Getting “ready to rock and roll” over invisible Republicans?
Phoenix Mayor-elect Greg Stanton has named his transition team, which he describes by saying “It’s big, it’s diverse and it’s substantive.” Stanton also says, “My transition team looks like Phoenix.”
Apparently he has forgotten the makeup of the city he will preside over as mayor. Along with the 33.6% Democrats, are 34.8% registered Independents or PNDs, 1.1% Libertarians, a negligible sum (less than 1%) of other assorted proclivities — and, oh, yeah — that pesky 30.2% base of Republicans in the city of Phoenix– the sixth most populated city in the nation.
Republicans are a sizeable slice of Phoenix’s registered voters. They routinely get trampled by unionists and city workers who climb out to vote their self-interests when the traditionally low-voter turnout city elections take place.
Greg Stanton’s oversized 24-member transition team includes self-described “community activists,” along with far-left liberals, Cindy Hensley McCain’s beer distributorship’s CEO, executives of nebulous social service organizations and a few lawyers tossed in for good measure. The daily lists them all here.
And as icing on the cake, Stanton has aligned himself with liberal grande Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, and was on hand for her recent re-election announcement.
Hold onto your hats, folks. When the incoming mayor doesn’t even see us, you can count on the fact that we’re in for a bumpy ride.
Phoenix Republicans: May I HUMBLY suggest a plan of relocation…you are apparadently about to be hit by sociodem wreckin’ ball!
…just sayin’…
What is the plan for relocation Doc? I want to leave and go where the conservatives can live in Peace and Freedom from socialists especially the RINOS who constantly lose our elections to people like Stanton. Stanton might not be in office if we Republicans hadn’t run a disheveled looking mess against him. The conservatives didn’t have a horse in this race that we could rally behind with gusto. Will this be a lesson learned? It didn’t seem to work with BO/McCain and I hate to say it but we may see the same song second verse in 2012.
Well, while certainly not THE MOST Conservative spot in America, Prescott/Yavapai Co. IS predominately Republican…with enuff Conservatives to @ least have our voices heard. AND…
…there’s still quite a few Precinct Committeeman slots available! Come On UP! We NEED your help!
Overtaxed1:
Your “disheveled mess” description of Wes Gullett is splendid! He looks as though he fell off a boxcar onto the rails. He was no match for Stanton‘s crisper appearance. That scruffy look might have played with the equally sloppy John McCain, but for sure it’s not a winner. The fact that it was difficult for Republicans to come to his side when they have ample evidence of his RINOism, made this race difficult for him. Most of the Republicans I know did vote for him, but in the same manner they voted for his Obama supporting boss (John McCain)– holding their noses.
Gullett couldn’t even bring himself to repudiate his endorsement of Janet Napolitano when she was running against a conservative Republican. That might have gone a long way to assist him in this race, but his arrogance got in the way. Another lesson learned, eh?
Does this mean a majority of registered independents routinely vote Democrat?
If so, why?
Because most registered “independents’ or Party Not Declared “PNDs, are actually disguised Democrats…..much the same as Colleen Coyle Mathis of the supposedly “Independent” Redistricting Commission.” She and her husband have long standing ties to the Dem side of the aisle.
Don’t forget that Wes Gullett’s wife (former state legislator Deb Gullett) worked as chief of staff for liberal mayor Phil Gordon! Neither Gullett is a committed Republican, much less a conservative.
And yes, garvan. I’d say that’s a fair statement about Independents voting Democrat more often than not.
Greg Stanton’s transition team is mainly an absurdly lengthy list of names picked to represent specifically selected ethnic and socio-economic sub-groups. It has nothing whatsoever to do with “representing Phoenix.” It has to do with further dividing Arizona’s citizens as representing “diversity’ instead of being unified as Americans. This is Liberalism at its core. The emphasis is always on widening divisions instead of striving for unity. What a conflicted way to think. Our Founders would be mortified.
Stanton’s showboaty transition team looks like a preponderate pack of liberals to me.
So true! Stanton’s transition team looks like Phoenix’s liberals, not like Phoenix. He ought to bring Deb Gullett back onboard to show there are no hard feelings. She did a bang-up job for liberal Mayor Phil Gordon. She’d be right at home here.
And corrupt Mary Rose Wilcox running again! She should be running all the way south to her beloved Mexico. We don’t
need any more “La Raza” members just like we wouldn’t want any Nazis, or KKKs running for office. Why is it that it’s okay
to elect and re-elect racist Aztlaners but they have the nerve to call European descendants “racists, KKK, and Nazis?”