Shaw: Fake elector schemers must be charged for their crimes
As action on the Arizona fake elector scheme to subvert our democracy is finally coming to light, it is clear to anyone who has followed the bipartisan January 6 Commission that Reps. Lesko, Biggs and Gosar have violated their oath to the Constitution and are unfit to serve.
And yes, the commission is bipartisan. Adam and Liz are lifelong conservative Republicans who are sacrificing their political careers to do what is right.
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Shaw: Fake elector schemers must be charged for their crimes
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Letter by Bill Shaw of Sun City
As action on the Arizona fake elector scheme to subvert our democracy is finally coming to light, it is clear to anyone who has followed the bipartisan January 6 Commission that Reps. Lesko, Biggs and Gosar have violated their oath to the Constitution and are unfit to serve.
And yes, the commission is bipartisan. Adam and Liz are lifelong conservative Republicans who are sacrificing their political careers to do what is right.
While Kelli Ward felt that by heading the fraudulent elector scheme in plain sight that would make it OK. Guessing she figured that our MIA AG Brnovich would be too busy running for U.S. Senate and be too subservient to Trump (but not subservient enough!) to charge the group with real election fraud.
By objecting to Arizona’s legitimate slate of electors after the insurrection ... 3 of our 4 GOP congressmen violated their oath to our Constitution and are thus unfit to serve.
Based upon the latest revelations, I suspect Jack Wilenchik wishes he had not sent some of the emails he sent. Oops. Jack should have known that he was creating a paper trail ... Mr. Lamon, Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern should all be worried as well. This reader is hoping that all of their indictments arrive after our Primary Election on Aug. 2.
Emails that have come to light shine a spotlight on Arizona’s role in the plot came courtesy of the Arizona GOP’s attorney ... The emails show that participants in the discussions reported details of their activities to Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, and in at least one case to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff.
Around the same time, according to the House committee investigating Jan. 6, Mr. Meadows emailed another campaign adviser saying, “We just need to have someone coordinating the electors for states.”
The emails were apparently not shared with lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office, who advised that the “fake electors” plan was not legally sound, or other lawyers on the campaign.
On Dec. 8, 2020, Mr. Wilenchik wrote that Kelli Ward, one of the Republicans in Arizona participating in the fake electors plan, recommended trying “to keep it under wraps until Congress counts the vote Jan. 6th (so we can try to “surprise” the Dems and media with it) — I tend to agree with her.”…
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has produced evidence that Mr. Trump was aware of the electors plan. Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said in a deposition to the panel that Mr. Trump had called her and put Mr. Eastman on the phone “to talk about the importance of the RNC helping the campaign gather these contingent electors.”
Per Mr. Wilenchik: “His ... idea is basically that all of us (GA, WI, AZ, PA, etc.) have our electors send in their votes (even though the votes aren’t legal under federal law — because they’re not signed by the Governor); so that members of Congress can fight about whether they should be counted on January 6th...”
Mr. Wilenchik continued, “My comment to him was that I guess there’s no harm in it, (legally at least) — i.e. we would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted.”
Sadly, those “someones” included Lesko, Biggs and Gosar. Oddly, Schweikert demured, opting instead to just toss Pennsylvania’s slate.
While Lesko is running unopposed (absent a qualified write-in candidate surfacing), the other fraudulent electors are running in the Primary.
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