McCain’s Arizona Grassroots Action PAC made a “huge” mistake … And probably handed the 2016 Primary Election to Kelli Ward

By Bill Heuisler

John McCain’s millions in corrupt campaigns have been funded by “Arizona Grassroots Action PAC” (GAPAC) for years. And Arizona (AZ) Senator McCain apparently thinks we (home-state Arizona Republican Constituents) are really stupid.               Most of us voters are becoming aware many Senate Primary campaigns are exercises in casual contempt for the voters.  And old frauds like McCain know they can easily win reelection by first diluting, and then smearing primary opposition.      But now, as they smear Kelli Ward for McCain, AZ Grassroots Action PAC is wasting McCain millions on obvious lies.

First, McCain’s PAC says Kelli Ward (a long-time Military Wife) is undermining our military. That is just plain stupid.      Second, McCain’s PAC says Kelli Ward opposed bills funding our US military. That is impossible and fatally stupid.  1) Most AZ Republicans know Mike Ward is a serving Colonel in the AZ National Guard and former US Air Force officer.    2) We Voters all know Kelli Ward was a STATE SENATOR and could not ever vote on FEDERAL Military Spending Bills.      

McCain’s GAPAC thinks AZ Voters do not know the difference between State Lawmakers and US Federal Lawmakers.

So GAPAC is now flooding Internet, TV radio and print with proof of McCain’s gross ineptitude and dishonesty.

McCain’s AZ Grassroots Action PAC has bribed, purged, defrauded, threatened, lied and smeared many Republicans.

In 2010 GAPAC paid off a decoy Republican’s mortgage and then smeared his real primary opponent, J.D.Hayworth.

In 2014 GAPAC paid to purge hundreds of Republican Precinct Committeemen who had voted to censure John McCain.         

In 2015 GAPAC covered up fraud and dispersal of $50,000 stolen from Republicans at a Scottsdale resort by McCain-spoiler-Meluskey’s Campaign Director, PT Burton and two other Meluskey Campaign members, Bergman and Frewa.          In 2016 GAPAC hired lawyers to sue an annoying McCain-Meluskey critic who was spreading the truth to AZ voters.    

In 2016 GAPAC is anonymously smearing Kelli Ward, distorting her record and insulting voters with ineptly obvious lies.      

In 2016 GAPAC is charged with FEC & US Senate ethics complaints by “Arizonans for Transparent Elections” or (ATE).        In 2016 GAPAC made illegal (no return address) political mailings with anonymous, fictional smears against Kelli Ward. McCain’s GAPAC  treacherously spends most of its out-of-state millions against Republicans – see the numbers below.  (Click on “split by cycle”- see anti-Republican millions). http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00558445

 https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2016/05/16/watchdog-group-files-campaign-violations-ethics-complaint-against-senate-candidate-meluskey/    https://azdailyherald.com/2016/06/24/pro-mccain-pac-is-neither-arizonan-or-grassroots/

An FEC 15-page report of Virginia-based GAPAC’s recent filing (1/1/16 to 3/31/16) shows GAPAC’s devotion to the Ultra Left. One example: Gregory Wendt (a billionaire San Francisco Obama-donor) is listed there with hundreds of wealthy, out-of-state, leftist “McCain Friend” donors. (Wendt and wife Lisa have been generous McCain donors for decades). http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/350/201604149012420350/201604149012420350.pdf#navpanes=0

John McCain’s AZ Grassroots Action PAC has done more damage to AZ Republicans than the AZ Democrats have done.     But this year McCain’s sleazy Left Wing GAPAC screwed up badly and has probably cost him his 30-year Senate Seat.                                                             

This crucial year, 2016, McCain’s Alexandria Virginia Super PAC made disastrously revealing factual mistakes that prove  John McCain thinks AZ Voters don’t know the difference between State Lawmakers and Federal Lawmakers. John McCain’s nasty ads show the offhanded careless malice McCain exhibits in most of his endeavors. But these ads also show his AZ Grass Roots Super PAC’s ignorance and reveal how McCain’s DC staff thinks his AZ voters are really stupid. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/248414/mccain-using-obama-san-francisco-donor-purge-daniel-greenfield 

McCain hoped we voters wouldn’t notice. But we did.

Sorry about repeating info from other reports, but this Grassroots Action PAC mistake will probably sink John McCain.     So, In case some of your voter friends aren't paying full attention, spread the word about John McCain’s fatal screw up. When all our voter friends give a thought or two about McCain’s attempted smear… they will vote for Kelli Ward.

Bill Heuisler, Marine Vet, Author of 3 books, former Tucson Cop and Arizona DPS licensed Investigator over thirty years.

Gila County Republicans Censure Senator John McCain – AGAIN

“For the second time since 2013, the Gila County Republican Party has censured Senator John McCain for his continued lack of adherence to Republican principles and the desires of his Republican constituents in Gila County as well as the extraordinary negative and misleading campaign literature and ads towards a fellow Republican candidate, according to Gila County Republicans Chairman Gary Morris.

The censure from the May 14 Precinct Committeemen meeting states, “The Gila County Republican Party cannot, and will not, support Senator McCain in the upcoming elections.

“In early fall of 2013, The Gila County GOP first censured McCain for abandoning Republican principles as well as his participation and leadership in the “Gang of Eight” along with the Senator’s conscious and arrogant abandonment of the desires of his Republican constituents. Those eight senators drafted a poorly designed, ill thought out, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill. Ultimately, Congress rejected the bill following substantial opposition from the public.

“Following Gila County’s lead in 2013, other Arizona County and Legislative Districts also passed resolutions censuring McCain for his abandonment of Republican principles. That led to the Arizona Republican Party, at its January 24, 2014 State Statutory Meeting, also passing a resolution, by a large margin of votes, to censure the Senator, for his abandonment of Republican principles.

“McCain’s troubles with Arizona Republicans continued. As an unannounced and surprise speaker at the State Statutory Meeting in January, 2015, the Senator was booed and shouted down immediately upon entering the convention hall by more than 800 attendee’s, which continued for several minutes as he attempted to speak. Shouts of “Trust is earned” and “Go home” were repeated over and over.

“McCain has continued his arrogant abandonment of Republican principles and the desires of Republican constituents in Gila County, thus the motivation for the second resolution to censure the Senator, according to Morris’s press release.

“With Senator McCain’s history, the Gila County Republican Party cannot, and will not, support the Senator in the Primary election on August 30^th and suggest Republican voters seriously consider another Republican candidate who has a committed and demonstrated history to Republican principles and who can properly represent the desires of Republican constitutes in Gila County.” – Contact: Morris 602-803-7366

Gila County Republican Party Censure of Senator John McCain

When candidates for office campaign as Republicans, the electorate expects them to commit themselves to Republican principles when in office, and further.

ü  Senator McCain was, at one time early in his career, a staunch Republican, and committed to Republican principles, as well as committed to serving the interest of his Arizona constituency, and further;

ü  Senator McCain’s recent and past legislative performance demonstrates a drift to left of center in favor of Democrat philosophies and principles, and further;

ü  Senator McCain has demonstrated greater interest in, and has repeatedly demonstrated support of Democrat interests, and less support of Republican interests, and

ü  Whereas Senator McCain has amassed a long record of drafting, co-sponsoring and voting for legislation best associated with liberal Democrat interests, such as amnesty, funding for Obama Care, raising the debt ceiling, and he continues to support liberal judicial nominees, while avoiding any demonstrated opposition to the liberal assaults on the Constitution and the second amendment, and

ü  Whereas Senator McCain’s record of failing to support Republican principles and much of his sponsored legislation has been harmful to the citizens of Arizona and the United States; and,

ü  Whereas Senator McCain has campaigned as a conservative and made promises during his re-election campaigns, such as the needed and welcomed promise to secure our borders and finish the border fence, and yet he has repeatedly failed to aggressively pursue or support those promises; and

ü  Whereas Senator McCain has abandoned the core values of Arizona Republicans and has been eerily weak or silent in opposing Democrat legislation and Democrat assaults on Republican principles; and

ü  Whereas Senator McCain has repeatedly and publicly severely criticized, or reprimanded, fellow conservative Republicans in Congress and his own party, therefore;

ü  Be it hereby resolved that the Gila County Republican Party censures Senator McCain for his continued disservice to the Republican party, the citizens of our state and nation, and;

ü  Be it further resolved that until the Senator consistently champions, and demonstrates support for, Republican principles and our party's platform and values, we, the Gila County Republican Party in Arizona will no longer support, campaign for, or endorse John McCain as our U.S. Senator. - May 14, 2016,  Gila County Republican Committee 

AZ Official Tim Jeffries Attacked for Offering to Take Employees’ Prayer Requests to Holy Site in France

Tim Jeffries, the quirky director of Arizona's Department of Economic Security, poses with Mr. Smiley outside the DES building. He had the five round concrete barriers (to prevent a car from driving up onto the patio area) painted with clever themes.

The secularists have ignored how the state recruits its employees to automatically contribute money from their paychecks to charities, which include several Christian nonprofits.

The director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, Tim Jeffries, is under fire from a secularist group for mentioning to employees in an April email that they could give him “special intentions” to take on his next annual trip to a popular religious site in France. Jeffries is Catholic, and the Grotto in Lourdes is considered a holy place where people go to be healed. He has visited the sacred site every year for the past seven years, bringing letters from others requesting healing or other help.

The Secular Coalition for Arizona is accusing Jeffries of violating state policy by proselytizing. His letter, said the group’s director Zenaido Quintana, is “particularly egregious and could have had him fired from many companies — organizations where policies are in place to prevent work email from being used to proselytize religion.”

But Jeffries didn’t promote the Catholic faith, invite employees to church or request money for religious causes. All he did was offer a service employees were free to accept or reject.  The state policy Jeffries is accused of violating requires that “Any use of State property for other than State-business purposes must be exercised in accordance with your agency’s policies and procedures.”  His supporters have argued that nothing in DES’s policies and procedures would prohibit Jeffries’ email. 

Read the rest of the article at The Stream

Sleazy Don Stapley has the NERVE to run for Congress?!

Don Stapley's two booking photos

This crook has the nerve to run for Congress after the 6+ years of never-ending hell he's put me and others through, and he got the taxpayers to award him a whopping $3.5 million in damages for "stress" because my ex-boss dared to attempt to prosecute him. I just came across this article he wrote where he claims "Small amounts of these funds were mistakenly co-mingled with personal funds, until records were better kept, giving Thomas’s office false license to pick and choose from every checking or credit card account to make up its list of supposedly illegal purchases."

Oh really? Then why did The Arizona Republic reprint HUNDREDS of expenditures from Stapley's campaign finance reports? $86,000 in expenditures from a campaign fund, spent on luxury personal items, does not constitute "small amounts." Was the Republic lying too? I think Stapley really thinks people are that stupid they'll believe his lies. Tellingly, the list of the expenditures has been scrubbed clean from the Republic's website, and also scrubbed from archive.org as well. (the link from this article no longer works -http://www.azcentral.com/…/20100620don-stapley-supervisor-i…)

Jesse Jackson, Jr., was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for the same thing Stapley did, spending campaign funds on personal luxury items! Yep, Maricopa County is now officially more corrupt than Cook County. 

Note Stapley claims Gila County Attorney Daisy Flores was also wrong in concluding that he had violated the law. Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk also stated that the charges had merit against Stapley. So why didn't he file a bar complaint against them as well? Why aren't they disbarred like Andrew Thomas, suffering 6+ years of hell along with the rest of us? 

Republicans in Arizona aren't stupid and there are plenty of better candidates in the race including Andy Biggs and Christine Jones. 

Los Angeles Times: The California State Bar's dismal history shows why it should be broken up

The California State Bar has become as corrupt as the Arizona State Bar. California is a blue state, but even they realize how bad the sleaze is. Why would anyone want to become an attorney anymore? The California legislature is actively seeking to reform its Bar, to make much of its functions voluntary. We tried to do the same thing here in Arizona the last couple of years, but since the Arizona Bar  has the second highest dues of any state mandatory Bar in the country, it was like David v. Goliath; they could afford hours of lobbying that we couldn't counteract. Below are some excerpts from the article. Note the recent SCOTUS antitrust decision — the Ariz. Bar is even worse than the Calif. Bar violating it! 

According to the AZ Bar website, its ratio on the board of governors of attorneys v. non-attorneys is a mere four out of 30:

The Board is comprised of 30 people: four non-attorney, public members appointed by the Board; three at-large members appointed by the Arizona Supreme Court; 19 attorney members elected by fellow Bar members in their district; and four ex-officio members (immediate past president and the deans of Arizona's three law schools).

So here's the relevant excerpts from the LA Times -

Let’s put this in terms that even an attorney with peerless loophole-seeking skills would consider straightforward: the California State Bar is a mess. 

In recent years, the organization has been the target of withering state audits documenting misspent fees by the millions, overpaid executives, and inept management of its all-important duty of licensing lawyers and managing professional discipline. Its reputation is at a low ebb among state legislators, who last month placed on hold the organization’s yearly authorization to collect annual fees because the measure didn’t go far enough to achieve reform.

The Bar’s dual role as licenser and ethics enforcer as well as trade organization pushing policy changes,  critics say, leaves it hopelessly mired in a conflict of interest. 

“You don’t delegate regulatory power to a special interest group,” says Robert Fellmeth, executive director of the University of San Diego’s Center for Public Interest Law and a frequent critic of the Bar. “To let them be the decision-makers is obscene.”

These issues seem to crop up every few years, but seldom with as much urgency as now. That’s because a 2015 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has put professional licensing bodies on notice that they could be guilty of antitrust violations if a majority of their members are participants in the business they regulate.

The California State Bar is governed by a 19-member board of trustees, 13 of whom are lawyers. You do the math.

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But the Supreme Court ruling sharpens the argument for splitting the Bar in two — into a trade association with voluntary membership, and a government body controlled by non-lawyers and responsible for professional licensing and discipline, much as medical professional standards are overseen by the Medical Board of California and political advocacy is left to the independent California Medical Association.

A measure passed by the State Assembly in June 2 would place the “deunification”  of the Bar firmly on the front burner. The bill would create a commission to reconsider the Bar’s governing structure and report back to the legislature by April. The bill also would restructure the Bar board as a 13-member body with at least seven non-lawyer members — an effort to comply with the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling.

Deunification is “the only real solution to the state bar’s chronic dysfunction,” says Dennis H. Mangers, a non-attorney Bar trustee who has submitted just such a proposal to the legislature. “The Bar should have only one purpose — to rid the profession of bad apples.”

That function often takes a back seat to the policy and social purposes that make the Bar resemble more a professional club than a regulator, according to critics. In legislative testimony last April, Fellmeth observed that the Bar sponsors 30 different programs offering professional services to its members, often at a group discount, including financial advice, insurance, consumer products and software. “No other occupational licensing agency offers any of these goods and services to its licensees,” he said.

The Bar tends to hold itself exempt from state rules applied to other state agencies on grounds that it’s an arm of the State Supreme Court; critics say it still regularly violates the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, which requires at least 10 days public notice of any meetings and forbids members to discuss business with each other except in an open forum, despite a measure passed last year bringing it under Bagley-Keene’s jurisdiction. 

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In the mid-1980s, the legislature imposed an enforcement monitor for the organization. Fellmeth, who served in that role for five years, found that clients were systematically discouraged from pursuing complaints. For example, the Bar had established a toll-free hotline, but hadn’t listed the number anywhere “a consumer might logically look to find it.”

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Howle found that the Bar was squandering resources that should have been spent on hiring more enforcement staff. In 2012, the organization spent $76.6 million to buy and refurbish a Los Angeles office building to supplement its San Francisco headquarters — about twice what it spent on discipline that year.

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The Bar’s structure as a combined trade association and enforcement body dates from 1927 and isn’t unique.  But their day may be passing, says Ted Schnayer, an expert on Bar governance at the University of Arizona.

12 Reasons the State Bar of Arizona is Nontransparent

It fails to tell its members where their money goes. The Bar does not provide members a detailed accounting of its annual expenditures, let alone a yearly income statement and balance sheet. In addition, the Bar uses unexplained indirect cost allocations to account for overhead and administrative costs. Moreover, these partial allocations appear to be based on undocumented time estimates unrelated to measurable factors. Indeed, in the Bar’s “2015 Annual Report,” the Bar states that in 2015 it generated CLE revenues of $2,059,801 against expenses of $1,925,940. This translates into a mystifying expense-to-sales ratio of approximately 94%. Were these allocated expenses reasonably linked to a level of service or benefit received? Without transparency, it’s anybody’s guess whether the Bar’s indirect cost allocations are reasonable, equitable, real and current — or whether they even represent acceptable means for apportioning costs.

Read the rest at The Irreverent Lawyer

Time is Running Short — Let’s Keep the Momentum Going to Save Bear the Dog!

We started a fundraising drive to save the life of Bear, who belongs to IC’s longtime friend Phyllis. He needs $3,000 to remove the cancer from his mouth or he will soon die a painful death. So far, generous friends have contributed $750. We are one quarter of the way there! But we still have a ways to go. Even if you can only contribute, say, $25, if everyone contributes $25 we will raise the full amount quickly. And time is of the essence, if not treated soon the cancer will spread quickly. If you cannot afford to donate, PLEASE email and post this as many places as you can. 

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Consultant Chatter: Ellis Baxter

IC Arizona will be running a series of posts entitled "Consultant Chatter," bringing you the history of some of the most prominent political operatives in Arizona. This is the second installment.

Name: Ellis Baxter  [67]

How many years involved in politics: 52 

 How many years involved in Arizona politics: 5

 What Arizona projects have you been involved with?

Janet Contreras [U.S. House]

Dean Martin [Governor]

John Washington [Scottsdale Mayor]

Bill Crawford [Scottsdale City Council] 

Short summary of how you got involved in politics: 

In my family, politics was the sport de jour. My great uncle was a nine term congressman. My grandfather would have all the state politicos over to the house; I would sit in a small chair while they had some of my grandfather’s apple brandy that he made. My favorite was Big JIM Folsom, the former governor, who was running for office, so I went to his local office and volunteered. I would go to the major highway around the county and put bumper stickers on cars. They displayed, “Ya'll come" -  no name just that. After Big Jim lost in the primary, there was a run-off election and it was between George Wallace and Ryan de Graffenreid. De Graffenreid’s people came by and wanted me to do the stuff for him that I did for Big Jim, but I did not know him. Then they offered me $50 a week to do it so I took it. I was 14 at the time, and from there it just went on... 

What issue(s) got you involved in politics:

I believe in America, I believe in the Constitution, I understood how important it is to be free, to have the Bill of Rights. Almost every president in my lifetime takes the oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution and then they try like hell to go around it - and they hook up with the elites, and that is fascism which I fight. 

Who was your political hero growing up:

Big Jim Folsom and Senator Lister Hill, and of course my great-uncle. 

Has that hero changed since you were involved in politics: 

Thank God no ... Hill in my mind has gotten bigger, he co-sponsored the Hill-Burton Act. 

Why are you still involved in politics:

The country is going downhill fast. When I came out here to Arizona, I wanted out of the game, but Arizona has no conservatives in D.C. Scottsdale is a tax and spend city, and they are doing really wrong stuff. I have studied monetary policy for 20 years, and I have many solutions to these problems. I also ran some ground games in Georgia for some of the the most famous Senators in the country! We have lost the way. The Constitution is the vital link; we must fight to elect conservatives to office. Hillary or Trump are both horrible. 

It comes down to choices. This is going to end bad. It is up to us to remove the false conservatives from office. I want to help with that. Arizona does not have a single conservative in D.C.; they are all just working for their careers - all of them. 

Next we face the movement to a new social order; the signs are everywhere but so few can see the links. Neo-fascist ideology is rampant worldwide. They will not go away. It will get much worse before it gets better - and no one here sees this, they're too busy being angry and supporting Trump. Trump will be washed down the drain with all the dirt he has done, and I think he is broke. When this hits, what will all those poor people do? 

What do you hope to accomplish in the next 5-10 years:

I hope to get my debt, banking, and monetary plan out to the public. And to use it to foster the banking plan that would save the country from its self. In addition, right now I am working on the next shoe; the grassroots is always caught flat footed. This "zero marginal cost society" has got to come to a close. They elected a mayor in London Metro, and almost in San Antonio! They are now working on some dozen major cities worldwide. This is the NWO. Just this past weekend, the Swiss had a national income scheme on the ballot. It got 23% support, but this is just round one. Everyone gets a check monthly. Everyone. 

What do you hope your Arizona legacy is when all is said and done:

That I tried to help the underdog candidates, who are trying to do a job of work in lieu of building a career like the current lot do now. Perhaps get people to know what a republic is.

What episode in your political journey has taught you the most:

Watching it change from people who were born to do it into people who want to win at any cost, will do any thing to win. 

Summarize your most memorable moment in Arizona politics:

The first meeting with the volunteers for Janet Contreras for Congress. it was a real grassroots effort. They knew the odds, but were ready to make the effort.  

Who’s your favorite Arizona elected official:

I guess it would be Ben Quayle; he was a class act; he was not driven by money and had conservative ideas. 

What was your favorite campaign and why:

Janet Contreras's campaign for Congress in Arizona. I was asked to try and do something with the mess that was there, they did not really have a structure, and there was eight weeks until the election so we had no ability to alter the mail-in ballots. But IF we could have a good showing on election day we might leave a path forward for Janet. Everyone involved knew it was a long shot, but they really worked to do the best they could. I loved those people; the grassroots is the real deal. The count of the total of the votes was never completed. 

Favorite TV show:

Levin TV  

Favorite writer:

John Keynes, Niall Ferguson, Corsi, and Levin, plus about 500 hundred more. I have read 12,501 books as of today 06-06-2016 Reading Blank Slate tonight.

Favorite hobby:

Reading, audio, photography, repairing watches, guitars & furniture, and listening to music.

Click here for the previous consultant featured, Sean Noble

$5 million dollar claim filed against the State of Arizona by disbarred attorney for malicious prosecution

June 6, 2016, Monday

Briana Hernandez, Press Contact 

Briana@jeffreymoffatt4congress.com

 FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE 

Jeffrey Moffatt, an Arizona attorney who was disbarred inadvertently by Judge William J. O’Neil, the Arizona State Bar's disciplinary judge, has filed a $5 million dollar claim against the State of Arizona for malicious prosecution.

Moffatt argued that the matter O’Neil disbarred him for has already been adjudicated in another state, which found in Moffatt’s favor.

Additionally, Moffatt notes that federal law provides for federal court to have exclusive jurisdiction over the contested matter, since it involved multiple jurisdictions. 

Points of interest Moffatt argued within his $5 million claim:

• O’Neil is required to uphold the state constitution of Arizona and the U.S. Constitution — yet it is impossible for O’Neil to uphold either the state constitution or U.S. Constitution, because O’Neil does not have a valid “oath of office.”  

• The purported oath of office for O’Neil does not have his affixed signature, is not signed off on by an Arizona governor, nor even notarized.

Moffatt went on to say, "Since I am a federal attorney with a limited federal practice, exclusive jurisdiction belongs to the federal court, and specifically the U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Department of Treasury — not the State of Arizona's Supreme Court." 

According to Richard M. Re, Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Law, from his law review article, Articles Promising the Constitution,

The Constitution requires that all … judges … swear or affirm their fidelity to it. The resulting practice often called “the oath" … And official defiance of the oath would violates the public’s trust, reliance and expectations … [T]he Oath equilibrates the power imbalance between officials and the public and so serves a paradigmatic promissory function.

Judge O’Neil’s failure to have a valid oath of office is exactly what Mr. Moffatt said is the beginning of our Founding Fathers turning over in their graves. He said, "We are witnessing our U.S. Constitution being trashed by the establishment, which is why presidential candidate Donald Trump is leading a political revolution, to take back our country — and so am I."

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Targeted GOP Attorneys Release Preview of Interview Exposing Corrupt AZ State Bar and its Disciplinary Judge

McCain Senate Campaign Resorts to Misleading Attacks to Fend Off Conservative Challenger

Kelli Ward, a conservative state legislator and physician challenging five-term senator John McCain in the Republican primary, has little statewide name recognition — but McCain is so unpopular she is nevertheless virtually tied with him in polls. She has her work cut out for her though. McCain is spending millions to defeat her, and stooping to misleading attack ads to get the job done.

I should note that I served as the director of social media on J. D. Hayworth’s unsuccessful campaign challenging McCain in 2010, and experienced McCain campaign attacks firsthand. My experience, and what Ward is enduring now, apparently are not out of the ordinary. A couple of prominent Arizona politicians have told me they do not dare run against him because they do not want to put themselves and their families through the inevitable smears. 

Chemtrail Claptrap

The McCain campaign bought a barrage of ads in late May associating Ward with the chemtrails conspiracy theory, the unproven notion that there “are long-lasting trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft consisting of chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for sinister purposes undisclosed to the general public.” McCain’s campaign, using a technique called ad remarketing, got the “Chemtrail Kelli” ads to pop up all over the internet, accusing her of being a conspiracy theorist and insisting she spent tax dollars entertaining chemtrails theories.

Read the rest of the article at The Stream