16 October 2004

Spunkiness and honesty in the face of overwhelming odds

John McCain and Stuart Starky debated eachother in Tucson yesterday in the first of three debates.
Starky, who qualified for the Nov. 2 ballot after crisscrossing Arizona in his Kia, defended gay marriage, called for the decriminalization of marijuana and railed against President Bush's education reform centerpiece, the No Child Left Behind act. The eighth-grade teacher said No Child Left Behind has been an abysmal failure that he's witnessed firsthand.

Libertarian candidate Ernest Hancock was denied participation in the debate.

Starky is indeed a longshot, but he's earned my vote. Still, I doubt that an overwhelming majority of Arizonans are even aware of the identity of McCain's opposition in the 2004 Senate race.

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