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Robb Low
The Millennial Arizona Republic’s first salvo of Decision 2002 was fired on April 6, when columnist Robert Robb belittled state Senator Chris Cummiskey for playing “whiffle-ball politics.”
Cummiskey, who wants to be your next secretary of state, must really worry the Republicans. Why else would they sic Bob Robb on the excruciatingly civil senator from north central Phoenix? A Brophy grad at that?
Robb is a fine writer and a smart guy and probably a good son to his mother. Unfortunately for Robb, he has inherited the mantle of the late John Kolbe: Official Press Shill for the GOP Establishment.
Get this. Robb actually berated Cummiskey, a Democrat, for his adventures in bipartisanship, for consorting with Republicans. Bipartisanship is anathema for any Official Media Shill for the GOP Establishment worth his salt.
Cummiskey has had the temerity to team with GOP lawmakers on matters of particular importance to him and — horrors — his constituents. He joined GOP Senator Scott Bundgaard in sponsoring a bill that would have allowed public disclosure of civil settlements in product-defect cases. Such a measure could have saved scores of lives in the wake of sealed litigation in the Firestone tire case.
The Official Press Shill for the GOP Establishment thought such an idea was dangerous. And he’s correct. It is dangerous, for CEOs and stockholders.
Robb also denounced a Cummiskey-Bundgaard effort that would require candidates to list contributions from lobbyists separately.
The nerve!
It’s perfectly understandable, though. Before he became the exalted Official Press Shill for the GOP Establishment, Robb was a lobbyist.