Marc Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema

Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has been in Congress for a little more than six weeks now, but libertarian-minded attorney Marc Victor is already planning to defeat her in 2014.

We've heard from his campaign that Victor, who ran as the Libertarian option against Richard Carmona and then-Congressman Jeff Flake in the recent Senate election, will be running as a Republican.

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"Marc is very serious about winning this time and has a very good shot at doing so," according to his campaign. "He has been in contact with Ron Paul and running as a Republican can expect help from Ron with the campaign."

That's a bit of a different tone than Victor used in his bid for Senate, in which he pulled in about 4.5 percent of the votes.

"I don't care what people do with their votes," Victor told New Times during the campaign, after a pro-Flake Super PAC claimed a vote for Victor was really a vote for Carmona. "I'm just promoting freedom."

Obviously, running as a Libertarian, Victor knew his odds of winning were just about zero, and starting out this campaign with the Ron Paul information, it doesn't look like Victor's abandoning the libertarian message.

Victor, an honorably discharged Marine, is also an attorney, and we've noted a couple of the successes he's had of late.

Victor actually announced his run for Senate last summer, about a week after defending a client who was found not guilty of transporting 83 pounds of marijuana from Douglas to Phoenix.

Then, just weeks before the election, Victor was a bit busy as he was defending Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of "Baby Gabriel."

Johnson was facing a kidnapping charge in the trial, but a jury ended up finding her guilty of the lesser charge of unlawful imprisonment.

That said, it looks like Victor's actually going to take a shot at winning the election this time, running as a Republican. Of course, to get to Sinema, Victor would have to win that Republican primary -- which was a seven-way race last year.

Vernon Parker won that primary race, but ended up losing to Sinema by about four percentage points.

If you want to check out Victor's campaign website, it can be found here.

Election 2012 Libertarian Marc Victor, Targeted in Arizona Senate Race by Wealthy Super PAC

Election 2012

Libertarian Marc Victor, of All People, Targeted in Arizona Senate Race by Wealthy Super PAC

 

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/10/libertarian_marc_victor_of_all.php

I Voted Today

Vote Libertarian Tomorrow!

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/117563-2012-08-27-our-libertarian-candidates-need-your-support-tomorrow.htm

My Day In Court

http://www.squidoo.com/my-day-in-court
 

By Mike Wasdin

New Times Best of Phoenix Poll

                          Vote Marc Victor Best Politician of 2012! 

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http://polls.phoenixnewtimes.com/polls/phx/bestof2012/

Free CCW Legal Seminar

April 25th, 2012

Free CCW Legal Seminar by Marc J. Victor

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The Marc J. Victor Pavilion

located at Chester’s Harley Davidson

922 South Country Club Drive

Mesa, Arizona

http://www.chestershd.com 

We are proud to be the official sponsor of Chester’s Harley Davidson in Mesa. Stay tuned for more upcoming legal seminars to be held at the Marc J. Victor Pavilion located adjacent to Chester’s Harley Davidson.

Judge dismisses lawsuit on Arizona Day of Prayer

http://www.kpho.com/story/16309180/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-on-arizona-day-of-prayer

There is a disturbing trend developing in First Amendment jurisprudence; especially in the area of church and state separation.  Notwithstanding the fact that many state sponsored or endorsed religious actions appear to clearly violate the well established parameters of the First Amendment, courts are now routinely dismissing lawsuits for lack of standing.  To be clear, these dismissals do not involve a rejection of the constitutional challenge on the merits of the claim.  To the contrary, they are simply evasions of the issue altogether.  They are technical dismissals resulting in the untenable position that these First Amendment violations are simply unchallengeable by any person.  Rather than hear these challenges on the merits and reach the inescapable conclusion that such actions are indeed unconstitutional, many courts have agreed to side step the issue by construing the doctrine of standing so such unconstitutional acts remain safe from constitutional challenge. Courts should be bold enough to hear and decide these challenges on constitutional grounds.  Constitutional protections are meaningless if courts construe the law such that no person can invoke those protections. 

In an effort to attempt to have these matters heard on the merits and to validate the notion that constitutional violations can be challenged, our clients have decided to appeal the district court’s dismissal of the Day of Prayer lawsuit.  We expect to file an appeal to the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeal very soon.  Additionally, another lawsuit will be filed in the state court alleging violations of the state constitution. 

This lawsuit is about the role of government.  Our clients remain committed to the notion that prayer is either a private matter or one that can be openly and loudly promoted by any private individual or private company on any private property for any length of time.  Any effort by government to inhibit any private person’s right to pray on any non-governmental property would be opposed by all plaintiffs to this lawsuit.  However, our clients, those religious and non-religious, remain equally committed to the well established notion that government should neither promote, inhibit nor endorse any religious view.  Simply put, government should stay out of religious matters altogether; our constitution forbids it and it is both consistent and indispensible to notions of a free and open society. 

US Attorney for Arizona Resigns

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2011/08/30/20110830us-attorney-arizona-burke-resigns30-ON.html 

A great law professor of mine once said, “If they get you asking the wrong question, it doesn’t matter what the answer is.”  The wrong question here is, “How should the federal government best observe, track and control the flow of guns?”  The right question is, “What types of things can be done to reduce the violence in our society?”  Guns do not kill or harm people.  Bad people sometimes use guns to injury or kill people.  Focusing on what causes people to hurt and kill others is what we should be focused on. 


The idiotic drug war is probably the single biggest cause of violence in our society.  The prohibition on certain drugs, just like the similarly failed prohibition on alcohol, creates a black market of trade which relies on violence to enforce contracts and to protect or transport goods.  Say what you want about all the bad things that result from the ingestion of alcohol, at least the Miller guy and the Budweiser guy don’t shoot it up in the streets when they disagree.  Peace emanates from a respect for others which includes tolerating the notion that adults are in charge of themselves and have a right to put into their bodies whatever they want without anybody’s permission or approval.

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Marc Victor Speaks to ASU Students at the 420 Rally

Attorney Marc J. Victor of the law firm Attorney For Freedom speaks about the failed war on drugs and why it needs to end:

http://www.attorneyforfreedom.com/index. cfm/g/videos-featuring-marc-victor-attorney-at-law/f/marc-victor-asu-420-legalize-marijuana-drug-war .htm