Mike Stauffer's Hack West Kenyon: Idiot or Joe Arpaio Tool?

I'd like to know if Lemons is considering his blog an independent expenditure for the Dems since he's obviously using this forum to campaign for a political candidate.  I'm sure it's a violation of some kind. No real journalism here, just politcal game playing.

how pathetic is it that this POS blog is supporting a voting in a dem that has a DV against him, was suspended from the phx pd, had his guns taken away from him for 3 weeks, has consistent poor performance evaluations throughout his years at the phx pd, and his most noted for his TV appearances. it's all about the money and politics.... hell, we have that now with Arpaio, why would we want more of the same. god forbid we would actually vote in someone who is qualified instead of the one with the most money. this is such a crock of shit. stauffer has been vocal and entered the race 2 years ago. penzone had to be paid off by the dems to switch parties to run.  i'd rather stick with the devil i know rather than have someone with no clue and no leadership experience screw up MCSO even more than it is now.  it's time we stand up and vote for law enforcement in maricopa county, not another political hack or media whore. stauffer supporters may be quiet out there, but we'll see on nov 6th what the voters really want.

I also liked some of Mr. Stauffer's ideas.  I became disenchanted, however, with the rhetoric and tone of his campaign.  I'm afraid he's done himself no service  by teaming up with his campaign manager.  Perhaps someone with more knowledge and skill in the area of campaigning and fundraising would have given the campaign earlier momentum.  Now it's just a damned distraction, and a pitiful one at that.

My vote and my donation are going to Paul Penzone.

Is West such a fool to think it is credible to use a NON-RANDOM polling method that only solicits readers of the Phoenix New Times?

Only if you are a stooge or stupid.

West sounds a lot like gpscentral, who also tries very hard to avoid the simple question of why Stauffer is still in a race he isn't going to pull more than single digits in.

Mr. Stauffer, with all do respect Sir, if you really want to defeat the so-called Sheriff arpaio, please withdraw from the election, you know a 3 way split will benefit only arpaio, Mr. Pensone currently has a better chance of winning, once arpaio is out, you can run again in the next election as a Republican or Independent, I assure you, if you step down now instead of spoiling the vote a lot of people are going to remember your selfless act and you will get not only name recognition but the gratitutde of a lot of voters like me, if you were to step down you would be doing what is best for Maricopa County by helping the voters fed up with arpaio's corruption get rid of this cancer running MCSO, everyone  would know you are an honorable man with a noble heart, and that is the kind of person we need running our Law Enforcement  Agencies, if you were to step down and run again in 4 years, I assure you, in 4 years you will have my vote, but not this time around, this time around I need to vote for whomever stands a better chance of defeating arpaio.  Thank you.

I did a little researching because I was curious, and I have to point out that the New Times blog poll referenced above came out before Penzone declared he was running! Here is the news story on January 24th the day he announced http://penzone2012.com/index.php/news/story/penzone-to-challenge-arpaio-for-sheriff 

The blog poll above was done on January 17...a full week before penzone was even a candidate! West is such an idiot.

The clown couldn't even get the date correct!  It's the 13th and NOT the 14th!

This isn't good, i got to say this, had the NT be a little nicer to Stauffer maybe, maybe he'd drop off the race but i can just tell now he's going to continue just to piss off some people.

sad but true.

Kenyon lost a School Board race 4 years ago - why does Stauffer think he could manage a campaign like this.

The stuff that West Kenyon posts and says is absolutely mind achingly dumb. I have never before seen anything like it in a campaign. Stauffer can't raise any money to pay him so he can't really fire him either as no legit campaign manager would do it for free, tough spot to be in.

Stouffer's:

"It's Not Just Lean, It's (b.s.) Cuisine."

I did not support Penzone before the primary but after the tremondous false smears on this man's reputation (wife beater, etc...) by Stouffer and those fooled by him I now strongly support Penzone ! Anything but Arpaio ! Stouffer's (Stauffer) a plant and yes...I know he might be the type to have Arpaio (his puppet master) come after me but Arpaio is a thug and I have recalled this thug before ! 

Leonard Clark

The Damn Liberal

How do we contact Stauffer?  I think we need to each send him a couple of missive explaining why he's making himself look VERY BAD by continuing his campaign and that he will ultimately lose more than money when all is said and done.

His reputation is on the line, here.  He needs as many people as possible to let him know that.