Arizona GOP Censures House Speaker For Testifying

The Guardian reports:

Rusty Bowers, the Arizona house speaker who testified to the January 6 committee about how he resisted Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden in the sun belt state, has been formally censured by his own Republican party.

Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican party, said on Tuesday its “executive committee formally censured Rusty Bowers tonight – he is no longer a Republican in good standing and we call on Republicans to replace him at the ballot box in the August primary”.

Ward released a copy of the formal censure, which included “killing all meaningful election integrity bills” among Bowers’ alleged misdeeds and called on Arizona voters to “expel him permanently from office”.

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Kelli Ward, you may recall, first earned national ridicule when she claimed that John McCain timed the revelation of his brain cancer diagnosis to hurt her ultimately failed bid for the US Senate. Last month the Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Ward over Arizona’s fake electors.

Apparently, if you say the truth under oath, the Republicans kick you out! Arizona Republican censured by party over testimony on resisting Trump https://t.co/r13Ngfb0eJ

— Beth Hall (@bethhall) July 20, 2022