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AZ- Kari Lake wants to fire the federal government. Trumps nominees are a joke. Their brains are damaged..
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:42 pm
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Subject: Kari Lake Crazy Stuff- Mon Nov 14, 2022 6:13 pm
Kari Lake calls people counting her votes ' incompetent' and a 'laughingstock,' counters are cheaters.
(((and if she wins then the people counting votes were the fairest best counters in the state of AZ... Just forget I said-- they are 'cheating incompetent' and a 'laughingstock.. bwaha- She wins or she was cheated... bwahaha crazy shite--)))
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:11 pm
Congratulations Elected Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:16 am
So Temple when is your son getting his gender reassignment surgery?
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:04 pm
12-6-2022
This judge is showing Kari Lake that the courts are 'not a toy' for 'partisan theatrics'.
Arizona was once synonymous with terms like “Goldwater Republican,” “Goldwater conservative” and “McCain Republican.”
But in 2023, Arizona will have two Democratic U.S. senators (Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema), a Democratic governor (Katie Hobbs) and a Democratic secretary of state (Adrian Fontes).
Critics of far-right MAGA Republicans Kari Lake (who lost to Hobbs) and Mark Finchem (who lost to Fontes) campaigned on the Big Lie, falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
But that wasn’t a recipe for success for Lake and Finchem, who have been quite litigious. And now, according to journalist Steve Benen, they are finding out that some judges don’t like having the courts used for cheap political theatrics.
Benen explains, “Months before any ballots were cast, these two filed a federal lawsuit, hoping to prevent Maricopa and Pima Counties from using electronic election equipment.
By any fair measure, the litigation was not smart. I t also wasn’t successful. But before the case was thrown out over the summer, members of the Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors sought sanctions against the plaintiffs for the ‘numerous false allegations about Arizona elections’ Lake, Finchem, and their attorneys made in their complaint.”
Those sanctions, Benen notes, are being granted by U.S. District Judge John Tuchi.
The Arizona Republic, on December 2, reported, “In a blistering 30-page opinion, a federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorneys of Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in their lawsuit against voting machines, hoping to deter ‘similarly baseless suits in the future’.... I
n his order granting sanctions…. (Tuchi) delivered strong punches to the arguments that Lake, Finchem and their attorneys put forth in what he deemed a ‘frivolous complaint.’”
The lesson for MAGA Republicans, Benen stresses, is that the courts are not a stage for political theatrics.
“American courtrooms are not supposed to be abused by politicians filing frivolous cases in pursuit of partisan theatrics,” Benen writes. “The judiciary is not a toy. There is a reasonable expectation that all litigation, even if ultimately unsuccessful, have at least some merit.”
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Sat Dec 10, 2022 2:04 pm
Kari Lake Files Lawsuit Packed With Evidence Challenging Fraudulent Arizona Midterm Election Results by Jamie White December 10th 2022, 1:15 pm
Republican gubernatorial candidate claims HUNDREDS of thousands of illegal ballots, 59% of voting machine failures, and tens of thousands of illicit mail-in ballots resulted in fraudulent election.
The 68-page lawsuit filed in the Maricopa County Superior Court details “intentional misconduct” regarding illegal vote counts, signature requirement failures for mail-in ballots, tabulation machine malfunctions, and free speech violations by Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, Lake’s Democrat opponent, in the Arizona midterm election.
Bar Complaint Filed Against Alan Dershowitz over Kari Lake Voting Machine Lawsuit Accuses Famed Lawyer of ‘Helping Lead the Attack on Democracy’
A legal group filed a bar complaint against Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz on Friday claiming he violated legal ethics rules while representing former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) in a failed voting machine lawsuit against Arizona Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs (D).
That lawsuit, Lake v. Hobbs, leveled a multi-pronged attack on the integrity of the Grand Canyon State’s election process – specifically in regard to the use of electronic ballot-counting devices. Originally filed in April of this year, the matter was dismissed in August.
Earlier this month, Dershowitz and other attorneys who worked on the lawsuit were sanctioned in federal court.
The bar complaint largely focuses on a series of claims, attributed to Dershowitz, contained in that failed lawsuit and found to have been meritless. The filing refers to them as “unfounded conspiracy theories – easily proven false – with no basis in law or fact.”
The 65 Project, which describes itself as a bi-partisan group of “legal and political figures,” filed the complaint with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Office of Bar Counsel, an administrative body that investigates allegations of unethical conduct made against attorneys.
The group that filed the complaint is named after 65 separate lawsuits filed by Donald Trump, allies, and fellow travelers in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
One example cited by the bar complaint is the lawsuit’s claim that the infamous Cyber Ninja audit of Maricopa County voting machines showed a “significant” number of “discrepancies” between the vote totals reflected on software and the official reported results.
“However, this is untrue,” the bar complaint says. “There was, in fact, no substantial difference between the official results and the audit results.”
That’s essentially how county officials explained it as well, tweeting after the audit was finished that the “draft report from Cyber Ninjas confirms the county’s canvass of the 2020 General Election was accurate and the candidates certified as the winners did, in fact, win.”
There were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots provided and the official election canvass results for Maricopa County. This is an important finding because the paper ballots are the best evidence of voter intent, and there is no reliable evidence that the paper ballots were altered to any material degree.
In his Dec. 1, 2022, order issuing sanctions, the judge said that Lake and her co-plaintiff in the case “made false, misleading, and unsupported factual assertions” and further admonished the attorneys involved, writing that they “acted at least recklessly in unreasonably and vexatiously multiplying the proceedings by seeking a preliminary injunction based on [their clients’] frivolous claims.”
The bar complaint also dings Dershowitz for a claim in the Lake lawsuit that various election files and ballot images were deleted from vote-counting machines.
This time, citing the granted motion for sanctions in the case, the complaint says that those cited files and images “were either not subpoenaed and so not provided, or were not located because of the Cyber Ninjas’ ineptitude.”
The bar complaint documents another discredited claim from the lawsuit, at length – again citing both Tuchi and the sanctions request:
To argue that Arizona had a huge risk of election tampering and manipulation, Mr. Dershowitz argued that “[a]ll electronic voting machines can be connected to the internet or cellular networks, directly or indirectly, at various steps in the voting, counting, tabulating, and/or reporting process.” This is false.
As the Defendants noted, “Maricopa County’s vote tabulation system is not, never has been, and cannot be connected to the Internet. The Arizona Senate’s Special Master confirmed that Maricopa County uses an air-gapped system that ‘provides the necessary isolation from the public Internet, and in fact is in a self-contained environment” with “no wired or wireless connections in or out of the Ballot Tabulation Center’ so that ‘the election network and election devices cannot connect to the public Internet.'”
On three separate occasions, the bar complaint accuses Dershowitz of promoting “lies.”
“As with so many of these lies, the veracity of these claims could easily have been debunked with publicly available information, and with a reasonable inquiry from Mr. Dershowitz,” the complaint says. “Instead, he decided to promote these falsehoods and filed his complaint anyway.”
Specifically, the bar complaint alleges that Dershowitz violated three ethics rules prohibiting: (1) attorneys from bringing and defending legal claims they know lack merit; (2) that lawyers must respect the rights of third parties; and that (3) they must not knowingly “engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.”
In an email, Dershowitz downplayed his involvement in Lake’s litigation — and emphasized that it wasn’t his personal statement on the election.
“”I was not counsel in the case. I was ‘of counsel’ on the limited constitutional issue of whether a private company that is performing a governmental function can refuse to disclose relevant information on the ground of business secrets,” Dershowitz told Law&Crime. “This is an important issue. I take no position on the validity of the Arizona election.”
That statement closely echoes his remarks in response to the sanctions order, after which Dershowitz said: “I have not challenged the results of any Arizona elections. I have given legal advice about the future use of machine counting by companies that refuse to disclose the inner workings of their machines. I support transparency in elections.”
Lake, a former news anchor, lost the 2022 midterm election to Hobbs, the current secretary of state, by some 17,000 votes.
“Mr. Dershowitz has been involved in his fair share of scandals, but now he’s helping lead the attack on democracy,” David Brock, Co-Founder of The 65 Project, said in a press release.
“Mr. Dershowitz previously sought to have two esteemed attorneys disbarred for speaking about his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein matter. If Mr. Dershowitz thought that was a proper basis for disbarment, then certainly his conduct in violating court rules for fraudulent election conspiracy claims warrants discipline. Mr. Dershowitz should have as much regard for American democracy as he does for himself.”
Late Friday, Lake filed a new lawsuit.
The latest lawsuit alleges that “hundreds of thousands” of “illegal votes” exceed the margin between herself and Hobbs and “infected the election in Maricopa County.”
The filing, also alleging “intentional misconduct,” seeks to have the 2022 election results overturned and asks a court to set aside the Democrat’s win and install the Republican candidate or, in the alternative, to re-run the election.
Dershowitz is not a named attorney in Lake’s election denial claim.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:24 pm
Temple wrote:
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The 65 Project, which describes itself as a bi-partisan group of “legal and political figures,” filed the complaint with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Office of Bar Counsel, an administrative body that investigates allegations of unethical conduct made against attorneys.
The group that filed the complaint is named after 65 separate lawsuits filed by Donald Trump, allies, and fellow travelers in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
Following Biden’s victory, an army of Big Lie Lawyers filed 65 lawsuits based on bogus assertions to overturn the election and give Trump a second term. While the nation’s legal institutions stood up to this attempted “coup-via-courtroom,” Trump and his “Big Lie Lawyers” have “learned lessons” from 2020 and are already working to seize control of state and local election processes and to prepare for alicious election litigation efforts.
The 65 Project is a bipartisan effort to protect democracy from these once-and-future abuses by holding accountable Big Lie Lawyers who bring fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results, and by working with bar associations to deter future abuses by establishing clear standards for conduct that punish lies about the conduct or results of elections."
But, but...Biden won!!!
Show me where there are anything other than anti-Trumpers.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:45 pm
Judge Makes Massive Decision In Arizona Election Case Carmine Sabia, December 13, 2022
A judge who is overseeing the challenge to the election for Arizona governor has made a major decision.
Judge Peter Thompson has ordered Republican candidate Kari Lake, Secretary of State and Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors officials to appear at an emergency hearing on Tuesday, the Epoch Times reported.
“Judge Peter Thompson, in issuing the order, wrote that the court has ‘reviewed’ Lake’s ‘verified statement of election contest’ and said the ‘matter will be set on an accelerated basis.’ Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates were also ordered to attend the hearing, which will start at 2 p.m. ET,” the report said.
“We’ve had three whistleblowers from Maricopa County reach out and say the system is seriously flawed,” the Republican said to Just the News on Monday. “They were throwing out tens of thousands of signatures saying they were scribbles that in no way matched. But somewhere between there, the ballots were being completely tossed out and they got looped back into the system and counted as if they were fine.”
She said that around 25,000 “additional ballots and early voting ballots were discovered two days after Election Day,” and that they “just showed up.”
“It shows the whole system has serious problems,” the candidate said.
“We believe that up to 135,000 ballots were pushed through that should not have been pushed through,” she said. “We’re asking a judge to let us take a look at all of the envelopes and compare signatures, so that we can find out for sure how many bad, fraudulent ballots got through in that way, of basically cheating or breaking the rules.”
Maricopa County spokesman Fields Moseley said that the courts are the appropriate place to handle such claims and that Maricopa’s election division “looks forward to sharing facts about the administration of the 2022 General Election and our work to ensure every legal voter had an opportunity to cast their ballot,” Reuters reported.
The Republican candidate filed the challenge on Friday and said that she believed that the number of illegal votes was greater than her opponent’s margin of victory, Just The News reported.
LFG pic.twitter.com/pBPWONtAeW — Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 10, 2022
“The number of illegal votes cast in Arizona’s general election on November 8, 2022 far exceeds the 17,117 vote margin… Witnesses who were present…show hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County,” the petition said.
Kari Lake vs. Katie Hobbs
“The number of illegal votes cast in Arizona’s general election on November 8, 2022 far exceeds the 17,117 vote margin…
“Witnesses who were present…show hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County.” pic.twitter.com/D4e4KAghRM — Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) December 10, 2022
In addition, she argues that “thousands of Republican voters were disenfranchised as a result of Maricopa County election officials’ misconduct in connection with the widespread tabulator or printer failures at 59% of the 223 vote centers in Maricopa County.”
Just the News reported further:
Lake’s claims echo those of Arizona Republican Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh, who filed a separate challenge on similar grounds Friday afternoon. Hamadeh’s race was much closer, with his Democratic opponent leading by a mere 511 votes, the closest statewide race in Arizona history. A recount is in progress in that race.
The former conservative media personality has long asserted that the state’s election system is mired in voter fraud and that it had handed the 2020 presidential contest to President Joe Biden.
Lake believes her lawsuit will prevail and said she’s willing to “take it all the way to the Supreme Court” if necessary.
“We’re ready to go with what we believe to be an exceptional lawsuit. And we believe we will be victorious in that lawsuit,” Lake told Steve Bannon on the War Room podcast. “We’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to. We will not stop fighting.”
Hobbs certified her own win over Lake on Monday with outgoing Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel as witnesses, according to ABC News.
With the certification complete, Lake had five days to file legal challenges in court.
Today, we certified the election. pic.twitter.com/BD0SsKg5tB — Doug Ducey (@DougDucey) December 5, 2022
“We’re ready to go with what we believe to be an exceptional lawsuit. And we believe we will be victorious in that lawsuit,” Lake told Real America’s Voice “War Room” host Steve Bannon.
“We’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to. We will not stop fighting,” she continued.
Over the weekend, Lake’s campaign issued a blistering response after being rebuked by a federal judge appointed by then-President Barack Obama, who also imposed a fine after filing an election-related lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge John Tuchi of the District of Arizona rejected a Lake lawsuit earlier this year and then moved to fine her attorneys and those of Republican Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem last week.
“Imposing sanctions, in this case, is not to ignore the importance of putting in place procedures to ensure that our elections are secure and reliable,” Tuchi wrote in his order. “It is to make clear that the Court will not condone litigants ignoring the steps that Arizona has already taken toward this end and furthering false narratives that baselessly undermine public trust at a time of increasing disinformation about, and distrust in, the democratic process.
“It is to send a message to those who might file similarly baseless suits in the future,” Tuchi’s order noted further.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:02 am
Arizona Republican Kari Lake Provides Update On Lawsuit Martin Walsh, December 15, 2022
Republican Kari Lake lost Arizona’s gubernatorial race by roughly 17,000 votes, but she’s asking a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to declare her the winner of the election. The judge heard from Lake’s attorneys and lawyers representing her Democratic challenger on Tuesday in the lawsuit that alleges statewide fraud. The judge also appeared set to issue a ruling in the near future, which is good news for those who do not want a court case to drag on for months.
In response to Lake’s 70-page complaint, attorneys for Secretary of State and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, as well as attorneys representing Maricopa County elections officials, plan to file motions to dismiss the case. Hobbs certified her own win over Lake on Monday with outgoing Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel as witnesses.
Lake joined Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night to discuss the lawsuit.
Kari Lake drops huge news on Tucker Carlson’s show: pic.twitter.com/i2sr93VMEo — Patriot News Alerts (@pxn45) December 15, 2022
Andy Gaona, who represented the Secretary of State’s Office, asked the judge on Tuesday to keep the case on a short schedule in hopes that it will be dismissed quickly.
“Essentially a one-day hearing should give the plaintiffs the opportunity to make whatever case they believe they have, a case we believe is nonexistent,” Gaona said during Tuesday’s virtual hearing.
Gaona told the judge that Hobbs is set to be sworn in as governor in early January and that allowing the lawsuit to run too long will disrupt the peaceful transition of power. Arizona’s current GOP Gov. Doug Ducey has been term-limited.
Bryan Blehm, an attorney representing Lake, asked the judge for more time to work through arguments.
“This is a pretty significant factual hearing, your honor,” Blehm said.
“Judge Peter Thompson said he did have some concerns about timing. He scheduled two hours on Monday for oral arguments for the motions to dismiss and set a two-day hearing scheduled for later next week. There appears to be major interest in the case. Tuesday’s hearing was delayed by about half an hour because so many members of the public were trying to log into the virtual courtroom,” KJZZ reported.
Maricopa County spokesman Fields Moseley said that the courts are the appropriate place to handle such claims and that Maricopa’s election division “looks forward to sharing facts about the administration of the 2022 General Election and our work to ensure every legal voter had an opportunity to cast their ballot,” Reuters reported.
Lake believes her lawsuit will prevail and said she’s willing to “take it all the way to the Supreme Court” if necessary.
“We’re ready to go with what we believe to be an exceptional lawsuit. And we believe we will be victorious in that lawsuit,” Lake told Steve Bannon on the War Room podcast. “We’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to. We will not stop fighting.”
“We’re ready to go with what we believe to be an exceptional lawsuit. And we believe we will be victorious in that lawsuit,” Lake told Real America’s Voice “War Room” host Steve Bannon.
“We’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to. We will not stop fighting,” she continued.
U.S. District Judge John Tuchi of the District of Arizona rejected a Lake lawsuit earlier this year and then moved to fine her attorneys and those of Republican Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem last week.
“Imposing sanctions, in this case, is not to ignore the importance of putting in place procedures to ensure that our elections are secure and reliable,” Tuchi wrote in his order. “It is to make clear that the Court will not condone litigants ignoring the steps that Arizona has already taken toward this end and furthering false narratives that baselessly undermine public trust at a time of increasing disinformation about, and distrust in, the democratic process.
“It is to send a message to those who might file similarly baseless suits in the future,” Tuchi’s order noted further.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Sat Dec 17, 2022 10:16 am
Kari Lake Gets Win From Arizona Judge Over Katie Hobbs In Ballot Inspection Case Jon Dougherty, December 17, 2022
A judge in Arizona has handed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake a win over the declared winner in the race, Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. On Friday, the Maricopa County judge granted Lake’s request to inspect ballots as her legal contesting of the November election continues.
Reports noted that Judge Peter Thompson signed off on three out of four requests made by Lake via her legal team to review 50 random “ballot on demand” printed ballots cast on Election Day, as well as another 50 early ballots cast from “six separate Maricopa County batches,” and another 50 random ballot-on-demand printed ballots that were marked as spoiled.
However, Thompson rejected a request from Lake to inspect 50 randomly selected early ballot envelopes.
Townhall reported that the ballot inspections are to commence on Tuesday.
Lake’s team praised the ruling. Last week, Lake remarked that “if the process was illegitimate then so are the results.” She has yet to concede to Hobbs, though state officials, including her own office, have certified her as the winner by about 17,000 votes.
“I am thankful to Judge Peter Thompson and his team for the work they do and we are confident that given the opportunity, we will expose this election for the sham it was,” Lake said in a statement.
Earlier this week, Lake provided an update to former White House strategist Steve Bannon about her lawsuit on his top-rated Real America’s Voice podcast.
Andy Gaona, who represented the Secretary of State’s Office, asked the judge on Tuesday to keep the case on a short schedule in hopes that it will be dismissed quickly.
“Essentially a one-day hearing should give the plaintiffs the opportunity to make whatever case they believe they have, a case we believe is nonexistent,” Gaona said during Tuesday’s virtual hearing.
Gaona told the judge that Hobbs is set to be sworn in as governor in early January and that allowing the lawsuit to run too long will disrupt the peaceful transition of power. Arizona’s current GOP Gov. Doug Ducey has been term-limited.
Bryan Blehm, an attorney representing Lake, asked the judge for more time to work through arguments.
“This is a pretty significant factual hearing, your honor,” Blehm said.
“Judge Peter Thompson said he did have some concerns about timing. He scheduled two hours on Monday for oral arguments for the motions to dismiss and set a two-day hearing scheduled for later next week. There appears to be major interest in the case. Tuesday’s hearing was delayed by about half an hour because so many members of the public were trying to log into the virtual courtroom,” KJZZ reported.
Maricopa County spokesman Fields Moseley said that the courts are the appropriate place to handle such claims and that Maricopa’s election division “looks forward to sharing facts about the administration of the 2022 General Election and our work to ensure every legal voter had an opportunity to cast their ballot,” Reuters reported.
Lake believes her lawsuit will prevail and said she’s willing to “take it all the way to the Supreme Court” if necessary.
“We’re ready to go with what we believe to be an exceptional lawsuit. And we believe we will be victorious in that lawsuit,” Lake told Steve Bannon on the War Room podcast. “We’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to. We will not stop fighting.”
“We’re ready to go with what we believe to be an exceptional lawsuit. And we believe we will be victorious in that lawsuit,” Lake told Bannon in an earlier interview regarding her case.
“We’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to. We will not stop fighting,” she said.
U.S. District Judge John Tuchi of the District of Arizona rejected a Lake lawsuit earlier this year and then moved to fine her attorneys and those of Republican Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem last week.
“Imposing sanctions, in this case, is not to ignore the importance of putting in place procedures to ensure that our elections are secure and reliable,” Tuchi wrote in his order. “It is to make clear that the Court will not condone litigants ignoring the steps that Arizona has already taken toward this end and furthering false narratives that baselessly undermine public trust at a time of increasing disinformation about, and distrust in, the democratic process.
Lake’s team responded that Tuchi sounded like an “angry Obama appointee.”
Watch: Lawyer shreds Kari Lake's election fraud conspiracy theory in court.
Abha Khanna, an attorney representing Democratic Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, ripped apart defeated GOP nominee Kari Lake's conspiracy theory about the 2022 election being "stolen" from her.
As reported by the Arizona Republic, Khanna on Monday mockingly laid out the absurdities of Lake's false claims about a vast conspiracy aimed at preventing her from becoming Arizona's governor.
"According to Ms. Lake, there was a concerted, coordinated effort among signature reviewers... and Maricopa voting machine technicians to rig the election against her," she said. "This master plot was deployed on election day precisely because more Republicans came to vote on election day."
Khanna then noted just how many people in the state of Arizona -- including top Republican officials -- would have to be involved to pull off such a conspiracy.
READ MORE: Former senator can't help but notice no one is stepping up to defend Donald Trump after Jan. 6 referrals
"This intentional conduct against Republican voters was driven by the Maricopa County recorder, who is a Republican, and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, four out of five of whom are also Republicans," she said. "And remarkably, this scheme took place among some scores of election officials and non-government actors without a single trace. No documents, no emails, no leaks."
I wonder if it's just coincidence that you can rearrange the letters in ELECTION RESULTS to form the words LIES LET'S RECOUNT.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:40 pm
12-26-2022
Arizona’s Governor-elect Katie Hobbs (D) asked a judge on Monday for more than half a million dollars in sanctions against her defeated rival Kari Lake (R) and her lawyers for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit aiming to overturn the results of the Grand Canyon State’s 2022 gubernatorial midterms.
“Courts are established by Arizona’s Constitution and statutes to resolve actual disputes between parties,” Maricopa County Deputy Attorney Thomas P. Liddy wrote in a 15-page memo.
“They do not exist so that candidates for political office can attempt to make political statements and fundraise. And they should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded doubts about the integrity of elections. All of those things happened in this matter.”
Hobbs’s legal team joined Maricopa County’s motion for sanctions, court records show.
“Enough really is enough. It is past time to end unfounded attacks on elections and unwarranted accusations against elections officials,” the memo states. “This matter was brought without any legitimate justification, let alone a substantial one.”
If a judge sanctions Lake’s legal team, it wouldn’t be for the first time.
On Dec. 1, 2022, a federal judge slammed Lake’s lawyers for “recklessly” filing a similar lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona over the election results. U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi, found that the complaint had been filled with “false, misleading, and unsupported” claims.
Maricopa County says that the client also deserves punishment.
“Instead of taking to heart the importance of bringing only claims that are justified by the law and facts, however, Plaintiff and her counsel doubled down with the present action,” the memo says.
“This Court should sanction both lawyers and client under [Arizona law] to impart to them the seriousness of their misuse of the courts to seek to undermine Arizona elections and impugn hardworking elections workers and officials for purely political – not legal – purposes.”
On Christmas Eve, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson dismissed and skewered Lake’s lawsuit for offering only “speculation or conjecture” about voter fraud in a ruling, which refused to overturn her 17,117-vote defeat.
Before the dismissal order, Hobbs urged the judge not to let Lake’s “absurd” lawsuit stand “a minute longer than it takes to dismiss it.” Lake ran on amplifying former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and gave every indication that she intended to follow a similar path if she lost. Her lawsuit alleged that problems with printer and tabulator machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, depressed turnout with Republican voters.
But the judge found that Lake provided little evidence to back up her allegations.
“Every one of Plaintiff’s witnesses – and for that matter, Defendants’ witnesses as well – was asked about any personal knowledge of both intentional misconduct and intentional misconduct directed to impact the 2022 General Election,”
Thompson wrote on Dec. 24. “Every single witness before the Court disclaimed any personal knowledge of such misconduct. The Court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in place of clear and convincing evidence.”
Thompson gave Hobbs until 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time to file a motion for sanctions. Lake has until 5 p.m. MST to respond to it.
Made available on the court’s website later in the day, Hobbs filed a separate motion for sanctions seeking $550,210 in fees, the vast majority of which (at $457,032.50) would go to their attorneys at the Elias Law Group. The governor-elect, who currently serves as Arizona Secretary of State, also wants Lake to pay $83,725.50 in definite fees and expenses.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:29 pm
1-4-2023
(((bwaa what the hell, she is batshit crazy))))
Kari Lake refers to herself as the 'real' and 'duly-elected governor' of Arizona.
In an interview on the far-right Real America's Voice, 2022 Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake referred to herself as the "real" and "duly-elected governor" of Arizona — despite having lost the election, lost the court cases challenging the election, and despite her opponent having been sworn in as governor this week.
She went so far as to claim that the election against her was rigged "in broad daylight," without any actual evidence of this having happened, __and called for removing key local officials who oversaw the election in Phoenix, including Republicans.
Lake, a former Phoenix local news anchor with Trump's endorsement, is one of the few major losing candidates for statewide office in the country who has not conceded her election loss.
She has claimed that a printing error in Maricopa County that prevented tabulators from processing ballots was a deliberate act of sabotage responsible for her loss, even though it didn't actually prevent ballots from being counted.
A state judge failed to find any credible evidence in Lake's lawsuit, and further ordered her to pay her winning opponent, Democratic former Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, tens of thousands of dollars in expert witness fees.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:16 pm
1-30-2023
Kari Lake criminal referral sent to Arizona AG from secretary of state.
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was referred to the Arizona attorney general for investigation on Monday afternoon. According to the referral, which came from Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Lake violated state law by tweeting out copies of voter signatures in her tweets.
For the past several months, Lake has claimed that there was a conspiracy afoot and that she won the 2022 election, just as Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
Lake's tweet that is being targeted by the secretary claims that the GOP-led Senate confirmed that 40,000 ballots were illegal, showing examples of voters' signatures, which is against the law.
"Nothing in this section shall preclude public inspection of voter registration records at the office of the county recorder for the purpose prescribed by this section, except that ... the records containing a voter's signature ... shall not be accessible or reproduced by any person other than the voter..." the office cited in the referral.
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:00 am
Props to Kari Lake for her continued fight against the fraud in the Arizona election
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Subject: Re: Kari Lake - Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:06 am
Grackle wrote:
Props to Kari Lake for her continued fight against the fraud in the Arizona election
Elections expert says Kari Lake tweet 'looks like a felony'
Kari Lake, the 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate who has spent nearly three months claiming that she won the election, may have committed a felony by illegally tweeting confidential information, an elections expert tells the Mesa, Arizona NBC News affiliate KPNX.
This comes after Arizona Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes requested an investigation into Lake’s tweet, which alleged that 40,000 ballots were "illegally counted" and included 16 voters signatures.
Tammy Patrick, former Maricopa County elections official and Chief Executive for Programs at National Association of Election Administrators, said that aside from “very few exceptions,” voter signatures should “never” be distributed in any way.
“Arizona statute is very clear about when and where a voter signature can be shared or replicated or reproduced, or put online or used in social media,” Patrick said. "When I read the law, it looks to me like that's a felony.”
Patrick warns Lake's tweet may have the opposite effect and may, in fact, harm election integrity.
"Having signatures being promoted and presented online and other places actually does great harm to the potential integrity of the outcome of an election," he said.
According to 12News, defying the Arizona statute could lead to a jail sentence.
Regarding the investigation, Fontes said in a statement, "It is my responsibility to protect Arizona voters. In keeping with my duties, I have referred this matter to the attorney general."
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