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On Monday it was revealed that top Maricopa County election officer Stephen Richer, who helped to oversee elections in Arizona, donated to the far-left "resistance group" PatriotTakes. PatriotTakes is a hybrid pack that describes itself on Twitter as a group of "dedicated researchers monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy." ... Data available on the Federal Elections Commission's website shows that Richer donated $40.00 in July of this year. Previously, Richer had launched a PAC in 2021 to stop MAGA candidates .... Last week, during Tuesday's midterms elections, Richer was forced to apologize due to Maricopa County's...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Incumbent Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer has lost his reelection campaign to fellow Republican Justin Heap, according to projections from the Associated Press. Richer, one of the elected officials responsible for administering elections in Maricopa County, has become a pariah on the right to defend election integrity after several Republicans, including Donald Trump, Kari Lake, Abe Hamadeh, and Mark Finchem, claimed election tampering when they lost their respected races in 2022. [snip] Heap stops short of saying the 2020 and 2022 elections were stolen but said thousands of Republican voters don’t have faith in the county’s election...

The Gateway Pundit has obtained damning excerpts from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s June 21, 2024, deposition transcript in his defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake and her husband, showing that Richer contemplated running for Senate to “make life hell for Kari Lake” and admitted that he is “anti-MAGA” shortly after the rigged 2022 election where 60% of voting machines failed on election day in Maricopa County. Of course, he made it clear to the public that he is anti-MAGA after he founded the Pro-Democracy Republicans dark money PAC to eliminate candidates with a MAGA agenda, admitted to voting for Democrats...

Whoopi raises hackles at Kerry fundraiser     July 09 2004 at 09:06AM By Peter Mackler New York - The Democratic presidential ticket netted a cool $7.5-million (about R50-million) at a star-studded concert but had to squirm through a wickedly irreverent monologue from comic Whoopi Goldberg to do it. Aides to presidential candidate John Kerry exulted that the gate from Thursday night's extravaganza at the historic Radio City Music Hall was the biggest single take ever for a Democratic event. But while the party was raising cash, Goldberg was clearly raising some hackles by repeatedly referring to Kerry's boyish...