Kari Lake tried to jump from the news business, where she was a TV anchor, to major political office without any political experience. It didn’t work. What happened was predictable: It was too wide a crevasse. She fell in twice, losing a race for Arizona governor in 2022, and a Senate race in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Arizona’
October 29th, 2024 - 5:32 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake is still a weasel (video)
Kari Lake, a former Phoenix newscaster turned wannabe politician, is running for U.S. Senate in 2024 after losing a 2022 race for governor. Lake, a notorious election denier, persisted in contesting the 2022 results in court despite having no evidence; she not only lost at every step, but she and he[...]
Four Arizona Republicans who reject Trump (video)
I’m posting this video because I think it has lessons for both sides. For Republicans, reclaim your party from Trump and go back to what you were before MAGA, so your own voters can vote for you. For Democrats, listen to these centered voters describe a Democrat they could vote for. The 2024 e[...]
October 16th, 2024 - 2:36 pm § in Politics, Republicans
MAGA liars target Arizona seniors with scary mailer
As the 2024 campaign approaches a climax, a Trump-affiliated group is sending Arizona senior voters a fraudulent mailer (photo, below) falsely declaring their Medicare benefits were cancelled by Kamala Harris (read story here). Even the stamp on the envelope is fake. The group behind the flyer (phot[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 5:36 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake is incompetent
In late August, I wrote (here) that Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. Senator. Now, weeks away from the election, after she debated Rep. Ruben Gallego, her Democratic opponent, I’m confident she’ll take a shellacking. Lake blew the debate, refusing to admit she lost Arizona’s 2022 go[...]
August 26th, 2024 - 6:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. senator
Arizona’s open seat in the 2024 Senate elections is a missed opportunity for Republicans. They will not get a pickup here. Kari Lake (photo, left) cruised to an easy GOP primary victory over nutty Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb, but will lose to Rep. Ruben Gallego in November, keeping this seat in [...]
August 18th, 2024 - 1:28 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. senator
It’s usually risky to make predictions about candidates months before an election, especially ones running in swing states, but I’m not going out on a limb by saying Kari Lake will lose her Senate race in Arizona. Lake has never held public office. She didn’t work her way up throug[...]
GOP legislator demands speeding privileges
Justine Wadsack (photo, left) was pulled over by a Tucson cop for driving 71 mph in a 35 mph zone on March 15, 2024. She wasn’t immediately cited because she’s a state senator, and Arizona legislators enjoy immunity from arrest while in session, but they can be prosecuted after the legis[...]
June 14th, 2024 - 11:09 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arizona candidate falsely claims he’s a Vietnam veteran
Steve Slaton, an Arizona GOP legislative candidate, “has much to be proud of,” says the Vietnam veteran who helped draft the Stolen Valor Act. “He had three years of military active-duty service, and that should be enough.” So why did Slaton claim to be a Cobra gunship co-pil[...]
June 14th, 2023 - 1:50 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake doesn’t know history
Kari Lake, who lost a race for Arizona governor in 2022, partly because 30,000 Republicans voted against her (see details here), is one of America’s most strident election deniers after Trump himself. A British reporter for Australia’s Sky News who disputed her assertion that American el[...]