"Newswars" Really? Can't you at least get a report from Fox News? I've told you that reports and opinions by trumplicans is worthless drivel. It proves absolutely nothing and is a waste of time. I don't want to see trumplican nonsense, if you can come up with anything from legitimate news sources please share it, please stop with the trumplican Bull Shit...
Sen. Wendy Rogers on Tuesday passed along an impassioned plea from “The American People” to her colleagues in the Senate as she ramped up her call to decertify Arizona’s election.
Not that they actually could do that.
Or would do that.
Or even have a reason to consider doing that here in the real world, where things like facts and evidence and credibility and the law must be taken into account.
It’s unclear who wrote this bizarre letter to Arizona senators this week. But Rogers clearly endorses it.
A 'last nail in the coffin' of government? Please
Quoting no less than John F. Kennedy, the letter calls on the Arizona Senate to take action based on the not-yet released results of an audit conducted and paid for by the Trump conspiracy crowd.
And it implores senators to consider the laughable conclusions of a door-to-door canvass that produced not one shred of actual evidence of fraud.
And to consider the scientific stylings of famed CueCat inventor/treasure hunter Jovan Hutton Pulitzerand his “kinematic artifact detection,” which isn’t actually a real thing.
And to consider the findings of various other conspiracy mongers, grifters and hangers-on who have attached themselves to the Senate audit.
Does anybody see just how crazy this has become?
“The fate of the United States and the Republic for which it stands along with Freedom and Justice for All is on trial before the world,” says the letter to Arizona’s senators. “The enormity of the decision that you are being tasked with rendering will ripple through the ages and may very well be viewed as a last nail in the coffin of the Idea of Government of the People and for the People and by the People that President Lincoln spoke about in the Gettysburg Address.”
All this, because Donald Trump lost an election?
Goodness.
“Our Fundamental Rights as Human Beings can only be assured by Fair and Free Elections that reflect our will as We the People,” the letter says. “If a foreign and/or domestic enemy wanted to short circuit the Will of the American People, the easiest and fastest way to do so would be to hijack/corrupt the voting system.”
Isn’t it fortunate, then, that a memo surfaced on Tuesday, showing the Trump campaign knew by mid-November that the various conspiracy theories detailing how Dominion Voting Systems rigged the election were just plain bogus?
But hey … facts. Who needs ‘em?
“The American People” just know there was fraud because, well, they just know it and if you don’t accept that – if you expect credible evidence produced by qualified experts untainted by a political agenda – well, then you’re a socialist traitor who hates America or worse, a journalist (or maybe both?).
“I pray that you are truly aware of the significance of the decision that you are about to make and how it may determine if our US Constitution continues to remain the Supreme Document of our beloved United States of America,” the letter says.
Senate has no authority to decertify the election
Rogers didn’t explain how the Senate will make this this significant decision that will ripple through the ages when the Legislature isn’t even in session and thus can’t even vote on what to have for lunch.
Nor did she explain how a Senate that couldn’t muster enough support to enforce its own subpoenas would be willing to topple democracy.
Nor did she cite so much as a single law or provision of the U.S. Constitution that would allow her and her fellow senators to decertify the results of an election held nearly a year ago.
I asked Rogers if she really intends to pursue decertification of Arizona’s election and if so, to cite the legal authority that would allow her cancel the vote of millions of Arizonans.
Here was her reply:
“What rock did you crawl out from under?" she replied, via Twit I have a petition with 950k signatures calling to #decertify. Did you get your orders from Soros this morning?”
Note the lack of any legal citation or any evidence that Rogers is living here in the real world, where things like things like facts and evidence and credibility and laws must be taken into account.
'The American People' have spoken ... 323 days ago
What she does have, however, are hundreds of thousands of angry Republicans whom she has pummeled with misinformation and disinformation and flat out lies about Arizona’s election, convincing them that nefarious things happened here – and, oh by the way, can you rush $100 to her campaign fund?
(“I’m Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers. I am the Arizona State Senator fighting nationwide for audits and election integrity!” she wrote in Tuesday’s fundraising plea, providing a link to give her money no fewer than seven times. “Please help me continue to fight for election integrity measures!”)
I don’t know if the ages will ripple but they certainly will one day cringe when they look back upon what has been done to our beloved state.
Shame on you, Senate President Karen Fann, for letting it come to this with this mockery of an election audit.
“The American People” have spoken, Rogers tells us.
And here I thought that’s what we did 323 days ago … .
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.
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