"But then I realized I AM the job. Defaming me is her path to campaign donations, speaking opportunities, and national trips."
--Stephen Richer, Maricopa County Recorder on Kari Lake
This tweet by Stephen Richer was heart wrenching.
It's NOT okay for MAGA Republicans to make up lies about election officials who are just doing their jobs.
It's NOT okay for MAGA Republicans to stir up their supporters to repeatedly harass an election official--all because they can't admit they lost an election.
And it is certainly NOT okay to do so as a way of staying in the spotlight and soliciting donations--and perhaps auditioning to become Trump's VP. 😬
Ironically, Stephen Richer is a Republican.
But being a Republican didn't save him from being targeted by a corrupt politician like Kari Lake.
It is past time that someone made her accountable for her lies.
Arizona Republicans who had been calling for the most extreme abortion restrictions possible are abruptly flip-flopping now that the 100% Republican-appointed Arizona Supreme Court has given them exactly what they had been working for. 😳
Most Republicans had been calling for the repeal of Roe v. Wade since the US Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. When the GOP-majority SCOTUS overturned Roe in 2022, Republicans began to realize that most Americans didn't want Christian fundamentalist overseers in every bedroom and doctor's office in the US.
These sudden changes of opinion on abortion by Republicans are more fake than Trump's face color.
CNN anchor rolls tape on Arizona politician's abortion stance before the state Supreme Court ruling
Don't believe Republicans pretending to be moderate on abortion. They had been striving to make abortion illegal since 1973 and when they succeeded, they absolutely gloated about it.
(via Kari Lake Claims She Opposes Arizona Abortion Ban She Once Praised)
“I’m incredibly thrilled that we’re going to have a great law that is already in the books,” Lake said in June of 2022. “It will prohibit abortion in Arizona, and I think we’re going to be paving the way and setting course for other states to follow.”