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Kari Lake Sued For Defamation By Arizona GOP Election Official Who She Accused Of Election Sabotage
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Topline
Kari Lake, the former Republican candidate for the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, has been sued for defamation by a state election official Thursday as the close Trump ally has continued to promote unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud being the reason behind her defeat last year.
Kari Lake speaks during a rally at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Key Facts
The lawsuit against Lake was filed by Maricopa County’s recorder Stephen Richer—who is also a Republican—and it accuses the GOP candidate and her campaign of making repeated false accusations that he “sabotaged the election” to prevent Lake from winning, the Washington Post reported.
Richter penned an op-ed in The Arizona Republic criticizing Lake for trying to “undermine confidence in our elections” adding that her “defamatory allegations have unleashed violent vitriol and other dire consequences.”
The GOP election official said Lake has continued to falsely accuse him of inserting “more than 300,000 invalid ballots” to alter the results of the election, despite a state judge dismissing her lawsuit claiming election malfeasance as she failed to produce any evidence.
The lawsuit says Lake also falsely accused Richer of trying to sabotage the election results by intentionally having 19-inch ballot images printed on 20-inch paper, which briefly disrupted the counting process, the Washington Post report added.
The election official accuses Lake of continuing to push these falsehoods in at various campaign events like the “Save Arizona” rally in January, a month after her election lawsuit was dismissed.
Crucial Quote
“Her words have provoked death threats…I’ve even lost friends and lifelong relationships because Lake has falsely painted me as a criminal. She has cast doubt on my loyalty to our country, our state and my office. She did this knowing that it would only throw gasoline on the fire of falsehoods about our elections,” Richer wrote in his op-ed.
Key Background
Lake a former news anchor and close ally of former President Donald Trump, built her gubernatorial campaign last year by reiterating Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election being stolen from him. Despite garnering Trump’s endorsement and a strong following from his supporters, Lake narrowly lost the governor’s race to her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs by a 0.6 points margin. After her defeat, Lake pulled a page from the former president’s 2020 playbook as she refused to concede and made several unsubstantiated claims about the election being stolen. Lake filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn the results of the election, but the judge dismissed the case ruling that she failed to show evidence to back her claims.
Further Reading
Kari Lake accused of defamation in suit filed by Arizona election official (Washington Post)
Kari Lake continues to defame me. Here’s why I’m suing her for it (The Arizona Republic)
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Arizona Cardinals: Breaking News, Rumors & Highlights | Yardbarker
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The NFL offseason continues today, a Friday, and we continue the countdown to the start of the regular season. For the Arizona Cardinals, who open the season on the road at Highmark Stadium against the Buffalo Bills on September 8, there are 72 days left.
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Arizona Diamondbacks Drop the Series Against the Minnesota Twins
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The Twins Killing
Following a series loss to the juggernaut Philadelphia Phillies, the Diamondbacks returned home to Chase Field at 38-40 and were tasked with taking on the Minnesota Twins, who came in with a record of 43-35 and sitting in 2nd place in the AL Central.
Game 1 of this series started with Twins ace Joe Ryan on the bump versus the Diamondbacks young stud Brandon Pfaadt aka “The GodPfaadther”. The offense got off to a hot start but Pfaadt still ran into his usual blowup inning troubles, which had the crew discussing if if and when they would have taken Pfaadt out of the game, along with wondering how much longer this Diamondbacks team can rely on Marte to carry this offense,
The typical June game 2 blowout was disappointing but not unexpected, as Ryne Nelson’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ season continues at home in a 8-3 loss. The fellas each give their own thoughts as to if they think Ryne is an actual MLB caliber pitcher, along with what the possible causes could be to this teams constant game 2 blowouts (5 of their last 6 series).
The matinee rubber match of this series was not much better than the previous game, but what better way to get ourselves introduced to writing game recaps than getting an absolute clunker out of the way first? The 13-6 loss in the finale had plenty of downsides, but nothing more notable than Jordan Montgomery’s 2.2 IP with 8 R (4 ER). Considering Monty was coming off 3 straight efficient starts that resulted in him getting the W, the crew questioned what might have been the biggest factor to his disastrous 2nd inning.
After a short series preview of the upcoming Oakland Athletics matchup, the fellas touched on Zac Gallen’s potential but probable return to the mound this Saturday. They also briefly talked about Alek Thomas finally getting back to rehabbing in Reno, and Ketel Marte moving on and being announced as a finalist for the All-Star Game Starters. MAKE SURE TO SHOW OUT FOR KETEL DBACKS FANS
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Arizona volleyball sets 2024 nonconference schedule
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Arizona volleyball released its first Big 12 Conference schedule at the beginning of April, but the Wildcats were still finalizing their nonconference schedule at that time. It has now been posted.
The season kicks off on Friday, Aug. 30 with the Cactus Classic in McKale Center. The Wildcats start their first home tournament with a matchup against Boise State at 6 p.m. That is followed by a match against VCU on Saturday and Tennessee State on Sunday.
Arizona goes on the road to Montgomery, Ala. for the second week of the season. It plays host Alabama State on Thursday, Sept. 5. Prairie View A&M is on the slate for Friday, Sept. 6 and Alabama on Saturday, Sept. 7.
The Wildcats stay on the road to take part in New Mexico State’s tournament during week three. They play both Abilene Christian and Texas Southern on Friday, Sept. 13, and wrap things up with the host Aggies on Saturday, Sept. 14.
UA finally returns to McKale Center for the Wildcat Classic on Friday, Sept. 20 to finish out the nonconference portion of the schedule. The weekend starts against Southern Utah. UC San Diego is up next on Saturday, and North Dakota State finishes things on Sunday, Sept. 22.
The Wildcats start their first Big 12 season on the road at Baylor on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
Arizona head coach Rita Stubbs gave her team a considerably easier challenge in nonconference play this year. Her first season featured five teams that made the NCAA Tournament, including then-No. 1 Wisconsin on the road. The team then went into the tough Pac-12. The result was an 8-23 overall record and a 3-17 run in the final year of the Pac-12.
This year, the Wildcats will not play a team that made the 2023 tournament until conference play. Their only major conference opponent is Alabama, which went 11-18 overall and 1-17 in the SEC last year.
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