Still not 'duly elected' ... anything -- Kari Lake, TFG Endorsee

[raison de arizona]

Backhanded Christmas wishes. Heck, it isn’t even backhanded. Fronthanded nonsense for the plebes.

[raison de arizona]

The closure stretches on.

Rocky Point businesses struggling as we enter week four of Lukeville Port of Entry closure

PUERTO PEÑASCO, MX (3TV/CBS 5) -We are going on week four of the Lukeville Port of Entry closure at the border, which is the main checkpoint on the road to Rocky Point.

It’s been almost a month and still no word when it could reopen. Business owners in that popular tourist destination say they don’t know how much longer they can hold on without tourists from Arizona. They describe it as a ghost town during a time that would normally be pretty popular for people to cross to see family or go shopping.

But business owners say they feel uneasy not knowing when Lukeville could reopen and when they could see business back to normal again. “My wife and I own a small rental company and we had 90% of our holiday rentals cancel on us,” Scott Poturalski, who owns a rental company in Rocky Point, said.

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/12/27/roc ... y-closure/

[raison de arizona]

They reopened Lukeville today, one month to the day since closing it. Apparently word on the street is that some cartels have moved in during the closure, and travel may not be safe. Keeping an eye on it.

Anyway.

'They're going after me': Kari Lake fears Rudy Giuliani's fate in defamation case

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake suggested she could meet the same fate as Rudy Giuliani after he was ordered to pay two election workers $148 million for defamation.

Lake is being sued by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who claimed he received death threats after Lake said he "sabotaged" her election.

"And you know, they just sued Rudy Giuliani, the judgment was like $148 million, something astronomically ridiculous for defamation, for calling out our elected officials," Lake said in an interview with Steve Bannon on Thursday. "This is what they're going after me for, calling out our elected officials."

Lake doubled down on her criticism of Richer despite the lawsuit.

"The person behind it is Stephen Richer, he is a guy who runs our elections, and obviously we had rigged elections here in Arizona," she opined, "and I pointed out everything he did wrong, and I stand by every word I said about Stephen Richer, and if they think I'm going to stop using my First Amendment rights, they're crazy."

"I'm not going to," she added. "I can prove everything I said was true."

Last month, a judge ruled that Richer's case could move forward because the First Amendment did not protect Lake's statements.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1mtgb5

She'd better hope she can, or she's going down the tubes. One would think.

[RTH10260]

They reopened Lukeville today, one month to the day since closing it. Apparently word on the street is that some cartels have moved in during the closure, and travel may not be safe. Keeping an eye on it.

Anyway.

'They're going after me': Kari Lake fears Rudy Giuliani's fate in defamation case

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake suggested she could meet the same fate as Rudy Giuliani after he was ordered to pay two election workers $148 million for defamation.

Lake is being sued by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who claimed he received death threats after Lake said he "sabotaged" her election.

"And you know, they just sued Rudy Giuliani, the judgment was like $148 million, something astronomically ridiculous for defamation, for calling out our elected officials," Lake said in an interview with Steve Bannon on Thursday. "This is what they're going after me for, calling out our elected officials."

Lake doubled down on her criticism of Richer despite the lawsuit.

"The person behind it is Stephen Richer, he is a guy who runs our elections, and obviously we had rigged elections here in Arizona," she opined, "and I pointed out everything he did wrong, and I stand by every word I said about Stephen Richer, and if they think I'm going to stop using my First Amendment rights, they're crazy."

"I'm not going to," she added. "I can prove everything I said was true."

Last month, a judge ruled that Richer's case could move forward because the First Amendment did not protect Lake's statements.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1mtgb5

She'd better hope she can, or she's going down the tubes. One would think.

And she better present her proof during deposition, and not keep the claim up after getting convicted ...

[Frater I*I]

She'd better hope she can, or she's going down the tubes. One would think.

I'm not seeing a downside here....

[Sam the Centipede]

But that's not what Lake's own lawyers say!
AZMirror about 3 weeks ago:

Lake lawyers say her claims about Richer were ‘hyperbole’
Attorneys for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake argued in court on Tuesday that a judge should dismiss Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against her, saying that Lake’s claims were “rhetorical hyperbole” and not meant to be taken as facts.
[…]
When Lake said that Richer was somehow involved in the illegal injection of bogus ballots or that he “sabotaged” the election, those statements weren’t meant to be taken as facts, [Lake attorney] Wright said.

I wonder how that will fly? And whether doubling down is a good strategy for anything other than bankruptcy? A little later in the article:

Attorney for Richer, Cameron Kistler of the nonprofit group Protect Democracy, countered Wright’s argument.

For example, Lake told her followers during a Jan. 29 “Save Arizona Rally” that Richer and Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates intentionally printed incorrectly sized ballot images on Election Day 2022 as a form of “sabotage” because they knew that the majority of in-person voters that day would be Republicans supporting Lake, and that the incorrectly-sized ballots would cause the tabulators to reject those ballots.

It amuses me that the lunatic Trumpists think fellow Republicans sabotaged their elections to push Democratic candidates into office. Odd motivation!

Way outside my expertise but I can't see how continuing the defamation eases Lake's plight now or in the future.

[Rolodex]

What Lake said is pretty specific - I wouldn't call charges of changing ballot size "rhetorical hyperbole."

"He's a crook!" "He's paid by Soros" are things I'd put in the "rhetorical hyperbole" category. He's a "public figure" so I guess some insults are fair. Sorry not sorry, Lake - you're losing.

[Luke]

Jack Sellers was voted in as the new head of the BOS of Maricopa.


Replied to Tom Ryan about Kari -- he and Paul Welsh (Arizona's Law) reposted it (we all gotten to be friends)

Luke Johnson @Orly_licious
Remember how it was promised Kari Lake would be a "kinder, gentler candidate" and leave the #ElectionDenier nonsense behind to appeal to swing voters? Yeah, I didn't believe it either. Just a matter of time before she insults McCain voters & non-crazy Republicans.

[raison de arizona]

So. Much. Winning.

JUST IN @KariLake loses again.
5 days after her filing, Arizona Appeals Court rejects motion to immediately review lower court ruling allowing defamation lawsuit filed by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to proceed. On to discovery...
From documentcloud.org

The order: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... -coa-order

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Stephen Richer wins again!

[raison de arizona]

Tom Ryan explains da rules in AZ...

Dear 'Zona Litigation Disaster Tourists, you may be asking yourself "so what now in the Richer v. Lake et al defamation case?" Well let me tell you. This now means that Kari and her merry band of legal eagles must engage in a ROBUST initial disclosure. 1/

Yo! @gregg_leslie we'll give you those extra pages, but it ain't gonna do you any good. Luv ya! Signed, the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division I twitter.com/arizonaslaw/st…

In 2018 the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to require all parties to thoroughly investigate their case UPFRONT and provide ROBUST disclosure of ALL relevant evidence, even evidence that is unfavorable to you. See ARCP Rule 26.2, State Bar Comment. 2/

This means that the Lake Defendants must review and preserve all emails, text messages, social media postings, memos, etc., AND PRODUCE THEM TO RICHER's attorneys. But Tom, what if they pull a Rudy Giuliani and refuse to produce such evidence? 3/

The Court has the right under Rule 37 of the AZ Rules of Civil Procedure to compel the production, and if, like Rudy Colludy, Lake continues to defy the duty to produce, the Court can enter sanctions. 4/

Sanctions can range from monetary fines, to striking portions of Lake's answer, prohibiting Lake from asserting certain defenses at trial, precluding the use of Lake's evidence at trial, to adverse inference jury instructions, to out and out entering a default against Lake. 5/

In short, a failure to produce relevant evidence will be at great peril to the Lake Defendants' defense. And against the same lawyers that took Rudy G to a $148,000,000 defamation verdict that would be a really foolish path to take. But foolish paths have never stopped Kari! 6/

I leave you with this thought: what is it that @gregg_leslie is teaching the young law students at the ASU First Amendment Clinic? I think the answer is this: "Kids, don't ever do what I'm doing, you'll get your biscuits scorched in Court!" Maybe, a lesson well-learned. END

https://x.com/tomryanlaw/status/1745159 ... 90483?s=20

[bill_g]

Kari Lake's election integrity lawyer warns us about the Deep Steak. Pass me the A1 please.

[RTH10260]

The lefties are surely not having no T steaks

[Foggy]

Deep steak.

The Leftist Deep steak is making claiiiiiiiiiiiims!!









Frat house!


No, I am not going to write any deep steak jokes on the forum. I'm above this sort of nonsense.

But it's hard.

[Reddog]

Is it just me or does that still sound kinda threaty?
“Justice shall be had”

[bill_g]

Nah. Not at all. That's his way of saying BEER BONG!!!

[Slim Cognito]

I bet, after getting trolled for his post, the guy is looking at it and thinking, "What!?!"

[Luke]

Jordan "Spunky" Conradson is now in DC as the Gateway House of Boys & Pundit's DC boy.


And for those who don't know about the "Gateway House of Boys", Jim Hoft added a new twink to the lineup, Victor Nieves.

Victor Nieves @ItsVictorNieves
Jesus is KING, Author, Content Creator, Podcast Host https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t ... 1624954618
Social Media Influencer Missouri linktr.ee/Itsvictornieve Joined October 2021
435 Following 2,225 Followers

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Seems like "Conservative Prudence" is about the only Prudence he'll ever hang out with. Meow haha.

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[neonzx]

I didn't know Hoft was recruiting 13 yo boys now.

[Suranis]

They age out if his interest zone too fast when they are of Legal age.

[sad-cafe]

The lefties are surely not having no T steaks

I had a porterhouse last night.

[Luke]

"I'm wearing the armor of God" -- New GOP AZ Chair. In this interview with Bannon, they admit the AZGOP is dead broke. Wild interview.

Barry Markson @BarryMarkson1 2h
The new AZGOP chair's first act is to go on Steve Bannon's show and beg for money to fund litigation about election denialism. Not raise money to help elect Republicans. Not raise money to get out the vote. Her entire job, as she describes it, is to litigate. So every dollar you give to the AZGOP will be used to perpetuate more election denier lies. The Az Republican Party is lost.

Jayne Zirkle @JayneZirkle 6h
AZ GOP Chair Shares Details About Two Major Legal Cases Going Forward Regarding Drop Boxes And Signature Verification

[raison de arizona]

The AZ Republican party went broke litigating election denialism. So now they've learned their lesson, and intend to raise more money for...litigating election denialism. Way to go.

[Dave from down under]

“ Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ”

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

The AZ Republican party went broke litigating election denialism. So now they've learned their lesson, and intend to raise more money for...litigating election denialism. Way to go.

see also: Michigan GOP