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Judi Lynn

(160,525 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:58 PM Mar 2022

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
26 minutes ago

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





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Arizona Republican who backs white nationalism is censured (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2022 OP
What an embarrassment. oldsoftie Mar 2022 #1
Republicans are pathetically unAmerican Achilleaze Mar 2022 #2
need to throw the word " stupid" in there ? monkeyman1 Mar 2022 #6
Garbage humans. paleotn Mar 2022 #11
Good! whathehell Mar 2022 #3
More than US House Republicans have done. summer_in_TX Mar 2022 #4
Who the hell voted in this gummy Quackpot? Ziggysmom Mar 2022 #5
Maybe all the wacked out PlutosHeart Mar 2022 #8
It is not much fun here ArizonaLib Mar 2022 #12
I keep trying to find HOPE... blue sky at night Mar 2022 #7
Put women in charge! Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2022 #9
A disgrace to the uniform... paleotn Mar 2022 #10

summer_in_TX

(2,735 posts)
4. More than US House Republicans have done.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:44 PM
Mar 2022

McCarthy's weak condemnation is not the same as a vote of condemnation by the Republican caucus.

PlutosHeart

(1,274 posts)
8. Maybe all the wacked out
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 09:13 PM
Mar 2022

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.

blue sky at night

(3,242 posts)
7. I keep trying to find HOPE...
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 08:46 PM
Mar 2022

the bottom photo just makes me want to...anyway, I just think we are doomed when I look at it.

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