By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings
Al Melvin may claim that Common Core educational standards embrace “fuzzy math”, but he may not be one to speak – his knowledge of Arizona geography is fuzzy. At best.
State Sen. Al Melvin (R), wants to be governor of Arizona.
It’s no secret that I have many problems with that, but I never thought that I would have to say this:
He doesn’t know enough about Arizona geography to be qualified to visit the governor’s office, much less occupy it.
On Thursday, he tweeted this –
Anthem? “[J]ust north of Florence”???
From Google maps –
Yes, I suppose that technically speaking, Anthem is north of Florence, but not “just” north.
Getting curious, I looked up the event in question.
From the Facebook page of the Pinal County Republican Party –
The route between Anthem and the forum address in Florence, also courtesy Google maps .
Under normal circumstances, I would not publicize a Republican event.
I chose to do so in this case because if Al Melvin continues to labor under the delusion that the event is in Anthem, he will end up traveling to Maricopa County.
That would ruin a potentially great weekend. For any Maricopans who cross his path.
Could not find an Anthem in Pinal County on a map, and the Pinal GOP’s address for the event was in Florence, not Anthem.
Also, the closest they came to mentioning a development name in the address was “Sun City at Merril Ranch”.
Still, glad he went to Pinal County on Saturday, not Maricopa County.
Craig
There are two Anthem developments in Arizona, just like there are many second avenues.
One of these is just north of Florence in Pinal county.