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Algo Mas's avatar

I was tired of Charlie Kirks weak act 5 years ago. Now...he's a martyr. Oh, goody. Let's build statues, rename roads, physical landmarks, etc. 50% of us couldn't stand him. But, until we can get Republicans out of State Government we will we have no meaningful voice and they will try to put his NIL on everything. Think midterms. Then we can stop this shizzle.

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Drew Ryan's avatar

I've been registered independent for as long as I've been registered to vote. I'm glad for anything that might weaken the two party system, but I also want nothing to do with a party marketed toward independents. To me, the point is staying focused on issues without a party orthodoxy to tell me what to think. It's not about centrism either, as though the position on an arbitrary spectrum with shifting goalposts can or should be a basis for what I support. I can simultaneously support things right, left, center, or whatever if I think the ways that issues linked by parties are nebulous and poorly justified.

All that to say, I don't see much of point in the new party, but I wish them well insofar as it might weaken the grip of the others.

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Robert Karp's avatar

Something for you to check. If you click on the RiseAZ logo at the top of your newsletter you get the following error: {"errors":[{"location":"params","param":"post_id","value":null,"msg":"Invalid value"}]}

I was trying to see who this group is. Not so great for a sponsor. This has been this way for at least three of your newsletters.

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Carolyn's avatar

I first heard of Charlie Kirk in or around 2015 when he had a bunch of underage kids, in the basement of some church, sending out Russian disinformation about Hillary Clinton. My first thought was what was he doing to those children?, He was not apparently paying them, he was teaching them that lying in the name of Christ is ok. Then I hear about his gig finding homosexuals at work and harassing them, aka, ASU professors. Charlie Kirk was a coward and slick carney barker who used a Socratic style of debate to batter college students into submission. He couldn’t fight at his own punching weight. Naming a street or a monument to such an individual is blasphemy. Where is the street name or statue of Don Bolles a true Arizona hero?

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