AZ Republic: 3 GOP mayors asked to quit.
GOP leaders from Legislative District 4 on Friday called for the resignations of three West Valley mayors, all registered Republicans, because of their endorsement of Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat…
Conservative members hope to pressure those holding more moderate views to remain silent in deference to Len Munsil, Napolitano’s Republican challenger.
City council, school board and other local elected offices traditionally are nonpartisan. But District 4 party leaders said they followed orders from Arizona Republican Party Chairman Matt Salmon in demanding the resignation of any GOP elected official who endorsed a candidate from another party.
On Friday, District 4 GOP leaders hand-delivered letters to the offices of Mayors Elaine Scruggs of Glendale, Joan Shafer of Surprise and Ron Badowski of Wickenburg, demanding that they step down for publicly supporting Napolitano.
"We’re letting the public know that if you are a Republican, you should stand by your party or remain silent," said Lyle Tuttle, chairman of the Republican Party of District 4, which includes parts of Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria and Surprise. "It’s fine if they want to vote for someone else, but for them to endorse a non-Republican is not following the party line."
If you are a Republican you have the right to remain silent if you disagree with your party. Yeah, that about sums it up.
The intolerance that the Republican party has for so many years focused outward, is now focusing inward as they creep ever closer to losing their grip on power.
Their instinct in the face of adversity is not to embrace differences and grow their coalition, but to purge it of any internal dissent. This is the behavior of ideological zealots, not a pragmatic governing coalition.
This is clearly magical thinking, "If only I can ensure that everyone in my group agrees with me, then everyone everywhere will agree with me." It’s truly sad to see a major American political party have a psychic melt-down like this.
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Kral,
I love your enthusiasm and positive waves, but I’d have to agree with Francine’s sentiment 😉
The House is a done deal, the only question is how big the Dem majority will be…
The Senate is a much tougher nut! Most of the macro-tracking sites give Dems about 47 or 48 seats with 4 to 6 seats in play. If you believe most of the tossups will go to the Dems, then I understand the wellspring of your believe. However, I guess I’m just more cynical after six years of Repug domination…
Whatever you’re drinking, I’d like one, too!
Hey X4mr,
The GOP won’t be eaking out anything this year. I will go on record now and say that the Demos will take BOTH the Senate and the House. They may take the Senate by 2 seats, not one. I also believe that they will take the House by as many as 30.
Not joking…not kidding…this is the year.
Go out and be part of it.
Sad, Michael, but in my opinion inevitable and overdue. Iraq is a meltdown. If GOP managas to eeeck out House or Senate, then Bush gets to continue the meltdown of his administration and its policies. This could perhaps be the long term worse scenario for the GOP.
If GOP gets its ass kicked next week, GOP gets to fall apart over that. Either way, it’s the adage “be careful what you ask for.” Well, GOP got both houses and the Presidency for a long time, and they are stewing in their own juices and the ugliness is really starting to show.
The fish rots from the head. Bush surrounds himself only with those that agree with him, and EVERYONE knows this. This has permeated downward, and their own ranks are starting to wretch.