Posted on 08/26/2007 5:44:04 AM PDT by radar101
This advertisement will start appearing again, if only in aspirants’ minds:
POSITION AVAILABLE: Seat in Congress. Pays $165,200 a year to start and you can vote to raise it yourself. Excellent retirement benefits and perks, as well as opportunities for great free dining, trips and unlimited amorous companionship. The boss seldom checks up and the job requires no strong work ethic or personal ethics.
With District 1 U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi announcing he won’t seek a fourth term, people in both major parties are lining up to answer that advertisement.
Renzi’s departure was inevitable regardless of whether the charges critics leveled against him were true. His enemies voiced them enough that the public thinks they are, as his fundraising results show.
Renzi also suffered from never holding public office before, and he lacked the rhino hide or sophistication to deal with criticism and bad press. Instead of standing up against the charges and answering them, he tried to intimidate media into not discussing them, and near the end he just dropped out of sight.
The FBI raid on his family insurance business, regardless of whether it leads to any charges, was a coup de grace.
On the plus side, at least until his troubles, Renzi spent a fair amount of time on task and in the district, and helped meet critical district needs, such as forest legislation and Native American hospital and health legislation.
And anyone who succeeds him, despite the access to power, perks, pork and paramours, isn’t likely to have a fun time with public approval of Congress standing at 18 percent.
Democrats after the job include Ann Kirkpatrick of Flagstaff, a former member of the Arizona House; Howard Shanker, an attorney with offices in Tempe and Flagstaff who represented several tribes in their fight against the use of effluent (Recycled water) for snowmaking at the Snowbowl ski area; and Mary Kim Titla, Arizona’s first Native American TV reporter who now publishes the Native Youth Magazine online.
Republicans considering a run include former State Senate President Ken Bennett of Prescott; Arizona Corporation Commissioner Kris Mayes, who grew up in Prescott; State Sen. Tom O’Halleran of Sedona; and former Yavapai County GOP Chairman and second-generation local rancher Steve Pierce.
Whomever emerges victorious in 2008 after what is sure to be a campaign shot straight from a sewer pipe will become part of a body unable to make a dent in any of the nation’s major problems and capable only of spending enough to run basic government, wasting the rest on pet projects to ingratiate themselves to voters for reelection so they can go back and do it all again.
Rejoice and continue the fight, Americans have the Traitors on the Run! Soon enough, Victory Will Belong to All of US Americans!
But watch these traitors closely FRiends. Their vile reign is not ended, yet!
Is Renzi an R or a D?
went to his website, he was pictured with Cheney, must be a republican then.
Renzi is a republican who introduced the bill to make sure LaRaza gets Another $10 million from taxpayers every year.
Let’s see...in Congress we have Reid and Reed, Nelson and Nelson, and Renzi, Enzi, and Ensign. Geez...
Anyway, hopefully a Republican will take his spot. A GOOD Republican, not a RINO. I’m thinking one will, because as the approval ratings have shown, Americans are getting tired of treasonous Democrats in Congress.
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