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   From: pelosi@mail.house.gov   
      
   By Brian Anderson   
   August 27, 2014   
      
   A few weeks ago I brought you the story of Mary Rose Wilcox, a   
   Phoenix area democrat running for the US House of   
   Representatives on an offensive Trayvon Martin platform. The   
   good news is, race-baiting and shameless pandering are not as   
   effective tools as liberals think. Wilcox was defeated soundly   
   in yesterday’s democratic primary and won’t be bringing her deck   
   of race cards to Washington DC.   
      
   As I previously reported, Wilcox sent out a campaign mailer with   
   the image of slain teen Trayvon Martin that told supporters a   
   vote for her opponent Ruben Gallego would make similar   
   “tragedies” commonplace. Apparently the voters didn’t buy this   
   ridiculous claim as Gallegos won 48% of the vote while Wilcox   
   only got 36%.   
      
   A Mother Jones article from a few days ago asked the questions:   
   Can This Democrat Win on a No More “Trayvon Martin Tragedies”   
   Platform? and Could the 2012 killing of Florida teenager Trayvon   
   Martin prove a deciding factor in an Arizona Democratic   
   congressional primary? We now know the answer to both is “no”   
   and “hell no.”   
      
   It’s more likely that gun rights, not Trayvon, were a deciding   
   factor in Wilcox’s demise. She is a rabid anti-gun crusader and   
   even for democrats, Arizona is gun country. From that same MJ   
   article we learn:   
      
   Wilcox, who was shot in the hip in 1997 by an angry constituent,   
   has kept gun control front and center during the campaign,   
   although not always successfully.   
      
   Wow, one of her own constituents shot her? Maybe that should   
   have been a clue that people don’t like her message. Her   
   opponent Gallego is relatively gun friendly, as far as a   
   democrat can be, and that probably played a role in Wilcox’s   
   defeat.   
      
   There’s also the possibility that she comes off as insane. She   
   made the news when she helped file a lawsuit alleging Gallego   
   improperly changed his last name:   
      
   “My opponent has used the names Ruben Marinelarena, Ruben   
   Gallego, Ruben Gallego Marinelarena, and Ruben Marinelarena   
   Gallego at different times for various purposes since he moved   
   to Arizona, a few years ago. A lot has happened under each of   
   those names, and the voters have a right to know who a candidate   
   really is”, said Wilcox.   
      
   The only problem was, none of it was true. A local newspaper   
   debunked the claim beyond a shadow of a doubt that Gallego has   
   consistently used the same last name.   
      
   It’s nice to see that Wilcox’s pathetic attempt at race hustling   
   fell flat on its face. I hope other democrats were following the   
   race. You just know some of them are considering running on a   
   “no more Michael Brown tragedies” or “no more Furgusons”   
   platform in the upcoming elections. They should stick to their   
   positions on jobs, the economy, and personal freedom. Then again   
   that might be just as big of a mistake for democrats.   
      
   Comment:   
      
   nordic templar • 8 minutes ago   
   Dumb bitch . Trayvon is old news , she should have exploited the   
   death of Brown instead .   
      
   http://downtrend.com/71superb/democrat-running-on-trayvon-martin-   
   platform-loses-primary/   
      
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