Retiring Guy's Digest: Day 787 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus (Utah edition)

Meet the stars of the

ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies

Burgess Owens (R-Utah)

U.S. House of Representatives

Headline: Governing, 12/27/2022

In the months leading up to last month’s midterm elections, the company gave more than $608,900 to dozens of the objectors, documents show. That includes Representatives Burgess Owens of Utah, who said he has “no doubt” that Trump won; New York’s Nicole Malliotakis, who claimed the election was rife with “irregularities and alleged fraud”; and Florida’s Greg Steube, who called the election results “sketchy.”
AT&T declined to comment on its giving.

Kim Crockett

Minnesota GOP Candidate for

Secretary of STate

Headline: Minnesota Reformer, 12/26/2022

Republican Secretary of State candidate Kim Crockett led a push to get “eyes on every ballot” by recruiting more election judges — which are essentially poll workers nominated by political parties. Motivated in part by the false impression that the 2020 election was stolen, they figured an army of GOP eyes would ensure victory.
As the campaign wore on, it became clear how connected Crockett was to a national right-wing network led by Cleta Mitchell, the Republican lawyer who tried to help former President Donald Trump flip the Georgia election results.
Crockett, who had some problems with facts, was a key driver of activists that pushed county officials to stop using absentee ballot drop boxes and allow more partisan poll workers to staff elections.

Trump sycophant and VP wannabe

Kari Lake

Headline: KSBW, 12/25/2022

In a tweet after the ruling, Lake, who sat in the courtroom during the trial but did not testify, said she would appeal the decision "for the sake of restoring faith and honesty in our elections."

Wisconsin election denier Harry Wait

Headline: Washington Post, 12/22/2022

Emboldened by former president Donald Trump’s false election claims, Wait in July had ordered absentee ballots in the names of others for the purpose, he said, of exposing what he considers flaws in Wisconsin’s voting systems. Now, on a warm September afternoon, he was using the resulting voter-fraud charges against him — which could land him in prison for up to 13 years — to amplify his argument that absentee balloting should be severely restricted.
“I’d do it again in a heartbeat because to save the republic, soldiers have to draw blood and blood be drawn,” Wait said as he sat on the courthouse bench.

Disgraced academic David Clements

Headline: Reuters, 12/21/2022

Clements is a star in the world of election denial. Drawing on his credentials as a former prosecutor and professor, he lends a veneer of intellectual gravitas to bogus voter-fraud claims that have been overwhelmingly rejected by election officials and the courts.
And yet he’s also fought bitter public battles with fellow election deniers on the political right, revealing rifts that could undermine the movement. “You are going to be shocked at the number of so-called patriots that are agents of hell,” Clements wrote on Telegram in March 2021.
Clements declined to comment for this story unless he could publish a recording of any interview with Reuters, a condition the news organization refused. “You are nothing but a brood of vipers,” he said in an email.

Trump-endorsed Chuck Gray

Wyoming Secretary of State

In Wyoming, if you win the GOP primary, you are a shoo-in to win the general election.

Headline: NPR, 9/8/2022

Wyoming's likely next secretary of state, a Trump-endorsed Republican who has falsely called the 2020 election fraudulent, is drawing concerns from many of his fellow GOP lawmakers. Now those legislators are aiming to draft a bill to remove the secretary of state's ability to oversee elections.

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Cowboy State Daily, 12/21/2022

He has some big holes to fill, as four of five members of the Secretary of State’s office executive team are leaving, representing 119 years of combined experience in the office between them.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'shoo-in', as in one that is a certain and easy winner, occurred in 1937.

Other coinages from the same year include: