H/T to Proginoskes for directing me to this AZ Republic story: House Speaker Rusty Bowers didn't just kill a bill to veto our vote. He stoned the thing:
No one assigns bills to 12 committees
You assign a bill to one committee if you want it to pass. You assign it two committees or three even if you want to roughen up the road a bit.
You assign it to 12?
There’s a message in there from Bowers to Rep. John Fillmore, the Apache Junction Republican who dreamed up this abomination. And to his 15 far-right fellow legislators who co-sponsored the bill, including none other than Rep. Mark Fiinchem, who is hoping to be Arizona’s next secretary of state.
As a longtime Capitol reporter, Arizona Mirror’s Jeremy Duda, put it:
“I’ve never seen a speaker or Senate president kneecap a bill as aggressively as this,” he tweeted. “Triple-assignments? Sure. Been there. But this is Bowers killing the bill, chopping it up, setting the pieces on fire, then digging up the ashes and throwing them into the ocean.” [emphasis added]
Remember, the SoS is in charge of the elections. Definitely need to campaign against this guy.
And we can definitely expect to hear screams from the Mar-A-Maniac. Seems he’s run into Bowers before:
Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, called Bowers in November 2020 to regale him about the many ways in which the election was stolen and to suggest that the Legislature choose its own electors.
Bowers told them to get lost.