Far-right
Republican MAGA
extremist member of
the U.S. House,
representing
Arizona's 2nd
Congressional
District. He assumed
office on January 3,
2023. His current
term ends on January
3, 2025. Crane ran
for election to the
U.S. House to
represent Arizona's
2nd Congressional
District. He won in
the general election
on November 8, 2022.
Crane is a member of the
radical, pro-insurrectionist, "Freedom
Caucus"
"Several Republican
members of Arizona’s congressional
delegation co-sponsored legislation that is
receiving new scrutiny after the Alabama
Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are
children. Republican Reps.
Andy Biggs, Eli Crane,
Paul Gosar and
Debbie Lesko co-sponsored the Life at
Conception Act, which would give
constitutional equal protection rights to
the unborn. And Rep.
David Schweikert co-sponsored an
identical, older version of the bill in
2021. Unlike similar legislation that
Republicans ran in the U.S. Senate in 2017,
the House bill, which would ban nearly all
abortions nationwide, does not include an
IVF exception.
The
proposal is drawing comparisons to a
decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, which
ruled that frozen embryos are considered
children under a Civil War-era state law
that lets parents sue over the death of a
child."
"Kari
Lake,
the
Republican
Senate
frontrunner,
was
scheduled
Friday
to
attend a
fundraiser
hosted
by two
donors
who have
expressed
support
for the
far-right
conspiracy
theory
known as
"QAnon."
[ . . .
] "The
donors,
Caryn
and
Michael
Borland,
have
promoted
the
“QAnon”
conspiracy
theory,
a belief
system
centered
on
claims
made by
an
anonymous
individual
known as
“Q” that
holds
that
former
President
Donald
Trump is
fending
off
forces
of evil
within
the
government,
often
involving
child
sex
trafficking."
[ . . .
]
"Freshman
Rep.
Eli
Crane,
R-Ariz.,
posted
photos
of
himself,
Lake and
former
Trump
aide
Steve
Bannon
at an
event
Friday
evening."
Matt Gaetz, Rep. Eli Crane, Garrett Lewis and Steve Bannon
Photo: DAILY KOS
"Congressman
Eli
Crane
(R-AZ)
once
again
demonstrated
his
commitment
isn’t to
represent
all his
constituents,
but
rather
to
continue
to cater
to just
the
loudest
and most
divisive
right-wing
voices
by
hosting
a War
Room
Town
Hall
meeting
with
Steve
Bannon,
and
Florida
Rep.
Matt
Gaetz
and
fellow
AZ
Congressman
Andy
Biggs
at the
Pinal
County
Cowboy
Church
(Casa
Grande,
Arizona)"
[
. . . ]
"Congressman
Crane
paling
around
with
Steve
Bannon
and Matt
Gaetz is
not
serving
his
swing
district
constituents
very
well. In
this red
leaning,
but only
single
digit (Trump
+8)
district,
people
want a
congressional
leader
who will
bring
people
together
and
solve
problems.
Congressman
Crane
continues
to cater
to the
extreme
right,
with
little
interest
in
representing
the
diverse
constituency
that
lives in
Arizona’s
2nd
congressional
district."
"Coming as no
surprise to anyone
familiar with him,
freshman Congressman
Eli Crane
(R), who ran on
“cleaning up the
mess” in Washington,
and who has joined
the likes of Matt
Gaetz and Lauren
Boebert in pushing
hard for the
impeachment of
President Joe Biden,
isn’t actually
serious about
rooting out
corruption or
changing the culture
in Washington.
Instead, he is
interested in
stoking division,
“owning the libs”,
and perpetuating
corruption as long
as it benefits his
friends because, in
his mind right wing
grifters are
patriots, and its
only liberals and
RINOs that can be
guilty of crimes,
never the extreme
right. When he isn’t
voting to vacate
Kevin McCarthy for
being too liberal,
he’s busy dismissing
the crimes of or
making excuses for
the J6
insurrectionists, or
putting up
anti-immigrant
Christmas
decorations, or
waxing poetic about
the evils of Hunter
Biden. Congressman
Crane doesn’t want
to drain the swamp;
he wants to be on
the ownership team
that owns the swamp.
The distinction may
be lost on him, but
it shouldn’t be lost
on the rest of us. "
"It SHOULD come as a
surprise. But this
is Arizona, so it
doesn’t. The
argument made by the
likes of Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane,
Paul Gosar and
Debbie Lesko
would probably mimic
the claims of
Republican House
leadership. That is:
Santos has yet to be
convicted in court."
"The U.S. House of
Representatives
voted 336-95 to pass
a two-step
government funding
bill Tuesday, with
five Arizona
Republicans opposed
to the measure. The
Senate has the rest
of the week to pass
the measure to avert
a partial government
shutdown on
Saturday." [ . . . ]
"Reps. Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane,
Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert
of Arizona were
among the 93
Republicans who
voted against the
measure. Just two
House Democrats
opposed it."
"freshman Republican
incumbent Eli
Crane is best
known for referring
to African-Americans
in the military as
"colored people" and
for being one of the
"Crazy Eight" to
oust Speaker Kevin
McCarthy, instead
preferring the likes
of Jim Jordan or
Mike Johnson. Prior
to running for
Congress, Crane
created a 50-caliber
bullet bottle opener
to open beer
bottles, which is
more firepower than
necessary to pop
open a Bud Lite, but
Mr. Crane loves guns
and bullets as also
evidenced by his
constituent
newsletter which is
titled "One in the
Chamber" and takes
bullet points a bit
too literally with
sub-headings "Live
Fire" "Trigger
Points" and
"High-Caliber
Rounds" introducing
constituents to his
meager
accomplishments in
Congress and
featuring podcasts
with renowned public
policy
experts---ahem---
like Steve Bannon,
Andy Biggs and
Matt Gaetz."
"Arizona clowns bear
a disproportionate
share of the blame
for the current
crisis. The U.S.
House cannot enact
aid to Israel during
the unprecedented
Hamas attack on
civilians, including
Americans. Also,
they managed to
screw up the line of
presidential
succession during a
crisis, leaving the
country without a
Speaker of the
House, second in
line to the
president. And they
have left the House
unable to act on
Ukraine funding. But
as pro-Putin
toadies, they might
not see that as a
problem. Other
states had a share
of this disaster,
but Arizona provided
the most clowns in
this shit show. "
"Five Arizona
Republican members
of the House voted
against a
last-minute deal
Saturday aimed at
preventing a
government shutdown,
but the measure
passed anyway.
Republican Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane,
Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert
were among the 90
members of their
party who opposed
the continuing
resolution, which
aims to keep federal
spending at current
levels for another
45 days while
cutting funding to
Ukraine."
"The federal
government is
expected to shut
down this weekend,
and 21 House
Republicans on
Friday rejected
Speaker Kevin
McCarthy's stopgap
efforts to prevent
that. Three of those
representatives are
from Arizona. Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane and
Paul Gosar
joined other
hard-right holdouts
and voted against
the latest spending
bill."
“Congressional
newbie
Rep.
Eli
Crane
(R-AZ)
got
called
out on
the
House
floor on
Thursday
for
using
the term
“colored
people”
during a
heated
debate
over his
proposed
amendment
to the
national
defense
bill.
A
member
of the
far-right
House
Freedom
Caucus,
Crane
had put
forward
an
amendment
that
would
prohibit
the
consideration
of
“race,
gender,
religion,
or
political
affiliations,
or any
other
ideological
concepts
as the
sole
basis
for
recruitment,
training
education,
promotion,
or
retention
decisions.”
“My
amendment
has
nothing
to do
with
whether
or not
colored
people,
or Black
people,
or
anyone
can
serve,
okay?”
Crane
said as
Rep.
Joyce
Beatty
(D-OH),
a Black
woman,
tried to
object.
“It has
nothing
to do
with
[the]
color of
your
skin,
any of
that
stuff.
What we
want to
preserve
and
maintain
is the
fact
that our
military
does not
become a
social
experiment.””
"A
special
committee
created
by the
Arizona
legislature
to
examine
the
state’s
response
to
COVID-19
will
feature
a litany
of
speakers
who have
spread
disinformation
about
the
pandemic,
vaccines,
spoken
at QAnon
events
and have
conspiratorial
beliefs
about
the
virus,
including
believing
it will
usher in
the
“mark of
the
beast.”"
[ . . .
]
"The
“Novel
Coronavirus
Southwestern
Intergovernmental
Committee”
will
hold two
days of
hearings
on May
25 and
May 26
at the
Arizona
Capitol,
during
which a
string
of
ostensible
experts
will
tell the
state
and
federal
Republican
lawmakers
on the
panel
their
opinions
on the
pandemic,
and
Arizona’s
response
to it.
The
Republican
elected
officials
on the
panel
include
state
Sens.
T.J.
Shope
and
Janae
Shamp,
the
chair
and
vice-chair,
respectively,
of the
state
Senate’s
Health
and
Human
Services
Committee;
state
Rep.
Steve
Montenegro,
who
chairs
the
state
House of
Representatives’
Health
and
Human
Services
Committee;
and U.S.
Reps.
Andy
Biggs,
Eli
Crane
and
Paul
Gosar."
[ . . .
]
"Extremist
researchers
on
Twitter
were
quick to
note
that the
various
groups
sponsoring
the
committee
had
begun
promoting
it by
the
acronym,
NCSWIC,
which is
commonly
used
within
the
QAnon
community
to stand
for
“Nothing
Can Stop
What Is
Coming.”
It most
often
refers
to an
unfounded
belief
that
“Deep
State”
collaborators
will
soon be
arrested."
The video posted
by Eli Crane (still frame above) was from
the southern Mexican border in 2022. NOT the
U.S. border in May 2023 as he implies.
"Rep. Eli Crane,
R-Ariz., announced
in a video released
last week he was a
cosponsor of the WHO
Withdrawal Act. The
bill, introduced by
fellow Rep.
Andy Biggs,
would compel
President Biden to
cut ties with the
World Health
Organization. [...]
"Rep.
Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.,
was one of the
original cosponsors
to the legislation
in 2022 when Biggs
sponsored the bill.
Beginning with his
opposition to the
speakership of Rep.
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,
Crane has joined
Biggs and Gosar to
form the far right
wing of Arizona's
congressional
delegation.
The three
representatives have
focused much of
their attention on
COVID-19, including
calling for
investigating the
U.S.'s response to
Coronavirus and
Anthony Fauci, the
former head of
director of the
National Institute
of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases
who coordinated the
country's COVID-19
efforts."
Mar. 28, 2023
A
group of traitors: Eli Crane (left)
with other supporters of the Jan. 6
insurrectionists.
"In
February, the
freshman Rep. Eli
Crane of Arizona
sent out a
fundraising email
that highlighted the
vote and suggested
the Biden
administration’s
plans to beef up the
IRS were now on
hold. “We’ve already
accomplished so much
in this Congress,
including suspending
outlandish funding
for 87,000 IRS
agents,” Crane
said."
Mar. 3, 2023
Click on photo for
larger image.
Photo via FaceBook
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2022
Candidate
Questionnaire
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-2
Question
4: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
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.*
The
Arizona
Republic
via The
Rose Law
Group
Reporter
Jul. 15,
2022
"Elected
officials
and
candidates
for
office
in 2022
continue
to
challenge
and
question
the
results
of the
2020
presidential
election
in
Arizona.
The
results
have
been
examined
and
re-examined,
challenged
in court
and in a
monthslong
ballot
review.
No
evidence
has been
found of
widespread
fraud or
error in
the
results.
Yet
candidates
deny the
outcome.
Others
don't
quite go
as far.
But they
raise
questions
about
potential
irregularities
they say
could
have
influenced
the vote
and
should
be
examined.
The
Arizona
Republic
is
listing
candidates
by
category
by the
race
that
they are
entered
in. This
list is
not
complete
and will
be
updated
throughout
the 2022
election
season.
Election
deniers
These
candidates
in
Arizona
races
deny
that Joe
Biden
won the
2020
presidential
election,
either
in
Arizona
or
nationwide."
"Eli Crane, a
Republican candidate for Arizona's 2nd
Congressional District, posted on Instagram
in December 2020 that he opposed a
bipartisan pandemic relief compromise,
specifically noting some line items he did
not think should be included. He wrote: "27
Trillion in debt. This is the type of wreckless [sic] behavior that got us here in
the first place. Coming in dead last are the
American People. The collective sell out of
America continues... Best part is, who do
you think pays for this in the end? How long
will the dollar hold it's [sic] value as we
continue printing money we don't have?"
Bottle Breacher, a business Crane and his
wife started and own, took a $69,296.75 PPP
loan in April 2020."
Jun. 22, 2022
RUNNING FOR AZ-01
Eli
is a faith-oriented, family
man and is pro-life,
pro-second
amendment, and unafraid to
take a stand against cancel
culture and the radical
left. He is active in
Arizona as a brand
ambassador for Sig Sauer
firearms...
Source: Campaign
website
TRANSLATION
Eli
is a religious fanatic, anti
abortion, ammosexual MAGA
extremist who,
were he able, would have
been the band leader for the
January 6 insurrection.
"The most recent
slate of speakers
also includes
Republican state
legislators
Mark
Finchem and
Wendy
Rogers — the former
was at the Capitol
on Jan. 6 and the
latter cheered on
the violent failed
coup on social media
— U.S. Senate
candidate
Jim Lamon,
and congressional
candidates
Jeff Zink
and Eli Crane."
"Before former Navy
SEAL Eli Crane was
pushing Arizonans to
vote for Senator
Marthy McSally in a
new campaign ad,
he
was busy defending waterboarding and
veterans who commit
war crimes. [...]
What the ad doesn't
mention is the fact
that Crane, who
makes occasional
appearances on Fox
News, peddles in a
variety of
controversial
opinions, from
defending other
veterans accused of
heinous war crimes
to seemingly
dismissing the
public health threat
posed by the
COVID-19 pandemic."
Sep. 29, 2020
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