By Matthew Casey/KJZZ
Doug Ducey endorsed RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer was practically booed off the stage throughout a current discussion board the place he was requested if he believes the 2020 election was stolen.
This isn’t the primary embarrassing second on the marketing campaign path for Stephen Richer this cycle, and it additional exhibits his unpopularity amongst Republican voters within the state. It might appear the one method he may win the Major is with Nikki Haley’s techniques, the place his Democratic supporters (and there are rather a lot) register as Republicans to elect him.
As The Gateway Pundit just lately reported, Maricopa County Recorder candidate Justin Heap destroyed incumbent RINO Stephen Richer in one other city corridor with each candidates by asking one query to the viewers.
Heap requested the gang to “increase your hand if you happen to personally or somebody you already know acquired an additional poll at your own home over the last election cycle,” and practically half the attendees raised their hand!
This time, Richer advised the gang, “I don’t consider the 2020 election was stolen,” and so they erupted with loud boos all through the viewers.
By way of Merissa Hamilton on X:
Nevertheless, although Heap is the higher candidate for Maricopa County Recorder and the solely different Republican who can win the overall election, he too refuses to say the 2020 election was stolen, fearing that he shall be attacked by the media and claiming it is “not a successful technique.”
Whereas chatting with legislative district Republicans in Maricopa County just lately, Heap admitted that there are critical points with election legislation violations, phony mail-in of ballots, “unmonitored poll dropboxes that open up all the likelihood for fraud,” and a rigged judicial system.
A minimum of he is aware of the problems, which Richer claims don’t exist. Let’s simply hope he isn’t one other Stephen Richer, who as it may be recalled, ran for workplace in 2020 on the very same factors. He usually advised voters throughout marketing campaign stops and stump speeches that former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes was a “felony” and that election legal guidelines weren’t being adopted.
When finishing Ballotopedia’s 2020 candidate connection survey, Richer wrote,
Who’re you? Inform us about your self.
I’m dedicated to operating elections that every one Arizonans-Republican, Democrat, Impartial, or otherwise-can belief. I’m operating as a result of the present Recorder has misplaced the boldness of the voters on account of incompetence, incivility, bias, unlawfulness, and an absence of transparency. My spouse and I stay in Phoenix. We’re each attorneys and met at The College of Chicago Legislation College. My work background is in enterprise administration and public coverage.
Please checklist under 3 key messages of your marketing campaign. What are the details you need voters to recollect about your targets in your time in workplace?
- Honest elections
- Competent elections
- Clear elections
What areas of public coverage are you personally keen about?
Making certain a constructive voting expertise for all Arizonans. Eradicating the nonsense and drama from the voting course of. Working authorities places of work with a deal with customer support.
What qualities does this workplace possess that makes it a novel and essential a part of the state authorities and authorized system?
Competency and integrity.
As we speak, Richer considers those that lack confidence in elections “conspiracy theorists” and now claims that the “incompetence, incivility, bias, unlawfulness, and an absence of transparency” displayed by Adrian Fontes led to a good 2020 election, essentially the most safe in historical past.
The Gateway Pundit additionally reported that Stephen Richer was uncovered by his former colleague, Steve Chucri, for not trusting Dominion sufficient for use in one other election.
Richer later noticed early voting in Maricopa County through the 2022 election, the place the race was stolen from Kari Lake by vote tabulating machine failures that disenfranchised Republicans on election day and phony mail-in ballots with no actual signature verification. He is even gone thus far in defending the rigged election that he sued Kari Lake for defamation after she spoke out towards him and the election!
Heap, to his credit score, sits on the Home Elections Committee and is tied for first place on the Arizona Free Enterprise Membership’s legislative scorecard after voting for the conservative agenda 100% of the time and sponsoring or cosponsoring over 30 election integrity payments.
Hopefully he stays sturdy on election integrity and really cleans up the Recorder’s workplace when elected.
