The voter in Mesa just finished one of the dirties elections in Mesa's history between Jerry Lewis & Russell Pearce. It was dirtier than the election with Kevin Gibbons. Kevin Gibbons made the first allegations of spousal abuse, and the problems at MDV. That campaign was run by Nathan Sproul, a long time advocate and supporter of Kirk Adams, Jeff Flake and John McCain.
If you remember many of the people supplying Kevin Gibbons with information also worked for Jeff Flake and had close ties to John McCain. In fact it was Jeff Flakes right hand man Mike Haller, who spent his time at the court house looking up the case information on the wife beating charges, which later Russell's wife withdrawn and claimed never happened.
During that election; Kirk Adams, Beth Coons, Liana Clarkson, Don Stapley and those who supported Jerry Lewis in the recall election, also supported Kevin Gibbons. These people also help Randy Parraz, Chad Snow, Michael Wright and Citizen's for a Better Arizona in the recall election. They are also the same ones who used the Mormon leadership to start rumors in the LDS Community about Russell Pearce. Which Tyler Montague now admits they did.
During the recall election both Rich Crandall and Kirk Adams came out in support of Jerry Lewis. Kirk Adams went so far as to wright a letter to the paper and renounce the attacks on Jerry Lewis, while not standing up to the attacks against Russell Pearce, Matt Tolman, Chuck Coughlin, Olivia Cortez, Bruce Ross, and other Pearce supporters.
Many, if not all of the people who supported Jerry Lewis and Kevin Gibbons are also supporting Kirk Adams in his bid for Jeff Flake's seat against Matt Salmon.
Matt Salmon is currently up 30 points on Kirk Adams. That is a big lead for Kirk to overcome if he is going to run a nice clean election as he says he is going to do. The fact of the matter though is that negative attacks on your opponents do work and that is why you saw so many of then against Russell Pearce and so few against Jerry Lewis.
Kirk Adams has already done a negative push poll attempting to sway voters.
Kirk financial reports reveal that he has spent about $10,000 on opponent research. What that indicates is Kirk has probably hired a private investigator to see what they can dig up on Matt Salmon. My guess is that they will probably not find very much given the fact that Matt Salmon has already served once in the house and ran for governor, any dirty laundry Matt has, if any has already been aired.
Kirk on the other hand hasn't run for such a high profile office before and their are probably a few things he would not like to have revealed much like his lobbing efforts prior to running for office.
The question, is Kirk Adams going to stay out of the gutter and run a clean election as he called for during the recall or is he willing to allow his friends to run freely in the gutter? I think we will see the real Kirk Adams come out after the first of the year. Personally I hope it is for the better and not worst.
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