Arizona Republican who backs white nationalism is censured
Source: Associated Press
The Arizona Senate has censured censure Republican Wendy Rogers, whose embrace of white nationalism and calls for violence drew bipartisan condemnation
Via AP news wire
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The Arizona Senate voted Tuesday to censure Republican Wendy Rogers, whose embrace of white nationalism and calls for violence drew bipartisan condemnation.
Rogers is in her first term in elected office but has built a national profile among the far right with inflammatory rhetoric and vociferous support for former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Rogers has long faced fierce opposition from Democrats and a handful of Republicans for offensive comments on social media.
Pressure mounted within the GOP this week after she said over the weekend that her political opponents should face a newly built set of gallows. She spoke in a video played at the America First Political Action Conference, a white nationalist gathering.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-senate-donald-trump-democrats-arizona-b2026299.html
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)unethical and immoral.
Shame on them.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,735 posts)McCarthy's weak condemnation is not the same as a vote of condemnation by the Republican caucus.
Ziggysmom
(3,406 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,274 posts)conservatives that have second homes there.
I have a friend who does and she says the people she has spoken to while she winters there are ding bats. Conspiracy believers packing guns.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)I hear ya!
blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)the bottom photo just makes me want to...anyway, I just think we are doomed when I look at it.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)She ought to be stripped. Racist piece of shit.