HAS THE SCOTUS SEEN ENOUGH OR ARE THEY RIGHT ON SCHEDULE?
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a progressive stalwart in Congress, doesn't have much to worry about in his primary election Tuesday. But in the lead-up to it, Grijalva got a nasty taste of the dark-money-funded political warfare that has characterized the 2012 elections.Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.). Will Seberger/Zuma
Voters in Grijalva's southwestern Arizona district opened their mailboxes in recent days to find a mailer attacking their congresssman for voting to cut $716 billion from Medicare, missing more than 400 votes in Congress, and having "voted against jobs for Arizona." The mailer's opposite side strongly endorsed Grijalva's opponent, Amanda Aguirre, calling her "a real Democrat who fights for the middle class." The mailer's source: A mysterious, blandly named super-PAC called the Opportunity for All Committee.
Opportunity for All has yet to disclose a single donor, and its official address appears to be an empty dirt lot in El Paso, Texas. Grijalva calls the group "a case study in dark money."
Grijalva was so incensed by the anonymous attacks on him that he called a press conference to rebut them. In a phone interview Monday afternoon, Grijalva told me he felt compelled to respond to Opportunity for All because he saw the group's mailers as an effort to mislead voters by distorting his record. "We saw we were gonna be victims to this bull@!$%#, and so [we] decided we're gonna push back," he says.The man behind Opportunity for All is Carlos Sierra, a Republican operative who worked as an aide to Sen. John McCain and managed former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer's 2012 GOP primary bid. Sierra registered Opportunity for All as a super-PAC just a week before Grijalva's primary. And though super-PACs must disclose their donors, Opportunity for All has yet to disclose any of its funders.
another under the covers attempt to continually fool "we the people" the skulduggery they employ is as egregious as a Trojan Horse the real one or more appropriately the virus. remember if they lie about everything to get in, can you in your heart trust anything coming from that side?
they talk about the Pres. destroying the integrity of the office, they do the dirt then blame the Pres. they go much further they destroy America and the very concept of humanity. insufferable SOB's
