Posted on 03/22/2022 5:47:22 PM PDT by cotton1706
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge in Prescott has saved Republicans in the Arizona Legislature from a political mess they created when they repealed elections for political party precinct committeemen and set off a firestorm among Republican party activists.
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The weekend after the law unanimously passed the House and Senate and was swiftly signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Arizona Republican Party activists went ballistic when they discovered their elections had been eliminated for 2022. They hammered Fann, Bowers and other GOP lawmakers and called the move undemocratic.
Democrats who rely less on elected committeemen to do grassroot party work were in no hurry to help and did not support legislation designed to restore the elections.
That left Republicans on the hot seat, since without Democratic votes they lacked the 2/3 majority they needed for an emergency clause that would restore the elections before the Aug. 2 primary.
Enter lawyers for the Arizona Republican Party, who filed suit in Prescott and sought to have the part of the law eliminating precinct committeemen elections thrown out.
Judge Napper wrote that the main part of the bill creating new rules for determining how many signatures a candidate needs to qualify for the ballot was legal because it broadly applied and had a “perhaps sensible means" of standardizing signature requirements for congressional and legislative offices.
But he said that eliminating elections for precinct committeemen, and only those offices, was not at all rational.
Instead, that part of the bill “discriminates against elected party precinct committeepersons apart from all other candidates for federal, state, and local offices whose rights to run for election (and the rights of the electorate to vote for them) are not altered,” Napper wrote.
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Sounds like the entire AZ gubmint just tacitly admitted to being in on the Big Steal and are now trying to cover their asses for the future
Explain what this means, please. I have ADHD, lol.
Everyone that mattered was in on the steal.
If they didn’t want to, then they’d be the next epstein didn’t kill himself meme.
Bingo.
They eliminated elections for precinct committeemen. So they could then be appointed by the party apparatchiks.
Actually, as they all admitted, nobody bothered to read the bill!
Especially down to the point 4.
Get rid of Fann.
She is RINO Central.
The Arizona Republican Party pulled a trick from the Rats and went judge shopping. Yavapai County is overwhelmingly conservative Republican.
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