Plot thickens in north Phoenix House race as Crump calls on Bouie to quit

You have to love the names of this year's candidates for the legislature: Crump, Schmuck, Doody. Anyway, I wrote earlier about a Republican candidate for the Arizona House in north Phoenix who was deemed too "liberal" by the Maricopa County Republican establishment (in spite of his endorsement from Congressman John Shadegg, one of the most conservative Members of Congress). Now it turns out that candidate, Tony Bouie, never re-registered as a Republican while living in Florida, which his opponents say negates Bouie's claim that he has been a Republican half his adult life. Of course, opponent Carl Seel who is making these charges against Bouie recently found his home in foreclosure, in spite of his claim that he is a fiscal conservative. Bouie says although he became a Republican in values, he never took time to re-register. Hey, at least he isn't state Senator Charlene Pesquiera, a Democrat from Tucson who is retiring after one term that she didn't expect to win. Pesquiera, it was revealed after she was elected, had never voted in her life until she voted in her own election to the Senate. Bouie just decided political party preference wasn't really that important to how he actually voted, a stand that an increasing number of Americans have taken, especially in this state where Independents will soon outnumber Republicans and Democrats in registration.