Author's note: This article sucks. Not my best work. Please disregard and read the article I will be publishing next on Tuesday March 30th, 2010 for a further explanation and, hopefully, a teachable moment we can all learn from.
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In my position at PeanutButterPAC I get to research and learn about all sorts of different candidates from across the country. Thus, I feel it is my duty to inform others when I discover one as crappy as this.
Meet Nan Stockholm Walden, a self financing millionaire nut farming ( no kidding ) lobbyist and maybe candidate for Senate who looks like the Arizona version of Harold Ford.
As Sen. John McCain works to beat back a primary challenge from the right, Arizona businesswoman Nan Stockholm Walden is taking a look at entering the Senate race on the Democratic side, according to Democrats in Arizona and in Washington.
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Walden's company owns a large pecan farm with several hundred employees, and she could be in a position to run as an outsider with private sector experience in an anti-Washington year.
Politico.com
Leave it to Politico to miss the fact that Nan Stockholm Walden is a lobbyist.
Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman has already started an exploratory committee to test the waters on the Democratic side of the Arizona Senate race. The only thing Rodney Glassman does not have is piles and piles of money. Nan Stockholm Walden does, and some Democratic insiders would love her to run just because she can self finance her campaign. They think she can run as an outsider despite the fact she is a lobbyist who had to fly from D.C. to Arizona just to discuss her potential Arizona Senate run.
To learn more about Rodney Glassman you can go to his website RodneyGlassman.com or you can read his articles posted here at Daily Kos at Rodney Glassman for United States Senate Explorato
Back to Nan Stockholm Walden. Did I mention she is a lobbyist? Or that she is a nut farmer?
Nan Stockholm Walden
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000-Present. Promoted to Associate Vice President 10/02.
Serve as registered lobbyist and primary contact between president, administration and faculty and the Arizona Congressional delegation and agencies.
Commonwell.org
No. Seriously. AND she is a nut farmer.
Seriously, the Democrats in the Senate do NOT need another Joe Lieberman/Blanche Lincoln/Ben Nelson who will govern like a Republican and cozy up to lobbyists. The LAST thing we need is an actual lobbyist. If Arizona Democrats are serious about beating McCain or his primary challenger J.D. Hayworth they should not support a Creigh Deeds style millionaire like Nan Stockholm Walden. Her candidacy would look like Harold Ford meets Jimmy Carter and it hasn't even started yet.
Let's hope Arizona Democrats do the smart thing and back up Tucson Councilman Rodney Glassman. Nan Stockholm Walden may be able to bring her own money to this race, but it looks like she has nothing else to offer other than money and insider connections. To support Nan Stockholm Walden would be a classic WTF move. To support Rodney Glassman for Arizona's Senate seat would be a winning play.
Let's hope Arizona Democrats choose wisely.
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