Monica Alonso at Phoenix New Times gives some background on Steve May, the GOP operative in the center of the ‘sham’ candidate scandal:


May, a Republican running for a House seat in District 17, once told the nation that he had “chosen to live…life with integrity.”

What’s happened to this honorable, well-respected man?

He’s among the Republican politicos who recruited homeless individuals from Mill Avenue to run as Green Party candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission, State Treasurer, and the state Senate, the New York Times reports. The former state represenative for four years, working on a political comeback, was ousted from the U.S. Army in 2001 because he had discussed his homosexuality on the House floor a few years earlier during a debate on healthcare benefits for same-sex partners.

He garnered nationwide attention for shining the spotlight on the hushed discussion of gays in the military and its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

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“Did I recruit candidates? Yes,” said May, who is himself a candidate for the Legislature, on the Republican ticket. “Are they fake candidates? No way.”

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In 1999, May told the New York Times that the Republican “party has been hijacked by theocratic fascists.”

Maybe that’s the real reason that he’s working for the Green Party?


Read more here.

Read a 1999 story about May targeted by the military as a victim of ‘don’t ask—don’t tell’ policy here. Source: www.lcrga.com, website of Georgia Log Cabin Republicans.