{"id":3909,"date":"2011-01-22T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2011-01-22T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:52:43","slug":"jesse-kelly-republican-without-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/jesse-kelly-republican-without-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Kelly: Republican Without Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Kelly is the Republican who ran against and lost to Gabrielle Giffords.  Part of his campaign was to help remove Giffords from office by shooting a fully automatic M-16.  Now that someone really targeted Giffords, you\u2019d think that he\u2019d at least have the decency to keep a low profile, if not apologize for his irresponsible use of violent symbolism.  But no.  This vile Republican is already pulling strings to try to get the seat in Congress.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22Kelly\"Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was <\/font><\/font>successfully moved<\/font><\/a> to a rehabilitation center in Houston today after a <\/font>miraculous recovery<\/font><\/a> since being shot in the head two weeks ago. While most politicians from both parties have hoped for a speedy recovery, <\/font>some have questioned<\/font><\/a> whether Giffords should be allowed to continue to hold her seat or be forced to vacate it since she is incapacitated \u2014 a question the Republican who challenged Giffords last year also appears to be asking. According to Arizona Capitol Reports (subscription-only newsletter), Jesse Kelly is so antsy to challenger her again, that he requested a legal inquiry as to whether he could run again if Giffords <\/font>lost her seat<\/font><\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Attorney Lee Miller, who serves as legal counsel for the Arizona Republican Party, told our reporter <\/font>Kelly\u2019s campaign contacted him earlier this week to find out how the seat would be filled if Giffords couldn\u2019t serve.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The next day, the newsletter added:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s item about Jesse Kelly exploring a special election for the CD8 seat in the wake of Giffords\u2019 shooting<\/strong><\/span> created waves in Tucson political circles, one source from south of the Gila said today. \u2018I think Jesse Kelly has more problems than just dealing with a Yellow Sheet story. It\u2019s probably going to be picked up by Politico,\u2019 said the source.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The last time Kelly ran, the former Marine ran a campaign ad urging suporters to \u201cget on target for victory in November.\u201d \u201cHelp remove Gabrielle Giffords from office <\/font><\/font>Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly<\/font><\/a><\/font>,\u201d it continued… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not suggesting that Kelly intended for there to be an assassination attempt against her, but I am claiming that his association of removing her from office and shooting a fully automatic M-16 irresponsibly plants the notion that political violence is good in the unstable brains of people who lack the rational capacity to understand the difference between symbolism and intent.  I don\u2019t know that Loughner was effected by this.  I also don\u2019t know that he was not.<\/font><\/p>\n

As for the seat, I consider it indecent for anyone on either side to start trying to get it until we know far more about Giffords\u2019 condition than we now do, but for this man to do so, given his place in this tragedy as a possible provocateur, even if unintentional, reaches a level of depravity that exceeds mere indecency.  There is only one word that fits.  Jesse Kelly is a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesse Kelly is the Republican who ran against and lost to Gabrielle Giffords.  Part of his campaign was to help remove Giffords from office by shooting a fully automatic M-16.  Now that someone really targeted Giffords, you\u2019d think that he\u2019d at least have the decency to keep a low profile, if not apologize for his […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}