{"id":7654,"date":"2012-05-03T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:50:18","slug":"republican-on-a-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/republican-on-a-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican on a Rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t tell you how many times I have criticized the Republican Party for their love of violence, especially gun violence.  Once again, more people are dead because of it, but this time, the crazy perpetrator is a well known Arizona Republican, and a close associate of former state Senate Majority Leader, Russell Pearce.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3ReadyGOP\"We’ve been saying for a long time<\/a><\/font> that ardent neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready of Arizona are ticking time bombs, walking violent atrocities waiting to happen. Yesterday, he proved the point<\/a><\/font> in a horrifying way:<\/font><\/p>\n

A border militia leader on Wednesday shot and killed four people at a Gilbert home, including a toddler, before committing suicide, sources said.<\/font><\/p>\n

Sources identified the shooter as Jason "J.T." Ready, a reputed neo-Nazi who made headlines when he launched a militia movement to patrol the Arizona desert to hunt for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Authorities have not identified the other victims, but reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Hugo Mederos said the victims were his ex-wife, Lisa; their daughter, Amber; Amber’s boyfriend, whose name The Republic is withholding until his next of kin could be notified, and Amber’s 18-month-old baby, Lilly.<\/font><\/p>\n

Mederos, who lives in Tampa, said Ready lived at the home with his girlfriend, Lisa.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ready was a former Marine who headed the U.S. Border Guard, a militia-style group that routinely performed armed patrols in the southern Arizona desert. Early this year, Ready had formed an exploratory committee for a run as Pinal County sheriff. <\/font><\/p>\n

In recent years, Ready has been grabbing headlines by organzing vigilante border patrols<\/a><\/font>. Ready’s onetime political ally, Russell Pearce,<\/a><\/font> was just chased out of public office by Mesa’s voters\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em><\/span>] <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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C & L also provided a news clip.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Neither the article nor the clip actually document Ready\u2019s connection to the GOP, but in fact he was President of the Mesa Community College Republicans Club and is a Maricopa County Republican precinct committeeman<\/a>. <\/font><\/p>\n

How many more people have to die, because the Republican Party courts and honors violent extremists like Ready?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t tell you how many times I have criticized the Republican Party for their love of violence, especially gun violence.  Once again, more people are dead because of it, but this time, the crazy perpetrator is a well known Arizona Republican, and a close associate of former state Senate Majority Leader, Russell Pearce. We’ve […]<\/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-7654","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\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}