Wacko Wins as strategy for the Right: Arizona's kookiest senator just made a $2.5 million statement about the future of the GOP
Jan 15, 2022 11:42:29 #
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Thu, January 13, 2022, 12:43 PM
Forget all the boasting among Republican candidates for governor about who raised the most money last year and who’s leading the pack.
State Sen. Wendy Rogers just blew past all of them.
This freshman legislator – a woman who spent 12 years trying to get elected to something – raised nearly $2.5 million last year.
Let me repeat that. A Republican candidate for the state Legislature raised more than any of her party’s candidates for governor.
Clearly, it pays to run around the country lying about the e******n and undermining v**ers’ confidence in democracy.
Rogers may be our kookiest lawmaker ever
Rogers is perhaps the kookiest person ever to sit in the Arizona Legislature (and that is saying something).
She spent a decade trying to convince Arizona v**ers to send her to Congress, going so far as to baselessly accuse a Republican rival of having ties to a sex-trafficking ring in 2018. When that didn’t work, she moved from her home in Tempe to a travel trailer in F**gstaff in 2020, hoping to land a spot in the state Legislature.
She spent more than a million dollars to win her seat in 2020, running a slash-and-burn campaign against then-Sen. Sylvia Allen. Rogers actually charged that Allen, one of the Legislature’s most conservative members, was “not conservative enough.”
Rogers is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and a proud member of the O**h K****rs, the far right m*****a group that figured prominently in the J*** 6 attack on the nation’s Capitol.
Rogers believes the e******n was r****d, calls Robert E. Lee a “great patriot” and openly longs for the days of Sen. Joe McCarthy, the 1950s era witch h****r who ruined thousands of lives with unproven accusations that they were c*******ts.
“Most of these politicians are either Soros bought or are Soros-sympathizers,” she tweeted in December. “It is like in Vietnam, most were either VC or helping VC. Bring back McCarthyism. We are well past the #RedScare days.”
Wendy Rogers
@WendyRogersAZ
Most of these politicians are either Soros bought or are Soros-sympathizers. It is like in Vietnam, most were either VC or helping VC. Bring back McCarthyism. We are well past the #RedScare days.
7:59 AM · Dec 20, 2021
Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Thu, January 13, 2022, 12:43 PM
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers looks on the floor of the Arizona Senate chambers during the presentation of the report on the e******n audit at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021.
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers looks on the floor of the Arizona Senate chambers during the presentation of the report on the e******n audit at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021.
Forget all the boasting among Republican candidates for governor about who raised the most money last year and who’s leading the pack.
State Sen. Wendy Rogers just blew past all of them.
This freshman legislator – a woman who spent 12 years trying to get elected to something – raised nearly $2.5 million last year.
Let me repeat that. A Republican candidate for the state Legislature raised more than any of her party’s candidates for governor.
Clearly, it pays to run around the country lying about the e******n and undermining v**ers’ confidence in democracy.
Rogers may be our kookiest lawmaker ever
Rogers is perhaps the kookiest person ever to sit in the Arizona Legislature (and that is saying something).
She spent a decade trying to convince Arizona v**ers to send her to Congress, going so far as to baselessly accuse a Republican rival of having ties to a sex-trafficking ring in 2018. When that didn’t work, she moved from her home in Tempe to a travel trailer in F**gstaff in 2020, hoping to land a spot in the state Legislature.
She spent more than a million dollars to win her seat in 2020, running a slash-and-burn campaign against then-Sen. Sylvia Allen. Rogers actually charged that Allen, one of the Legislature’s most conservative members, was “not conservative enough.”
Rogers is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and a proud member of the O**h K****rs, the far right m*****a group that figured prominently in the J*** 6 attack on the nation’s Capitol.
Rogers believes the e******n was r****d, calls Robert E. Lee a “great patriot” and openly longs for the days of Sen. Joe McCarthy, the 1950s era witch h****r who ruined thousands of lives with unproven accusations that they were c*******ts.
“Most of these politicians are either Soros bought or are Soros-sympathizers,” she tweeted in December. “It is like in Vietnam, most were either VC or helping VC. Bring back McCarthyism. We are well past the #RedScare days.”
It’s no surprise that Rogers would revere McCarthyism, which is defined as “a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations.”
She raised more than GOP governor candidates
She has spent most of the last 14 months screaming, without evidence, that the 2020 p**********l e******n was s****n. She was calling for Arizona’s e******n to be decertified even before the audit was complete and for e******ns officials to be thrown in jail.
Doesn’t matter that even the Senate’s Trump-friendly auditors have acknowledged they found no evidence of fraud or that decertification isn’t actually a thing or that here in America you need actual evidence in order to throw someone in jail.
There is money to be made and a political career to be built.
Rogers has used the audit to become a national rock star on the far right, traveling the country stumping for Republican candidates and calling for audits in all 50 states.
And stuffing her pockets with campaign cash all along the way.
Rogers raised $2.45 million in 2021, according to her campaign finance report filed on Wednesday.
OK, put your eyeballs back in their sockets. You’re right. That’s not just a lot for a legislative candidate. That’s unheard of.
By comparison, Republican gubernatorial frontrunner Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed candidate who also rails about a s****n e******n, raised just $1.4 million last year. Karrin Taylor Robson raised $1.85 million (plus the matching $1.85 million of her own cash she kicked in).
All of Rogers’ reported contributions came from individual donors. (She has since disclosed that Trump's Save America PAC donated $5,000 in December, but it wasn't included in her report of 2020 donations.)
Her fundraising pleas are a work of art
The majority of Rogers’ donors live outside of Arizona, which is not at all surprising.
Her weekly (sometimes twice-weekly) fundraising pleas are a work of art, both creative and imaginative.
“I am Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers,” she wrote in July. “I am a member of the Arizona State Senate, fighting for e******n integrity in Arizona, and holding the Maricopa clown show accountable! Please help me continue to lead to fight the fraud!”
“The audit report is finally in. And I am FURIOUS about the fraud it uncovered,” she wrote in September. “I’m Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers. I am the Arizona State Senator fighting nationwide for audits and e******n integrity! Now we need to prosecute those who participated in this fraud. Help me fix the problems in Arizona and spread audits to all 50 states!”
“I’m Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers,” said she wrote in December. “I am the Arizona Senator changing laws and exposing fraud in our e******ns! Help me make those who messed up the e******n pay for it!”
It’s worth repeating that no fraud has been exposed and Rogers has never been the point person on any significant piece of legislation.
She did, however, sponsor an unsuccessful bill to rename a section of highway after Donald Trump.
Which, perhaps, figures into why the former president of the United States endorsed her legislative campaign. That and her continued insistence that he won.
That says something scary about Arizona
As we move into an e******n year, Rogers’ fundraising juggernaut continues.
“I’m Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers, Trump-endorsed Arizona Senator fighting to stop the invasion and finish the wall in Arizona,” she wrote on Tuesday. “I need your help to fight the Soros minions trying to stop us!”
It all adds up to bad news for yet another far-right Republican, Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa.
Rogers and Townsend were drawn into the same legislative district last month. Expect Townsend to find another race in which to run.
Rogers, with her $2.5 million haul, has made a statement.
She’s now the future of the once Grand Old Party.
Be afraid, Arizona. Be very afraid.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-wendy-rogers-fundraising-haul-190058465.html
Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Thu, January 13, 2022, 12:43 PM
Forget all the boasting among Republican candidates for governor about who raised the most money last year and who’s leading the pack.
State Sen. Wendy Rogers just blew past all of them.
This freshman legislator – a woman who spent 12 years trying to get elected to something – raised nearly $2.5 million last year.
Let me repeat that. A Republican candidate for the state Legislature raised more than any of her party’s candidates for governor.
Clearly, it pays to run around the country lying about the e******n and undermining v**ers’ confidence in democracy.
Rogers may be our kookiest lawmaker ever
Rogers is perhaps the kookiest person ever to sit in the Arizona Legislature (and that is saying something).
She spent a decade trying to convince Arizona v**ers to send her to Congress, going so far as to baselessly accuse a Republican rival of having ties to a sex-trafficking ring in 2018. When that didn’t work, she moved from her home in Tempe to a travel trailer in F**gstaff in 2020, hoping to land a spot in the state Legislature.
She spent more than a million dollars to win her seat in 2020, running a slash-and-burn campaign against then-Sen. Sylvia Allen. Rogers actually charged that Allen, one of the Legislature’s most conservative members, was “not conservative enough.”
Rogers is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and a proud member of the O**h K****rs, the far right m*****a group that figured prominently in the J*** 6 attack on the nation’s Capitol.
Rogers believes the e******n was r****d, calls Robert E. Lee a “great patriot” and openly longs for the days of Sen. Joe McCarthy, the 1950s era witch h****r who ruined thousands of lives with unproven accusations that they were c*******ts.
“Most of these politicians are either Soros bought or are Soros-sympathizers,” she tweeted in December. “It is like in Vietnam, most were either VC or helping VC. Bring back McCarthyism. We are well past the #RedScare days.”
Wendy Rogers
@WendyRogersAZ
Most of these politicians are either Soros bought or are Soros-sympathizers. It is like in Vietnam, most were either VC or helping VC. Bring back McCarthyism. We are well past the #RedScare days.
7:59 AM · Dec 20, 2021
Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Thu, January 13, 2022, 12:43 PM
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers looks on the floor of the Arizona Senate chambers during the presentation of the report on the e******n audit at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021.
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers looks on the floor of the Arizona Senate chambers during the presentation of the report on the e******n audit at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021.
Forget all the boasting among Republican candidates for governor about who raised the most money last year and who’s leading the pack.
State Sen. Wendy Rogers just blew past all of them.
This freshman legislator – a woman who spent 12 years trying to get elected to something – raised nearly $2.5 million last year.
Let me repeat that. A Republican candidate for the state Legislature raised more than any of her party’s candidates for governor.
Clearly, it pays to run around the country lying about the e******n and undermining v**ers’ confidence in democracy.
Rogers may be our kookiest lawmaker ever
Rogers is perhaps the kookiest person ever to sit in the Arizona Legislature (and that is saying something).
She spent a decade trying to convince Arizona v**ers to send her to Congress, going so far as to baselessly accuse a Republican rival of having ties to a sex-trafficking ring in 2018. When that didn’t work, she moved from her home in Tempe to a travel trailer in F**gstaff in 2020, hoping to land a spot in the state Legislature.
She spent more than a million dollars to win her seat in 2020, running a slash-and-burn campaign against then-Sen. Sylvia Allen. Rogers actually charged that Allen, one of the Legislature’s most conservative members, was “not conservative enough.”
Rogers is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and a proud member of the O**h K****rs, the far right m*****a group that figured prominently in the J*** 6 attack on the nation’s Capitol.
Rogers believes the e******n was r****d, calls Robert E. Lee a “great patriot” and openly longs for the days of Sen. Joe McCarthy, the 1950s era witch h****r who ruined thousands of lives with unproven accusations that they were c*******ts.
“Most of these politicians are either Soros bought or are Soros-sympathizers,” she tweeted in December. “It is like in Vietnam, most were either VC or helping VC. Bring back McCarthyism. We are well past the #RedScare days.”
It’s no surprise that Rogers would revere McCarthyism, which is defined as “a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations.”
She raised more than GOP governor candidates
She has spent most of the last 14 months screaming, without evidence, that the 2020 p**********l e******n was s****n. She was calling for Arizona’s e******n to be decertified even before the audit was complete and for e******ns officials to be thrown in jail.
Doesn’t matter that even the Senate’s Trump-friendly auditors have acknowledged they found no evidence of fraud or that decertification isn’t actually a thing or that here in America you need actual evidence in order to throw someone in jail.
There is money to be made and a political career to be built.
Rogers has used the audit to become a national rock star on the far right, traveling the country stumping for Republican candidates and calling for audits in all 50 states.
And stuffing her pockets with campaign cash all along the way.
Rogers raised $2.45 million in 2021, according to her campaign finance report filed on Wednesday.
OK, put your eyeballs back in their sockets. You’re right. That’s not just a lot for a legislative candidate. That’s unheard of.
By comparison, Republican gubernatorial frontrunner Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed candidate who also rails about a s****n e******n, raised just $1.4 million last year. Karrin Taylor Robson raised $1.85 million (plus the matching $1.85 million of her own cash she kicked in).
All of Rogers’ reported contributions came from individual donors. (She has since disclosed that Trump's Save America PAC donated $5,000 in December, but it wasn't included in her report of 2020 donations.)
Her fundraising pleas are a work of art
The majority of Rogers’ donors live outside of Arizona, which is not at all surprising.
Her weekly (sometimes twice-weekly) fundraising pleas are a work of art, both creative and imaginative.
“I am Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers,” she wrote in July. “I am a member of the Arizona State Senate, fighting for e******n integrity in Arizona, and holding the Maricopa clown show accountable! Please help me continue to lead to fight the fraud!”
“The audit report is finally in. And I am FURIOUS about the fraud it uncovered,” she wrote in September. “I’m Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers. I am the Arizona State Senator fighting nationwide for audits and e******n integrity! Now we need to prosecute those who participated in this fraud. Help me fix the problems in Arizona and spread audits to all 50 states!”
“I’m Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers,” said she wrote in December. “I am the Arizona Senator changing laws and exposing fraud in our e******ns! Help me make those who messed up the e******n pay for it!”
It’s worth repeating that no fraud has been exposed and Rogers has never been the point person on any significant piece of legislation.
She did, however, sponsor an unsuccessful bill to rename a section of highway after Donald Trump.
Which, perhaps, figures into why the former president of the United States endorsed her legislative campaign. That and her continued insistence that he won.
That says something scary about Arizona
As we move into an e******n year, Rogers’ fundraising juggernaut continues.
“I’m Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers, Trump-endorsed Arizona Senator fighting to stop the invasion and finish the wall in Arizona,” she wrote on Tuesday. “I need your help to fight the Soros minions trying to stop us!”
It all adds up to bad news for yet another far-right Republican, Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa.
Rogers and Townsend were drawn into the same legislative district last month. Expect Townsend to find another race in which to run.
Rogers, with her $2.5 million haul, has made a statement.
She’s now the future of the once Grand Old Party.
Be afraid, Arizona. Be very afraid.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-wendy-rogers-fundraising-haul-190058465.html
Jan 15, 2022 11:55:09 #
Ronald Hatt
Loc: Lansing, Mich
rumitoid wrote:
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic br Laurie Roberts... (show quote)
Just goes to show America, & the feeble-minded Libr****ds.....America, is sick & tired of Liberalism, & lies, sex, & videotapes?
Anyone that v**ed for a Liberal/progressive/socialist c****e.....is a self professed ignoramus!
Jan 16, 2022 09:25:28 #
Ronald Hatt wrote:
Just goes to show America, & the feeble-minded Libr****ds.....America, is sick & tired of Liberalism, & lies, sex, & videotapes?
Anyone that v**ed for a Liberal/progressive/socialist c****e.....is a self professed ignoramus!
Anyone that v**ed for a Liberal/progressive/socialist c****e.....is a self professed ignoramus!
Jan 16, 2022 09:49:46 #
rumitoid wrote:
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic br Laurie Roberts... (show quote)
Hey Mr H**emonger, had that surgery yet?
Jan 16, 2022 16:18:42 #
River Reb
Loc: MS Delta
rumitoid wrote:
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic br Laurie Roberts... (show quote)
AOC sewed up the kookiest lawmaker award already. She'll never be topped.
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