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Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results
By Andy Rose and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
(CNN)A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona -- including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results -- proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, quietly doomed House Bill 2596 on Tuesday with an unusual parliamentary maneuver.
The speaker assigns all new bills to a committee for consideration before they can have full House votes, a choice that often has a great effect on a measure's chance of success. But on Tuesday, Bowers took the unprecedented step of ordering all 12 House committees to consider the elections bill, virtually ensuring it will never reach the floor.
The bill's lead sponsor, Republican state Rep. John Fillmore, referred to the move as a "12-committee lynching" in an interview with CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/politics/arizona-bill-reject-election-results-effectively-blocked/index.html
gristy
(10,667 posts)The winds of change have begun to blow.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And not "Wait 'til Republicans get their second wind, dump the RINOs, and redouble their efforts to subvert democracy."
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Cha
(297,234 posts)Rusty Bowers.
Sogo
(4,986 posts)FO is universal for Fuck Off AZ Fascists ..
TY is Thank You!
summer_in_TX
(2,738 posts)Not sure of the next bit. Knowledge and respect? Thank you?
Somewhere in the replies to this OP maybe there should be an answer key to help those of us not steeped in textology and abbreviations learn some of that.
Cha
(297,234 posts)When I first got on DU almost 20 years I wrote every word out.. but after said 20 years and almost 275,000 posts.. I started using abbreviations for a lot of words.
ask me anytime.. I'll try to come up with the answer.
that is interesting.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)when some stranger will shoot me in the back of my head"
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Cha
(297,234 posts)TFFCG is Enraged!
My 1st thought was WOW!
Septua
(2,256 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Bowers told them to get lost.
You are giving me nothing but conjecture and asking me to break my oath and commit to doing something I cannot do because I swore I wouldnt, he said, recounting the phone call to The Arizona Republic. I will follow the Constitution.
For standing on principle, Bowers was targeted by the Arizona Patriot Party for recall and Trump supporters cruised his neighborhood, using a loudspeakers to call him a pedophile.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/02/01/ahouse-speaker-just-killed-arizonas-most-outrageous-election-reform/9307151002/
Cha
(297,234 posts)be HAULED IN!
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)It's too bad Texas didn't do the same.