Arizona Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket. By Marc Lacey, NYTimes, September 7, 2010. "Drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona's Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates…
"But Steve May, the Republican operative who signed up some of the candidates along Mill Avenue, a bohemian commercial strip next to Arizona State University, insists that a real political movement has been stirred up that has nothing to do with subterfuge. 'Did I recruit candidates? Yes,' said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. 'Are they fake candidates? No way.' To make his point, Mr. May went by Starbucks, the gathering spot of the Mill Rats, as the frequenters of Mill Avenue are known. 'Are you fake, Benjamin?' he yelled out to Benjamin Pearcy, [20, is running for a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public utilities, railroad safety and securities regulation] who cried out 'No,' with an expletive attached."
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