EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Dems’ silence is deafening as activists boycott GOP-supporting businesses

Arizona Democrats running in a highly-contested House seat found themselves in between a rock and a hard place following a disruptive protest of a private business which led to multiple arrests, after left-wing activists refused to let Arizonans enter a car dealership.

Jim Click, a Kia dealer in Tucson Arizona, has donated thousands of dollars to Republicans across the country, primarily his home state representative, Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R., Ariz.), as well as to Rep. Tom Emmer (R., Minn.), the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), and a handful of other organizations.

For some Democratic Party activists in Arizona, that is unforgivable. Last month, Democratic activists from Arizona’s 17th Legislative District staged a protest in which they “put their freedom on the line by blocking the car dealership entrance to bring attention to Click’s generous monetary support of our Republican congressman, Juan Ciscomani,” according to their press release.

One of their activists, who goes by the name “KS,” a self-described “not [] particularly courageous person,” was reportedly arrested.

“I was arrested at the Jim Click blockade on Aug 27,” KS recounted. “There were eight of us who agreed to trespass by blocking the driveway with two banners. We let people leave, but not enter. We’d been told by Click security that if we refused to leave the driveway, they would call the police. The police arrived, isolated us and issued citations for criminal trespass. We have to appear in court on September 9. We’re meeting with an attorney to determine how to respond to the charges. Some of us may plead guilty, others not guilty or perhaps nolo contendere.”

“This. Is. INSANE,” one of Ciscomani’s Republican colleagues wrote to the Washington Reporter. “These people have gone bananas. If he’s dealing with it, how many others are going to have the same thing?”

The Reporter attempted to contact every Democrat running against Ciscomani to see if they support these aggressive tactics. Of Ciscomani’s six declared or potential Democratic opponents, only two have contact information listed on their campaign sites.

The email of one, Andrew Becerra, does not work. And JoAnna Mendoza, who appears to be the Democratic Party establishment’s preferred candidate, did not respond to a question about whether she supports Democratic activists boycotting private businesses.