Readers of this blog are certainly very focused on elections. And we each have particular ones that we concentrate on. Aside from the all-important Federal races at the top of the ticket, we can (and must) focus on local races that will also have a huge impact. I live in LD4 (Phoenix, Tempe, Chandler, Mesa), … Read more
Kari Lake has been publicly backpedaling on her claims of election corruption now that she faces actual consequences for her lies. Many news outlets have recognized Lake’s backpedaling, but few have recognized the central role Steven Richer’s defamation lawsuit is playing in her climb down. Seems that when actual financial consequences for lying are put … Read more
Crossposted with permission from David’s excellent Substack to which you should certainly support with a paid subscription. I’ve been so impressed and engrossed by the recent published expositions on the Arizona Republic’s costly, essential and heroic multi-year fight to open the Cyber Ninja saga to public scrutiny using our public information laws guaranteeing we, the … Read more
The Arizona Republic posted an excellent recap of their coverage of the Cyber Ninjas’ so-called ‘audit’ – which I call the #AZFraudit – of the 2020 election, which revealed that it was a scam and a disinformation operation by MAGA from the very get-go. Arizona’s voters were betrayed, intentionally deceived, misled, and ripped off by … Read more
Kari Lake lost her final bid to overturn the AZ 2022 election of Katie Hobbs. The matter is sufficiently analyzed elsewhere that I don’t feel any need to do so here. I’ll just say that her legal team sunk any chance she might have had to meet their evidentiary burden when they decided to pursue … Read more