AST: Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek) released a statement on Thursday revealing the Arizona Freedom Caucus plans to vigorously oppose Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes’ prosecutions of Cochise County election officials, and told The Arizona Sun Times he expects near-unanimous support in the state legislature.
Mayes’ office on Wednesday announced the indictments of Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, who are both Republican, after they briefly delayed certifying the county’s 2022 midterm election while they investigated possible illegal activity. Mayes, who narrowly won the state’s attorney general election in 2022 by just 280 votes, claimed in a statement that Crosby and Judd were attempting “to undermine” Arizona’s “democracy” with the short delay.
In a statement posted to X, Hoffman accused Mayes of being an “extremist” engaged in election interference with the aim of chilling “future efforts by local election officials to challenge potentially inaccurate election.”
According to Hoffman, the message behind Mayes’ prosecution is, “tow the executive branch’s line or we will politically persecute you and throw you in jail.”
Hoffman, who founded and leads the Arizona Freedom Caucus, wrote that the lawmakers “will be looking at every possible option to make weaponizing our state’s government and abusing Executive power as painful as humanly possible” for Mayes and her office. Hoffman wrote, “This includes legal action, budget, [Oversight and Investigations], statutory, and everything else up to and including impeachment.” more
Our state is so screwed I don’t see any future improvement with these commie bastards with backing from the cartels running things!
SCREWED is an understatement!
pedocrat-mofos in loyuh suits will do anything
On the other hand, discovery is a bitch, bitch.