Return Of The Night Of The Living Blake Masters
Return Of The Night Of The Living Blake Masters
Masters out to win safe Arizona House seat.
That creepy haunted Victorian doll Blake Masters is back, but this time he’s scaled his ambitions back a tad. He’s ceding Arizona’s 2024 Senate race to Kari Lake and instead announced last week that he’s running to represent Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District, where he doesn’t live, so he might stand a chance because voters don’t know him.
The district’s current representative, Debbie Lesko, is not seeking re-election because Congress sickens her. Also, apparently no one told her there’d be travel involved.
“Spending, on average, three weeks out of every month away from my family, and traveling back and forth to Washington DC almost every weekend is difficult,” Lesko said. “Right now, Washington DC is broken; it is hard to get anything done.”
Lesko is the legislative giant who suggested that the “Defund the Police” movement caused a spike in violent crime. She’s defended and protected Donald Trump, despite expressing concerns on January 5 about what she feared might happen the next day: “We also have, quite honestly, Trump supporters who actually believe that we are going to overturn the election. And when that doesn’t happen — most likely will not happen — they are going to go nuts.”
Lesko won re-election with 96.5 percent of the vote (not a typo). The district has a Republican vote spread advantage of about 15 points, which probably explains why a Legion of Doom-number of Republicans have jumped into the primary. This includes failed attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh, Isiah Gallegos, Brandon Urness, Seth Coates, and Rollie Stevens. JD Vance has already endorsed Masters, but we’re not ready to call this race over for him yet.
Neither Hamadeh nor Masters lives in the district they seek to represent. This is especially amusing because Arizona’s eighth is so heavily Republican. It’s in the West Valley, running north past Anthem, and includes Glendale, Peoria, and Sun City West — not exactly a hopping place. Masters resides about 120 miles away in Tucson, and he could never win in that more liberal district.
Nonetheless, Masters is willing to fight, fight, fight for the eighth district, even if he’s about two hours away, maybe two and a half in bad traffic. He posted on social media: “Biden has failed. We need Trump back. We need to stop inflation, Build the Wall, avoid WW3, and secure Arizona’s water future. We need to fight for our families.”
Wow, that’s a lot of random drivel loosely connected through punctuation. Maybe Masters’s message feels more authentic when we can see his totally human-like face … or we’ll just want to claw out our own eyes. There’s only one way to find out:
“Arizona is a special place,” he says, correctly identifying the state where he’s running for office. “We do things our own way here.” This is not Chicago. There is no “Arizona Way.”
Masters tortures us with incredibly awkward photos of himself and wife as children and high school sweethearts. There’s even a school formal where his creepy red eyes on are full display.
“Back then, America was optimistic, and Arizona was the best place in the whole world to raise a family.”
Blake Masters is 37, so his idyllic childhood fantasy was set during the Clinton administration. He was 15 on 9/11, which hardly ushered in a new era of American optimism. Republicans insist the past was always better than the present, yet they spend the present complaining about how much America sucks. They are never content in the “now.”
So, Masters vows to deliver (white) voters back into their comforting past. It’s a tired Republican message but it’s all they’ve got.
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Interesting (if report holds) it has been reported that gay, married, billionaire Peter Thiel (who endorsed and spent approx $22 million in backing Vance and Masters in '22 primary) will be sitting out the 2024 election. Hmm, maybe he shouldn't have backed the party that would invalidate his marriage, then again he has multiple citizenships so fuck him.
Yeah, take us back to 2017-2020 when the only things we read about daily were insane Trump Tweets, gaffs, scandals, firing cabinet members, and which autocratic enemy of democracy was Trump playing footsie with today. He ignored and made worse the pivotal first year of Covid until he thought the vaccine rollout could help get him re-elected. He insulted dying service members and their families. He embraced and emboldened white supremacists. He lied, and lied, and lied, and lied. He golfed. He attempted a coup, inspired an insurrection and co-conspired to steal the election with fake electors and flimsy lawsuits. He birthed The Big Lie that bilked Americans out of $250 million. He’s a stain, a vile human and danger to society. But yeah, let’s go back to that.