Matt Salmon is a jackass Mormon who has promoted Scientology by sponsoring pro-Scientology bills in Congress.

Here's Freedom magazine slurping his rectum: http://violence.freedommag.org/page30.htm

Here's an attack from him on Germany for prosecuting Scientologists when they commit crimes: http://cisar.org/991023a.htm

Here's how he gets to use John Travolta like a birthday clown: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=63tpf6%24pfi%40basement.replay.com&output=gplain

Now he's running for governor of Arizona, and being smeared by dark horse candidate Dick Mahoney.

http://www.sltrib.com/10132002/nation_w/6704.htm

Polygamy Shakes Up Governor Race Sunday, October 13, 2002

THE NEW YORK TIMES

PHOENIX -- As if a staggering budget deficit and troubled educational system were not enough campaign fodder for Arizona's leading candidates for governor, last week they found a new issue. Rather, it found them.

Dick Mahoney, a political independent, began running 30-second commercials last week that focus on members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in northern Arizona who practice polygamy and suspicions that they are committing sexual abuse, domestic violence, welfare fraud and other crimes.

One advertisement says Mahoney's Democratic opponent, Attorney General Janet Napolitano, has ignored the crimes. The other says his Republican opponent, Matt Salmon, a former congressman and mainstream Mormon, would ignore them if he were elected.

The commercials jolted an otherwise conventional campaign in which Mahoney has struggled to find traction. Recent statewide polls show him with 8 percent support, compared with 41 percent for Napolitano and 35 percent for Salmon.

But now, Mahoney, a former Democrat and secretary of state, has leaped into wider view by embracing a subject that has shadowed Arizona for decades and caused the political demise of the last governor who dared tackle polygamy in a highly public way. In 1953 that governor, Howard Pyle, sent state police into the polygamists' enclave, Colorado City, to arrest men for bigamy, rape and other violations. Women and children living in plural families were brought to Phoenix to live as wards of the state.

After news accounts of families being torn apart and a dearth of prosecutions for lack of evidence, Pyle lost his bid for re-election.

Napolitano did not deny knowledge of possible crimes in Colorado City, saying her office and the Utah attorney general have been investigating them for 18 months.

Napolitano and Salmon, who accused Mahoney of religious bigotry, said the commercials purposefully left false impressions as a way to make political points.

Mahoney denied any such thing, asserting that he neither knew nor cared how raising the issue of polygamy in the state might affect his campaign.

"It's the right thing to do," he said. "And it's the right time to do it.''

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