Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

First it was South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene, propped up by Republicans but somehow winning the democratic primary before being brought up on phelony porn charges...

But today, the NYTimes discusses an even more hilarious approach.  Steve May, a Republican, recruited three street people to run as Green Party candidates in Arizona. Check out pics and the articvle here

Some great quotes are included:

Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is having in advance of his coming televised debate is whether he ought to gel his hair into his trademark faux Mohawk...

“Did I recruit candidates? Yes,” said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. “Are they fake candidates? No way.”

To make his point, Mr. May went by Starbucks, the gathering spot of the Mill Rats, as the frequenters of Mill Avenue are known.
“Are you fake, Benjamin?” he yelled out to Mr. Pearcy, who cried out “No,” with an expletive attached.

“Are you fake, Thomas?” Mr. May shouted in the direction of Thomas Meadows, 27, a tarot card reader with less than a dollar to his name who is running for state treasurer. He similarly disagreed.

“Are you fake, Grandpa?” he said to Anthony Goshorn, 53, a candidate for the State Senate whose bushy white beard and paternal manner have earned him that nickname on the streets. “I’m real,” he replied.

Gathered around was a motley crew of people who were down on their luck, including a one-armed pregnant woman named Roxie whom Mr. May befriended sometime back and who introduced him to the rest.

I just find this all too hilarious. As much as I consider the right in America traditional fascists in the Hitlerian sense, I have to say that this invasion of the "Green Party" is all too funny.  In a state like Arizona with some very artsy, fartsy friendly fascists running around, many democratic voteswill go to these Greenies, simply due to political lethargy and lack of trust in tradtional politics. These votes may skew tight races and lead to misery at the hands of the GOP.  While I am not pro-misery, I do feel a certain sense of pleasing irony to the fact the great democracy jammed down peoples throats at the barrels of guns and tanks since WWII is completely malfunctioning.

I also find the Green Party full of irrational, liberal eco-Nazis looking to throw the world back into some anti-technological perosis, and most of them equivalent on their views about U.S. imperialism and the international order complete in line with the other strand of liberal fascism run from the Democratic party and spouted at MSNBC. 

Apparently, the official Green Party has shunned the move as a hoax. But I have to honestly say that I think homeless people would have made more effective decisions than the idiots in charge now have over the past generation.

I express my full fledged support for these individuals and look forward to seeing more from the "Green Party" as election season comes to the fore.  American democracy seems to have officially been destroyed, by its own corrupt politicians another indication that it is really time people look for real change outside contemporary systems.