The greater concern for his constituents back home in Arizona should be whether Kyl’s backroom shenanigans are what we sent him to Washington to do.
Kyl’s commitment to being one of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ Capitol Hill waterboys is a scary situation indeed.
Gonzales is no friend of open government. As White House Counsel in the George W. Bush administration, he was an active defender of “quasi-executive privilege,” which has drastically broadened the President’s ability to hide his decision-making processes from the public and Congress.
Gonzales has also actively worked to block the release of many presidential papers from the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations despite federal law making many of those papers public 12 years after a president leaves office.
Here’s why Jon Kyl should care a lot more about what Arizona thinks and less about what Alberto Gonzales and the White House want.
The state Kyl represents was founded on populism — government by the people, of the people and for the people. We don’t trust Big Government and we don’t trust government in secret.
That is the legacy of service that this state has sent its congressional delegations to Washington with for 95 years. Jon Kyl should make his mind up now. Is he the Justice Department’s senator?
Or is he Arizona’s senator, deserving to walk in the footsteps of Barry Goldwater and Carl Hayden as a proper servant of the Grand Canyon State.

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