This is an IMPORTANT follow-up to the great KOS news re: Early Voting for AZ Senate.
Kossacks, it would be difficult to overstate the importance of a Jim Pederson win in AZ!!! Super Bowl HUGE! (Second only to Webb v Allen, but I think that one is in the bank.)
First, Pederson himself has great attributes; 1)he is a true progressive (see his site), 2) a businessman, NOT a professional politician, 3) financed his own campaign and is not beholden to anyone (including the DNC). Also note that he didn't suck money away from other candidates (and we owe him for that).
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Attributes 2 & 3 testify that he will have no problem voting for a No Lobby Money rule (a la Pelosi). I'm sure we ALL agree that Big Lobby Money is our single worst threat to democracy.
Second, Jon Kyl is a Stealth Radical. He keeps a low profile (AZ papers call him "the other senator"), but in fact he is the fifth ranking repug senator, and votes VERY
HARD RIGHT. I mean, Ted Stevens, Jim Bunning, et al hard right. Cheney's War. Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc, ad nauseum.
(And, BTW, a Billion bucks on that stupid Fence!)
Of course, Kyl does warn us that that, sans his protection, terrorists will soon be in our streets to kill us. (No kidding.) - but, what the hey, that's a small price to pay for beating repugs.
And finally, this race has not been on the map of contested senate races!!! It's like found money, and would offset a loss elsewhere.
So, my reason for this post, kossacks, is a shameless plea to - GO TO JIM PEDERSON'S SITE AND SIGN UP TO GOTV - PLEASE! DO IT PLEASE!