Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow rejection of election results

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Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results
By Andy Rose and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN

(CNN)A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona -- including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results -- proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, quietly doomed House Bill 2596 on Tuesday with an unusual parliamentary maneuver.
The speaker assigns all new bills to a committee for consideration before they can have full House votes, a choice that often has a great effect on a measure's chance of success. But on Tuesday, Bowers took the unprecedented step of ordering all 12 House committees to consider the elections bill, virtually ensuring it will never reach the floor.
The bill's lead sponsor, Republican state Rep. John Fillmore, referred to the move as a "12-committee lynching" in an interview with CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/politics/arizona-bill-reject-election-results-effectively-blocked/index.html

[gristy]

1. Well, isn't that something.

The winds of change have begun to blow.

[gratuitous]

4. I hope it's a winds of change thing

And not "Wait 'til Republicans get their second wind, dump the RINOs, and redouble their efforts to subvert democracy."

[jaysunb]

18. A lot of things will change once indictments and jail time are started. Nt

[Cha]

2. FO AZ Fascists KR TY &

Rusty Bowers.

[Sogo]

11. Translation, please.

[Cha]

14. No Problem..

FO is universal for Fuck Off AZ Fascists ..

TY is Thank You!

[summer_in_TX]

13. Would it mean something like F* Off Arizona Fascists? Sounds right.

Not sure of the next bit. Knowledge and respect? Thank you?


Somewhere in the replies to this OP maybe there should be an answer key to help those of us not steeped in textology and abbreviations learn some of that.

[Cha]

15. Exactly!

When I first got on DU almost 20 years I wrote every word out.. but after said 20 years and almost 275,000 posts.. I started using abbreviations for a lot of words.

ask me anytime.. I'll try to come up with the answer.

[summer_in_TX]

19. Thank!

[Cha]

20. ..

[Kali]

3. wow

that is interesting.

[struggle4progress]

5. "I've been trying to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life wondering

when some stranger will shoot me in the back of my head"

[dalton99a]

8. Bingo.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Guess who's going to get primaried.

[Cha]

16. No need.. my 2nd thought..

TFFCG is Enraged!

My 1st thought was WOW!

[Septua]

7. A moment of sanity

[dalton99a]

9. "Trump supporters cruised his neighborhood, using loudspeakers to call him a pedophile"

Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, called Bowers in November 2020 to regale him about the many ways in which the election was stolen and to suggest that the Legislature choose its own electors.

Bowers told them to get lost.

“You are giving me nothing but conjecture and asking me to break my oath and commit to doing something I cannot do because I swore I wouldn’t,” he said, recounting the phone call to The Arizona Republic. “I will follow the Constitution.”

For standing on principle, Bowers was targeted by the Arizona Patriot Party for recall and Trump supporters cruised his neighborhood, using a loudspeakers to call him a pedophile.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/02/01/ahouse-speaker-just-killed-arizonas-most-outrageous-election-reform/9307151002/

[Cha]

17. Those Fascist Fuckers Shoule

be HAULED IN!

[Catherine Vincent]

10. Enjoyed reading this article. Thanks.

It's too bad Texas didn't do the same.

[Sogo]

12. A ray of hope....