McCain Camp Hits Primary Opponent Over Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory

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Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign on Monday hit the senator’s primary opponent, Arizona state Sen. Kelli Ward (R), over her willingness to discuss chemtrail conspiracy theories at a public hearing.

McCain’s campaign put out a web ad labeling Ward “Chemtrail Kelli” and hitting her for spending “your tax dollars to entertain ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy theories.” The ad’s narrator tells viewers that Ward has “bad judgment” and is “dangerous for Arizona.”

Ward in 2014 said that she was willing to hear the conspiracy theories about chemtrails at a public hearing.

“I have gotten a lot of communications from people who are concerned and there has been a sense that no one has been doing anything for them to address those concerns,” she told the Havasu News. “I can’t do field tests on the water, but I can connect them to the people who do.”

Ward later clarified that she does not believe in chemtrails.

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  1. The ad’s narrator tells viewers that Ward has “bad judgment” and is “dangerous for Arizona.”

    McCain unleashed the Whore of Babble On and he has the nerve to question another person’s judgment?

  2. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    McPalin--------‘I know chem-trails and you’re no chem-trail, Kelli!’

  3. I have said, on more than one occasion, that my state’s legislature is populated by some…ahem … very strange folk. If there are actual aliens among us I know right where they work…
    edit
    @antisachetdethe, the crazies are out in force this time around to “primary” McCain. They see him as …liberal…if that can be believed. I think of these 4-5 nut cases running for his seat as true lizard people in human skin. Pop corn worthy to be sure but it just goes to show how weird the back country of AZ is.

  4. I agree with what Molly Ivins wrote about the Texas Legislature: “Every two years, for 140 days, every village in Texas knows the whereabouts of their idiot.”

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