Jesse Kelly has announced on his Facebook page and in a message to the media that he’s dropping out of the forthcoming CD 2 race:
I would like to thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my wife Aubrey, and our supporters for their unwavering commitment to the values that make America great. Looking at the results from Tuesday, we have decided to withdraw from the race for Congress in AZ-02 and to seek other opportunities. I will forever be thankful to our generous supporters and volunteers.
This move leaves Martha McSally and Mark Koskiniemi in the running in the Republican primary August 28th.
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2012.
good riddance!
Does this mean that he is going back home to Texas?
People are dancing in the streets.
Hit the road jack and dont you come back no moe
Jesse, Please don’t go!! We need you. To lose again!
I would like to thank his savior as well, even though Jesus is not the savior for so many of us, Jesse hoped to represent, he truly is clueless!
I am thankful to Jesus that he told Jesses not to run again, he may be his savior but he is not the savior for everyone he hoped to represent, that’s about how clueless Jesse Kelly really is!
Don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, as Grampy used to say…
He is truly an idiot and an embarrassment to the political process.
And mean spirited. That clip of him denigrating Gabby was the last straw. How could someone vote for him after seeing that?
Now all you good little progressives,lets concentrate on how well the Barberman will do in Wash……..
Actually there isn’t anything being done in Washington, not until after the presidential election. Congress has not even had a bowel movement there so constipated.
They are focused on bankrupting the country and blaming the president and returning to the Bush era.
This opens the door for a sane Republican candidate in the Fall, if one can be found. And then we have to see if Republicans would vote for such a candidate…
Jesse Kelly is not the idiot, his campaign manager is the idiot, Jesse was dumb enough to agree with. That was his downfall. Running against a man that wasn’t really a politician and losing, that’s embarrassing.
What about people who voted for a “community organizer” with no political experience to be our president; BO!! Our children will pay for the sins of their (Kenyan) father, because of a monster-like national deficit.
Yes, I have a fraudulent birth certificate (NY, NY) and no, I’m not running for president.
Thank God, Jesse’s gone. But what about all those people who voted for him? Did they just vote for him because they went to his church or were employed by his business? Did they vote for him because they didn’t understand English? Did they vote for him because they liked to hear the mindless soundbites that he gave for answers? Did they vote for him because his “grandpa” said he was a good boy? Or, even more SCARY, did they vote for him because they thought he could adequately represent Arizona in the House of Representatives?
Whatever the reason, THEY are still around!!!!!!!!!!!!
I voted for him because of people like you, that need a Savior. unfortunately, you’re the one that’s going to be clueless at the end! And by the way, I speak english very well, thank you. This State needs more Godly people in congress. I am deeply saddened that Mr. Kelly decided not to run again. God brought him here to make a difference for this state, but as always, when you are in such darkness, you just can’t see the light. I can only pray we will have more Godly people that will run for congress . May God continue to bless America.
Ray, Obama’s mother was an American citizen, making him a natural born American whether he was born in Kenya, France or even on the moon! Therefore, to continue accusing the President of not being a natural born American is pathetically ignorant and makes you look petty.
Maria, Equating Jesse Kelly or any other human-being with being a “savior” in the divine sense is neither Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or anything else “Godly”; actually, it is UN-Godly on every level. In fact, using your opinion that certain people “need” a “savior” as your reason for voting for Kelly smacks of outright heresy, because whenever you refer to ANY human-being as a “savior”, you deny the supreme divinity of God.
Hear hear, Ms. Bell!! You took the words right out of my heart…
For your info, I was’nt saying Jessie Kelly was our Savior, I tell you, it would be a good thing to read your Bible every once in a while so you won’t be so ignorant As a Christian, he would be a light to this State and to people full that are full of hate and anger towards him and other Christians. I don’t equate him as Jesus at all, you definitely misinterpreted what I was saying. I would never deny the supreme divinity of God, that’s just putting words into my mouth. According to the Bible, we ALL need a Savior, so that is where I base my opinion Ms. Bell….
please! can we just stop the religious piety! it is divisive and ignorant. no candidate can claim “diviine superiority” really, god and Jesus are busy with other things Let us all keep religion out of politics and the world will be a better, saner place. religion is only an organized business that keeps peope divided to conduct power over those who have no other answers to life’s problems and tragedies..If you are deeply religious keep it to yourself but, to constantly proclaim your beliefs is offensive to those who do not hold those same ideals. a totally secular political world is my hope.
Freedom of religion. I can share Christ just as much as you can share your opinion about what religion is or is not. It’s about a relationship with God. Not a “business”. It’s something how you can offend me, but i can’t offend you. I don’t think so. We are free to share in this country. And as far as keeping “religion” out of politics, i guess times have certainly changed being that this country was founded on Godly principles. It’s not religious piety Tucker. I will speak about God when and wherever I want.
Bravo Maria;the pagans are getting nervous…….
No Bob, just sick of the non-pagans shoving their religions in our faces. Nobody asked them to “share” and it wasn’t a religious blog post, making it a non-sequitur. If you’re going to “share’ your beliefs, one should at least wait until the subject comes up.
Maria, I am a DEVOUT Christian and have studied and lived by the bible since before I was even able to read. I still read the bible all of the time, and for you to assume that I don’t, and to accuse me of being “ignorant” because I disagree with you is, in itself, the height of ignorance.
You are in NO position to adversely critique anyone else’s goodness, faith, knowledge of the bible or degree of piety, simply because those things do not, in your mind, align with your own. TRUE Christians do not judge or attempt to hold themselves above their fellow humans, nor do they EVER brag about or compare the degree of their faith with that of others. (See the book of Matthew in the Gospel where he warns us to beware of those who stand on the street corners, decked in their ‘priestly’ garb/robes, spouting scripture).
Feeling that because YOU are a Christian, you have some kind of divine right to try to force others to live under the tenants of YOUR faith is un-Christian and the height of arrogance and selfishness. TRUE Christians ‘live’ their faith through the way they conduct themselves and in how they treat others, not by posturing and pointing their fingers at those who disagree with them. Christ NEVER tried to take over a government (and he could have if he had chosen to) in order to share the Word of God or force those who disagreed with Him to bend to His will. He wanted people to come to Him of their own free will to live according to His Word, not because some government forced them to do it.
You did, in fact, write that you voted for Jesse Kelly because people like us “need” a “savior” – I didn’t put those words in your mouth – YOU wrote them yourself. As a Christian, I resent people like you who also claim to be Christian while trying to force everyone to live by our religious beliefs, even when they do not share them – it is ALL of YOU who are giving Christians a bad name and generating all the “hate and anger” that is turning everyone else against us.
Just because someone like Jesse Kelly is a member of or active in a church does not mean they are a ‘good’ Christian or even remotely qualified for public office. The whole ‘we are Christians’ and ‘pro-life’ claims of the GOP are not only major con jobs put out there to entice unsophisticated voters into casting ballots in favor of their candidates, but those who buy into their lies are pawns who will end up voting for those whose political positions will be detrimental to their own voters’ well-being.
By the way, did you know that those “Godly principals” you said our country was founded on, included legalized enslavement of human beings, no rights for women, and the founding fathers originally tried to restrict the right to vote to only landowners? In what alternate, depraved reality are those things “Godly” principals?
Would Jesus hold a political fundraiser with target practice? Another fake Christian self-righteous hypocrite. Hail Kelly!
JCB- Wow. Well said ma’am!
Maria- what would happen if you simply loved your neighbor, showed compassion for your fellow man and lived a virtuous life simply because it was the right thing to do- and not out of the irrational fear of an eternity spent in the fiery lakes of hell? Lose the scorecard Maria and join the human race.
The dull pop, the cloud of greasy smoke and sulphur smell – are all sure signs of Maria’s mind blowing after reading the last post by JCB.
If the U.S. was founded on the Christian religion, the Constitution would clearly say so — but it does not. Nowhere does the Constitution say: “The United States is a Christian Nation”, or anything even close to that. In fact, the words “Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, Creator, Divine, and God” are never mentioned in the Constitution — not even once. Nowhere in the Constitution is religion mentioned, except in exclusionary terms. When the Founders wrote the nation’s Constitution, they specified that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” (Article 6, section 3) This provision was radical in its day — giving equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike. They wanted to ensure that no religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had. The Declaration of Independence gives us important insight into the opinions of the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the power of the government is derived from the governed. Up until that time, it was claimed that kings ruled nations by the authority of God. The Declaration was a radical departure from the idea that the power to rule over other people comes from god. It was a letter from the Colonies to the English King, stating their intentions to separate themselves. The Declaration is not a governing document. It mentions “Nature’s God” and “Divine Providence”– but as you will soon see, that’s the language of Deism, not Christianity.
The 1796 Treaty with Tripoli states that the United States was “not in any sense founded on the Christian religion”. This was not an idle statement meant to satisfy Muslims– they believed it and meant it. This treaty was written under the presidency of George Washington and signed under the presidency of John Adams.
None of the Founding Fathers were atheists. Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books. They spoke often of God, (Nature’s God or the God of Nature), but this was not the God of the bible. They did not deny that there was a person called Jesus, and praised him for his benevolent teachings, but they flatly denied his divinity. Some people speculate that if Charles Darwin had lived a century earlier, the Founding Fathers would have had a basis for accepting naturalistic origins of life, and they would have been atheists. We’ll never know; but by reading their own writings, it’s clear that most of them were opposed to the bible, and the teachings of Christianity in particular.
“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to usurpation on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded against by an entire abstinence of the Gov’t from interference in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect against trespasses on its legal rights by others.”
James Madison, “James Madison on Religious Liberty”,
edited by Robert S. Alley, ISBN 0-8975-298-X. pp. 237-238 .
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.” -letter to Wm. Bradford, April 1, 1774 from James Madison
As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?”
– letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816 from John Adams
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Open letter to Jesse Kelly: Thank you for wanting to represent us in Congress. Now that you will NOT be in Congress at this time, you have time to actually prepare yourself for the role by running for City Council, the state legislature,your church offices, and perhaps, for neighborhood roles. You have time to go back to school to actually study Political Science and, if you win a public office, you will have a chance to learn what the job entails. I could not vote for you because I could not see where you had any experience at all in public office (so I could not check your voting record) and I was alarmed by the extremist views that you expressed. Perhaps with more education and experience, you can learn to be someone who can actually REPRESENT the people you want to serve rather than be someone who will allow himself to be ordered around by whatever groups financed his bid for office. The extreme views actually were a shock to my Christian faith because they seemed to be against some of the people you would have represented. The views were SO extreme that they failed to meet Jesus’ most important commandment for us to love one another. Views that show hatred or disregard for some of our people do not follow that commandment. I wish you well in your life and learning and wish you and your family well.