Jonathan ‘Payday’ Paton to run for Congress in CD 1

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Don't say that I didn't give you fair warning. Watch out Alta Arizona! This carpetbagger has eyes for you.

That's right, former state senator Jonathan "Payday" Paton, the wannabe tinhorn dictator of Tucson, is going to run for Congress in the new CD 1. The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports Paton to run in vast CD1, won’t seek Giffords’ seat:

Former state legislator Jonathan Paton is making another run for a congressional seat, but he won’t be seeking to replace U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned her seat today a year after she was shot in the head in an assassination attempt.

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Paton this morning announced on a Tucson conservative talk radio show that he will run for the new 1st Congressional District, which includes most of northern and eastern Arizona. It stretches from the Grand Canyon to the state’s eastern border, and south around the metro Phoenix area. It also includes communities northwest of Tucson that were previously in CD8.

The seat in CD1 became vacant earlier this month when U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Flagstaff, announced he would instead seek re-election in the heavily Republican 4th Congressional District instead of squaring off against Flagstaff Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, whom he defeated in 2010.

Ann Kirkpatrick shows that she is a regular reader of this blog:

Kirkpatrick’s campaign wasted no time and resurrected an attack that the Arizona Democratic Party leveled at Paton during the 2010 campaign.

“Here in Congressional District One, the last thing we need is a payday-lending lobbyist or a carpetbagger representing us in Congress. Jonathan Paton is both,” said Kirkpatrick spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson.

First, the Arizona Democratic Party needs to revive its paydaypaton.com web page today. The campaign signs can be obtained from the Pima County Democratic Party HQ by our friends in Alta Arizona.

Second, and more importantly, "Payday" Paton should immediately submit his resignation from the Rio Nuevo District Board from which he has sought to subjugate the City of Tucson to the dictates of our colonial overlords from the state of Maricopa. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

Finally, Jim Nintzel at the Tucson Weekly, who hosts the political week in review on Arizona Illustrated, needs to find another talking head from the GOP to replace "Payday" Paton. I suggest that you go back to having the Pima County political party chairs debate. No seconds!