"We'll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks"
Arizona G.O.P. Leader Said Party Would Stop Mark Kelly ‘Dead in His Tracks’
"Mr. Kelly, a Democrat running for Senate, is married to Gabrielle Giffords, the former congresswoman who survived a gunshot to the head in a 2011 attack
“Support the Republican Party of Arizona today and, together, we’ll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks,” the chairwoman, Kelli Ward, wrote Thursday in a fund-raising email, The Associated Press reported. > The email also targeted Mr. Kelly’s platform supporting gun safety.
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BLOGGER NOTE: "Gun Rights" are "a sacred cow" here in Arizona, no doubt about that and most Republicans diving into the tricky political waters here are still treading on what to do - most people say "Do something" but they haven't figured that out yet when the Democrats are getting the traction on solid grounds of public support.
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More details from the New York Times a week ago
> On Twitter on Friday, Ruben Gallego, a Democratic congressman from Arizona, called it “disgusting” and said that Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona, should call on Ms. Ward to resign.
> A representative for Ms. McSally could not immediately be reached on Saturday.
> Jacob Peters, a spokesman for Mr. Kelly, said in a statement that Mr. Kelly was running for Senate “to overcome this type of nasty divisiveness that does nothing for Arizonans.”
“This dangerous rhetoric has absolutely no place in Arizona and is what’s wrong with our politics,” the statement said.
> A spokesman for Ms. Ward did not directly address the criticism, but pointed to a series of tweets in which she had defended herself.
> “Utterly ridiculous!” Ms. Ward wrote on Twitter on Friday with a link to a Bloomberg article that cited the “stark wording” of the email.
> Ms. Ward said she did not wish Mr. Kelly harm.
“We disagree politically on the Constitution and the #2a, and I’m well aware of the harm his policies would cause should he ever be elected,” she wrote, using a hashtag referring to the Second Amendment. “Dishonest stories like this are dangerous and irresponsible.”
> Paul Gosar, a Republican congressman from Arizona, defended Ms. Ward.
"Differentiating between idioms, slang, analogies and metaphors from statement of facts” is learned in childhood, Mr. Gosar wrote on Twitter.
"Ignore #FakeNews and it’s handmaidens of stupid outrage.”
> On his website, Mr. Kelly, who is a Navy combat veteran and a retired astronaut, promised to work for universal background checks and to keep guns out of the hands of stalkers and domestic abusers. He also wants to reduce mass shootings and suicides.
More context:
He is challenging Ms. McSally, who was a member of Congress when Gov. Doug Ducey appointed her in December to fill a seat left vacant by the death of John McCain. She was appointed after a placeholder appointee, Jon Kyl, resigned.
The race is being closely watched, as Arizona is one of several contests that could decide control of the Senate in 2020.
In 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat to win a United States Senate seat in Arizona since the 1980s.
________________________________________________________________________________Kelli Ward is an American politician who has served as the Chair of the Arizona Republican Party since 2019.
A Republican, she previously served in the Arizona State Senate from 2012 to 2015.
Ward challenged Senator John McCain in the Republican primary for the United States Senate in 2016.
She graduated from A.T. Stills in East Mesa
--- from Wikipedia
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