Quick, what are the now indicted fake Arizona voters doing and Rev. Martin Luther King Does Jr. have anything in common?
If you said they’re all heroes, then congratulations, you’re a member of the far right that reasserted its death grip on the Arizona Republican Party on Saturday.
At Saturday’s Republican convention, party delegates elected Sen. Jake Hoffman – who is accused of forgery, fraud and conspiracy in a fake voter scheme to overturn the country’s presidential election. Arizona – as Republican National Committeeman from Arizona.
Expelled Rep. Liz Harris, an election denier who was only in office three months before being thrown away of the GOP-led House, was elected to the state’s Republican National Committee.
Election denier defends fake voters
Count Republican consultant Tyler Montague among them dizzy at the choice of party leaders.
“I’m pessimistic on the AZGOP,” Montague said on social media Saturday evening, shortly after news leaked about delegates’ choice to serve on the Republican National Committee.
“That they would choose indicted fake voter Jake Hoffman and disgraced defamer Liz Harris who was removed from office as shown by National Committee members where the crazy activist base currently resides. They have lost their minds.
That’s not the case, according to Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, and exhibit No. 1 in the lost spirits category.
Kolodin, a lawyer, is something of a legend in election denialist circles, having filed several lawsuits that failed quite spectacularly, including several I put it in hot water with the State Bar of Arizona.
He was also the one who recently called the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor a “mediocre jurist.”
Hoffman is like a civil rights leader?
Now he presents Hoffman and his fellow fake voters as righteous warriors, akin to the civil rights movement and a man who literally gave up his life in the hope that his four small children would one day live in a nation where… well, I don’t need to tell you what he said.
King’s influence, six decades later, is as you know.
“MLK has been arrested about 30 times,” Kolodin responded to Montague on Saturday evening. “Would you also have been pessimistic about the civil rights movement?
“People who would have been part of the civil rights movement are the people who are being charged right now,” Kolodin continued. “The people laughing at them would have been the ones carrying fire hoses.”
Thousands of white people with their red MAGA hats, on the march from Selma to Montgomery?
Of course, I can totally see that.
MLK held out his hand. The voters leaned
As every schoolchild and even some members of the Arizona Legislature know, King was a giant of the civil rights movement – a man of faith, resolute in his belief that racial equality could be achieved through a nonviolent action.
He has in fact been arrested and gone to prison 29 times, as Kolodin points out, for charges ranging from civil…
