After making a family-fortune in Real Estate here in The East Valley and snagging endorsement from two former governors the race to succeed Doug Ducey in the August election cycle is taking strange turns for the one-time Democrat who's changed her spots - her paid political ads that sound so much like another candidate Jim Lamon. They sound so much like Matt Salmon too and that all smells very 'fishy'
Why the Arizona Governor's Race Is Important... and Amazingly Unusual
". . The current standing of each candidate in the race is not entirely clear, except Robson is now beginning to make use of her cash by running the first television advertisements of the entire race in order to make gains. . .
Robson launched her ad campaign on the airwaves and is on track to keep running them until the election. Although money and television do not always equal votes, this could make the primary more competitive than originally thought.
📺 Our first TV ad is live across Arizona.
I stood on the border and watched illegal immigrants flood into Arizona. As Governor, I’ll surge the National guard & finish the wall pic.twitter.com/ICTuieGg0r
— Karrin Taylor Robson for Arizona (@Karrin4Arizona) January 18, 2022.
Are they robots? Stepford wives? The Republicans running for governor are anything but real.
"When Karrin Taylor Robson, a Republican candidate for governor, launched her first campaign ad last week, I did a double-take.
Was this the same woman who Republican consultants pitched as the anti-Kari Lake, the “moderate” in the race who wouldn’t peddle Q-Anon conspiracies and Trump fantasies?
If so, we’re in trouble.
In Robson’s first ad, she stands near the border at night, her white face gleaming, her voice a whisper as she speaks of the so-called failures of the Biden administration. The ad cuts to footage of brown people walking behind her during the middle of the day, people she identifies as “illegal immigrants,” (though I highly doubt she or her team questioned any of those individuals) as she promises to “finish the wall.”
Her second ad isn’t any better. A scary voice-over man makes claims of a “border invasion” while she sports goggles and a gun and declares herself a “true Trump supporter” who will “safeguard our elections.” She highlights her statements with footage of Trump autographing the border wall and grainy video of what appears to be the Trump-inspired protest that happened outside of the Maricopa County Elections Department.
The ads are so over-the-top that Robson comes off as more of an SNL caricature of a politician than as someone who has a real understanding of the responsibilities of a governor or the problems facing our state, which include soaring rent and housing prices as well as under-resourced and short-staffed schools, none of which is mentioned in her ads.
But Robson’s ads could have easily been filmed — word-for-word — by Kari Lake, who never misses the opportunity to brand herself as the Trump-endorsed candidate who still rejects the results of the 2020 election.
Or Matt Salmon, who is trying to win the nomination by out-Trumping Lake and reminding voters that what differentiates him and Lake is that he’s a lifelong Republican while she was once a Democrat, a truly unforgivable sin.
There is no daylight between these three candidates. They behave like the fictional Stepford wives, individuals who have lost their own identities and are completely submissive to one man, Donald Trump.
To be sure, candidates from both sides of the aisle use similar, partisan talking points when appealing to the base.
But what’s different this time around is that Lake, Robson, and Salmon aren’t simply parroting similar policy proposals. In fact, I’d say they’ve abandoned policy altogether in favor of campaigns centered on one thing: hero-worship of a twice-impeached, mob-inciting, ex-president.
This is scary as hell for those of us (and this includes a good number of Republicans) who want to maintain democratic elections and avoid another January 6."
Arizona governor's race: A look at who's vying for the spot and their plans if elected
Arizona GOP gubernatorial primary is ‘going to get ugly before it gets positively hideous’: local columnist
n Taylor Robson for Arizona on Twitter: "16,000 donors. $3.7M raised. $3M cash-on-hand. I could not be prouder of the support our grassroots campaign for Arizona Governor is receiving from every corner of this state. This is a campaign built to WIN ...twitter.com › Karrin4Arizona › status
Jan 9, 2022 · Karrin Taylor Robson for Arizona. @Karrin4Arizona. 16,000 donors. $3.7M raised. $3M cash-on ...
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The GOP primary for governor in Arizona is going off the rails as candidates attempt to out-do each other to be the Trumpiest candidate in the race.
On Thursday, Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts wrote that GOP candidate Kari Lake had been endorsed by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
"It's probably the second most coveted endorsement a Republican could get in Arizona, given his unshaken (read: unhinged) belief that the 2020 election was rigged," Roberts explained, noting Lake had praised the conspiracy theorist who sought to overturn the election as a "great patriot."
"By Thursday morning, Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Salmon upped the ante. He announced he wants to audit not just the election in Maricopa County but the whole state, given the 'serious discrepancies' that will be unveiled on Friday by Sen. Karen Fann's ninja auditors," Roberts explained.
Salmon served in Congress and was the unsuccessful GOP nominee for governor in 2002, losing to Democrat Janet Napolitano.
"Me? I'm wondering what Karrin Taylor Robson will come up with to become relevant in the race," she said of another candidate Karrin Taylor Robson, who was appointed to the state's Board of Regents by Gov. Doug Ducey and is also running. Robson has been endorsed by former Govs. Jan Brewer and Fife Symington.
Roberts interviewed longtime Republican political consultant Chuck Coughlin about the battle to secure Donald Trump's endorsement.
"All the other candidates are trying to hug Trump as closely as possible," Coughlin said. "[Kari Lake] is actually imitating him. She's the outside, angry, no-political-record candidate slinging sledgehammers against the establishment."
"The Trump brand and anything to the right of it is the only brand that exists anymore in the Republican primary right now because nobody has given voice to anything else," Coughlin explained. "Like lemmings over the cliff. There is no independent thought here. It's following a third of the Republican primary voters over the cliff of irrelevancy."
Roberts warned her readers "It's going to be a loooong year. " . . .
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Posted: Nov 24, 2021
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