Posted on 11/12/2022 5:08:58 PM PST by Libloather
If you listen to Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate running against Kari Lake, you would think that Lake represents the greatest threat to public confidence in the upcoming election. She continually claims that Kari Lake “won’t accept” the results of the election if she somehow loses. (As if “not accepting” election results somehow voids the election.) But there is a much more significant and glaringly obvious problem with the governor’s race that Hobbs never seems to mention. The Arizona Secretary of State is charged with overseeing the election and ensuring its accuracy and validity. How is it that Katie Hobbs is overseeing an election where she is a candidate? Isn’t that a blatant conflict of interest? Well, it’s blatant enough that members of her own party are now calling on her to recuse herself, and Time Magazine has chosen to run the story.
Among the people publicly calling on Hobbs to recuse herself are two former Arizona secretaries of state, one a Democrat and the other a Republican. One of them suggested that oversight of the election should be turned over to either the attorney general or the Maricopa County recorder.
While the Secretary of State doesn’t conduct the election, her office is tasked with collecting and verifying the results submitted by each county. In the case of a recount (and this race is very close in the latest polls), her office would be heavily involved. And yet, Hobbs’ spokesperson came out and said that she has “no intention” of recusing herself from that role.
I could understand Hobbs being reluctant if she were being asked to step down from her office entirely.
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Should Brian Kemp have recused himself when he was in the same position in 2018?
If she can grab the brass ring, she’ll never have to answer for 2020.
I hope Lake is taking notes.
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Every indication is that something is wrong in the AZ tabulation of Votes.
Screaming out.
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What the hell does that mean?
Our Basement Rulers don't answer to the peasantry.
Stifle yourselves, peasants!
Hobbs:1,115,362 Votes (Leading by 37,743)
Lake: 1,077,619 Votes
Hobbs just keeps pulling farther ahead.
A Democrat won’t recuse themselves.
Brian Kemp was the SOS of Georgia when he first ran for Governor. He oversaw the election that put him in his present office. Should he have recused himself from that race?
Yes
I get the obvious similarity. I was trying to figure out if you thought Brian Kemp was some kind of paragon of virtue, or you were explaining his origins as a diseased swamp creature.
Any holder of elected office who wishes to run for any other elected office should have to resign their current position before they can commit to run. Period. It should be the Law of the Land.
It’s not who votes that matters, it’s who counts the votes that matters.
Is Brian Kemp the same kind of person as Katie Hobbs?
Yep.
Yes.
How could Katie Hobbs possibly recuse herself? She is the best and most experienced person to be carrying out this job. After all, how could personal prejudices enter into this whole scene? She is a dedicated public servant.
(Do I HAVE to include the < /sarcasm > tag?)
Hoggs is a cheating pig. Another stolen election. IN YO FACE ARIZONA!!!
Meanwhile, where is this “big R ballot drop” we’ve been promised? It’s up to 88% of ballots counted, and Hobbs’ lead is still a healthy 34,000, down only slightly from 37,000 this morning.
The ballot printer never stops
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