Today, one day before the AZ primary, Randy Parraz picked up another significant endorsement, this time from Joe Sudbay at AmericaBlog, who says:
In Arizona, Randy Parraz is the pro-equality candidate for Senate
Tomorrow, there's a Democratic primary for Senate in Arizona. There are two main contenders: Rodney Glassman and Randy Parraz. If I lived in Arizona, I'd vote for Parraz. I met him at Netroots Nation and was impressed. Glassman was the anointed candidate, but his campaign has been a disappointment. Parraz supports full marriage equality. Glassman won't state a position.
The Blue America PAC is on the air with an ad for Parraz.
Watch Randy talk about LGBT issues, including marriage: "You get what I get. It's that simple."
His statement actually goes easy on Glassman in calling his campaign a "disappointment," and it should be acknowledged that there are also two other candidates in this race, John Dougherty and Cathy Eden, both of whom have also stated unambiguous support for full marriage equality.
Glassman is the only one of the candidates in the Democratic primary who doesn't, and it's not quite true that he won't state a position because early in the campaign he did, he said "marriage is for the religious institutions" and that he supports "equality" in the form of civil unions. That turned out to be unpopular with Democratic primary voters, so now he just says he's for 'equality' and hopes people will assume he means, well, equality.
However, we have three other candidates who really do support equality and are willing to take a stand on it.
It's the eleventh hour in this election, but if there's anyone out there still supporting Glassman based on the early hype, it's time to look again. There are three better options, any one of whom would be a better representative for us. Dougherty is also a contender, in my opinion, and I think he will do better than many are expecting in this race.
Personally, I'm with Joe Sudbay. Randy Parraz for US Senate. Somos Arizona.