HE'LL GET BACK TO YOU Back in July, Gov. Ducey said he changed his White House ringtone to "Hail to The Chief" so he wouldn't miss a call from Trump/Pence. Guess who called while Ducey was certifying Arizona's election? (7 secs in)
NEW Maricopa County Board chair to Senate GOP: ‘Little time to entertain adventure in never-never land.’ Board rejects most of Senate subpoena shortly before 1pm deadline.
NEW In Arizona, journalism can be a team sport. GOP State Rep. Jake Hoffman refused to answer 12News photojournalist's question (which I provided) re why he signed phony declaration in 2020 that Arizona electors voted for Trump. Watch as AZRepublic's
@ruelaswritings
folos up...
The Queen of Phoenix drag queens, Barbara Seville, spills the tea all over old friend & Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona governor,
@karilake
.
#AZGOV
JUST IN After daylong trial in final election challenge, Maricopa County judge tells both sides she'll toss out lawsuit 'with prejudice.' Meantime, Maricopa County Board will certify results within the hour. It is over.
#12News
UPDATE I deleted retweet that showed ballot at audit table where ex GOP State Rep. Anthony Kern was counting ballots. Media agreed not to show ballots when shooting images/video at Coliseum. But point remains: Today, Kern counting ballots. Jan. 6, he was at Capitol insurrection.
NEW Maricopa County wants federal judge to order
@KariLake
& Mark Finchem's attorneys to pay county's legal bill of $141,690. Among the attorneys: Alan Dershowitz. 🧵(1/3)
BREAKING Judge tosses out
@AZGOP
lawsuit vs Maricopa County, denies motion to block canvass & allows state to recoup attorneys fees from Republican Party.
#12News
BREAKING In 13-page letter, Maricopa County Board calls on Senate President Karen Fann to end the audit: ‘It is time to end this for the good of the country.’
UPDATE Radio silence from Arizona's Republican candidates & almost all GOP officeholders (save Brnovich) after Pima County judge allows Civil War era abortion ban to take effect. (If I missed someone, please let me know.)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
@kelliwardaz
staffer: I wonder if John McCain's trying to steal attention from Ward's bus tour by announcing his life is coming to an end.
Ward: Yup, it's all about me.
#AZSEN
NOW Sen. Wendy Rogers sitting ramrod straight as
@RaquelTeran
says she should be expelled from Senate. Rogers right now only ‘no’ vote of 23 cast so far. It’s a bipartisan censure
NEW Arizona's Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich basically calls AZ presidential race for
@JoeBiden
. "If indeed there was some great conspiracy, it apparently didn't work."
#12News
#BattlegroundAZ
BREAKING Maricopa County Board - 4 R's/1 D - certifies 2020 election results by unanimous vote, after painstaking, 'no stone unturned,' 2.5-hour review of how election was conducted. 1st general election board has overseen in almost 70 years.
#12News
To my fellow Patriots in Arizona, we are so lucky to have
@RepGosar
fighting for us in Washington DC.
Re-election time is upon us & Congressman Gosar needs signatures to get on the ballot—let’s help him do that!
Visit this link & sign now➡️
BREAKING AZ Green Party's U.S. Senate candidate Angela Green tells
#12News
she's dropping out & throwing support to
@kyrstensinema
. Green was polling up to 6% in toss-up race.
#AZSEN
THE DOCS Here's bogus declaration signed 12/14/20 by Arizona's 11 Trump electors, inc. Hoffman. US
Senate candidate
@jim_lamon
also signed. On same day, top AZ Senate Republican announced he'd subpoena Maricopa County's election equipment for an audit.
NOW Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's office has assigned state troopers to provide round-the-clock protection to
@SecretaryHobbs
after report of death threats. Second time in 6 months that AZ's top elections officer has received law-enforcement protection.
BREAKING Maricopa County Board votes unanimously to file notice of claim against Arizona State Senate for $2.8 million cost of replacing election equipment handed over to Cyber Ninjas. Senate Prez Fann agreed to indemnify county before receiving eqpt in April.
TRUMP CALLS BACK ‘Arizona will not forget what Ducey just did,’ he tells crowd at Phoenix hotel ballroom that’s spent day listening to Guiliani & others’ baseless claims about election.
Suddenly, this story has enormous significance: If he wins Arizona US Senate race, Democrat Mark Kelly could replace Republican Martha McSally as soon as Nov. 30, per election law attorneys.
#BattlegroundAZ
#RIPRBG
UPDATE Maker of Sinema's F*** Off ring says it's donating profits from ring sales to organization that fights to raise minimum wage. Sinema spox on ring: “We do not comment on Kyrsten’s clothing or physical appearance."
'NO SUBSTANCE INSIDE': Phoenix Police statement on report of “suspicious white powder” in envelope opened at
@KariLake
campaign HQ: "The state lab tested the items turned over to them ... and has determined there was no substance inside." Seeking Lake camp response.
President Trump's former chief of staff has 10,000 likes for this lie. I doubt he cares. There are no more than 60,000 uncounted ballots in Arizona, per Secretary of State. Trump would have to win more than 62% of remaining ballots to tie.
Since the media has aready picked the next President, I doubt anyone cares that the President is now within 14,746 votes in AZ. At the current %, if there are 127,364+ ballots still out, he wins AZ.
BREAKING
#Prop308
supporters will declare victory at 11am newser. Allows in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who attended AZ high schools. ‘Yes’ side leads by 61,164 votes, 51%-49%.
BREAKING
@KariLake
loses again. Arizona Supreme Court lets Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer's defamation suit proceed to trial. Will Lake decide to settle?
GOP State Sen Paul Boyer now regrets AZ Senate audit: “It makes us look like idiots... I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to be a state senator at this point.”
NEW FBI subpoenas Trump-related records from Arizona Senate President Karen Fann & Sen. Kelly Townsend. Fann initiated partisan election review. Told constituents she had several contacts w Giuliani & call from Trump.
Over the course of an hour, 'Mr. Baker' was one of several people who gave the Maricopa County Board a piece of their mind today about the election. Mr. Baker stood out.
BREAKING Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer: "I’m suing
@KariLake
, her campaign and her political action committee for engaging in a concerted campaign to defame, threaten and isolate me."
BREAKING Arizona Court of Appeals blocks enforcement of state's Civil War-era abortion ban pending resolution of appeal by Planned Parenthood of Arizona.
BREAKING "It is further ordered confirming the election of Mr. Adrian Fontes as Arizona Secretary of State-Elect." Judge's 13-page ruling throws out every claim in Republican Mark Finchem's election contest, allows
@Adrian_Fontes
&
@katiehobbs
to seek attorney fees rom Finchem.
STORYLINE GOING IN Purple Maricopa County puts the 'swing' in State of Arizona.
SWING! Joe Biden becomes the first Democrat to win Maricopa County in 72 years on way to narrowly defeating President Donald Trump in Arizona and taking the state's 11 electoral votes.
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Mail just arrived.
It’s 7:41 pm.
Our letter carrier wearing a headlamp to sort mail in darkness.
Getting 2 million mail-in ballots to our doors.
Dealing w co-workers cut down by COVID.
‘It’s bad, really bad.’
But not griping.
Thank a letter carrier. They always deliver.
#USPS
JUST IN 'Suit filed for purposes of harassment': Judge orders
@RealMarkFinchem
@PaulGosar
&
@anthonykernAZ
to pay $75,000 in attorneys fees to former Democratic House Leader
@CharleneforAZ
. She requested investigation of their role in Jan 6 attack.
My colleague
@FOX9AdamKlepp
in Yuma asked
@RepGosar
last week whether he had any thoughts about stepping down. Gosar's in safe 'River District' seat.
#AZ09
BREAKING Maricopa County judge orders Karen Fann & Arizona Senate to immediately turn over to
@weareoversight
all documents connected to audit, including Cyber Ninjas & subcontractors records.
"We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer."
Maricopa County's GOP Recorder - a top elections official on the job just 5 months - calls out "unhinged" claim that Trump's spreading about county election databases (falsehood started with
@ArizonaAudit
& Senate GOP).
Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct)
Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now.
We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country.
This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out...
Night after Trump pressured Georgia SoS to change election results, he tried to reach chair of Maricopa County Board, overseer of county elections, per
@yvonnewingett
. via
@azcentral
GET IT RIGHT Rachel Mitchell works for the elected Maricopa County attorney. She has worked under at least three elected county attorneys during her time in that office. Arpaio was Maricopa County sheriff. Two separate elected offices.
Only this crowd of clueless old white guys wold pick someone from Sheriff Joe's operation. I was saying no self-respecting lawyer would take the job of giving cover to GOP cowards. I was right.
HISTORY Joe Biden is the first Democrat to win Maricopa County in 72 years, since Harry Truman in 1948. And Donald Trump is the first Republican to lose it in 72 years.
#12News
BREAKING Federal Judge Michael Liburdi in Phoenix slaps temporary restraining order on Clean Elections USA: No yelling, no body armor, no video at ballot drop boxes & more. Details:
UPDATE Maricopa County wants
@KariLake
&
@RealMarkFinchem
to pay up & penalties for lawyers (inc Dershowitz) for "frivolous" lawsuit seeking to throw out ballot-counting machines. READ
BREAKING Maricopa County judge tosses out Republican State Senate's sweeping subpoena for county's elections records & equipment. Judge, basically, to Senate: You did it all wrong.
DELAY Cochise County Board fails to certify election results by today’s deadline. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has threatened to sue to compel certification. Friday is last business day before statewide vote is certified Monday 12/5.
I have never seen anything like this.
Maricopa County's top prosecutor sends cease-and-desist letter to Trumpist candidate for Maricopa County Board: Stop telling people to steal our pens.
NOW U.S. Senate confirms former Arizona Sen.
@JeffFlake
as ambassador to Turkey and
@cindymccain
as ambassador to United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. Both were prominent Republican endorsers of President Joe Biden.
@SenMarkKelly
intro'd vote for McCain.
MUST READ Ginni Thomas pressed State Rep. Shawnna Bolick to block Biden victory, emails show. Bolick later intro'd bill letting lawmakers throw out election results. Bolick, wife of AZ Supreme Court justice, wants to be AZ's top elections official.
BREAKING Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury recuses himself from legal challenge to Senate Republicans' election audit, less than 24 hours before scheduled 11 a.m. hearing Monday. More TK.
BUSTED "Jacob Anthony Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, of Arizona, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority & with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Chansley was taken into custody today"
WHOA... Minutes after Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema effectively buried voting-rights bill, Democratic Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego posts video of his floor speech calling out Sinema by name.
#AZSEN2024
MINUTES LATER Trauma surgeon Dr. Kaveh Najafi reels off stats on packed children's hospital. Then to
@ScottsdaleUSD
board: 'If I want to learn how to make & sell ice cream, I'll ask the governor. If I want to learn how to protect health... I stick with the CDC.'
JUST IN After Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey lifts mask mandate for schools, Scottsdale Unified School District says it's sticking with CDC guidelines - and requiring masks.
BREAKING Arizona schools lead coalition in lawsuit challenging constitutionality of Legislature's ban on mask mandates. Suit contends ban plus education- and voting-related measures were illegally passed in budget bills. READ
BREAKING Maricopa County judge strikes down Arizona ban on face-mask mandates as unconstitutional. Ban was to have taken effect Wednesday. Ruling affects several other pending laws.
This is the same Brahm Resnik that tweeted Nazi slogans last year. He refuses to stand for the pledge. He disrespects our flag. He engages in hate speech. He favors Nazi slogans. Where does his loyalties lie? He’s not a journalist. He is a propagandist of the worst sort.
So I need to clarify: My read of agreement was not to show ballots. The language is more nuanced. Can't show ballot with discernible information. (And a reminder: Voters' names are not on ballots.)
JUST IN Phoenix's Brophy College Prep, alma mater of Ducey sons, mandates vaccinations for all on campus, or regular COVID-19 testing if they don't show proof of vaccination. As a private school, Brophy is exempted from ban on COVID mandates.
STATE OF PLAY Two Republican County Boards in AZ playing chicken w votes of 130,000 residents.
🔴65% cast for GOP candidates
🔴Failure to certify could hand 2 offices to Dems
🔴Cochise faces lawsuit by SoS
🔴Mohave thinking about it
All because... ?
NEW Serious questions about how
@AZGOP
carried out elections/resolution votes at Saturday's annual meeting. Longtime party member: 'Most unsecure election I’ve ever seen in my entire life. No election integrity in entire process.'
Happiest days of my life:
1. Wedding Day
2. Sons' birth
3. 8 years ago this month, when I became an American citizen
If you have a chance, go to a citizenship ceremony. Listen to the new citizens' stories. You will never feel prouder of our country.
#12News
NOW 'A public servant guided by a deep faith, an unbreakable oath to God, family & country': AZ House Speaker Rusty Bowers receives nation's second-highest civilian award - Presidential Citizens Medal - from
@POTUS
, for his refusal to overturn 2020 election results.
BREAKING
@January6thCmte
subpoenas phone records from
@AZGOP
Chair Kelli Ward & husband. They've sued to block release.
▶️Kicker: Case assigned to Federal Judge Susan Brnovich, wife of Arizona AG under fire for failure to act on GOP election review.
JUST IN Arizona Republican Party makes an offering to Trump 3 days before his Arizona visit: purging conservative House Speaker Rusty Bowers after he upheld his sworn oath to defend the Constitution, by refusing to help Trump overturn election.
The
@AZGOP
Executive Committee formally censured Rusty Bowers tonight— he is no longer a Republican in good standing & we call on Republicans to replace him at the ballot box in the August primary. Full press release from AZGOP coming soon.
Nine years ago this month I became an American citizen. It remains one of the happiest & proudest days of my life. Now more than ever. Happy
#FourthofJuly