In the wake of her latest court defeat (details here), Kari Lake is vowing to “show up to a knife fight with a gun” and “register every man, woman, dog, Gila monster” to vote (read story here). In a ballyhooed “huge announcement” on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, Lake cla[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Arizona’
May 23rd, 2023 - 6:26 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake threatens to register dogs and gilas to vote
Kari Lake rebuffed in court again
An Arizona trial court judge has again rejected Kari Lake’s claims that she lost the 2022 governor’s race because of misconduct by Maricopa County election officials (see story here). The same judge previously ruled Lake failed to prove any of her original 10 grounds for overturning the [...]
Can we at least try to keep stupidity out of politics?
I wish I could give you hope, but it’s not looking good. For starters, the Arizona GOP has collapsed into bitter infighting, with finger-pointing aplenty. How they’re fighting, and what they’re saying about each other, is concerning. The only positive thing about it is they haven&#[...]
February 22nd, 2023 - 1:06 pm § in Law and Courts
What if a state refuses to obey the Supreme Court?
Arizona badly wants to execute cop killer John Montenegro Cruz (photo, left), and has defied Supreme Court rulings standing in the way. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled that if prosecutors seek a death sentence by telling jurors a defendant is a threat to society, the judge must allow his attorneys [...]
February 17th, 2023 - 11:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake untethers from truth
And that’s a huge red flag in a candidate for public office. Before the 2022 election, in which Lake ran for Arizona governor, she repeated Trump’s election lies and claimed her own election wouldn’t be fair unless she won. That’s a slap in the face — no, a hard punch &[...]
February 11th, 2023 - 6:22 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake argues elections aren’t fair unless Republicans always win
Kari Lake was a local news anchor before she ran for Arizona governor and lost by 17,117 votes. Lake, who based her campaign on Trump’s election lies, sued to overturn the election, lost in court, and has vowed to take her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which shows her understanding of how la[...]
February 3rd, 2023 - 2:28 pm § in Politics, Republicans
How to keep losing elections
Think of Arizona Republicans as lab rats. GOP strategists do. What’s going on in Arizona GOP circles illustrates why Republicans are losing elections they should win. But they’re learning nothing from it. A Politico article published on Friday, February 3, 2023, goes into the details (re[...]
Don’t raise kids in Arizona
The importance of education doesn’t need to be explained or defended here. Arizona is known as a retirement haven. Low cost of living is part of what attracts older folks on fixed incomes. They don’t like paying school taxes, and don’t have school-age children, so they don’[...]
Kari Lake loses election challenge
Kari Lake (photo, left) has lost her election lawsuit. An Arizona judge rejected her exaggerated claims of election problems, and false claims of fraud by election workers (read his decision here). As expected, the judge ruled the defeated GOP candidate didn’t prove Maricopa County’s ele[...]
Arizona losers file election lawsuits
Arizona is a hotbed of GOP election denialism, and a slate of Trump-inspired election deniers won the 2022 GOP primaries there, then lost in November. Now they’re filing lawsuits to overturn those results (read story here). I scanned defeated governor candidate Kari Lake’s 70-page filing[...]