And the Cliven Bundy crowd continues to do ...
whatever it is they do.
Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff and popular “Patriot” movement speaker, gave a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, in which he announced that he was launching a new bid for public office.
Mack said that he would be moving to Navajo County, Arizona, to run as the county sheriff in 2016 and told the members of the Tea Party group in his audience, “I need some backup and I wouldn’t mind if you went there, too.” [...]
“I want you to carefully, prayerfully consider moving there with me, and I’m serious. You want to live in a free county? You want to live by constitutional law? You want to not be worried about federal government coming in and ruining your lives and families and hauling you off at midnight? Come live with us there,” he said.
We'll nullify gun laws, allow people to claim federal land as their own, point guns at federal agents and sing campfire songs about succession. It'll be great, a real Jim Jones sort of thing.
“If we’re going to take back freedom, we have one opportunity to keep it peaceful, and that is the enforcement of state sovereignty by our sheriffs and by our state and county legislatures,” he said.
So there you go, current residents of Navajo County. Good luck with that. Although I have to imagine the current Republican forces in the county aren't eager to turn things over to a heavily armed bag of nuts whose most recent claim to fame has been to play pro-bono mercenary force for a racist desert kook who doesn't recognize Nevada's entry into the union.
Still in its early days, the Constitutional County Project has the backing of the chairman of the Navajo County GOP and the Republican chairmen of Maricopa and Pinal counties, as well as the leaders of the Arizona chapters of the John Birch Society and the Tenth Amendment Center.
Ah. I stand corrected.