Terri Proud

A new hat has been thrown into the LD26 ring. Republican Terri Proud has announced she is a candidate for the House seat now held by Democrat Nancy Young Wright.

Proud has been living in Northwest Tucson since 1997. According to her LinkedIn.com listing she is currently employed as Office Manager/Senior Paralegal at Lippman Griffith and Associates. She has attended Pima Community College.

Her current political action position is as Arizona State Coordinator of the Second Amendment March, a project of the NRA, and she belongs to the Pima County Republican Liberty Caucus:

“The Pima County Republican Liberty Caucus (PCRLC) is a political action oriented group of liberty minded individuals within the GOP. Our goal is to return the Republican Party back to its roots of liberty, limited government and free markets. The government which governs the least governs the best.”

(Personal Note: As a one time Philosophical Anarchist I too believed that government was the source of human misery. First as the source of international conflict and, second, as the supporter of capitalism and the active enemy of the socialist movement. Perhaps Ms Proud and I are closer than either of us suspects, where I was once an Anarcho-Syndicalist, she is an Anarcho-Capitalist. It makes to laugh.)

Proud’s political goal as an LD26 candidate is to join hands with Cap’n Al. Her political platform seems to boil down to “cutting taxes” and defeating Ms Wright, who is an agent of Nancy Pelosi.

Proud’s website is here.

Nota Bene

The resident writers here at The Data Port took a few days off to ride up to the Rim Country for R and R. The plan was simply to decouple from the internet, the iPhones, TV’s talking heads and compulsively following our increasingly rancid national debates.

Relaxed detachment only lasted lasted until I read that Senator Al Franken had offered an amendment– to a Department of Defense spending bill– that said the government shouldn’t hire contractors who make their employees agree in advance not to sue if they’re raped by co-workers.

The amendment arose from the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang raped by fellow KBR employees. KBR is a Halliburton subsidiary. You can read the Guardian’s account here.

The vote to pass the amendment was 68 to 30, with all thirty nay votes coming from the Republican side of the aisle. Not surprising…heaven forbid that the government should intrude in a corporation’s contractual undertakings.

Amongst those voting against Franken’s amendment were our very own senators, McCain and Kyl. Jon Stewart’s commentary was scathing.