To all the nutcases claiming fraud in Maricopa County, the guy counting the ballots,
@Adrian_Fontes
, is now losing his re-election by 2500 votes. If he was going to fix an election, wouldn’t he start with his own?
#GoHome
I voted for
@Adrian_Fontes
for Secretary of State because I’m not willing to F around and find out if Finchem will abide by the will of the voters in future elections.
One voter to the
@maricopacounty
Board on voting on election day: "I couldn't wait hours because I had to go to work." If only Arizona had a way to vote at your convenience from the comfort of your own kitchen table. Oh wait...
Without a doubt
@katiehobbs
will be governor because moderate GOP and right-leaning independents couldn’t stomach
@karilake
And of course, they listened to Lake who proudly said she was driving a stake in the heart of McCain republicans. Looks like the foot’s on the other shoe.
Today I congratulated Governor-elect Katie Hobbs on her victory in a hard-fought race and offered my full cooperation as she prepares to assume the leadership of the State of Arizona.
Rep. John Fillmore just asked what’s the difference between a Covid vaccine and the Nazis tattooing Jews in 1933. Hold on while I try to interview 6 million dead people
#azleg
Everyone keeps saying that
@kariLake
plans on suing over the election (including today's Arizona Agenda) but my question is: Who will be the attorney who files that lawsuit? Who will be the one who endangers their Bar license for this case?
I’ve got a bone to pick with you
@stephen_richer
Ive been reading on X that our mail in elections are full of problems. I received my early ballot. I voted from home and I sent back the ballot. This process has been too easy. You need to provide answers about why this is so easy
There are 4 less passengers on our
@AmericanAir
flight from Miami to Phoenix after woman (with a couple kids) refused to wear a mask (and told the flight attendant she needed to lose weight). They don’t play around here (and they shouldn’t).
.
@FannKfann
It is time to end this absurdity. I know some members of the caucus want this but Cyber Ninjas is not capable - it can’t even figure out that blue pens are read by ballot machines. Please end this audit for the good of the state of Arizona - a place you love so dearly
.
@KariLake
’s campaign finance report is a treasure trove of stories - from the 75% burn rate to paying her daughter $4500 to the $145k on SWAG to the meals - all those meals! Oh and $52k to Mar-a-Lago. It’s Christmas morning in January.
#AzGov
“We got rid of a lot of fake Republicans in our primary,”
@AZGOP
chair
@kelliwardaz
happily crows. She forgets to mention that her slate of statewide candidates lost to Democrats. Defeating Republicans and electing Democrats is her legacy.
.
@karilake
's acknowledgement she lied about
@stephen_richer
is the ultimate irony: In virtually every media interview, she excoriates the "fake news media." Yet with her refusal to defend the defamation lawsuit, she's comes clean as the ultimate spreader of fake news
Both
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
and
@RepGosar
objected to Arizona’s election results. Since they officially believe the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, they should do the only honorable thing and resign. Walk the walk I say.
.
@KariLake
’s campaign? Done.
@RepDavid
? Going to be real hard to hold on. And I’m not sure I would want to be a Republican in a swing legislative district. No larger earthquake could have hit Arizona politics than a near-complete ban on abortion.
The grift! Just out in the open. There’s no lawsuit. If his lawyers aren’t already on retainer and getting ready to file…wait common sense isn’t the thing here. It’s just the grift.
The election is now "certified" by Katie Hobbs & I have a strict timeline before I can file my lawsuits. We are $85k short of what I need to pay for lawyers. Please chip in $5, $10, $15 or more right now to help me get lawyers on retainer. DONATE:
Interesting that
@CaptMarkKelly
isn’t quoted in this statement. He doesn’t deny its him in the photo and many many other questions remain unanswered.
#AzSen
Illegal voters. No election integrity. Stolen election. Trump in 2020? Nah. The
#AzSenate
election for chamber president. 3 losing candidates helped give
@votewarren
a 1-vote victory. After today's ballot drop, might be time for a new vote. For election integrity's sake
It's hard to quantify how monumental this is.
@KariLake
won't defend her comments against
@stephen_richer
? Not only is does the court have to figure out how much money she owes, but voters have to determine whether she stands behind anything she says.
In Arizona, it turns out that 3% of the votes cast in the 100 count vote sampling were tainted or worse. This would be, if carried forward, approximately 90,000 votes more than we would need to win the State. Now we were granted a much larger sample to work with. Wow!
I’m having dinner with a friend of mine. In Dallas. He asked me, “So what about this Wendy Rogers?” I was stunned when he asked about a state senator from Flagstaff. “Oh everyone has heard of her.” Wow!
I’m hearing a lot of, “we need to audit the machines because people have concerns.” The problem of course is the people who have concerns can’t provide any evidence there was tampering. Most people are rumor mongering or making up stuff out of thin air.
HOLY SHIT!!
@jeremyduda
is reporting that the
#azaudit
is taking actual photographs of each ballot and downloading them onto a computer. What will happen to those images? Who has access to those images? Why are photos of ballots needed?
People who want to eliminate machines for counting have no concept about how long it would take to count a ballot - or a few million ballots. It would take months to count the ballots AND the mistakes/fraud would be out of control.
Sinema says McSally will say anything to get elected - but it was Sinema who told voters she wouldn’t vote for Schumer as leader and, right after getting elected, she met with Schumer and voted for him as leader. Sinema is not independent, she lied to Arizona.
So an honest question... what's so wrong about "Bin No. 3?" I don't understand why people were so opposed putting ballots into Box 3. But then again, I voted early. I didn't have to stand in line or nothin at my kitchen table.
I can’t believe I see virtually no
@ScottsdalePD
at Scottsdale Mall. It’s a free for all. And this has nothing to do with George Floyd. This is all about looting and free shit.
Not 10 minutes after Kelli Ward squeaked by, I am already hearing from moderates who want to leave the
@AZGOP
en masse.
@kelliwardaz
is shrinking that big tent.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah has struck down Prop 208 in its entirety.
In his ruling, Hannah questions the courts' role in this issue. He said the case on remand was driven by "the muddle of law and politics." I'll post the full ruling in this thread.
Someone once said “I like people who weren’t captured.” But there can be no bigger man who is given the chance to leave the Hanoi Hilton and refuses until his fellow POWs captured before him are released. I’ll likely never understand the bravery that took.
#JohnMcCainAmericanHero
This is maybe the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen on a ballot. Since when do you get to use a campaign slogan as your name? What next, Smith, Joe “My opponent’s a schmuck”
This is the theme of
@CaptMarkKelly
’s campaign so far. He refuses to directly answer just about any question of substance. Everything from health care to the filibuster to SCOTUS - Mark Kelly’s views are unknown.
The extra layer to
#AZSEN
race: If Dem's Kelly wins, he could be seated/replace GOP's McSally by Nov 30, when AZ results certified.
McSally: "Senate should vote" + 4 cmpgn stops today.
Kelly: No events this wknd; no comment on process.
W/
@aseitzwald
:
"We have no confidence at all in our election process," one woman tells the
@maricopacounty
board. You have no confidence because you listen to people who spew falsehoods and you blindly believe it.
The
@arizonaagenda
is hosting two Arizona heroes tonight in a discussion about fighting for democracy. Thanks to both Rusty Bowers and Clint Hickman for their courage.
Here,
@Garrett_Archer
geeks out. I’m not even sure what it means exactly but it seems like he just saved the
#AzSenate
150 large by proving there’s no election fraud.
Let's talk about precinct anomalies in Maricopa county, or really the lack thereof. I took the 2016 precincts and using a combination of address points and spatial weighting I plugged them in to the 2020 precincts. This is an incredibly accurate way to fit previous results.
1/4
.
@CaptMarkKelly
’s wife barely survived an assassination attempt 10 years ago. But here
@jim_lamon
has an ad that shoots Mark Kelly. I really can’t believe he put this ad out in public.
#AzSen
A wise man once said, “It used to be you could win in Az just by having an R after your name. Now, candidates matter.” -
@KirkAdams
He couldn’t have been more right in 2022.
#AzGov
How ironic this committee is meeting the day after it's revealed that no widespread fraud was committed in the 2020 election and the biggest purveyors of conspiracy theories about a stolen election refused to talk about their theories to the AG's investigators.
There’s a lot of talk about corruption and fraud in elections by people who were on the ballot this year and won. Does it mean their own elections are illegitimate as well? How can Biden’s win be full of fraud but their wins be fraud free?
Can you imagine all the brown households that are going to get a knock on their door from one of these auditors? And the people who don’t answer? They’ll go down as “fraud” I’ll bet. What a cluster
Sinema has been loudly complaining all week about the need for action and then fails to act when the ball is in her court.
@DougDucey
has been getting results all week. Sinema is a talker not a doer.
The senior senator has been trolling
@dougducey
all week but when it comes to voting for a bipartisan Covid-19 bill she sides with a Pelosi/Schumer filibuster instead of Arizona families...
Too bad
@CaptMarkKelly
will only allow one debate. Woulda been fun to see another one in Tucson. But yeah, I get it, stay away from questions. "You’ve got to elect me to find out how I’ll vote,” is Kelly’s message. Hopefully voters see through that.
#AzSen
I’m proud to see
@PaulDBoyer
stand up and vote no on a ridiculous resolution to challenge the
@maricopacounty
supervisors. The county is already auditing the voting machines by reputable experts.
So far in the
@Karilake
election trial, the biggest thing to come out is that
@stephen_richer
is in Panama and I guess there are no stores in Panama for him to buy a tie and jacket for his court appearance.
Through the last year or so one of the unsung heroes it’s becoming clear is
@speakerbowers
He keeps standing up, often quietly though sometimes real loud, for Arizona. He’s deftly leading the
@AZHouseGOP
through difficult days.
#AZLeg
One of the biggest eye-rolls in life is a low level elected official who scolds a service worker with, "Don't you know who I am?" A: Trust me, she didn't know who you were. B: Almost no one in your city knows who you are.
Maybe skip the bars and clubs and hotel pools this weekend. Maybe it’s time to say a face mask really isn’t an infringement on our liberties. Maybe skip the water park, too.
I’m definitely not a lawyer but I heard nothing today in the
@karilake
trial to show
@stephen_richer
or
@maricopacounty
intentionally kept people from voting. Team Lake has a lot of work to do tomorrow if it hopes to prove a case
For anyone doubting that
@karilake
is trying to pivot for the
#AzSen
race, she is arranging meetings and sitting down privately with some of her biggest detractors to show them she has moderated since 2022. Privately, she has begun wooing the McCain wing of the party.
Come Saturday, the people who dropped off early ballots at the polls (like me) will start getting counted. And if tradition holds, they will favor GOP. The history of
#AzSen
will be written Saturday.
Well no wonder
@CaptMarkKelly
didn’t want more than one debate. If he’s not going to answer most questions tonight, he’s never going to answer anything.
#AzSen
Friday PM REALITY CHECK: Maricopa County had 2.1 million ballots, each with 70+ questions - from president to judges to local questions. That’s 154 MILLION selections to tally. Want to hand count and get it done in hours? You’ll need an historic number of workers
#Impossible
Between the racist jokes and engaging in mysogynistic marketing campaigns, all while gearing up for a Senate run, Arizonans are beginning to learn about the real
@CaptMarkKelly
and they don’t like what they see
#AZSEN
cc:
@ComfortablySmug
UPDATE
@AZGOP
annual meeting Saturday is closed to media, per party spox. No livestream. A floor fight is likely over electing chairman now to replace Jeff DeWit.
.
@KariLake
wants to have a debate on abortion. I know someone who disagrees with her: Kari Lake. She's been on every side of the issue - just in the last two weeks.
#AzSen
This was an easy choice. I want sanity, and someone who will bring more business to Arizona, and someone understands state government and how to run an organization without crazy conspiracy theories.
@Karrin4Arizona
will serve Arizona well as our next governor.
After listening for more than an hour to
@maricopacounty
rebuttal I can sum it up thusly: The Ninjas were incompetent and made numerous mistakes. Twitter you are welcome for all the time I am saving you.
Barely 20 minutes into the March for Life in Phoenix today,
@KariLake
is outta there. Any wonder why people think she’s all show. She’s earned the nickname
#FakeLake
#AzGov
.
@ThomasGalvin
gets sworn in for the rest of his two year term. He’s done great and will continue to work hard for the residents of Maricopa County.
Big winner tonight?
@GlennYoungkin
but another winner?
@dougducey
He raised serious money for
@GOPGovs
to play in the Va race. Ducey gets a big assist on this victory.
Headed to DC with my son for his spring break. Lo and behold,
@Karrin4Arizona
happens to be just a few rows away. Always good to see her. But I wonder…what’s in DC
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 100 times: I’m so proud to have Clint Hickman as my supervisor. I’m also proud of
@billgatesaz
and
@jacksellers
for standing up and not bending to the pressure. Well done!
Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman recalled listening to Trump's audio w/ the GA Secretary of State on Jan. 3.
“I was horrified,” he said.
That same night, at 9:22 p.m.-approaching midnight in Washington-his phone buzzed. It was the White House.
Dear 2022 Arizona GOP candidates: you can’t rely on
@realDonaldTrump
good feelings and conspiracy theories to get you the W. The base will not get you across the finish line in November.
There is a feeling among the chattering class that maybe
@karilake
went too far in releasing her secret recording of
@AZTreasurer
The boos from
@AZGOP
faithful confirm that.
.
@stephen_richer
might get a massive judgment against
@karilake
but to paraphrase a famous line, "which office does he go to to get his reputation back?"
Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct)
It was a lie. It was always a lie.
She did it to get your $25.
Or to fire you up.
But it was all a lie.
There were no "300,000 fraudulent early ballots" etc.
She defamed me.
But she also lied to you.
My daughter, a teacher, had an appointment to get her first Covid vaccine shot at
@StateFarmStdm
today. It was efficient, quick and on time. Happy she had a good experience and hope everyone does.
From east to west and north to south, it’s all about candidate quality. And so many 2022 candidates lacked quality. But let’s keep talking election fraud and whatnot.
#RealityBites
It’s a huge pet peeve of mine when people say something is “literally” happening when it’s not. Sen. Borelli just said Maricopa County is literally spitting in the face of the Senate. A county literally doesn’t have a mouth to spit with.
.
@KariLake
blew $145k on hats, t-shirts and other swag but calls out an Arizonan for giving a Ukrainian family a couple hundred bucks? Talk about
#OutofTouch
#AzGov
I’m seeing a lot of people on Twitter looking for an explanation as to why they have lost hundreds, even 1000s of followers. I’ve lost 7. So I’m guessing not a lot of right-wing kooks or white supremacists followed me. So I got that going for me a on a Friday night
"I want to see arrests. I want to see perp walks. I want to see people in jail. . ." ~ Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, Jan 2022
Kelli Ward got what she wanted. She was just indicted in Arizona.
LOL.
Here’s an interview with
@CaptMarkKelly
where he spends much of the time NOT answering the questions asked. Go to about 11:45, he’s asked about how he pays for his healthcare plan. Good luck finding the answer. “These are the things we have to sort out.”
A woman just said (and frankly it is hard to follow her so maybe Im wrong) that she was disenfranchised and couldn't vote. Then a minute later says it took 10 days to get confirmation that her vote was counted.