But you act like people just come out of the woodwork who a) are popular, b) competent, and c) with no skeletons. There are reasons why people like Kobach, Byrnovich in AZ, Oz and Barnette in PA, run. It’s because others either can’t or won’t.
Instead of bashing those who do, we ought to spend more time on finding the right candidates then convincing all others who would dilute the vote to exit. We’re doing pretty good in AZ governor race with Lake, but the US Senate race has Byrnovich and two outsiders (Masters and Lamon). Apparently Lamon is nearly 100% self funded from his business-—good in some ways, bad in others. I like to see someone funded by the people. But the danger is they could split the vote.
“We’re doing pretty good in AZ governor race with Lake”
Why not Matt Salmon, for example? Lake is un unknown: has never run before (not battle tested), with questionable politics. She is potentially the exact mistake I am warning about. Wait for the data dump on her to show after she gets nominated. Trump endorsed because he thinks she is attractive, which is not smart.
On April 22, 2004, Kari Halperin donated $500 to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, a Democratic presidential candidate.
Her occupation is listed as “video production.” She was still a registered Republican.
At the time, Kerry was the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. He lost to President Bush in the fall general election.
-On June 28, 2008, a “K Halperin” donated $350 to Barack Obama’s campaign. Her occupation is listed as “Zen Video,” the name of her husband’s Phoenix business.
Kelly got 81,000 more votes than Hillary.
And Kobach's percentages of the Trump 2016 vote was in a very narrow band.
There should have been a more than a couple of counties where he was more popular than 75% of Trump's 2016 turnout.
It just doesn't pass the sniff test, considering that Kelly blew out Hillary's 2016 numbers in absolute laughers.