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  • Garcia makes ‘dramatic tilt’ left in run for governor

    07/01/2018 8:25:31 AM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 22 replies
    Arizona Capitol Times ^ | June 15, 2018 | Carmen Forman
    You can’t eat David Garcia. The curious saying stems from when the Democratic gubernatorial candidate served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. Garcia and his Army cohorts were told by a commanding officer that their military handbook included the phrase, “you cannot eat another soldier.” Your fellow soldiers could get you killed, leave you in a foreign land or get you blown up, but they couldn’t cannibalize you, Garcia said at a June 7 fundraiser. Garcia, who ran for state superintendent of public instruction in 2014 and lost by about 16,000 votes, is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor...
  • Sex ads website Backpage.com seized by U.S. authorities: posting

    04/06/2018 3:52:54 PM PDT · by Brown Deer · 35 replies
    reuters ^ | April 6, 2018 | Sarah N. Lynch, Lisa Lambert
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday. A Phoenix FBI official said that there was “law enforcement activity” on Friday at the Sedona, Arizona home of Michael Lacey, one of the founders of Backpage.
  • Arizona Dem Took Contributions From Owner of Site Linked to Underage Prostitution

    04/18/2017 6:55:44 PM PDT · by kevcol · 6 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 18, 2017 | Joe Schoffstall
    David Garcia, a Democratic candidate for governor in Arizona, accepted campaign contributions from the owner of a website that is tied to underage trafficking and prostitution. Michael G. Lacey, who in 2012 sold his newspaper holdings and spun off the classified ad website Backpage.com into its own entity, has given $162,000 in contributions to a number of Democratic politicians at the state and federal levels since legal problems against the site began to mount, the Arizona Republic reported.