Post by the Scribe on Feb 24, 2023 0:29:46 GMT
The people listed in this article are only the face of an entire modern conservative movement in Arizona AND the nation. Each and every one of them no doubt has been gaslit by conservative media starting with FOX, its affiliates, talk radio and any number of other right wing conservative media outlets that blanket the country. You don't think people like Putin and his fellow autocrats aren't paying attention to this gift from "their" god? Pull the curtain to see the WHO, WHEN, WHAT, WHERE AND WHY of the industrial conservative media complex as to its funding. LOTS of dark money from Putin's Russia has gone into the GOP coffers. Putin's recent speech to his nation regarding Ukraine and the West sounded like current GOP talking point memos. And then there is the current case of Dominion vs FOX where its talking heads have admitted to pushing the BIG LIE to its audience of GOOD PEOPLE when in fact they KNEW it was a lie. The FIRST AMENDMENT to the Constitution allows freedom of speech but does NOT allow the freedom to yell FIRE in a theatre. There are limits.
Everyone reading this please go online and read: the Powell Memorandum; Origins of the Overclass; and Building and Nurturing A Movement to see when, why and how the modern CONservative movement was created. Also look up the article:
The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts
Everyone reading this please go online and read: the Powell Memorandum; Origins of the Overclass; and Building and Nurturing A Movement to see when, why and how the modern CONservative movement was created. Also look up the article:
The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts
No stolen election. And no apologies from Wendy Rogers and the conspiracy squad
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Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Thu, February 23, 2023 at 1:33 PM MST·5 min read
In this article:
Mark Brnovich
26th Attorney General of Arizona
Senator Wendy Rogers speaks at a protest at the Rose Garden outside the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 17, 2023.
The truth is out and we now know that Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s year-long investigation turned up no evidence of a stolen election in Arizona in 2020.
I can only imagine the relief felt by some of the state’s leading election deniers.
The politicians and self-proclaimed “experts,” people who have spent well over two years howling at the moon about a stolen election and the need to restore “election integrity.”
Legislative leaders who have spent millions in public funds hoping to uncover fraud – Republicans who are now working on dozens of bills to “reform” our elections and boost the voter confidence that they worked daily to undermine.
The secret is out. The Attorney General’s Office spent more than 10,000 hours investigating hundreds upon hundreds of complaints and the result?
“No evidence of election fraud, manipulation of the election process, or any instances of organized/coordinated fraud,” according to a September report from the AG’s chief investigator – the second of two reports kept hidden from the public until this week.
Not a peep from Sen. Wendy Rogers
Well, I’m sure you can imagine the reaction of all those who have spent the last two-plus years slandering state and county elections workers and trying to invalidate Arizona’s vote.
Let’s hear from a few of them.
We’ll start with the queen of election denial.
Expect vetoes:Yet Rogers, others still push controversial proposals
Sen. Wendy Rogers spent two years calling for decertification of the 2020 election and “perp walks” of the (supposed) criminals who denied Donald Trump his due. She quickly became a rock star on the right, raising millions in campaign donations and scoring the chairmanship of this year’s Senate Elections Committee.
Here’s what Rogers had to say after Wednesday’s release of the AG’s findings:
Nothing.
Meanwhile on Thursday, Rogers was hosting an all-day joint meeting of the House and Senate election committees to explore various schemes to regain control after our supposedly stolen elections.
Or, as I like to call it, Conspiracy Fest 2023.
It's crickets from Mark Finchem, as well
Let us turn now to former Rep. Mark Finchem, one of the state’s earliest and loudest of the Stop the Steal shriekers.
Finchem leveraged his outrage to land the GOP nomination for the state’s No. 2 job in 2022 – in part by publicly claiming to have evidence of 30,000 fraudulent votes in Pima County.
Yet in a meeting with the AG’s investigators, “Finchem did not repeat those allegations, specifically stating he did not have any evidence of fraud and he did not wish to take up our time.”
Finchem actually tried to decertify the 2020 election, so I can only imagine how chastened he must now feel. Here’s his reaction to the AG report:
Nothing.
Karen Fann ignores the September report
Former Senate President Karen Fann in September 2021 asked Brnovich to investigate after receiving the results of her Cyber Ninjas audit, noting, among her concerns, statements that Maricopa County hid data from her auditors.
The AG’s investigation turned up no evidence of that, though they left the finding in their initial March 2022 report as “undetermined” pending a review of archived records.
Fann’s response on Wednesday was to retweet a post that jumped on that initial finding, ignoring the investigators’ later September 2022 report. The one that provided a scathing analysis of the Cyber Ninja audit, saying “in eachinstance, the information provided by CNI (Cyber Ninjas Inc.) was inaccurate and false.”
Kari Lake still thinks there's conspiracy afoot
Kari Lake built an entire political campaign around her belief that the election was stolen. Her “war room” campaign's Twitter account glommed onto several instances in which investigators, in that earlier March 2022 report, noted no findings pending a review of archived records.
Naturally, Lake thinks there’s a conspiracy afoot, courtesy of Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, to hide the fraud.
“As @jenwesq points out this 'debunking' of election fraud @krismayes put out is incomplete Why? Because Maricopa County refused to cooperate with ANY investigation They are celebrating being ‘vindicated’ because they successfully ran out the clock on @generalbrnovich’s tenure,” Kari Lake War Room tweeted.
Sonny Borrelli clings to dead voter claim
Sen. Sonny Borrelli was quick to claim a coverup in 2020 and in 2021 and in 2022. Just last week, he was pushing a bill to cancel everybody’s voter registration, noting the legion of dead voters who cast ballots in our state.
But when it came time to offer up proof?
“Senator Borrelli provided the name of a deceased voter whom he said he personally checked and the information was valid,” the AG investigators noted. “When we looked further into that particular voter, it was learned Mr. Borrelli was incorrect.”
Borrelli retweeted the Kari Lake War Room’s insinuations that something nefarious is still afoot.
Warren Petersen says not a word
Senate President Warren Petersen was a driving force behind the scenes in pushing for the Cyber Ninjas audit.
He appointed Wendy Rogers as the Republicans’ point person on election bills this year and proceeded to contract with Gina Swoboda to assist her.
Swoboda, who is big in election denial circles and has ties to both the Trump and Lake campaigns, is being paid $15,000 a month to act as a senior policy adviser to Rogers’ Elections Committee, according to records unearthed by reporter Dillon Rosenblatt on his Fourth Estate 48 Substack.
Petersen’s response to the AG’s findings?
Nothing.
Would an apology be too much to ask?
How about a few of our fake electors, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern and former state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward – extremists who blatantly schemed up a plan to rob us of our vote?
Nope, nothing.
Finally, let’s cut to U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs and Debbie Lesko, who actually voted on Jan. 6, 2021, to reject Arizona’s presidential election results.
Alas, they, too, are silent.
Curiously, outrageously silent about the AG’s investigation that debunked the bunk they have been force-feeding us for far, far too long. Astonishing silent about the frightening fact that they staged an assault on democracy.
Oh, I know. It would be too much to ask for perp walks.
But how about a few apologies?
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @laurieroberts.
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