Meet the stars of the
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
former Overstock CEO
Patrick Byrne
Headline: Wisconsin Watch, 10/3/2022
The America Project, an organization founded by Michael Flynn, a retired three-star general and former national security adviser, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, has so far interviewed or attempted to interview officials in nearly 200 counties across eight swing states, according to copies of notes, recordings of the interviews, and other documents Votebeat found on web pages associated with the organization.
The survey questions reflect the same debunked conspiracies and misleading information about elections that Flynn and Byrne have been propagating for years.
Jeff Zink
Arizona republican
running for Congress
Max Miller
Ohio Candidate for U.S. House
Sandy Smith
North Carolina candidate
for U.S. House
J. R. Majewski
Ohio Candidate for U.S. House
Headline: Bloomberg, 9/28/2022
Jo Rae Perkins
Oregon GOP Candidate for
U.S. Senate
Headline: Bloomberg, 9/28/2022
Cord Byrd
Florida Secretary of State
Headline: CNN, 9/26/2022
Two months before he was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to oversee Florida voting, Cord Byrd was a featured speaker at a seminar for people who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen and wanted training to stop it from happening again.
Leading the Orlando summit was Cleta Mitchell, a conservative lawyer deeply involved in Donald Trump’s failed plot to overturn the 2020 election. In audio obtained by CNN, Mitchell introduced Byrd as someone committed to “election integrity ” – a phrase that has become a dog whistle for stoking myths about voting vulnerabilities. Mitchell described Byrd, a Republican state lawmaker at the time, as a trusted sounding board for new election policies and an active participant in weekly calls she hosted with like-minded officials across the country.
In turn, Byrd encouraged Mitchell’s trained activists to stay vigilant in the coming elections.
Pam Anderson
Candidate for Colorado
Secretary of State
Headline: Colorado Times Reporter, 9/20/2022
Watch what she does, not what she says.
Colorado Secretary of State hopeful Pam Anderson has made rejecting the Big Lie a central message of her campaign, but a new video shows her arm-in-arm with a major state GOP activist and fundraiser who’s not only pushed QAnon-linked election conspiracy theories, but also participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
David Clement
Fired Ex-prof now into
election conspiracy nonsense
Headline: Washington Post, 9/8/2022
For two hours, Clements — who has the rumpled look of an academic, though he lost his business school professor’s job last fall for refusing to wear a mask in class — spoke of breached voting machines, voter roll manipulation and ballot stuffing that he falsely claims cost former president Donald Trump victory in 2020. The audience, which included a local minister, a bank teller and farmers in their overalls, gasped in horror or whispered “wow” with each new claim.
“We’ve never experienced a national coup,” he told the crowd, standing before red, white and blue signs strung up alongside a bingo board. “And that’s what we had.”
Clements, who has no formal training or background in election systems, spent months crisscrossing the back roads in his home state of New Mexico in a battered Buick, trying to persuade local leaders not to certify election results. His words had an impact: In June, officials in three New Mexico counties where he made his case either delayed or voted against certification of this year’s primary results, even though there was no credible evidence of problems with the vote.
Mike Lindell
MyPillow whackjob
Headline: Washington Post, 9/16/2022
The guy at the fulcrum of the attempt to smother American democracy is a pillow salesman.
You’ve no doubt heard of Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder who has gone from hawking bolsters to bolstering the “big lie.” Only in this land of opportunists could the greatest sham of all be perpetrated by a guy who literally sells shams (“as low as $48.99 w/promo code”).
But finally, the Justice Department is going to the mattresses with the pillow magnate. FBI agents pinned his vehicle while he awaited his order in a Hardee’s drive-through this week and proceeded “to arrest my phone,” as Lindell put it. (He didn’t say whether the confiscated device was read its rights.)
The fast-food chain used the MyPillow drama on its premises to tweet: “You should really try our pillowy biscuits.”
Mitch McConnell
Senate Majority Leader
McConnell has endorsed Herschel Walker, the Trump-backed Georgia Senate candidate who has also repeatedly made false election claims. And a group affiliated with McConnell recently announced it would spend tens of millions of dollars on TV and radio ads to boost Vance.
Glenn Youngkin
GOvernor of Virginia
Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia is scheduled to campaign this week with Tudor Dixon, the Republican nominee for Michigan governor, who has made false election claims.
Ron DeSantis, Enabler
Insane fuckup
GOP Florida GOvernor
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is a telling case study. Many political analysts believe that DeSantis is likely to run for president in 2024. As he prepares for a potential campaign, DeSantis is trying to distinguish himself from Trump while also appealing to Trump’s supporters. Image Ron DeSantis at a rally in Phoenix this month. Ron DeSantis at a rally in Phoenix this month.
One way he seems to be doing so is his approach to the false claims about the 2020 election. He has studiously avoided making them himself. (As Politico puts it: “When asked by reporters whether the last presidential election was rigged, DeSantis has instead highlighted changes to election laws he has supported or simply changed the topic.”) At the same time, DeSantis is embracing other Republicans who do echo Trump’s lies.
Doug Ducey, Enabler
GOP Arizona Governor
Headline: New York Times, 8/24/2022
Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona — despite saying that Lake was “misleading voters” about election fraud — is supporting her in the general election. “It’s important for Arizona Republicans to unite behind our slate of candidates,” he tweeted.
No comments:
Post a Comment