This primary day nugget comes via the New Times Valley Fever blog:


100823_quayles_compy_ap_328 Image Credit: AP photo composite by Politico.


Less than 24 hours before primary voters took to the polls, former Vice President Dan Quayle weighed in on attacks on his son Ben, who, in case you didn’t know, is running for Congress in Arizona’s Third District.

In an email sent last night to supporters, the elder Quayle made a last-minute pitch for his son, slamming Quayle’s leading opponent, Steve Moak, for playing dirty.

“I took my fair share of outrageous slams in politics but Steve Moak’s vicious smear against my son is over the top and unprecedented,” Dan Quayle wrote in the email first published by Politico. “I have never in my 35 years of politics seen such an ugly, slanderous assault in the closing days of a campaign against a fellow Republican.”

The former Vice President is talking about an ad released by Moak over the weekend slamming Ben Quayle for his ties to the early stages of “The Dirty.


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