As we enter the fourth month of the four-month legislative session, our leaders are still busy plugging the gaping loophole in the Water Act to prevent rural Arizona from drying up. I’m not working on it.
Help for struggling public school students, those who didn’t follow the parade of suburban kids robbing them Taxpayer checks over $7,000 How to pay private school fees? no.
There was a moment when it seemed that a Republican-run Congress might address the homelessness and affordable housing crisis.
But don’t worry, Arizona. Republican lawmakers have taken big and bold steps to counter yet another election intrigue that exists only in their fanatical imagination.
HB 2308 addresses the Lake Kali Conspiracy
House Bill 2308 It would prohibit the Secretary of State from monitoring elections in which he participates in voting. Never mind that in Arizona it’s the counties that actually hold the elections.
It’s worth noting that this sudden and obvious conflict of interest didn’t matter at all when the Republican secretary of state was running for re-election or gubernatorial.
But back then, our esteemed leaders were dealing with facts, not fantasies.
Maybe it was because Twitter didn’t exist back then.
one of many (manyThe Cabal’s theory is that Kali Lake lost the gubernatorial election last year not because she was Kari Lake, nor because she kicked out RINO and stopped being independent.
No, as the plot goes, Lake lost. Because then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs somehow stole the election.
There is no evidence that Hobbes abandoned the election
Of course, no one has provided any actual proof of how Hobbes accomplished this impressive feat.
But hey, it was all over Lake’s Twitter feed.
His case was so ridiculous that a Maricopa County judge — a Republican judge appointed by the Republican governor — said last month that he had made allegations “baseless and not brought in good faith.” , actually sanctioned him.
So, not surprisingly, the Senate approved HB 2308 on Tuesday, addressing Finchem’s frivolous allegations.
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The bill, the brainchild of freshman Rep. Rachel Jones (R-Tucson), originally prohibited the Secretary of State from performing election-related duties while voting.
Jones says the bill is necessary because the Cochise County Board of Supervisors was pressured by Hobbs to approve the 2022 election and threatened with jail by Democratic election lawyers. .
“The two supervisors didn’t want it because there were a lot of unanswered questions,” Jones told the Senate Education Committee last month.
The original bill was watered down
Never mind what ARS 16-642 says County Supervisors ‘Must Prove’ Elections Within 20 days after voting. So they have no choice.
Alternatively, ARS 16-1010 states: Willfully refuse to perform such obligations … guilty of a class 6 felony. ’ It means they could go to jail.
Still, everyone knows Hobbes must have been duped.
Therefore, we need a new law that prohibits the Secretary of State from performing his constitutional duties.
However, the bill was watered down in the Senate on Tuesday.
The Secretary of State will continue to prove the election by denying the reason for the bill in the first place. He no longer certifies machines or writes election procedures that must be approved by the governor or attorney general.
On the other hand, what about the governor and the Attorney General? They can continue to supervise the election process while voting.
we were saved Can you solve the real problem now?
HB 2308 was passed in a partisan vote on Tuesday.
“One of the most important things we do as elected officials is to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest,” Sen. R-Prescott Ken Bennett said in voting on the bill. “And there are rules that require acknowledgment of conflicts of interest when they exist.”
A rivalry that was curiously non-existent when then-Secretary of State Bennett was running for governor. Or when Republican Secretary of State Michelle Reagan was running for re-election.
Or in any of the countless other elections over the decades in which the Secretary of State has voted.
Still, I get it. There are currently indications of a conflict of interest.
All right. HB 2308 has passed. we will be saved
Now, why not do something to address the emergence of a Congress that seems uninterested in solving real problems?
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