Republicans furious with Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa), mainly over denying election fraud and blocking election integrity bills, voted him out of office earlier this month, choosing a Trump-endorsed candidate instead. He has been complaining about losing, telling The Guardian that Republican “fascists” voted him out.
State Representative Jacqueline Parker (R-Mesa) told The Arizona Sun Times that it’s Bowers who is really the fascist. “Bowers calling Republicans who were unhappy with his voting record and his leadership fascists is just another of many examples that Bowers has completely lost his mind and his principles,” she said. “Not re-electing a politician who doesn’t listen to the will of the people is at the very core of a representative Republic — it’s the exact opposite of fascism. When the government/dictator tells you what to do, that’s fascism — that’s how the House operated under Bowers. When the people tell their representatives what to do, that’s how a representative republic works. Rusty should go back to Civics 101, but probably not at ASU.”
She went on, “During his 18 years as a legislator the border crisis was not resolved and has gotten much, much worse; the water crisis has not resolved and has gotten worse; the government and spending has grown and is now back to a $1 billion deficit under Rusty’s leadership; the indoctrination camps known as government schools have gotten out of control with less accountability than before Bowers was in office. The well-being of Arizonans has diminished under Rusty’s leadership and he deserved to be fired. It has nothing to do with Trump – although he’s a favorite scapegoat of the weak and afraid – it has to do with Rusty running as a Republican while abandoning every single plank of the Republican platform and subsequently failing his constituents. Rusty himself has said, ‘If you don’t like it, don’t vote for me’ and LD-10 voters finally took his advice.”
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