Posted on 01/03/2023 9:21:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Katie Hobbs barred reporters from being in attendance to cover her inauguration as governor of Arizona on Monday.
The Democrat’s team allowed only a single photographer from the Associated Press into the room at the state Capitol while directing others to instead watch the event via live steam, according to local reporter Stacey Barchenger. Media did set up outside of the event.
“Arizona’s 24th governor, Katie Hobbs, assumed power at 10 a.m. on Monday and in her first official act, she decided to take the public’s business private. Not a great start,” tweeted Laurie Roberts, a columnist for The Arizona Republic.
As Roberts pointed out in a column, the restricted access deprived reporters the ability to ask questions of officials who are now leading the state. Others who took office on Monday included Democrats Adrian Fontes as secretary of state and Kris Mayes as attorney general.
Roberts also noted Monday was a state holiday and Hobbs will participate in a ceremonial inauguration Thursday. Still, she added, Hobbs “decided to take the public’s business private” in her first official act, part of a celebratory affair funded by secret donors.
A viral clip showed Hobbs laughed while taking the oath of office, which prompted a rebuke from the camp of Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, who like other GOP candidates running for statewide office in Arizona has gone to the courts to challenge her 2022 election loss.
“This is one of the darkest moments in the history of Arizona. An illegitimate ‘Governor’ laughing in the face of our constitution. But it’s always darkest before the dawn. We will expose this fraud for the world to see. Justice is coming. [Hobbs] won’t be laughing then,” tweeted the Kari Lake War Room.
Timothy Sandefur, vice president for legal affairs at the Goldwater Institute, came to Hobbs’ defense, saying the full video shows Hobbs “was feeling emotional & made a little joke to her mother (holding the Bible) about how they were both getting choked up.”
Gee, that’s odd. I mean, that is REALLY odd.
You can smell the fear.
(And an effing COWARD who behaves as though she's GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE, LIKE THEFT OF HER OWN ELECTION)
Who said “We get the government we deserve.”?
Classy react from Gov.-elected @SecretaryHobbs : "For the Arizonans who did not vote for me, I will work just as hard for you -because even in this moment of division, I believe there is so much more that connects us..."
..... that giant sucking sound effect.......
https://twitter.com/laurieroberts/status/1592548278297858048
Smell the fear!
The GOP is dead today
It’s not dead, it just smells bad.
I don’t see Arizonans rising up in mass.
They haven’t felt the consequences of their vote yet...................
LUME Deodorant………deodorant for private parts.
The Hobbs non-campaign resulting in victory may have surpassed the Biden basement strategy as the most bizarre election I’ve seen. We can at least blame covid shenanigans for Biden hiding during the campaign and winning despite advanced dementia. Hobbs is a massively weak candidate who did not campaign and supposedly won massive vote turnout.
How soon can she be recalled ?
Was that crack really necessary?
But, WHO IS COUNTING THE RECALL VOTES, RUNBECK BALLOT PRINTING CO.?
Six months after inauguration, it becomes legal to gather recall petitions. If she is recalled, the AZ Secretary of State succeeds her.
Hobbes & Biden are both deep state puppets. The best puppets lack strenths and cognitive skills of their own. Each of them is the product of audacious, well-targeted fraud. If the evil principality that is progressivism has its way, there will be more Hobbeses and Bidens, and they will all appear eerily similar. Oh yeah, while we’re on that thought, toss in Fetterman. Another cookie cutter zero-strength puppet in the same mold.
Must be a problem with reporters?
Mencken said that I think.
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