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".
Crane is
running for
re-election
to the U.S.
House to
represent
Arizona's
2nd
Congressional
District. He
is on the
ballot in
the general
election on
November 5,
2024. He
advanced
from the
Republican
primary on
July 30,
2024.
"He is
best
known as
the MAGA
congressman
who has
butted
heads
with
party
leadership
and
taken a
hardline
tone on
the
issue of
immigration.
He’s
also
distinguished
by his
business
friendly
voting
record:
He is
among
the few
House
members
who, as
of 2023,
had a
lifetime
perfect
score of
100%
from one
of the
country’s
biggest
anti-tax
groups.
Crane
has
received
donations
from a
range of
corporate
and
industry
donors
this
election
cycle.
They
include
PACs
connected
with the
following
companies:
The industrial conglomerate Honeywell International.
Mining giant Rio Tinto.
Pinnacle West Capital Corp., which owns the utility Arizona Public Service Co.
Representative
Eli
Crane,
a
first-term
Republican
from
Arizona,
has been
everywhere
that
will
have
him,
promoting
conspiracy
theories
about
the
assassination
attempts
against
Mr.
Trump,
despite
all
evidence
that
such
theories
are
false.
And far
from
sidelining
or
attempting
to
silence
him,
Republican
leaders
have
given
him a
prominent
platform
to air
his
outlandish
claims
at the
highest
levels,
lending
credence
to the
conspiracy
theories
spread
by him
and
others
on the
far
right.
"Eli
Crane represents
the largest mass of
land in Arizona at
over 20,000 square
miles. But records
show he lives in a
home an hour outside
of that district.
The Copper State
Republican, who was
elected in 2022,
lives in Oro Valley,
a Tucson suburb in
the district
represented by
fellow Republican
Juan Ciscomani.
His residence is
about an hour's
drive south of the
closest point to his
own district.
Records indicate
that Crane and his
wife rent a property
in Oro Valley. It's
the same address he
listed on financial
documents during his
campaign. He again
listed it on his
2024 federal
candidate nomination
paper. "
"After months of
negotiations, the US
House and Senate
overwhelmingly
approved a $105
billion package to
fund the Federal
Aviation
Administration (FAA)
and authorized its
continuance for the
next five years. The
proposal also
secured priorities
of the Biden
administration, such
as automatic refunds
for canceled flights
and a prohibition on
seating fees that
prevented families
from sitting
together on
flights." [ . . . ]
"Only a handful of
congressional
lawmakers voted
against the measure,
including two of
Arizona’s delegates:
Reps. Eli Crane,
R-Tucson, and
Andy Biggs,
R-Gilbert. The vote
appears to have
little to do with
air travel and more
related to their
political opposition
to US House Speaker
Mike Johnson,
R-Shreveport. The
two voted to remove
him from his
position as Speaker
earlier this month,
and have since
opposed legislative
action that could be
conceived as a
success for Johnson.
But the political
vote not to
reauthorize the FAA
could have had
drastic real-world
consequences in
Crane’s district.
The bill included
subsidies for
essential air
services, which help
pay for daily
roundtrip flights at
airports in Page,
Prescott, and Show
Low. Without
subsidies provided
by the FAA, flights
would be drastically
reduced, cutting
rural communities
off from essential
services and
reducing emergency
response times."
"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."
Matt Gaetz, Rep. Eli Crane, Steve Bannon and Kari Lake
Photo: X
"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."
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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