Eat your fill, Maricopa County.
Mark Finchem ultimately decided not to run for Maricopa County registrar next year, but apparently believes the upstanding residents of Yavapai County desperately need his service as state senator.
Never mind that he just moved to Phoenix in January, apparently believing that the worthy residents of Maricopa County desperately needed his service as county registrar.
Or maybe he lived in Pima County for many years and has no connection to Yavapai County at all.
Yavapai County is infinitely red
Finchem is now the most desperate character: a voterless politician.
Where better to find them than in Yavapai County, one of the most powerful Republican enclaves in the state?
Finchem is one of Arizona’s most vigorous election deniers, and that says something.
He’s the man who has sworn to rally the rights to Stop the Steel and provide evidence of voter fraud.
But, of course, he never did.
Mark Finchem is an avid election denier
He is the one who supported the fake Electoral College scheme and rushed to Washington on January 5, 2021 to deliver a letter to Vice President Mike Pence asking him not to certify the results of the Arizona presidential election.
Failed searches led him to scurry across the country to revoke election certification based on the Maricopa County Election Audit, which found no evidence of widespread wrongdoing.
He then raced across the state to be elected Secretary of State, but was defeated in a landslide.
Not surprisingly, he filed a lawsuit, made far-flattering election challenges, and was ordered to pay $48,000 to cover the legal liability of Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.
In Maricopa County it’s hard
So Finchem is now shopping for new opportunities that are incredibly available if anyone wants to elect him for something. or whatever.
After last year’s loss, he moved to the Valley and registered to vote in Phoenix in January.
On June 30, he received a packet indicating that he was interested in challenging Maricopa County Registrar Stephen Richer.
But Finchem had almost as much chance of winning a countywide election as he did a statewide election.
I don’t think so.
So he headed to Republican-heavy Yavapai County, where 27 days later he claims to live in a double-width trailer on Shilo Road in Prescott.
On Wednesday, he submitted an expression of interest and began distributing nomination petitions to run for state senator.
So Finchem moved to Prescott’s trailer
Color Republican Senator Ken Bennett was surprised.
“Maybe he thinks I’m a bigger monster than Stephen Richer and needs to move to Prescott,” Bennett said when asked by Arizona Republic’s Ray Stern about Finchem’s application.
They’re both Republicans, but there’s not much difference.
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Bennett grew up in Prescott, where he ran the family business. He served on the Prescott City Council and is currently in his fifth term as a Yavapai County Senator.
He served as President of the Senate and was also elected Secretary of State.
After 21 years as a police and firefighter paramedic in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mr. Finchem retired and moved to Tucson in 1999. Finchem’s personnel file lists his retirement date and date. This notation: “Since I retired, my evaluation is low and I will not rehire you.”
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Bennett is a traditional conservative Republican, the type who ran the state until the once-great old party went insane and started appointing terrible jobs.
Finchem is a member of the rebel militia “Oath Keepers” and sees conspiracies everywhere and enemies all around him.
He promotes the theory of QAnon weirdos who believe the world is run by a global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. He said the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol was “fabricated.”
When we think of Finchem, we think of quirky Senator Wendy Rogers from Tempe. She spent 10 years trying to get elected, but in vain, and eventually moved to a mobile home on Route 66 in Flagstaff.
Now she’s a state senator and a far-right rock star representing rural Arizona with her just-purchased $750,000 home for Chandler.
Surely the good people of Yavapai wouldn’t be fooled so easily.
To contact Roberts, laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. follow her on her twitter @ Laurie Roberts.
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