Tag Archives: Arizona

Cultist Gets 3.5 Years For Threats To AZ Poll Workers

The Associated Press reports: A Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison, prosecutors said Friday. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty earlier this year to interstate threatening communications. Goltz was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge …

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Arizona’s State Republican Party Is Practically Broke

The Messenger reports: The Arizona Republican Party picked a bad time to run out of money. There are two competitive House seats on the line as Republicans are looking to defend their slim majority in the lower chamber next year. Not to mention, Arizona is going to be a major swing state in the 2024 presidential election. But the state …

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90 Million Across US Under Extreme Heat Warning

CNN reports: An already dangerous weekslong heat wave will only worsen this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the Western United States. The heat dome is so formidable the National Weather Service in Phoenix called it “one of the strongest high pressure systems this region has ever seen.” Around 100 heat records could …

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Vaseline Woman Fined $122K For “Frivolous” Lawsuit

The Messenger reports: Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake must pay a $122,200 sanctions penalty together with her attorney Alan Dershowitz and fellow far-right candidate Mark Finchem for pursuing a “frivolous” lawsuit seeking to overturn her 2022 midterm defeat, according to a federal judge’s order issued Friday. Lake filed multiple lawsuits seeking to overturn her defeat, including one listing Finchem …

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AZ Ramps Up Probe Into Attempt To Overturn Election

The Washington Post reports: Arizona’s top prosecutor is ramping up a criminal investigation into alleged attempts by Republicans to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state by signing and transmitting paperwork falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) [photo] assigned a team of prosecutors to …

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AZ Hotel Cancels Event With Nazi Nick Fuentes, GOP Groups Claim Names Were Used Without Permission

The Arizona Daily Independent reports: Across the state, Arizona Republican leaders are condemning a false advertisement issued by a group calling itself College Republicans United announcing the noted anti-Semite Nick Fuentes as their guest speaker for an upcoming event. The Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) tweeted, “NEVER AUTHORIZED | NEVER SPONSORED | NEVER PROMOTED: The #MCRC never authorized, sponsored, or …

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FBI Interviews Ex-AZ Speaker About Calls From Trump

CNN reports: A former top Republican official in Arizona, who rejected pressure from Donald Trump and his allies following the former president’s 2020 election defeat, told CNN Wednesday night that he has spoken with the FBI as part of the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the vote. Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers revealed the interview with …

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DOJ Subpoenaed Arizona Secretary Of State Office

Arizona Central reports: U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office as recently as May as part of his investigation into the events leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Smith’s office also talked to GOP lawmakers in the spring about events in the wake of the 2020 presidential …

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Trump Pressured Then-AZ Gov To Overturn Election

The Washington Post reports: In a phone call in late 2020, President Donald Trump tried to pressure Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to overturn the state’s presidential election results, saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found it would overcome Trump’s narrow loss in Arizona, according to three people familiar with the call. Trump also repeatedly asked Vice President …

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Another AZ Elections Official Harassed Into Quitting

NBC News reports: An Arizona county elections director quit Tuesday, accusing the local elections department of caving to “a faction of the Republican party” and failing to protect her from “intimidation.” “I have watched as you idly stood by when I was attacked,” Geraldine Roll, the Pinal County elections director, wrote in an email to the county’s manager, Leo Lew. …

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Arizona GOP Elections Official Sues Vaseline Woman

The Washington Post reports: The lawsuit by Stephen Richer, a Republican who has served as recorder of Maricopa County since 2021, marks the most aggressive attempt to hold Lake and her allies accountable for election-related misinformation. It comes amid other efforts to make right-wing figures and media answerable for spreading election fabrications. In the complaint, Richer alleges that Lake, her …

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Feds: Man Torched Arizona Church Over Gay Pastor

Tucson’s CBS affiliate reports: Federal court documents paint Eric Ridenour, the suspect in the Douglas church fires, as a man with a violent criminal history who doesn’t like women or gay men preaching. Authorities have said Ridenour set fires at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church in Douglas on May 22, 2023. Both buildings were extensively damaged. St. …

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Arizona Gov Vetoes Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bill

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona won’t be the latest state to limit students from using restrooms that fit their gender identity after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday vetoed a Republican-backed bill that would have put legal requirements on public school bathrooms. Senate Bill 1040 is “yet another discriminatory act against LGBTQ+ youth passed by the majority at the state …

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Arsonist Torches Tempe, Arizona City Hall’s Pride Flag

NBC News reports: A Pride flag was taken down and burned outside of a City Hall building in Tempe, Arizona, officials said Tuesday. The flag-burning comes months after a bomb threat was made to an LGBTQ-owned coffee shop in Tempe, a city of 186,000 people that’s about 10 miles east of Phoenix. The flag — which flew alongside the American, …

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Cultists Harass AZ County Elections Chief Into Retiring

The Washington Post reports: After facing an onslaught of harassment and violent threats for certifying the results of the 2020 election, a Republican on the governing board of Arizona’s largest county will not seek reelection during the 2024 cycle. Bill Gates, a longtime conservative and Harvard-educated attorney, told The Washington Post that he intends to serve his term through the …

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Vaseline Woman: I’m Filing Yet Another Appeal [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: Speaking ahead of her “Defend America” rally, Lake told conservative TV network Real America’s Voice: “Our attorney’s just filed a notice for appeal.” She went on to explain that her team “now have the video” to support claims of misconduct in Maricopa County. “We are not stopping,” Lake added. “I will never back down. That election …

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Dershowitz Seeks To Evade Sanctions In Kari Lake Case

Courthouse News reports: Alan Dershowitz says he was mistakenly listed as the lead attorney in Kari Lake’s suit against the Arizona secretary of state and supervisors of both Maricopa and Pima Counties. Rather than leading the legal effort to disrupt trust in Arizona’s elections, Dershowitz says he spent “merely three or four hours” on the case as an advisor to …

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Vaseline Woman Claims She Will Appeal To SCOTUS

The Arizona Republic reports: Former Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake on Tuesday pledged to appeal her latest courtroom loss in her effort to unseat Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. “We’re also going to continue to, not only raise funds, but energy, for our legal team to continue pushing our case to the United States Supreme Court,” Lake said in a …

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Court Boots Vaseline Woman’s Final Election Challenge

The Arizona Republic reports: A Maricopa County judge has affirmed — again — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ win in November and rejected Republican Kari Lake’s claims that improper signature verification and misconduct affected the outcome. The ruling comes after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson heard three days of testimony and argument in his Mesa courtroom May 17-19. That …

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AZ Cultist Group Settles Lawsuit Over Menacing Voters

Axios reports: An Arizona activist group agreed Sunday to settle a lawsuit accusing its activists of voter intimidation at ballot drop boxes in the state. The League of Women Voters of Arizona filed the suit against a group that formerly called itself Clean Elections USA, whose activists gathered at drop boxes last year in efforts they claimed were to prevent …

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