Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby survived an effort to recall him over his efforts to combat election fraud in the 2022 election. The Committee to Recall Tom Crosby announced in a news release last week that it came up 565 signatures short of the 4,865 required by May 3 to make the ballot.
The Arizona Sun Times spoke with Crosby (pictured above) about the failed effort.“I’m very grateful to all the people that refused to sign for the recall,” he said. “I’m even more grateful to those who prayed for me about it. I had peace about it all. I had a political science book titled, ‘Incomplete Conquest.’ It was the author’s way of saying our system is set up so just about any group of people can take over if they want to,” he said. ” If the people want a socialist, there are plenty to choose from. I, as a true conservative, am not trying to get my half out of the middle. I will inevitably aggravate leftist. In that regard, I have told them, ‘Whether it’s conservatives telling me I’m wonderful or liberals telling me I’m terrible, the message is the same.’ It’s flattering that I aggravate liberals so much.”
He added, “So you have liberals who are irrational, and have failed to learn from history. Besides the ‘well meaning,’ there are others that are devoted socialists, and ‘population reducers,’ that know they are destructive. Their pride makes them think they will end up at the top of the stack, instead of in front of the firing squad if their side wins.”
Crosby said, “I had the great privilege of chatting briefly with one of my heroes, Russell Pearce a few months before he passed. I told him, ‘If I’m 80, and there are half a dozen people lined up to shake my hand, that’ll be OK.’ I’ll be like that guy. He should have been governor, but instead, Jan Brewer rode on his back to be governor. I’d rather fight and lose, than not fight. Russell fought.”
The recall website criticized Crosby for delaying the certification of the 2022 election. After the election, Crosby expressed concerns about election fraud and wanted to hear expert testimony about flaws with voting machine tabulators. A group of concerned Arizonans looked into the voting machine tabulators used in the state’s elections before the election and concluded they violated the law. Arizona Corporation Commissioner Jim O’Connor asked county elections officials to refrain from using them and to conduct hand counts of ballots instead.
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