AZ’s Worst Legislator: Todd “Confederate” Clodfelter in LD10

I know the Republican incumbent, state Rep. Todd Clodfelter of Tucson’s LD10. I listened as he told a woman at a town hall who was afraid to send her children to school that we would all soon need to carry guns to defend ourselves. I still feel ashamed that I did not go stand next to that mother and challenge his vision of Arizona.

Remember the coverage of Todd Clodfelter’s display — on the floor of the Arizona House of Representatives — of his laptop computer’s screensaver depicting what most of us think of as “The Confederate Flag”? He is immune to the argument, quoted in a Washington Post interview with a Civil War Historian, that “You can’t filter out the racism and leave what’s pure and historical in the flag, because that purity doesn’t exist. Some things are so primitively stained or tarnished by history that they can never be set side. The flag is a perfect example.” Clodfelter defended his use of the flag as “acceptable” imagery. This is the Clodfelter I know.

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Todd ‘Confederate’ Clodfelter has a new scandal

State Representative Todd “Confederate” Clodfelter didn’t bother to show up for the Legislative District 10 Citizens Clean Elections debate earlier this week, presumably because he did not want his constituents to ask about his defense of his “Southern heritage” of slavery, secession and segregation. “White power!

Clodfelter Cartoon

At least his treasonous rebel relatives had the courage to show up and take their beating from Union soldiers back in the day. Todd “Confederate” Clodfelter is a coward who dishonored his rebel relatives by making other plans to avoid the debate. His dead relatives are ashamed.

But it turns out that there may be another reason why this coward did not want to show up and be asked questions by his constituents. The Arizona Daily Star reports today, Hackers: Rep. Todd Clodfelter had account on website that caters to extramarital affairs:

Less than two weeks before early ballots hit mailboxes, an anonymous website has revealed that Republican state Rep. Todd Clodfelter has had a profile on a website geared at internet users seeking extramarital affairs.

Clodfelter, a representative from Tucson who was first elected in 2016, is owning up to creating the profile at AshleyMadison.com, saying he’s made some mistakes that he’s working through with his family.

Further, the lawmaker says, his personal sex life is nobody’s business and has nothing to do with his position as a state lawmaker.

Wow. Is this guy clueless, or what? Has he not been watching the Judge Kavanaugh hearings this week?

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