Kari Lake Gets One More Chance to Look Like an Idiot

Kari Lake Gets One More Chance to Look Like an Idiot

Arizona taxpayers have had to shell out an awful lot of money because of failed GOP candidates in the state, over the past two election cycles.  Don't ever let your Republican candidates tell you they are interested in cutting spending.  None of them are interested in it, and Lake seems to be doing more than her fair share to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously.  Judges at several court levels have told her she doesn't have the evidence, and they're not going to overturn the election or even subtract ballots.  But she keeps coming back, finding someone in a very conservative court system who opens the door to spend even more taxpayer dollars on futility. 

She knows this.  This isn't about getting the election overturned, it's an ongoing campaign for office, keeping her name and face in an obliging media, almost deliberately looking insane and unbalanced, because that's what gets her the attention she's seeking.  She is continuing to run for office, more than likely Kyrsten Sinema's senate seat, but if she keeps challenging election results at every turn, she looks more and more like Trump, which is obviously what she wants.  

So the taxpayers of Arizona must foot the bill for the legal costs involved as yet another judge, this time from the extremist Supreme Court in the state, says, "give her another chance."  Or, "give her enough rope to hang herself."  She's been told, several times, what the legal standards are that she must meet in order for any ruling to go in her favor, and all the evidence they have, which has been gone over in several courts, where it has been made clear that there were no illegalities committed, and no irregularities that were not resolved in the final tally.  Every court conclusion has been the same, that she lost by just over 17,000 votes.  But Arizona taxpayers have to pay more to hear the same thing again.  I hope many of them remember how wasteful she was if she ever does get her name on a ballot again.  

Arizona Already has a Bad Election-denying Reputation and it Came at a Huge Cost

If you remember correctly, Arizona is the state where then-senate president Karen Fann, an election denying conspiracy theorist, pushed for the state to violate its own policy, and after authentic, certified audits showed zero evidence of voter fraud, instead of coming to grips with reality, pushed the senate to hire the "Cyber Ninjas," a false-front business aimed at bilking the state, and Republican contributors, out of millions of dollars.  It succeeded in doing that, and then still went bankrupt.  It failed to produce any meaningful information of any kind, though through a fog of ineptitude and fraud, wound up inadvertently admitting to being unable to find any evidence of voter fraud in Maricopa County's 2020 election count.  

There were a couple of benefits that came out of their waste of time.  Karen Fann felt increasing pressure from constituents and, deciding to avoid humiliation in her own party's primary, stepped down from her seat and didn't run in 2022.  She is currently under FBI investigation for her role in the January 6th Trump insurrection, related to the choosing of a slate of fake electors from Arizona and the production of a fraudulent electoral ballot. 

Fann's pushing of the Cyber Ninja audit cost the state far more than the money they had appropriated to pay for it.  The cost ran upwards of $6 million, including an unknown amount of tax dollars far over-running the budgeted amount, along with an expense of over $3 million to Maricopa County taxpayers for costs to replace voting machines that the phony auditing crew damaged or compromised during their "audit."  

So what we are seeing from Lake is more expense of tax dollars on frivolous, unprovable claims lacking any substantiating evidence, based solely on conspiracy theories and on someone's imagination.  Scatter-shot accusations triggering audits or recounts or thousands of dollars of legal fees and tying up court judges has a high price.  Lake isn't going to make her case.  It's time for Arizona taxpayers to stop funding her de-facto campaign.  And if she does run for something in 2024, send her home.  

And This Tells Arizona Voters Something About the Justices on Their Supreme Court and in Their Court System

Something is wrong with a court system that perpetuates false claims and allows cases to go forward without meeting any standard of evidence.  This is not a matter of making sure justice is done, it is playing the odds, hoping that somewhere along the line, a judge will ignore the law and the lack of evidence and use the power of the bench to interfere in an election without cause or reason.  That's clearly what Trump hoped when he went from court to court with his fraudulent, false claims in 2020, and it's obviously what Lake is trying to do with this election.   

Arizona voters need to wake up and see this for what it is.  When a politician is depending on a corrupt judiciary to get what they want, it's time to use your vote to make a change.  Kari Lake had nothing to offer to the people of Arizona, and they made their choice.  If she, or more accurately her campaign, isn't going to pay back the millions of dollars they've cost the people of Arizona, then those people should send an even clearer message through the ballot box in 2024, and make her pay that way.