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	<title>Comments on: AZGOP Press Release &#8211; 10/8/07 &#8211; MECUM PROMOTED TO POLITICAL DIRECTOR</title>
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		<title>By: Lee Ewing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description>Brett Mecum does nto answer telephone calls!</description>
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		<title>By: Abby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In response to the statement &quot;every girl’s crazy for the sharp dressed man.&quot;
The answer is of course, only if his name is Brett.  So when are people considered old enough to no longer be referred to as &quot;kids?&quot;  As for name changing, just because some previous generations have a problem associating well known names with new faces does not mean the new guy should be forced to change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to the statement &#8220;every girl’s crazy for the sharp dressed man.&#8221;<br />
The answer is of course, only if his name is Brett.  So when are people considered old enough to no longer be referred to as &#8220;kids?&#8221;  As for name changing, just because some previous generations have a problem associating well known names with new faces does not mean the new guy should be forced to change.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GOP PK, thanks for the update.  Turns out that Mecum&#039;s job was restricted to the State Senate races, which turned out to be the only good news out of New York State.  So that ends up being good news for us.

Evan, I&#039;ll be kind to Scott since he&#039;s no longer with us.  But his job performance was lousy overall, to say nothing of how he treated people.  I &quot;say nothing&quot; because he is no longer with us and I&#039;ll leave him and details out of this if you will.  Even so, Mecum, or anyone else, will have no trouble filling those shoes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GOP PK, thanks for the update.  Turns out that Mecum&#8217;s job was restricted to the State Senate races, which turned out to be the only good news out of New York State.  So that ends up being good news for us.</p>
<p>Evan, I&#8217;ll be kind to Scott since he&#8217;s no longer with us.  But his job performance was lousy overall, to say nothing of how he treated people.  I &#8220;say nothing&#8221; because he is no longer with us and I&#8217;ll leave him and details out of this if you will.  Even so, Mecum, or anyone else, will have no trouble filling those shoes.</p>
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		<title>By: Evan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Evan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.azrepublicanlook.com/2007/02/new-team-player-down-at-azgop.html

That&#039;s Mecum&#039;s credentials.  Nothing to be blown away by...  Kid graduated in 2001.

Not exactly the person AZGOP should be picking to fill the late and great Scott Stewart&#039;s shoes.</description>
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<p>That&#8217;s Mecum&#8217;s credentials.  Nothing to be blown away by&#8230;  Kid graduated in 2001.</p>
<p>Not exactly the person AZGOP should be picking to fill the late and great Scott Stewart&#8217;s shoes.</p>
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		<title>By: GOP PK</title>
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		<dc:creator>GOP PK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim S.

With a 4-1 money advantage, the R&#039;s lost every statewide race, lost four congressional seats, lost the house and kept the Senate - according to the NYT, the D&#039;s spent no time or money in trying to win the Senate while the R Senators made sure that property tax REBATE CHECKS were received just prior to election day.  

To be fair, that was not too far off the national trends, but it was not a footprint to victory either.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim S.</p>
<p>With a 4-1 money advantage, the R&#8217;s lost every statewide race, lost four congressional seats, lost the house and kept the Senate &#8211; according to the NYT, the D&#8217;s spent no time or money in trying to win the Senate while the R Senators made sure that property tax REBATE CHECKS were received just prior to election day.  </p>
<p>To be fair, that was not too far off the national trends, but it was not a footprint to victory either.</p>
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		<title>By: Flush the Johns</title>
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		<dc:creator>Flush the Johns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>gop4ever2008

Your name says it all.  2008 will seem like 4ever for all of us if you don&#039;t start fighting the D&#039;s instead of the R&#039;s. 

Your gestation period has reached critical mass and an ultrasound should be considered to see if there is any brain wave activity.  The life of the Party is in jeopardy, and may require early termination.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>gop4ever2008</p>
<p>Your name says it all.  2008 will seem like 4ever for all of us if you don&#8217;t start fighting the D&#8217;s instead of the R&#8217;s. </p>
<p>Your gestation period has reached critical mass and an ultrasound should be considered to see if there is any brain wave activity.  The life of the Party is in jeopardy, and may require early termination.</p>
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		<title>By: fedup</title>
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		<dc:creator>fedup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shaun McCafferty is the biggest blowhard know- it- all that has ever just moved to Arizona. But one must admit, he is a quick study. In just a matter of a months He knows EVERYTHING -just ask him. 
Pullen sure has a talent for surrounding himself with people who make him look even worse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shaun McCafferty is the biggest blowhard know- it- all that has ever just moved to Arizona. But one must admit, he is a quick study. In just a matter of a months He knows EVERYTHING -just ask him.<br />
Pullen sure has a talent for surrounding himself with people who make him look even worse.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it true that &quot;every girl&#039;s crazy for the sharp dressed man&quot;?</description>
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		<title>By: GOP PK</title>
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		<dc:creator>GOP PK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>gop4ever2008

Gee, its nice to be remembered even when you don&#039;t participate.  I guess someone else has feelings of distrust and you assign them to me.  The outcome based decision process sometimes overrides reality.  I do, however, enjoy the internecine jumps to judgment at times.

As for your secondary insinuation, that is as  fallacious as your poikilothermic perfidy is accurate.  Look it up at your leisure, you seem to have a lot of that so you can jump to wrong conclusions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>gop4ever2008</p>
<p>Gee, its nice to be remembered even when you don&#8217;t participate.  I guess someone else has feelings of distrust and you assign them to me.  The outcome based decision process sometimes overrides reality.  I do, however, enjoy the internecine jumps to judgment at times.</p>
<p>As for your secondary insinuation, that is as  fallacious as your poikilothermic perfidy is accurate.  Look it up at your leisure, you seem to have a lot of that so you can jump to wrong conclusions.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim S.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim S.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good grief, some old scores are trying to be settled here by bashing staffers?  How petty.  I can&#039;t imagine that anyone here has the skills to judge the job performance of a communications director for a political party.  Its far too subjective to do.  The folks at HQ have been working hard and getting their work done in spite of a lack of support from many within the party.  That&#039;s an indictment of the folks not helping not of the staff.  They&#039;re still doing their jobs.  The rest of you might start doing yours!

Didn&#039;t Mecum fill the post of Political Director in NY?  If so, how did he do there?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good grief, some old scores are trying to be settled here by bashing staffers?  How petty.  I can&#8217;t imagine that anyone here has the skills to judge the job performance of a communications director for a political party.  Its far too subjective to do.  The folks at HQ have been working hard and getting their work done in spite of a lack of support from many within the party.  That&#8217;s an indictment of the folks not helping not of the staff.  They&#8217;re still doing their jobs.  The rest of you might start doing yours!</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t Mecum fill the post of Political Director in NY?  If so, how did he do there?</p>
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		<title>By: gop4ever2008</title>
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		<dc:creator>gop4ever2008</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Flush the John: Start posting under your real name, Phil Mason... at least, for once, you weren&#039;t wasting state time for this crap.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flush the John: Start posting under your real name, Phil Mason&#8230; at least, for once, you weren&#8217;t wasting state time for this crap.</p>
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		<title>By: Flush the Johns</title>
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		<dc:creator>Flush the Johns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is depressing to agree totally with someone like Sproul that you really have no respect for, but this is it.  Mecum is incompetent and McCaffrey is incredibly divisive and out of touch with reality.  As to the name, at least Evan had core values that were unbending even if the communications skills are similar.

To be so ignorant of the nuances and political story of this state to say that a person who has been here just over six months &quot;knows the state, our candidates, our opponents and our operations&quot; is typical of the know-it-all attitude of that group of newly arrived East Coast yahoos who couldn&#039;t find an MVD office for six months.

And, if anyone believes that the attributes of Mecum includes a tenacious attitude or bearing, they have yet to meet the guy.  He has not even been able to tenaciously tick off the grass roots per the obviously established performance requirements of McCaffrey.  

Somehow, under the authority of Pullen, who has been Bush-like in alienating his enemies and his support base concurrently, the two have managed to apply the Peter Principle for Mecum while placing the pugnacious, team destructive McCaffrey in the dual role as Communications AND Executive Director.  It is a centralization of power that would be worthy of a McCainiac, right Nathan?

How ironically ludicrous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is depressing to agree totally with someone like Sproul that you really have no respect for, but this is it.  Mecum is incompetent and McCaffrey is incredibly divisive and out of touch with reality.  As to the name, at least Evan had core values that were unbending even if the communications skills are similar.</p>
<p>To be so ignorant of the nuances and political story of this state to say that a person who has been here just over six months &#8220;knows the state, our candidates, our opponents and our operations&#8221; is typical of the know-it-all attitude of that group of newly arrived East Coast yahoos who couldn&#8217;t find an MVD office for six months.</p>
<p>And, if anyone believes that the attributes of Mecum includes a tenacious attitude or bearing, they have yet to meet the guy.  He has not even been able to tenaciously tick off the grass roots per the obviously established performance requirements of McCaffrey.  </p>
<p>Somehow, under the authority of Pullen, who has been Bush-like in alienating his enemies and his support base concurrently, the two have managed to apply the Peter Principle for Mecum while placing the pugnacious, team destructive McCaffrey in the dual role as Communications AND Executive Director.  It is a centralization of power that would be worthy of a McCainiac, right Nathan?</p>
<p>How ironically ludicrous.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seriously. Stop it. STOP IT. Your NAME IS MECUM DUDE!?!?!?!?!

MECUM!!!!

Everytime we hear your name we think of our former Governor that we&#039;ve spent over a decade trying to forget. 

GO AWAY!

I guess on some level though, at least he is no longer in the press. Everytime I see a GOP press release I cringe knowing that its going to be a quote from &quot;Mecum&quot;

I know its not spelled the name and I know he&#039;s a smart, talented young man who means well BUT YOUR NAME IS MECUM!

At the very least, show us the respect to get a name change if your going to work for the state party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously. Stop it. STOP IT. Your NAME IS MECUM DUDE!?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>MECUM!!!!</p>
<p>Everytime we hear your name we think of our former Governor that we&#8217;ve spent over a decade trying to forget. </p>
<p>GO AWAY!</p>
<p>I guess on some level though, at least he is no longer in the press. Everytime I see a GOP press release I cringe knowing that its going to be a quote from &#8220;Mecum&#8221;</p>
<p>I know its not spelled the name and I know he&#8217;s a smart, talented young man who means well BUT YOUR NAME IS MECUM!</p>
<p>At the very least, show us the respect to get a name change if your going to work for the state party.</p>
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		<title>By: Real Arizonan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Real Arizonan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s funny. It seems like you have a genuine Sproulphobia!

It doesn&#039;t address the point that Brett Mecum is a genuinely bad Communications Director.

Enough on this post. Thanks for the laugh...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s funny. It seems like you have a genuine Sproulphobia!</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t address the point that Brett Mecum is a genuinely bad Communications Director.</p>
<p>Enough on this post. Thanks for the laugh&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: OutSprouled</title>
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		<dc:creator>OutSprouled</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nathan Sproul, why don&#039;t you go back to that rock you crawled out from under? Your constant attacks on the State Republican Party are getting old, you need to get over the fact that your candidate for Party chair Lisa James lost. Randy Pullen won fair and square last January. It&#039;s now October, 9 months later. Quit sulking about the fact that you&#039;re not getting as many political consulting gigs thrown your way. Maybe if you backed off and quit attacking other Republicans they&#039;d start hiring you again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nathan Sproul, why don&#8217;t you go back to that rock you crawled out from under? Your constant attacks on the State Republican Party are getting old, you need to get over the fact that your candidate for Party chair Lisa James lost. Randy Pullen won fair and square last January. It&#8217;s now October, 9 months later. Quit sulking about the fact that you&#8217;re not getting as many political consulting gigs thrown your way. Maybe if you backed off and quit attacking other Republicans they&#8217;d start hiring you again.</p>
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