in the dietary supplement business,” said Avondale analyst Bret Jordan. “The bill would have significantly tightened regulatory requirements.”

In February, McCain and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D., N.D.) introduced the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more power to oversee the dietary supplement industry amid concerns the products contain harmful, hidden ingredients. The proposal would have given the FDA powers to recall dietary supplements from the marketplace and would require companies to list all ingredients in the products.

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Mar 072010

Pelosi Backwards On “Tea Parties” And GOP

By Christopher G. Adamo

Democrats continue to bounce between occasional brief attempts at pandering to grassroots America, and their more innate reversion to unrestrained contempt for the beliefs and sentiments of the heartland. In the process, they reveal a willingness to resort to any concocted lie in hopes of fooling enough of the people, enough of the time, to advance their insidious agenda.

In a February 28 interview on ABC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA) engaged in the sort of doublespeak that has earned her the anger and nearly universal distrust of the American people. It hardly seems believable that, only a mere three years ago, Pelosi was a virtual unknown among common citizens. Yet since her ascendancy to the speakership of the House of Representatives in 2007 Pelosi’s name, like that of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-NV) and Barack Obama, has become synonymous with the dangerous radicalism of the American left.

At times all three have attempted to hide their anti-American agenda behind a pathetic veneer of “centrism.” And on every occasion that they revert to such behavior, they reveal a disingenuousness so extreme, and so rife with contempt for the intelligence of their target constituency, that they become an embarrassment to all but their most blindly devoted minions.

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Mar 072010

Senator McCain’s trip to Tucson

Tucson and Southern Arizona news from KVOA.com

Mar 032010

An Open Letter to Governor Palin

Elizabeth and Jason Okon
912 Island Street
La Crosse, WI. 54603

Dear Governor Palin,

My name is Elizabeth O’kon. I am the proud wife of SPC. Jason O’kon. I have a story I would like to share with you. My husband served in Iraq in 2005 with the 73^rd Engineers, in the Stryker Brigade. I remember him coming home on R and R and telling me how terrified and afraid he was that he believed he was coming home in a box. That he wouldn’t survive.

Mar 032010

McCain calls in favors

Over the past week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has rolled out a list of blue-chip GOP political endorsements in his primary contest against challenger J.D. Hayworth — and his campaign said more are on the way.

It’s part of a concerted effort to remind primary voters of his stature, as well as an attempt to undercut Hayworth’s claim to be the conservative candidate in the Aug. 24 primary before his challenger can gain any traction.

To neutralize Hayworth’s claim on tea party movement voters, McCain has unveiled his backing from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and newly minted Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) — both plan to stump on his behalf. Read the rest.

Feb 252010

Beware of McCain’s Freedom-Destroying Dietary Supplement Regulatory Bill

Most are familiar with those commercials on television promoting prescription drugs that supposedly offer relief from a variety of ailments, if one would only pressure one’s doctor to obtain them. They have become a source of great entertainment and amusement to some, the kicker coming at the end of each commercial when the FDA-approved medication’s obligatory litany of warnings and dangerous side effects is recited: “Tell your doctor if….” and “Side effects may include…..” Some of the warnings are mild like diarrhea and constipation, some list serious effects like cancer or tuberculosis, and others admit that sometimes even death can result.

The point here is that these are all FDA-approved drugs being advertised and used extensively. Drugs that can cause serious diseases like lymphoma. Drugs that can kill. The FDA’s dismal safety record is well documented; even PBS ran a Frontline special that investigated and exposed the FDA’s unsafe drug record, the influence of Big Pharma inside the FDA, and lack of long-term testing and medical review of many, many dangerous drugs. The FDA seldom removes a drug from the market even after it proves to be harmful or deadly, however they do post quarterly reports with details of the latest potentially dangerous side effects of drugs currently under investigation.

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Feb 192010

Snakes In Guam! Snakes in Guam!

What’s all this fuss about “snakes in Guam” that I’m hearing about on the radio?

The last few weeks, Senator John McCain has had some raspy-throated woman shilling for him in a political ad claiming that JD Hayworth voted for some snakes in Guam.

I decided to look into these “snakes” in Guam and instead of diving into the wealth of knowledge provided by the US Department of Agriculture and other scientific papers, I went to one of my favorite websites – YouTube! Here are a few clips about these “Brown Tree Snakes” that have invaded the island of Guam and devastated entire bird populations in addition to terrifying the citizens of Guam.

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