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Far-right Republican MAGA
extremist member of the Arizona House of
Representatives, representing District 3. He assumed
office on January 9, 2023. His current term ends on
January 13, 2025. Kolodin ran for election to the
Arizona House of Representatives to represent
District 3. He won in the general election on
November 8, 2022. He is a founding state house
member of the radical, pro-insurrectionist "Freedom
Caucus". He was a candidate for State Senate
district in 2020 losing to
Michelle Ugenti-Rita. Kolodin was an inside
player promoting Donald Trump's "Big Lie' and
attempt to steal the office of the President in
2020. |
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Arizona
Lawmaker
Tweets
About
Shooting
People
After
Hobbs
Aide
Quits
Over Gun
Meme |
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Ray
Stern /
Arizona
Republic |
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Mar. 31,
2023 |
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"Kolodin,
a lawyer
who's
serving
his
first
term in
office,
said in
an
interview
the
comparison
to
Berry's
tweet
"doesn't
track"
due to
context
and he
stands
by his
statements.
But he
acknowledged
that he
probably
could
have
worded
his
tweets
better. |
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His
posts on
the
theme
began
after 8
p.m.
March
29, when
Twitter
user
Patrick
Camunez
suggested
on the
social
media
platform
that
Kolodin's
on the
"shoot
them"
comment
might be
newsworthy.
In
another
tweet,
Camunez
said he
thought
Kolodin
should
apologize.
The
Arizona
House
Democrats
Twitter
account
had
noted
the
comment
in a
post
just
after
noon
that
day. |
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Kolodin
escalated
the
rhetoric
in a
tweet,
calling
Camunez
"antisemitic,"
continuing
with
"The
Jews in
Nazi
Germany
didn't
have the
second
amendment,
I do.
You got
a
problem
with
that?" |
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That's
when
Trevor
Nelson,
a
Scottsdale
constituent
in
Kolodin's
Legislative
District
3,
jumped
into the
fray,
accusing
Kolodin
of
repeating
"actual
threats
of
violence"
and
telling
the
lawmaker
to
resign. |
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Kolodin
then
called
Nelson a
"Nazi."
He
retweeted
a 2011
Politico
article
about a
potential
ballot
measure
in San
Francisco
that
would
have
banned
circumcisions.
A judge
later
struck
the
measure
from the
ballot
because
of a
California
state
law that
designated
the
regulating
of
medical
procedures
strictly
a state
matter. |
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Nelson
denied
Kolodin's
accusation,
but
Kolodin
plowed
on,
saying
Nelson
had the
"right
to
advocate
for Nazi
ideology,"
but
if "you
try to
use the
state to
impose
Nazi
crap on
me,
well...
I'm a
good
shot."
He later
added,
"I love
assault
rifles.
They're
good for
shooting
Nazis."" |
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AZ
House Elections
Committee: Don’t Say
‘Conspiracy Theory’ |
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"GOP Rep. Kolodin
says lobbyist can
‘go f*** himself’
for implying the
Jewish lawmaker is a
white supremacist" |
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Mar. 10, 2023 |
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Rep Kolodin Doesn't
Want This Public |
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"In January,
freshman Republican
State Rep.
Alexander Kolodin
hit reply all on an
email to House
members and staff
complaining that he
didn’t like any of
the photos Timon
Harper Photography
took of him for
legislative photo
day. In the email he
inadvertently sent
to everyone, he
wrote, “These are
all awful and will
be used in hit
pieces on me. I'll
take the first one
if I have to for the
historical record
but I'd ask that it
not be posted online
or used in any press
releases. I can
provide a different
headshot for online
positing.”" |
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Mar. 8, 2023 |
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As
Hobbs Called For Collaboration, Some
Republicans Literally Turned Their Backs |
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"As Democratic
lawmakers applauded Hobbs’ education agenda,
Republican Sens.
Justine Wadsack and
Anthony
Kern stood and turned their backs to the
governor. Earlier, GOP Reps.
Rachel Jones,
Alexander Kolodin and
Jacqueline Parker
walked out of the speech. Midway through the
speech, Rep.
Jake Hoffman exited the House
floor. “It’s unfortunate that some members
chose an immature stunt instead, but we have
really tough issues in front of us and we
need to work together to stop them,” Hobbs
said during a news conference after the
speech." |
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Jan. 9 2023 |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
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2022 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Representative
District
3 |
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Question 2: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Oppose. |
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Question 4: Allowing biological males that identify as transgender to play on female sports’ teams. |
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Position: Oppose |
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Question 8: Allowing parents to seek professional counseling for their minor child with same-sex attraction or gender identity issues.* |
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Position: Support |
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Question 9:
Protecting individuals and
businesses from being required
to provide services or use their
artistic expression in a manner
that violates their moral or
religious beliefs.** |
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Candidates' Position:
Support. |
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This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy". |
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**Discriminatory
"Religious Freedom" laws. |
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Release The Kraken
Attorney Alex
Kolodin Plans To Run
For State House Seat |
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"The Arizona
attorney who worked
with Sidney Powell
and the
Trump team
to bring several of
the lawsuits
claiming widespread
fraud in Maricopa
County's November
elections wants to
be on next year's
ballot. Alex Kolodin
last night filed a
Statement of
Interest to run for
one of the State
House seats in
Legislative District
23." |
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Jun. 18, 2021 |
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Judge Rejects Call
For Secret Election
Audit Hearing From
Auditors, Senate
Republicans |
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Attorneys
representing the
auditors argued that
policies and
procedures largely
related to security
needed to remain
under seal in order
to keep “bad actors”
from manipulating
the hand-recount of
the 2020 election
that is taking place
on the floor of
Veterans Memorial
Coliseum.
Attorney
Alexander Kolodin,
who is representing
Cyber Ninjas, said
that the documents
contain plans to
respond to security
incidents and show
vulnerabilities of
the one-time
basketball arena
where the nearly 2.1
million ballots are
stored. |
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Apr. 22, 2012 |
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Two Arizona
Lawmakers At The
Capitol During The
Riot Refuse To Turn
Over Their Phone
Records |
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""Our clients will
not comply with your
records request as
to any information
stored on or sent
from their personal
devices," attorney
Alexander Kolodin
wrote." |
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Jan. 27, 2021 |
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GOP Lawyer Filed A
Legal Bag Of Trash
To Overturn Election |
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"I was appalled to
see Trump lawyer
Alexander Kolodin
file a legal bag of
trash in Arizona
federal court in a
ludicrous attempt to
overturn Arizona’s
election results.
His complaint was a
sack of Venezuelan
conspiracies,
anonymous
“witnesses,” and
irrelevant material
from other states.
[...] Kolodin, who
lives in Scottsdale,
is an
anti-abortion,
anti-gay,
anti-income tax
zealot who thinks
teachers should
carry guns in
school. [...] The
fantastical
allegations spew
forth in a total of
23 bogus affidavits,
one harder to
believe than the
next." |
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Dec. 12, 2020 |
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Judge Skewers GOP
Lawsuit To Throw Out
AZ Election, Citing
Total Lack Of
Evidence |
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"Alexander Kolodin,
an Arizona attorney
who represented the
plaintiffs, said the
legal team is
reviewing its
options for appeal,
including whether to
appeal the case to
the U.S. Supreme
Court." |
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Dec. 9, 2020 |
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New Lawsuit Seeks To
Invalidate Election |
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"Prior lawsuits
challenging the
election — including
some by Powell’s
Arizona co-counsel
Alexander Kolodin —
have been dismissed.
That includes the
“SharpieGate” claim
that the use of the
markers resulted in
false counts." |
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Dec. 2, 2020 |
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AG Convinced No
Problems With
Sharpies, Steps Away
From Lawsuit |
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"Kolodin [...] said
there is evidence
that people were
denied new ballots
or that the ballots
with problems,
rather than being
counted by machines,
were set aside and
sent to county
offices where
individuals sought
to “adjudicate” what
is the voter’s
intent. But that,
however, runs afoul
of the right of
voters who show up
at polling places to
feed their ballots
into the machines
and verify that they
are being tallied.
He also wants
Mahoney to order
that outsiders,
including people who
say their
Sharpie-marked
ballots may have
been misread, to go
to county offices
and watch as these
ballots are fed back
through machines. Liddy said there are
no such boxes of
ballots waiting to
be rerun and
tabulated. But here,
too, Kolodin
questions that
assertion." |
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Nov. 6, 2020 |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
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2020 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Senate LD-23 |
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Question 2:
Adding “sexual orientation,”
“gender identity,” or “gender
expression” to the protected
classes of race, religion, age,
sex, and ancestry in
nondiscrimination law. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Oppose. |
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Question 4:
Allowing biological males that
identify as transgender to play
on female sports’ teams. |
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Position: Oppose |
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Question 9:
Protecting a parent's right to
seek professional counseling for
their minor child with same-sex
attraction or gender identity
issues to help them reach their
desired outcome.* |
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Position: Support |
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Question 11:
Protecting individuals and
businesses from being required
to provide services or use their
artistic expression in a manner
that violates their moral or
religious beliefs.** |
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Candidates' Position:
Support. |
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*
This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy". |
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**Discriminatory
"Religious Freedom" laws. |
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