New emails show that Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow pressured Arizona PBS to offer gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs an interview after Hobbs refused to debate Republican Kari Lake — even though it went against the rules of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which hosts political debates.
One of Crow’s aides, former publisher of The Arizona Republic Mi-Ai Parrish, told the debate sponsor that it was wrong to give an “election denier” a platform for the debate. Crow has a long history of pushing a progressive agenda at ASU. The scandal has become known as DebateGate.
In reaction to the news, Lake said Crow and ASU “infringed” on her First Amendment rights while also committing “blatant election interference.”
“The 2022 election in Arizona was compromised in so many ways. This is just another piece of the puzzle,” Lake said.
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