Whoa, that's a particularly shabby job of photoshopping.
Re: 2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:36 pm
by raison de arizona
Halp! Halp, I say! Blake Masters is drowning!
Re: 2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 10:53 am
by Tiredretiredlawyer
Well, raison, I had no idea the situation in Arizona was so dire!
Re: 2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:47 am
by Dr. Ken
How many of these names signed the fake electors besides Kelli Ward?
Re: 2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:19 pm
by raison de arizona
Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:47 am
How many of these names signed the fake electors besides Kelli Ward?
I think she is the only one.
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(A * indicates a person who was listed as chairperson or secretary of their state group and who was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 committee.)
ARIZONA (11)
Nancy Cottle*: Cottle is the first vice president of programs for the Arizona Federation of Republican Women. She has been active in Arizona politics for the past decade and holds various other positions on the Maricopa County Republican Committee and the AZGOP executive committee.
Loraine B. Pellegrino*: Pellegrino has served as president of Ahwatukee Republican Women.
Tyler Bowyer: Bowyer is the chief operating officer of Turning Point USA, a Phoenix-based nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative values in schools. He has previously worked for the Republican National Committee and the Maricopa County Republican Party.
Jake Hoffman: Hoffman is an Arizona state representative for the 12th District. Hoffman also runs a conservative digital marketing company, Rally Forge, that was banned from Facebook and suspended from Twitter for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on behalf of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA. The company was enlisting and paying teens to share comments with right-wing opinions, including that mail-in ballots would lead to fraud and that coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated. Experts told the Washington Post in 2020 that the effort was “among the most ambitious domestic influence campaigns uncovered this election cycle.”
Anthony T. Kern: From January 2015 until January 2021, Kern was an Arizona state representative for the 20th District. He is currently running for election to the Arizona state Senate to represent the 20th District. Kern participated in the January 6 riots in D.C. and has lied about breaching the U.S. Capitol building
James Lamon: Lamon is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Arizona. He is a veteran and was previously CEO of DEPCOM Power, a solar energy contractor, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Robert Montgomery: In 2020, Montgomery served as the chairman of the Cochise County Republican Committee.
Samuel I. Moorhead: Moorhead serves as the second vice chair of the Gila County Arizona Republican Party.
Greg Safsten: Safsten is the executive director of the Republican Party of Arizona. He previously worked for Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. Matt Salmon, both of Arizona, in their U.S. House offices, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Dr. Kelli Ward: Ward is an osteopathic physician who has served as the chair of the Arizona Republican Party since 2019. Following the 2020 election, Ward aided Trump’s efforts to invalidate the election results and filed a number of lawsuits to nullify Arizona’s results. In 2016, she challenged the late U.S. Sen. John McCain in the Republican primary but lost with 39 percent of the vote. She previously served in the Arizona state Senate.
Dr. Michael Ward: Ward met his wife, Kelli Ward, while he was serving in the Arizona Air National Guard. In 2019, he was accused of spitting in the eye of a former volunteer of his wife’s when she was a candidate for Senate because the volunteer went on to support her former political foe, Martha McSally. Michael Ward denied touching, pushing, threatening or spitting on the volunteer in an email to police, according to AZ Central.
Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:46 pm
2, Robert Montgomery is on that list too
need covfefe
Re: 2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 5:40 pm
by raison de arizona
Blake Masters Wants to Fire All Generals and Replace Them With Conservatives Masters explicitly called for a wholesale firing of the generals at least seven times between August 2021 and March 2022.
Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, has repeatedly said the U.S. should clean house on the senior ranks of the military, pushing the claim that all the generals and admirals are “woke” and “left-wing” losers who’ve never won a war.
His solution? Fire them all, and promote “the most conservative colonels.”
“Your entire general class, they're left-wing politicians at this point. It's very hard to become a general without being some kind of left-of-center politician,” he said at an Apache Junction Ladies for President Trump event in August 2021, according to audio obtained by VICE News. “I would love to see all the generals get fired. You take the most conservative colonels, you promote them to general. Not because the ideology is important, but because the conservative colonels will be able to leave the ideology aside. They just care about an effective fighting force.”
"... You take the most conservative colonels, you promote them to general ..."
Luckily like the other generals they would not have a war to fight at the moment, but unlucky for them they will not like the classification their Big Overlord, the former guy, would have for them: loosers. Cause one does not get a rank by proclamation but by doing the required studies and trainings. Inference is not a great thing for the speaker of above words, cause he would have to conclude that the US just had lost a major war and got relegated to a third country.
Re: 2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:52 pm
by raison de arizona
Who's gonna lose to Mark Kelly? Blake Masters, that's who! Even McConnell is giving up on him.
COURIER @CourierNewsroom wrote:
NEW: Mitch McConnell is pulling his Super PAC’s support from Blake Masters in Arizona; canceling $9.6M in television ads, Axios reports.
We watched the AZ Senate debate. OMG Blake Masters is a nasty, unlikeable jerk. Mark Kelly is likable and wants to pursue bipartisanship. That won't sell to MAGAts, but that's their problem.
Mark Kelly's call out of Blake was a high point for him, imagine we'll see a lot of this clip:
Mark was slow out of the gate, we got nervous at the top, there was a lot to defend. But then he picked up, used "folks" like Joe Biden does, and made common sense. Blake was so offensive that it's hard to imagine Arizonians will want to see him on TV for six years. The libertarian guy was pretty funny, it sounds like he's been a gadfly lawyer forevah. At least this debate was an hour... the GOP primary governor's debate with Kari Lake was only 30 minutes.
Look forward to RDA's reaction.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:20 pm
by raison de arizona
In a nutshell, Masters is a nutjob who held extreme positions during the primary. Examples, pro ghost gun, anti contraception, etc. He's trying desperately to move to the middle, but I'm hoping enough folks will see through that. I was disappointed to see Liz Cheney call out Lake (governor) and Finchem (SoS) and not call out Masters in her statements, but others have stepped in and supported Kelly as AZ Republicans who aren't actually insane. A bad rumor going around is that since McConnell has effectively abandoned Masters (as far as ad dollars,) Peter Thiel has decided to step in and prop him up with $10M. Boo, hiss! AZ TV is crazy right now, I don't watch a lot, but in what I've seen nearly every commercial is a political ad, and while there are a healthy amount of anti-Kelly, there are a metric shit-ton of anti-Masters ads rolling, hoisting him on his own petard via his pre-general election statements. Other than that, Masters doesn't do himself any favors in his ads. He tends to feature his children and portray himself as EveryDad, but it just comes off stilted and creepy.
Go Kelly!
My neighborhood is pretty solidly 1/2 and 1/2, but I've seen multiple yard signs for Kelly, and zero for Masters. FWIW.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:47 pm
by New Turtle
I'm getting Mark Kelly ads on my youtubes. Also Julie Gunnigle for Maricopa County Attorney.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:49 pm
by raison de arizona
New Turtle wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:47 pm
I'm getting Mark Kelly ads on my youtubes. Also Julie Gunnigle for Maricopa County Attorney.
Julie Gunnigle is awesome and has my vote. That said, if she loses, at least Rachel Mitchell isn't a MAGA Republican, I'm pretty sure. I've seen zero Gunnigle signs in my neighborhood, but many Mitchell ones. For what that's worth, because we all know who has the biggest rallies most yard signs wins.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:00 pm
by Dr. Ken
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:49 pm
by raison de arizona
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:56 pm
by raison de arizona
Some turkey down the street from me has a Masters yard sign. Yech.
Blake Masters Threatens ‘Gridlock,’ Government Shutdown Over His Racist Immigration Proposals A government shutdown would greatly affect Arizona’s economy in a variety of sectors, all in the name of promoting Masters’ personal agenda.
Despite having no policy record whatsoever, Republican US Senate candidate Blake Masters has been very clear about his plans for national immigration policy.
Masters has repeatedly said that he would support shutting down the government and blocking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding in order to ensure the implementation of his draconian immigration proposals, such as tripling the size of Border Patrol and opposing a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, who were brought to the United States as minors and are given temporary conditional residency and the right to work.
Masters’ comments throughout his campaign further suggest that his motivation regarding immigration policy is racially-motivated.
Motivated by Conspiracy Theories
In May, Masters said that the border crisis was ruining the country and repeated the “great replacement” theory, which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is the idea that demographic changes within the United States in recent years are a deliberate attempt by Democratic and progressive politicians to replace more conservative white voters.
“The left wants to bring in millions of illegal aliens and then they want to give these people amnesty,” Masters said on Real America’s Voice at the time. “They want to make these people voters. The left’s policies are so unpopular, they know they can’t win fair and square. So they’re just trying to manufacture and import a new electorate.”
That's the bad news. The good news is that I'm pretty confident he's going to lose to Mark Kelly.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 4:41 pm
by raison de arizona
To be clear, Masters has no connection to the military or law enforcement. He majored in PolySci before getting his law degree. He was a protege of venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Anyway.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 6:37 pm
by Phoenix520
Protège or puppy?
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 7:21 am
by sugar magnolia
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 4:41 pm
To be clear, Masters has no connection to the military or law enforcement. He majored in PolySci before getting his law degree. He was a protege of venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Anyway.
That's gonna leave a sticky residue.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 7:34 am
by pipistrelle
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 4:41 pm
To be clear, Masters has no connection to the military or law enforcement. He majored in PolySci before getting his law degree. He was a protege of venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Anyway.
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If he were a troubled high school kid, we might look at that as a threat.
2022 Arizona Senate Race
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 8:07 am
by Foggy
Those are way more official badges than poor ol' Herschel has. Those are real.