Harris was kicked out last month in a bipartisan vote for organizing a presentation where an Arizona insurance agent made unsubstantiated accusations that a wide range of politicians, judges and public officials of both parties took bribes from a Mexican drug cartel.
[FoxNews] Republican Julie Willoughby will head to Phoenix in former Rep. Liz Harris' place.
Republican lawmaker Liz Harris, who was previously expelled, will not be sent back to the Arizona House of Representatives, Maricopa County officials announced Friday.
The county's Board of Supervisors instead selected Republican Julie Willoughby to replace her, despite Republican precinct committee members in her legislative district giving Harris the most votes.
"In my discussions with Ms. Harris, she firmly believes her removal was improper and unlawful," said Supervisor Jack Sellers, who represents an area that includes the legislative district. "This board was not a party to that process but must give weight to an action that over two-thirds of the House members voted in favor of."
Willoughby, an emergency room trauma nurse, teamed up with Harris in campaign ads and events during last year's election. They had hoped to win both district seats, but Harris and Democratic Rep. Jennifer Pawlik emerged as the top two vote-getters.
Harris was kicked out last month in a bipartisan vote for organizing a presentation where an Arizona insurance agent made unsubstantiated accusations that a wide range of politicians, judges and public officials of both parties took bribes from a Mexican drug cartel.
A prominent supporter of discredited election conspiracies, she was also found by the House Ethics Committee to have engaged in "disorderly behavior" in violation of the chamber’s rules.
The committee’s report said Harris knew that the person she invited to the legislative hearing in February would accuse her colleagues of criminal activity, that she took steps to hide it from House leaders ahead of time and then misled the committee investigating her actions.
Her removal came less than a week after Tennessee Republicans voted to expel two Black Democrats, a decision that made that state a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy. But the Arizona vote did not carry the same partisan and racial overtones. Instead, there was widespread and bipartisan condemnation for Harris’ actions.
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By the pattern, within 12 months her presentation will be proved true.
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I have long suspected exactly what the insurance agent claims. Why else would our country be flooded with illegal narcotics from Mexico?
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In fact, why else would the legislators kick Harris out of the legislature? I think it's like the old Rantburg expression about the flak getting heavier the closer you get to the target.
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Interesting perspective from the Washington Post:
Officials in Arizona’s largest county on Friday voted on a replacement for Liz Harris, a former state representative who peddled false and outlandish claims of election fraud and was expelled from her seat last month.
In a 4-1 vote, the GOP-led Maricopa County Board of Supervisors selected Julie Willoughby, a Republican nurse who campaigned alongside Harris during the 2022 GOP primary but later narrowly lost the general election, coming in third. (The top two vote-getters won seats to represent the district.) Willoughby was endorsed by Kari Lake, the Donald Trump-backed GOP gubernatorial candidate who still falsely claims she won her own contest.
Arizona House Republicans moved immediately to get Willoughby sworn in less than two hours after the vote. The county board, which helps administer elections, had no deadline to name a replacement — but the GOP’s slim majority in the House and ongoing budget negotiations added a measure of urgency.
Joe Biden on Friday spoke to MSNBC in his first television interview since February, and his first since declaring last week he was seeking re-election
Biden was asked about his son Hunter, 53, who is being investigated for potential tax issues and lying on a permit application for a gun
Biden told Stephanie Ruhle: 'My son has done nothing wrong. I trust him, I have faith in him,' and added he was 'proud'
#11
Watch this lady judge in Arkansas about Hunter's daughter. She was head lawyer for Dept of Human Services. Noted to be a tough, strong judge. She has demanded ALL of Hunter financial papers. Gov Huckleberry bets she gets them. That's gonna take a while. She doesn't take kindly to dead beat dads. He shouldn't have asked to drop the $20,000 monthly. Claimed he has no money. Interesting what she will find.
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As long as Bide, Wray and Garland are in their positions it is doubtful anything will happen to Hunter or Biden, rhe elder. Joe is not going to be removed from office. He cannot be impeached and convicted because there is not the votes in Congress to do that.. Hunter would likely be pardoned for any federal crimes. The only way anything is going to happen is to vote him out of office and get a new DOJ. There are some serious unresolved questions as to whether the vote can be trusted.
[ZeroHedge] Daniel Henninger, writing in the Wall Street Journal on April 26, properly describes Joe Biden as “the perfect Democratic president.”
According to Henninger, Biden’s “non-compos” condition should give the “left wing of his party free rein” during his second presidential term, which is exactly what his party wants. A cognitively impaired, not particularly principled figurehead fits the needs of his handlers; and Biden obviously has no interest in doing anything to upset them. He will dutifully get behind his party’s latest woke project and ritualistically attack its Republican opponents as white nationalists, sexists, and homophobes.
Equally significant, Biden is the perfect front figure for an administrative state in which the chief executive provides little more than an ornament: “A beside-the-point president is the best thing that has ever happened to the progressive centralization project. That is why Washington’s Democrats would embrace a Kamala Harris succession.”
What I discern in Henninger’s compelling description of a second Biden term is the outline of my thesis in “After Liberalism” (Princeton, 1999), which is subtitled “Mass Democracy in the Administrative State.” In this work I argue that modern Western regimes are not really about “democracy,” that is, meaningful self-rule, of the kind that existed historically in Swiss cantons or in Thomas Jefferson’s concept of popular government. The modern version of democracy is about public administration, in which citizens are called on periodically to give their rulers a stamp of approval through elections (which are now conducted in much of this country without voters having to identify themselves or even appearing in person at a voting precinct).
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Joe’s IQ is still too high. The guy who thought that Guam could log roll is a better Dem presidential candidate.
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If Joe can only hang on for two more years and get reelected they can safely put him out to pasture and move Kamala into the Oval Office.
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Just as a side note, if the unthinkable were to happen, the Speaker of the House comes next in line. At least that would be a liberal rather than a commie.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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