Janet Contreras Vs. Ed Pastor : Voter Fury

Arizona CD4, where the race in 2010 is between incumbent Ed Pastor and challenger Janet Contreras, has long been considered "deep blue" and a safe haven for incompetent Democrats. Pastor, a liberal's liberal who seems afraid to state his Alinsky-inspired policy positions on even his own website, certainly fits that description. For nine straight terms in Congress, Mr. Pastor has indeed been returned to Washington--almost without comment.

The so-called pundits believe history will once again repeat itself on November 2. The pundits are wrong.

2010 is a different kettle of menudo.

Enter, following his inauguration in 2009, the massively destructive ultra-liberal agenda of President Barack Hussein Obama...followed slavishly by fellow Alinskyite and Progressive, Ed Pastor (Nancy Pelosi's op-ed buddy)...followed by the Waking of America, epitomized by the founding and subsequent explosive growth of the Tea Party.

Enter Janet Contreras, an American patriot and lifelong Democrat...turned Republican political activist. She understands the principles that made America great and represents a golden opportunity for the residents of CD4 to...well, to elect a Representative who will actually represent them, not some elitist globalist agenda designed to make the United States just one more third world country.

Enter Martin Chavez, yet another American patriot who has found his inner fury. Mr. Chavez speaks to the camera, but he speaks for huge numbers of his fellow Latinos who feel.... What do they feel? Martin himself defines it as extreme anger. My wife, who has an eye for such things states firmly that beyond the anger, she sees a deep, deep hurt, a knowledge of having been betrayed by the one man (Ed Pastor) he should have been able to trust on Capitol Hill. (We had a video of the interview with Martin on here for a while; it's no longer available.)

Most polls identify respondents by political party, which only makes sense. But no poll yet (that I'm aware of) has even tried to measure the most important factors of all in Arizona CD4. Were such a poll to be devised, it would need to answer the following questions for the historically Democrat-favoring and densely Hispanic-populated district:

1. Have you ever voted Republican in the past?

2. If not, are you considering doing so on November 2, 2010?

3. If you are considering doing so, are you talking politics with friends, neighbors, and strangers on the street or in the laundromat?

4. Have you become politically active for the first time in your life?

In other words: Janet Contreras is a former lifelong Democrat (perhaps the only recent Democrat endorsed by Sarah Palin) who will never again vote for the Tax-and-Spenders. Martin Chavez, ditto. How many more thinking--and furious--people like these two are out there?

A lot, I suspect. Enough, in fact, to turn the tide on Election Day.

Latinos as a people embody the concept of courage. Why do you think we gringos so readily adopted the term, "cojones"? Eh? For that matter, even though I'm personally dead set against illegal immigration, how much courage does that take? Heartless coyotes, deadly rattlesnakes invisible in the dead of night, drug cartel violence, extreme weather, thirst, starvation...you name it. We have one son-in-law who crossed the border illegally three times prior to finding his path to American citizenship in a northern state during that last ill-advised amnesty. (He didn't cross into Arizona, but through California.) Once, between crossings, he was beaten nearly to death by his own people (in Mexico). But he had the motivation, and the courage, to keep on following his star (which happened to be my wife's eldest daughter).

That level of courage, that willingness to stand and deliver, is obvious in people like Congressional candidate Janet Contreras and furious voter Martin Chavez...but sadly and conspicuously lacking in Representative Ed Pastor. As just one example of many, Project Vote Smart found it impossible to persuade Representative Pastor to even rate himself on the topic of "raw guts":

Representative Ed Pastor refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2010 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.

Arizona CD4 deserves better than that.

Contreras 2010 and Remember in November.

This hub refers to incumbent Ed Pastor as "Nancy Pelosi's op-ed buddy". Here's why. If this won't help us all to Remember in November, I'm not sure what would....

Okay, this might.  Help us all Remember in November, that is.  It's the script from Janet's orginal letter to Glenn Beck.  Enjoy.