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Republican Jeff Flake running for US Senate in AZ... (Original Post)
matmar
Jan 2012
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southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)1. Is he a tea partier?
marybourg
(12,648 posts)2. He was a t partier
before there was a t party. And he's always been a Flake.
Ptah
(33,051 posts)3. The town of Snowflake, AZ is part of his family's history:
Snowflake is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in
1878 by Erastus Snow and William Jordan Flake, Mormon pioneers and colonizers.
According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 4,958.
In popular culture
The logging crew involved in the Travis Walton abduction incident lived
in this town, and several events surrounding that incident happened here.
These events were dramatized in the 1993 science fiction film Fire in the Sky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake,_Arizona
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)4. And the hits just keep on comin'
MADem
(135,425 posts)5. He'll be the GOP Mormon who wins, probably.
He hasn't had any trouble running/winning as a rep. Seems to have a following. Ick.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)6. He's a nightmare. nt