MamaBearCathy (she/her/hers)Thank you AZ Governor Katie Hobbs for vetoing GOP sponsored bill targeting trans kids.
Richard PennerOn Monday, a judge ruled against Kari Lake's last claim in a misguided attempt to overturn the 2022 election for Governor. This follows a three-day trial which began with Lake's own eyewitness confirming that signature verifications were being performed, which kind of wrecked the whole case.
Today, defendants get to argue that Lake should pay for their costs to defend against this conspiracy-theory-fueled nonsense. Lake has only until 5 PM on Wednesday to argue against any such charges.
Interim Ruling (PDF) from "AZ Law": https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23821194/cv2022-095403-5222023-minute-entry-re-ruling.pdf
Other updates from May concerning Kari Lake from "AZ Law": https://arizonaslaw.blogspot.com/2023/05/update-kari-lake-tells-judge-she-may.html
Coverage of day one of the trial gives a hint on the direction of the case: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/takeaway-from-day-one-of-kari-lakes-second-trial-lakes-losing-streak-continues/
❝The court heard from other witnesses including two members of a fringe political action group ... they discussed a 24/7 livestream of the signature verification process, which Lake has to prove did not occur for her claims to be successful in court.
#KariLake #KariLakeLost #AZGovernor #Arizona #AZGQP #AZGOP #GOP
Also, Arizona's GOP Senate leader, Sonny Borrelli, invented the authority to tell county election officials to ignore the law.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-attorney-general-issues-opinion-regarding-hand-counting-gop-leader-spreads-distrust/
This is pinned to the text of #SCR1037 (which is not law according to the AZ Constitution): https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1R/laws/scr1037.pdf
This move was, generally, not well received except by fringe proponents of the so-called "independent state legislature" theory.
• https://twitter.com/JenAFifield/status/1660706293722800128
• https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1660699556856868864
• https://twitter.com/tomryanlaw/status/1660723467015303168
❝Sonny Borrelli is just trying to [confuse with nonsense] the Counties into thinking this is a law. The Counties know better. What an embarrassment Borelli is.
PIUSHad no idea that the "Red Wave" would actually consist of #MAGATears ...
SirpushalotKatie Hobbs has done it! #AZGovernor she defeated Trump’s vacuum lady.
Charles GabaThere’s still the remote possibility that #AZGovernor and/or #AZAG might fall into my ~4,100 vote margin as well, and there’s also my ~5,700 estimate for the upcoming #GASenate runoff. 5/ https://acasignups.net/22/11/11/elephant-room-redux-part-1-did-gops-covid-death-cult-decide-any-statewide-races
Elephant in the Room Redux, Part 1: Did the GOP's COVID Death Cult decide any statewide races?
I posted my final analysis of the potential impact of the COVID death rate divide between Republicans & Democrats on 2022 midterm election results back in September. According to official CDC data, around 815,000 Americans died of COVID-19 between 10/31/20 - 09/10/22. Of those, I had estimated that perhaps 569,000 had actually voted for Biden or Trump. The total number has tragically risen by around 7,000 more since mid-September, which means the number of 2020 voters who've died is also likely around 4,900 higher. Nationally, Joe Biden received 81,283,501 votes to Donald Trump's 74,223,975 votes. If COVID impacted both voting blocs at identical rates, you'd normally expect roughly 9.5% more Biden voters to have died of COVID over the past 2 years than Trump voters...or roughly 25,000 more Biden voters. Instead, however, I estimated that nationally, perhaps ~150,000 more Americans who voted for TRUMP in 2020 had died of COVID-19 between the 2020 general election and the 2022 midterm election than those who voted for Biden. Several obvious caveats apply here: "Voted for Trump" or "Voted for Biden" isn't a perfect overlap with Republicans and Democrats It also isn't a perfect overlap with how those ~569K people would have voted this year.
snowmanomicsbuckle up
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RT @Taniel
wowza at the schedule today
≈7pm ET: Clark, WA could tell us who won #WA03
post-7pm ET: Clark NV could drop any time, tell us who won #NVSen
post-8pm ET: Maricopa will help decipher #AZGovernor
≈10:30pm ET: Washoe NV could get us to the end if Clark hasn't
(+ Cali drops?)
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1591567394111193089
Days after the attack on Paul Pelosi, Kari Lake thought to herself "I want a piece of that victim-hood cake too"...
