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Aug 18 4 tweets 1 min read
BREAKING UPDATE: @CornelWest WITHDRAWS Petitions To Get On Swing State Arizona's Ballot; Allegedly Forged Elector's Signature Likely Cause

"Circumstances beyond our control", implying the Republican-linked firm that was running the effort is cause.

tinyurl.com/AZp1981
Image Money quote from his campaign counsel: "Due to circumstances beyond the campaign's control, we cannot in good conscience authorize the filing of any further documents on the campaign's behalf, so we must withdraw from our effort to be on the state's ballot this November."
Jan 7, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
--PROSECUTED BY YOUR OWN PETARD--
(A thread for @realDonaldTrump, @TheJusticeDept, @gohmert... and others)

This Trump Executive Order is for rioters AND those who incite them. Let's take a look, paragraph by paragraph....

1/10 "Fringe ideology"? WWG1WGA

2/10
Jan 6, 2021 106 tweets 30 min read
UPDATES: Electoral College Counting Day; ARIZONA REPS. Will Be Debating Both Sides Of Arizona's Presidential Election

We will be following the proceedings here on Twitter, and at

bit.ly/AZp1890 cc: @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RepGosar @RepRubenGallego @RepGregStanton

@AZGOP @azdemparty @SenMarkKelly @SenatorSinema
Feb 6, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
LIVE NOW: Arizona @RepDLesko is backing up @GOPLeader McCarthy on trying to interrupt House schedule to consider "Born Alive" anti-abortion measure. Here's the title of the bill (text not yet available) that McCarthy tried to raise. It was introduced yesterday - and today's move appears to be an effort to emphasize the line in yesterday's #SOTU:
Jun 13, 2018 21 tweets 9 min read
Wait, tweeting the info to the rest of us is LESS important than getting it to the challenged candidates?!?!? That's just.........right!👍

Here, I'll help on the twitter side....

1) Wendy @WendyRogersAZ challenged in #AZ01 (@azgop). By Stetson Kizzar (LaSota representing)

... 2) @delina4congress challenged in #AZ04 (@azdemparty). Challenged by Jane Moore (Golestan representing).
May 15, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
JOURNALISM LESSON: If you're going to front-page-and-notification a report, use an editor!
--Awful sentence: "Doctors W/o Borders condemned...saying it hasn't seen bloodshed at this level in years."

1) Makes it sound like @MSF doesn't pay attn - far worse bloodshed.... ...all over the world, all the time.
2) MORE IMPORTANTLY, they didn't say that. Compare level to only 4 yrs ago.
3) No mention of danger of mother bringing infant to dangerous protest encampment.
4) No mention of Israel's (claimed) reasons for shooting the tear gas (or,....