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Former Mayoral Candidate Returns to
Sedona as a Star
By Tommy Acosta
Former Sedona Mayoral candidate Samaire Armstrong has triumphantly returned to Sedona as a movie star in a Hollywood feature film titled “God Is (not) Dead: In God We Trust,” where she plays a hard-core campaign manager for a Christian pastor making a run for Congress. Samaire delivers a solid performance as the ruthless campaign manager who tries to convince the pastor to play dirty while he wants to keep it clean because of his faith – a classic confrontation between good and evil. From the get-go, the movie sets the stage for the battle between those wishing to combine church and state in the governance of the country against those wishing to keep God out of it at any cost. Samaire, narrowly lost her election bid for Sedona mayor when she ran two years ago brings to the camera an intrinsic knowledge of what it means to face dirty tricks inherent in politics. Except in the film, the shoe is on the other foot as her character indulges in political shenanigans and dirty tricks in hope of defeating the pastor’s opponent. Read more→