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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI know this is going to disappoint many DUers here but...
Ben Quayle lost his primary last night in Arizona!
Quayle Loses House Primary in Redrawn Arizona District
PHOENIX United States Representative Ben Quayle lost his bid for a second term in office on Tuesday, defeated by another first-term incumbent, Representative David Schweikert, in a nasty, costly and very competitive Republican primary in a newly drawn congressional district.
With 80 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Schweikert, 50, won 53 percent of the votes cast in the district, which encompasses parts of Phoenix, most of Scottsdale and several suburbs to the north. It was a tight finish to a race featuring candidates of very similar ideologies, but very different personalities and backgrounds
PHOENIX United States Representative Ben Quayle lost his bid for a second term in office on Tuesday, defeated by another first-term incumbent, Representative David Schweikert, in a nasty, costly and very competitive Republican primary in a newly drawn congressional district.
With 80 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Schweikert, 50, won 53 percent of the votes cast in the district, which encompasses parts of Phoenix, most of Scottsdale and several suburbs to the north. It was a tight finish to a race featuring candidates of very similar ideologies, but very different personalities and backgrounds
I'm sure the other republican isn't much different that Quayle but I just found that kid of former VP Dan Quayle to be annoying as hell!
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I know this is going to disappoint many DUers here but... (Original Post)
LynneSin
Aug 2012
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)1. Somehow little Ben
is going to find a way to blame Obama and the evil evil Socialists in Arizona.
That privileged little prick is every bit as annoying as his dumb as dirt old man.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. I blame Murphy Brown (nt)
Delphinus
(11,842 posts)3. Excellent news!
Coming from Indiana, where we had to suffer his papa for way too long.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)4. You spell potatoe, I spell potahto,
let's call the whole thing off.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)5. Doing my best here to deal with the trauma--
Have already worked through the 5 stages of grief and am now in a 6th, rarely- experienced stage:
pure, happy-dance hilarity!
sellitman
(11,607 posts)6. I'm in morning
But it's getting close to noon here in the east.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)7. The potatoe didn't fall far from the tree.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)8. Is this guy a quasi-sane Republican
or did Quayle get out teabagged?
Either way - this is EXCELLENT news.