Kari Lake Blasts the Expulsion of Republican Liz Harris

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A Freshman state representative Liz Harris (R-AZ), has been expelled just a few months into her first term in office. On Wednesday, the state House voted 46-13 to remove her, with 18 Republicans joining 28 Democrats.

She was expelled for disorderly conduct. The disorderly conduct was Harris bringing in an insurance agent to address the House about a potential election scandal and then allegedly lying about it. We reported the story here in February.

Harris ran on election integrity. “As we discovered in 2020, our elections are not secure,” she said on her website. “We need strong legislators who are willing to fight for election integrity — so that the true voices of the Arizona citizens will be heard.”

She was and is called an election denier.

The Story

In February, she brought in a witness who spoke before the state House and Senate elections committees. During her 40-minute presentation, Jacqueline Breger, an insurance agent from Scottsdale, claimed that two women associated with Sinaloa, a Mexican cartel, used fraudulent insurance documents to launder money that they then distributed to various officials, including Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs, judges, some state legislators, members of the Mesa City Council, and even leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

An Arizona House Ethics Committee report claimed that Breger’s accusations were unsubstantiated. They added that Harris lied when she insisted she did not know in advance that Breger would make those accusations in her presentation.

“The committee finds that Representative Harris was not surprised or upset by Breger’s testimony and rejects Representative Harris’s testimony to the contrary,” the committee wrote in its report. “Representative Harris wrote that she knew that the Joint Elections Committee would shut down the presentation and that doing so took the committee ‘longer than [she] thought’ it would.

That was the sum of the evidence, but you can read the report on the link.

They said it was a conspiracy theory, and she damaged the integrity of the House.

The 9-page Ethics Committee Report

Kari Lake Blasted the Expulsion

Kari Lake blasted the expulsion. She posted on Twitter after Harris was expelled, condemning Arizona’s House for having “kicked out a duly elected member,” adding that the voters in Harris’ district “should have the final say in her future.”

“And the most corrupt individuals in the entire state (the ones who sabotaged the election) will pick the replacement,” Lake said in a following tweet. “Arizona, we are truly living in a banana republic.”

When asked for additional comment, Lake’s communications team directed Newsweek to a clip from an interview between Lake and Steve Bannon, host of the War Room podcast and former adviser to President Donald Trump.

Liz Harris Responds

After the vote, Harris said the accusations against her were a “lie.”

“God knows the truth,” Harris told reporters in a parking lot as she packed her belongings into the trunk of her vehicle. “This was an example of how you need to toe the line. If you don’t toe the line, this is what happens.”

Arizona law requires that the successor must be a member of the same party when a state representative vacates a seat in the middle of a two-year term — because of death, resignation, or expulsion. Thus, precinct committee members from the Chandler area will soon convene and select three Republican candidates to fill Harris’ seat. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will then select Harris’ replacement from among those three candidates.

She could be selected, but it’s not likely.


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Wainright
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Wainright
11 months ago

The Mormons are corrupting the Maricopa County elections. This has been going on for decades.

jimena smith
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jimena smith
11 months ago

this is evidence that we will not take back a corrupted and criminal political and government system through peaceful and ‘lawful’ means. The marxists corrupt crook tyrants will stop it. ONLY CONSTITTIONALLY-LEGAL VIOLENT REVOLUTION – REVOKING THE TACIT-PWER CONSENT THAT THE MARXIST-CRIMINALS OCCUPYING OUR INSTITUTIONS OF POWER , INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, CLAIM AS THEIR AUTHORITY TO RULE AND PUNISH US THE INNOCENT , THE GOOD AND THE LAWFUL – CAN DEAL WITH AND RESOLVE THE MARXIST-CRIMINALS REIGNING OVER OUR LATE-CONSTITUTIONAL-REPUBLIC.

Flayer1
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Flayer1
11 months ago

Isn’t it “tow the line” not “toe the line”?

Peter B. Prange
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Peter B. Prange
11 months ago
Reply to  Flayer1

Unless of course he was using a clever pun and then it can only be “tow.”

nuthinmuffin
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nuthinmuffin
11 months ago

the disruptor in Tennessee gets reinstated while she gets the boot…RINO republicans are spineless

Glee
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Glee
11 months ago
Reply to  nuthinmuffin

I am from Tennessee and I am disgusted with out legislature. They should NOT have expelled The THREE, they should have jailed them….made them stand trial and expelled them if they were found guilty. Their absolutely knee-jerk reaction only said “even in Tennessee, you’ll get what you want if you riot.” I plan to work AGAINST our representative next time. We need MAGA with a backbone AND a brain. FURIOUS!

GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
11 months ago

There is no Ethics in Arizona Politics! Obviously Liz Harris is over the Target. Arizona Politicians are corrupt to the core.

Peter B. Prange
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Peter B. Prange
11 months ago
Reply to  GuvGeek

Sure seems so.