It was in both 2017, and in 2018, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Wendy Rogers, who not only failed to get herself elected to the Arizona State Senate during the 2010 Tea Party Wave then failed in four consecutive elections to get herself elected to Congress, first losing in 2012 in the GOP Primary for Arizona’s 9th Congressional District, then in 2014 in the general election to Kyrsten Sinema for that district, before carpet-bagging her way down to try to get elected further north in Arizona’s 1st District and lose in the primary to the child-abusing anti-gay, anti-immigrant sheriff who dates gay illegal immigrants, Paul Babeu in 2016, before losing to Democratic Congressman Tom O’Halleran in 2018 after petitioning voters to “send Trump some back up”, while calling Democrats “radical, crazy, and unhinged” in campaign ads.
Now, why is it that Wendy Rogers has repeatedly failed to win office? Well, she touts her experience as an Air Force veteran, which is always good. On the other hand, she runs fear-mongering ads that should come with trigger warnings like when she included a few seconds of footage of ISIS beheading James Foley in her 2014 campaign video. Even the traditionally conservative Arizona Republic condemned that choice, especially because Foley lived in Phoenix, where his loved ones could get triggered whenever their local television programming went to commercials during election season. After Rogers’ campaign manager actually argued why this bit of Islamophobic propaganda wasn’t so bad…they changed the ad so instead it showed head lice, because once Kyrsten Sinema pointed out there were polls out that said Congress was less popular than head lice (and was correct).
Her insane campaign tactics continued, but this time may have proved more fruitful, as she won the GOP Primary in 2018 for this seat by running attack ads against fellow Republican, and State Senator Steve Smith, claiming the modeling agency he works for “specializes in under age girls” and is “linked to sex trafficking” (law enforcement actually spoke in Smith’s defense on this, and Smith’s former employer have filed a libel lawsuit against Rogers for it as of October of 2021).
Anyway, looking at her issue stances, on immigration, she supported building a physical wall along the U.S. Mexico border (which explains why she campaigned with Trump in Arizona), opposed migrant resettlement including from Syria (of course she does, she’s scared of those Muslims doing all the terrorisms!), and even pushed for English to be made the official language of the United States, which has kind of repeatedly been established as unconstitutional (and the first historic time was in her home state, to boot). Her national security policy is her belief that the American government was doing nothing to help Christians being attacked by ISIS, but America was committing “suicide” by allowed Muslim refugees in “without screening”, in spite of the quite rigorous screening process in place. In May of 2018, she compared the fact that abortion is legal in the United States to… oh… you know… the Holocaust. It’s these sorts of details that have made Rogers a five-time loser.
Regrettably, in the 2020 elections, Wendy Rogers set her sights on winning a seat in the Arizona State Senate in District 6 of that body, in spite of her listing her “primary residence” at two addresses in the state over a hundred miles apart (and one well outside of her district) yet somehow pulled it off with 54% of the vote. She has repeatedly been making headlines for being an absolute lunatic since:
- January 25th, 2021: Rogers sets a record for the shortest amount of time in office any Arizona state legislator has served before having an ethics complaint filed against her, after she allegedly berates a legislative aide for not reporting for work while he had tested positive for Covid-19, and that she repeatedly asked him to perform campaign work while on taxpayers’ dime.
- March 8th, 2021: Wendy Rogers confirms that she is a member of the violent domestic terror group the Oathkeepers, less than two months after they are linked to the attack on the national capitol. The fellow Republican State Senator who shares her district with her, Walter Blackman, responds to this by promising to never campaign with her, and warns that her only goal is to find a way to Congress.
- July 16th, 2021: Rogers does not react well to the results of the Arizona “audit/fraudit” of the 2020 election, that did not find proof of election fraud, calling to “decertify” the results of the 2020 election and “recall Biden voters” in her deranged demand to vote again.
- July 20th, 2021: Wendy Rogers defends repeatedly promoting the white nationalist “Replacement Theory” on Twitter after coverage from local media noting her fondness for sharing articles about it..
- July 21st, 2021: Rogers appears on a conspiracy theory show hosted by Rick Wiles, noted for its history of anti-Semitic statements.
- July 23rd, 2021: Wendy Rogers posts a quite telling statement to Twitter to express her outrage that the Cleveland Indians would be changing their mascot, posting, “I like Indians and I like R******s. I like Aunt Jemima and I like Uncle Ben. I like Robert E Lee and I like Stonewall Jackson. I don’t like traitors who hate America. Stand up for our culture!” Other than the fact that she just posted a racial slur on this Tweet, historians remind her that both Confederate generals were traitors to the United States.
- August 3rd, 2021: Rogers calls for the incarceration of Maricopa County election officials, going as far to demand it be “solitary confinement” because of course she’s into immediately denying their human rights for acknowledging what a farce trying to overturn the 2020 election was.
- August 4th, 2021: Wendy Rogers goes on the Stew Peters Show, a right-wing conspiracy theory website to talk about her push back against vaccine mandates. She does not question Peters, whatsoever, when he claims during the interview that “there’s no way to prove a virus exists” or that “vaccines have killed 55,000 people”.
- September 21st, 2021: Rogers again calls for someone to “decertify” the 2020 presidential election results, a process which frankly, still doesn’t f***ing exist.
- October 8th, 2021: Wendy Rogers turns up as a part of an anti-vaxx protest outside a local medical center that would require its employees to get vaccinated for the safety of patients.
- October 11th, 2021: As the news drops that DC comics will introduce a bisexual version of Superman, Rogers starts foaming at the mouth and gets on Twitter to rage, writing, “Superman loves Louis Lane. Period. Hollywood is trying to make Superman gay and he is not. Just rename the new version Thooperman so we can all know the difference and avoid seeing it.” While her intent was obviously homophobic, her typo in spelling “Lois” as “Louis” is the sort of wild incompetence she’s known for.
Wendy Rogers decided Arizona’s 6th State Senate district wasn’t conservative enough for her liking, so she bumped over to the 7th District and bumped fellow Republican Kelly Townsend out of office in the primary. She remains a blight on her own party, who are doing their best (which isn’t enough) to blunt her effects on Arizona politics.
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