jesse_kellyThe Arizona Republic’s Doug MacEachern comes to not bury Little Benny Quayle, but to praise him.
MacEachern’s argument: Quayle’s not a complete sociopath, like the guy the GOP nominated to run against Gabrielle Giffords in the eighth Congressional District.
(The district includes most of Tucson and extends to cover the southeast corner of the state.)
Jesse Kelly is a rabid former marine who unexpectedly knocked out establishment candidate Jonathan Paton, making life considerably easier for Giffords in a tough re-election campaign.
Kelly visited the Republic’s editorial board the other day, and in MacEachern’s telling he had a lot to say:

Democrats have Republican Ben Quayle right where they want him

8 commentsby Doug MacEachern, Republic columnist - Aug. 28, 2010 07:34 PM
The Arizona Republic

All the post-election notoriety has focused on Congressional District 3 GOP primary winner Ben Quayle. But he was not the oddest Republican choice last Tuesday.
He was odd enough, of course. When the very first utterance about you by your general-election opponent is mockery, you have work to do.
Here is the first sentence of the first press release from Jon Hulburd, the Democratic candidate who is running against Quayle in the general election.
"This election is now between Jon Hulburd and Brock Landers."
"Brock Landers" was the pseudonym allegedly used by Quayle when he wrote silly, sexy, self-infatuated things on a naughty website a couple of years ago. In case you still miss the inference, Hulburd is mocking Quayle by calling him "Brock Landers."
Mockery assumes familiarity. You have to know someone, usually, to make fun of him. Quayle, however, arrives on Hulburd's doorstep self-packaged for mockery.
Even before Quayle's electoral victory Tuesday in his 10-horse race, websites were selling "Brock Landers" T-shirts, teddy bears and (yes) Christmas ornaments. These lovely gift items refer to the original "Brock Landers" - a fictional porn star - rather than Quayle, of course. But who's to know? Quayle isn't about to issue a statement clarifying things.
Snarky diners are leaving the name "Brock Landers" when making restaurant reservations.
These are the unfortunate consequences of being discovered in the act of committing brazen opportunism.
Young Quayle had a famous name, access to money, and little else.
He has little civic involvement locally. Practically no voting record. No indication if he knows "Prescott" from "Preskitt."
For a candidate like Hulburd, Quayle is a fat sitting duck. The well-funded, well-prepped, well-established Democrat, who has five of his very own kids (as opposed to the nieces the recently married Quayle borrowed for a photo shoot) is about to challenge the following dynamic:
In the most intensely Republican-friendly voting season in 16 years, in a district with a 50,000-voter GOP registration advantage, with all-important independent voters twitching to log votes against Nancy Pelosi, can a Democrat beat the ridiculous odds?
We very well may see Hulburd TV ads in which the candidate squarely addresses the camera and declares: "Brock Landers is the worst congressional candidate in history."
But is he? At least Candidate Quayle has a substantial Republican majority in his district. That is not the case in southern Arizona's District 8, where independents rule, and where The Angriest Successful Primary Candidate I Ever Met is the GOP nominee.
Just as Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords hoped, Jesse Kelly beat former state Sen. Jonathan Paton, the heavy favorite in the GOP primary.
I met Kelly in an Editorial Board meeting. Honorable fellow: war veteran, like all the district's GOP candidates. Indeed, he was a Marine combat platoon leader, the most dangerous job on earth. He is an honest conservative. And a really, really angry guy.
When asked about priorities, he gave an answer that, while perfectly suitable for a former Marine officer, it seemed a bit over the top for a prospective member of Congress: "We've got to kill all members of radical Islam."
And, when asked if he could work with Democrats in Congress: "I hope there's no Democrats left in Congress when I get there."
Look, I like shock theater, too. And I've been known to be a bit edgy at times. But Kelly is that rare conservative who takes politics so personally that he has morphed into his worst enemy. Like far-left liberals, he doesn't believe his political opponents are merely wrong; they're evil: "I think liberals are destroying the nation. We had better go fight them in Washington before they destroy our children's future."
No wonder Giffords is smiling these days. Kelly dissed candidates endorsed by Sarah Palin as people "who will sell our principles down the river."
Suddenly, young Quayle doesn't look so bad after all.
Reach MacEachern at doug.maceachern@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8883.

August 11, 2010
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/ben-quayle-denies-writing-for.html
Excerpt:

Ben Quayle admits writing for 'Dirty Scottsdale' Web site

By Matt DeLong
After initially denying the allegations, Arizona House candidate Ben Quayle (R), son of former vice president Dan Quayle, admitted on Tuesday that he used to post comments on a Web site called "Dirty Scottsdale" several years ago, Politico reports.
The site's founder, Hooman Karamian, alleged in a Monday post on TheDirty that Quayle was "one of the original contributors" to the site, which featured sexy photos of women and "chronicled the city's clubs and nightlife and [was] the predecessor to the popular gossip website TheDirty.com."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/08/11/20100811ben-quayle-dirty-scottsdale-changes-story-politico.html

Ben Quayle had a hard time getting his story straight Tuesday.
The son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and an Arizona Republican candidate for Congress admitted Tuesday night that he did, in fact, post comments on DirtyScottsdale.com, a website devoted to chronicling the trashy side of the Scottsdale nightclub scene.
His admission came hours after a POLITICO story quoted him saying he "was not involved in the site," which was the precursor to TheDirty.com., a popular national gossip site.


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The two girls in the photo belong to Quayle's brother Tucker.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40643.html
Excerpt:
By ANDY BARR | 8/4/10 1:21 PM EDT
Arizona Republican congressional candidate Ben Quayle recently sent out two mailers with pictures of him playing with two girls who appear to be his daughters.
Only problem: Quayle, 33, and his wife Tiffany have no children.

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Boogie Nights - Brock Landers
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/08/steve_moak_responds_to_critici.php
Excerpt:

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Congressional candidate Steve Moak
​Congressional candidate Steve Moak has finally responded to questions posed to him last week by one of his opponents in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.

In short, Moak never disclosed a conflict of interest to the IRS when a not-for-profit anti-drug charity he founded was pushing the drug tests produced by his for-profit business. Moak sold the business for $25 million and claims there was never anything illegal or unethical about his ties to each business.

The criticism is that Moak used his not-for-profit charity as a marketing arm of his for-profit business, resulting in a huge profit when he sold the company.

Questions about Moak's charity were first raised by New Times a few weeks ago, so we figured we'd give Moak equal time to defend the criticism.

See Moak's letter, in its entirety, after the jump.




You might have to click link to view the video??? 
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=16483
Excerpt:

Is Ben Quayle “Brock Landers” from DirtyScottsdale.com? (With Exclusive Links to Full Brock Landers Archive)

Morgen on August 11, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Politico is currently headlining a story accusing Ben Quayle, who is running for Congress in Arizona, of being an early contributor to DirtyScottsdale.com, the forerunner to the adult-themed gossip site, TheDirty.com. The accusation comes from Nik Richie, the founder of the two sites, who claims that for a short time in 2007 Quayle wrote a regular column under the pseudonym Brock Landers. Quayle initially denied the accusation outright, but subsequently back-tracked and has now admitted that he knows Richie, and in fact posted on the site in some fashion. However, he is apparently still denying that he is responsible for the posts by Brock Landers.
DirtyScottsdale.com is no longer operational, but Quayle’s accuser has re-posted at least one of the articles he claims was written by Quayle. It’s nothing too sordid, but Politico, Vanity Fair and others have seized upon some of Brock’s comments to paint Quayle as a hypocrite given that he has claimed  to be a supporter of traditional values in his campaign for Congress. (And they seem to be experiencing particular joy in doing so given that Quayle is the son of former VP Dan Quayle.)
Now I don’t know whether Quayle is in fact Brock Landers, but the fact that he pretty quickly backed-tracked off his initial denial certainly does not enhance his credibility. Since I think sunlight is typically the best disinfectant, I’ve dug up links from the Internet Archive to all of the old posts on DirtyScottsdale.com written by Brock Landers, with some selected snippets, so you can read and judge for yourself. I want to emphasize again that this still seems to be only an allegation at this point, but if in fact Quayle did write these, I think his campaign is probably in trouble.
5/18/07 – Brock’s Corner: Scottsdale Hairstyle’s
[Snippet] As a preface, I want to tell you a little about myself.  First off, I’m a tall drink of water who is easy on the eyes.  Plus, my moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.  Long story short, on a scale of 1-to-10, I’m awesome.
At night and on the weekends, I frequent the same places that you do.  I’m at the bars, the clubs, the pool parties and the free health clinic (actually I’ve never been there, but dare to dream).  Basically, I’m F’n everywhere.
5/30/07 – Brock’s Corner: Foxy Lady
6/06/07 – Brock’s Corner: Lost in Translation
[Snippet] It all begins after hearing the description provided by a lady friend.  I usually have my blind date built up in my mind like this: she is model hot, wicked smart, uproariously funny, runs a 4.5 40-yard dash, once saved a small Indonesian village from a swarm of locusts with only a kite and a tennis ball and has serious daddy issues (just how I like ‘em).
Unfortunately, my heightened expectations are usually destroyed by cruel reality.  I could go into great detail about these types of encounters, but then I’d break out in a cold sweat and I would need to take a ‘rape’ shower, and I’ve already taken two of those today…the smell of shame just won’t rub off no matter how hard I try. Zest fully clean my ass!
6/16/07 – Brock’s Corner: P-Nazi Confusion
6/29/07 – Brock’s Corner: All Tatted Up
[Snippet] Seriously, does everyone in this town have an F’n tattoo?  Does the Scottsdale city council have a task force that delves out crappy tattoos to all of its citizens?  If that’s the case, it’s a good thing I can run sub 5-minute miles for 2 hours straight before I collapse from exhaustion. Otherwise, they may have caught me and I would have some seriously bad ink, and that would be horrible because I have flawless skin. Plus, the ladies don’t want me to draw attention from this ass and this bone structure. That would be similar to placing a couple paint by numbers pieces just below the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Did I just compare my ass and bone structure to Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel? Yes, yes I did…I only write the truth.
7/27/07 – Brock’s Corner: Lake Pleasant
[Snippet] Anyway, after concluding that sipping mint juleps dockside had been replaced with taking body shots off of scantily clad ladies, it was time to lose my yachting attire–and that’s when things started to get interesting.
As I slowly and seductively removed my sexy outfit, a palpable tension was felt across the lake. When I took off my shirt, and the ladies caught a glimpse of my chiseled physique, I was summarily mobbed like I was a member of Menudo during the Puerto Rican day parade in NYC. Not that this is anything new.
Given that these were written only about 3 years ago I’d like to think that the son of a former Vice President, and someone who would soon aspire to run for Congress, would be savvy enough to not have been involved in something like this. But I’ve got a bad feeling given that Quayle has now acknowledged his involvement at some level. What do you think?
Update: Channel 12 in Arizona reported on this story this evening and have Quayle on tape flatly denying that he was Brock Landers. But Quayle seems eager to note that the site doesn’t exist anymore. Hmmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Nights
Excerpt:
Plot
Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) is a high school dropout and male prostitute who lives with his father and alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a suburban nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez (Luis Guzmán), where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who auditions him by watching him having sex with "Rollergirl" (Heather Graham), a porn actress who always wears rollerskates. He gives himself the screen name Dirk Diggler, and becomes an instant star because of his extraordinarily large penis, good looks and youthful charisma. His success allows him to purchase a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and his most prized possession: a "competition orange" Chevrolet Corvette. Dirk and his best friend/fellow porn star Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), who aspires to be a magician, star in a series of very successful porn/action films.

Trailer for Boogie Nights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysK6DYssNZU

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.

Ben Quayle's '$14 Trillion Mistake' is Just One of Many Blunders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AuDBuBpOAk&feature=channel


Speaker John Boehner turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona
(Obama was going anyways so what's up w/this?)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-ross/how-john-boehners-statesm_b_808402.html

"Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona for a memorial service on behalf of the victims of Saturday's shooting, a decision that has upset some Democrats. Boehner is instead scheduled to attend a reception on Wednesday night on behalf of Maria Cino, a former top House GOP aide and Dick Cheney toadie who is seeking the Republican National Committee chairmanship. Boehner is backing Cino's challenge to current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.



http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/11/11/the-plane-facts-john-boehner-to-fly-commercial-as-house-speaker-parks-nancy-pelosis-over-priced-air-force-jet/
Excerpt:

The Plane Facts: John Boehner to Fly Commercial as House Speaker … Parks Nancy Pelosi’s Over Priced Air Force Jet

 
The GOP changes begin to differentiate the new House from Pelosi’s old one …
Soon to be House Speaker, John Boehner (R-OH) makes a symbolic gesture to show that the GOP got the message from the 2010 midterm elections. Boehner says he will fly commercial, rather than use the Air Force jet formerly used by Speaker Pelosi. Many had speculated what Boehner would do with Peloi’s lavish air travel in a time when most Americans could not even afford coach air fare. Out of control and wasteful government spending was obviously on the minds of voters in the 2010 midterm elections.   The “plane” fact is … the GOP looks to change many House rules.