Worthless Arizona Democratic Party Won't Give Even Token Support to Rebecca Schneider in Her Race Against Extremist Right-Wing GOP Rep. Jeff Flake

I received this email from the campaign of Rebecca Schneider, who won our Democratic party primary for Arizona's Sixth Congressional District with 74% of the vote:

Greetings Arizona Democrats,

We have a big election coming up. Besides the Presidential Election, we have a lot of great local candidates. On every level, we are working hard to turn Arizona blue. We have 8 Congressional seats in the House, currently split between 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans. I live in Jeff Flake's district, CD-6. I have called Jeff Flake's campaign office now 5 times (480-415-0232), left my name and phone number, and no one has called me back. I want to know when the debate is between Jeff Flake and Rebecca Schneider. The "buzz" is that Flake feels he doesn't have to debate Schneider because she is not supported by the Democratic party. And lo and behold, I get this email from the Arizona Democratic Party, and two names and pictures are missing.

Rebecca Schneider CD-6
John Thrasher CD-2

So, yesterday, I give Don Bivens a call, and I am told it's not a "targeted race". The man practically hung up on me since he had the Attorney General on the other line, and I'm only a mere voter. Well, I live in CD-6, so for me this is a "targeted race" ! I called and left a message for Maria Weeg. No return call there either. Great, now both Republicans and Democrats are dissing me. Even if the Democratic Party does not want to pour money into this race, they could at least put the name and picture of the candidates for CD-6 and CD-2 on their "Early Voting Has Begun" email.

If this makes you mad too, here are some names and phone numbers:

Contact ADP Staff
Statewide Headquarters

Arizona Democratic Party Headquarters
2910 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85012
(602) 298-4200
Toll Free: 1-877-298-6837

Executive Director – Maria Weeg
Communications Director – Emily DeRose
Finance Director – Devin Rankin
Field Director – Daniel Graver
Deputy Political Director – Justin Unga
Deputy Finance Director – Vanessa Barrera
New Media Communications Manager – Jeff Goodman
ADC Coordinator – Sara Ahmad
African American Outreach Director – AJ Miller
Hispanic Outreach Coordinator – Ayensa Millan
Tribal Outreach Field Organizer – Arista La Russo
Faith Outreach Organizer – Adralyn Wendel
Office Manger – Amanda Jaksich
And here's the link to the head honchos: http://www.azdem.org/contact/117
Lots of email addresses on that link.
Thanks to everyone for all the work you do.

Peace, Janet

P.S. Feel free to forward to other Arizona Democrats

When I declared my candidacy for this seat back in mid-2007, I knew how this would be way the worthless Arizona Democratic primary would treat any nominee against Jeff Flake, so I can't say that I'm surprised.

I understand that our priorities must be to keep the seats of our first-term incumbents Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-08) and Harry Mitchell (AZ-05) and to make sure we can win the open seat in AZ-01 with Ann Kirkpatrick. But even with an Arizona U.S. senator heading the Republican ticket as presidential candidate, these candidates seem likely to win in what's shaping up as another Democratic election year. AZ-01 may be the congressional seat in the U.S. most likely to switch parties.

And it's vital that we help Bob Lord defeat Rep. John Shadegg in AZ-03. This was a race that the national Democratic party didn't view as winnable, but it's becoming clear that Bob Lord has run a well-financed, flawless campaign and the Republicans are panicking - as they should be.

Now I don't think Rebecca Schneider has a chance to win against Jeff Flake in this gerrymandered district, any more than Republicans have a chance in AZ-04 or AZ-07. But not even to list the AZ-06 (or AZ-02) candidate on its "Early Voting Has Begun" email is reprehensible.

That isn't financial support; it's not sucking up any resources that could be better sent elsewhere.

It's just mere decency.

Shame on Don Bivens, Maria Weeg and the bigwigs of the Arizona Democratic party.

Meanwhile, I expect that Rebecca Schneider - unsupported by her party, running a campaign without adequate funding, with only the power of her convictions - will again shock everyone with the number of votes she will get against Jeff Flake, whose laissez-faire extremism is completely out of touch as his extremist ideology is repudiated daily with our financial meltdown.

Please support Rebecca Schneider.