Is there something in the LD18 water?

It's official: the LD18 Republicans are loons, or at least their elected representatives in the state house and state senate are.

Let's take a look at the evidence:

For one state rep, they have Mark "raping your spouse shouldn't be a felony" Anderson;

For the other state rep, they have Russell "National Alliance" or maybe "Operation Wetback" Pearce;

and, as the piece de resistance, they elected Karen "OMFG! Mere words cannot describe her brand of lunacy!" Johnson.

Her latest escapade, courtesy Howard Fischer in the AZ Daily Star (via the AZ Rep's Plugged In) :

Sen. Johnson is "accusing President Bush of pushing a behind-the-scenes agenda that will result in the U.S. being merged with Mexico and Canada."

Have to hope that whatever she has isn't contagious, because "Johnson said she shared her concerns with some members of the state's congressional delegation during a recent trip to Washington, D.C. "

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Update on 12/1 - The op-ed piece that she wrote is online at the Tucson Citizen. Also, Sen. Johnson has caught the eye of the John Birch Society. Ugh.

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BTW - If this isn't scary enough, Sen. Johnson is slated to chair the state senate's K-12 Education Committee.

You know there's a major problem with a group such as this when the sanest one of the bunch is *merely* a Neanderthal when it comes to the issue of how women should be treated by their husbands.

Would it be appropriate, for the sake of the state as a whole and LD18 in particular, if the Democratic organizations of other LDs offered what help they can to the LD18 Dems? Help them to send the fearsome threesome to the political showers in 2 years?