Democrat Running On "Trayvon Martin" Platform Loses Primary

[Nutty Pelosi]

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 .

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