As I have written before, the Quayle vs. Schweikert primary for Congressional District 6 is going to be one heck of a race.

The race has barely started, and it’s already personal – somehow even getting personal towards me when you look at one of the comments from my previous post on this issue.

Congressman Quayle sent out an email that responds to a number of emails, comments and general murmurings coming out of the Schweikert camp.

The best line of the email is this:

The 6th District does not belong to David, as his campaign communications assert, nor does it belong to me or to any office seeker. It belongs to the people who live there.

That reminded me of when Scott Brown beat Martha Coakely in the Senate seat to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.  Brown used the same language.

In fact, that is a major tenant of the tea party movement – that political offices belong to the people, not the politicians who are elected to represent them.  There is a certain unseemly arrogance when politicians claim ownership of anything, let alone the office in which they were privileged to serve.

Geez, it’s only the middle of February.

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