This is a State Senator from Arizona who is running for congress:
Ok. So she’s just a fringe nut, right? No big deal, they don’t represent the GOP. Well, sort of. Here’s how the Republican Governor sees it:
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona is being excoriated for saying that a firebrand GOP state senator who has ties to white nationalists and promotes debunked election claims is better than having a Democrat in office.
Ducey made the remarks about GOP state Rep. Wendy Rogers on Thursday following a local event in the state announcing state-funded scholarships for children in the foster care system, The Arizona Republic reported.
“What I need as a governor are governing majorities so that I can pass dollars into our social safety net, so we can provide programs like this that will help children from all over our state,” Ducey said, focusing on the senator’s importance to his legislative agenda when pressed by reporters. “That’s what I’ve wanted to do, is move my agenda forward. I’m proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish. And she is still better than her opponent, Felicia French.”
In 2020, Rogers defeated French, a Democrat and retired Army colonel, in a state senate district anchored in northern Arizona.
Ducey’s comments came just before Rogers was preparing to speak at an America First Political Action Conference in Florida on Friday. One of the event’s organizers is Nick Fuentes, who has a history of making racist and antisemitic remarks.
At the February 25 event, Rogers praised Fuentes, called those in attendance “patriots” and said she fantasized about hanging her “enemies,” which included calling for more gallows to be constructed, The Arizona Mirror reported.
“I’ve said we need to build more gallows. If we try some of these high-level criminals, convict them and use a newly built set of gallows, it’ll make an example of these traitors who have betrayed our country,” she said.
There were politicians in a certain European country in the mid-20th century who thought they could work with people like Rogers and, after all, they were better than the liberal Democrats or the Communists, right? That didn’t work out very well.