Jake
Hoffman
bragging
about
the
length
of
something
Serial
Homophobe
Jake Hoffman
is a
far-right
Republican
MAGA
extremist
member of
the Arizona
State
Senate,
representing
District 15.
He assumed
office on
January 9,
2023. His
current term
ends on
January 11,
2027.
Hoffman ran
for
re-election
to the
Arizona
State Senate
to represent
District 15.
He won in
the general
election on
November 5,
2024.
Hoffman runs
a
digital-marketing
company,
Rally Forge.
The Guardian
reported
that Rally
Forge also
formed a
fake
left-wing
front group,
America
Progress
Now, which
promoted
Green Party
candidates
online in
2018. Rally
Forge was
banned from
Facebook in
2020 when
Hoffman was
permanently
suspended by
Twitter. As
of 2021, he
was the
vice-chair
of the
Arizona
House's
Committee on
Government
and
Elections.
After
Democratic
candidate
Joe Biden
won the
state of
Arizona in
the 2020
election,
Hoffman
declared
himself an
elector and
attempted to
submit
documents to
the National
Archive
saying that
Arizona had
been won by
Republican
candidate Donald
Trump.
In 2022,
Hoffman
proposed to
divide
Maricopa
County into
three new
counties,
since 65% of
the
Arizona’s
population
is contained
by that
single
county.
– (critics
claimed that
the proposal
was intended
to punish
election
officials in
Maricopa
County for
not
overturning
the 2020
election
results
based on
Trump's
claims of
fraud). He
is a
founding
state house
member of
the radical
pro-insurrectionist
"Freedom
Caucus".
"A bill
allowing a
memorial to
Don Bolles,
the Arizona
Republic
reporter
killed by a
car bomb
that went
off under
his car on
June 2,
1976, be
placed on
the mall at
the Arizona
State
Capitol has
again
legislatively
died in the
state
Senate.
Although the
bill enjoyed
wide and
bipartisan
support in
the Arizona
House of
Representatives,
it never
received as
much as a
committee
hearing
when it was
sent to the
Senate. The
bill was
assigned to
the Senate
Government
Committee,
chaired by
Sen. Jake
Hoffman.
It was never
heard."
Arizona’s 11 fake electors sign a document in Phoenix on Dec. 14 2020, falsely claiming that they were the state’s electors and that Donald Trump won the presidential election in Arizona. Screen capture by AZGOP
A grand jury has indicted 18 people, including two Arizona state senators and the former head of the Arizona Republican Party, in a fake elector scheme that aimed to install Donald Trump as the president after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has not released the names of everyone who was indicted, but all 11 fake electors were charged:
"Arizona actually had two fake elector plots—one a bunch of sovereign citizen goobers and the other organized by the Arizona Republican Party. The GOP was very proud of their crime, filming the whole thing and posting photos on their Twitter account. They smiled as they committed a felony, telling Republicans that theirs is the “only slate of 11 you need to worry about,” not the sovereign citizens and certainly not the duly elected and qualified electors. The happy faces in that photo are probably not smiling now. Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who pled guilty in the Georgia racketeering case, was one of the movers behind the fake electors scheme nationwide, and as part of his plea deal he’s agreed to testify against other co-conspirators."
"Utah
Sen.
Mike
Lee
(R),
who
endeavored
to
have
the
2020
election
overturned
in
favor
of Donald
Trump,
received
campaign
donations
in
the
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars,
from
three
Arizona
fake
electors,
according
to a
report
in
The
Salt
Lake
Tribune."
[ .
. .
]
"Arizona
state
legislator Jake
Hoffman contributed
$1,200
to
Lee
in
June
2021.
Hoffman
gained
attention
ahead
of
the
2020
election
when
Facebook
banned
his
digital
marketing
firm
for
running
a
“troll
farm”
on
behalf
of
the
conservative
advocacy
group
Turning
Point
Action,
the
political
arm
of Turning
Point
USA.
Hoffman’s
company’s
effort
was
described
as
“among
the
most
ambitious
domestic
influence
campaigns”
uncovered
during
the
2020
election."
"Superintendent
of
Public
Instruction Tom
Horne and
other
Republican
elected
officials
are
slated
to
speak
at a
Mesa
town
hall
Thursday
organized
by Moms
for
Liberty,
a
"parental
rights"
organization
founded
in
Florida
that
has
been
labeled
an
extremist
group
and
has
made
national
headlines
in
recent
years
for
attempts
to
take
over
school
boards
and
restrict
teaching
related
to
race,
gender
and
sexual
orientation."
[ .
. .
]
"State
lawmakers
Sen. Jake
Hoffman,
R-Queen
Creek,
Sen. Justine
Wadsack,
R-Tucson,
Rep. Justin
Heap,
R-Mesa,
and Barbara
Parker,
R-Mesa,
are
expected
to
participate
in a
panel
at
the
event.
The
panel
will
be
moderated
by
Descovich,
and
attendees
will
be
able
to
ask
education-related
questions."
"Moms
for
Liberty
was
founded
in
2021
by
Descovich
and
Justice,
former
school
board
members
in
Florida,
out
of
opposition
to
pandemic-related
school
closures
and
mask
mandates.
Its
chapters
have
since
made
national
headlines
for
attempts
to
take
over
school
boards,
explosive
appearances
at
school
board
meetings
and
efforts
to
restrict
the
teaching
of
race
and
gender-related
topics."
"To
state
Sen. Jake
Hoffman,
chair
of
the
far-right
Arizona
Freedom
Caucus,
Democrats
are
"anti-American"
members
of
the
"party
of
death
and
destruction."
He
said
recently
on
social
media
that
Gov.
Katie
Hobbs,
whom
voters
elected
in
November,
is
promoting
an
"insane
leftist
agenda."
On
the
issue
of
legal
abortion,
which
he
opposes,
he
calls
her
“a
monster.”
The
sharp-tongued
politician
is
not
much
kinder
to
Republicans
who
don't
fit
his
Trump-supporting,
ultraconservative
ideals."
"Eleven Arizona Republicans signed a document representing a nonexistent organization and declared, “We are the electors who represent the legal voters of Arizona.” It was part of a scheme by the Trump campaign to organize phony electors in seven states. Attorney General Kris Mayes vowed to look into the matter. According to the Post, prosecutors have contacted many people involved and their lawyers. Investigators are in the “fact-gathering” phase. The “fake electors” under investigation include two lawmakers, Arizona State Senators Anthony Kern of Glendale and Jake Hoffman of Queen Creek. Tyler Bowyer of the far-right activist group Turning Point USA and then-state GOP Chair Kelli Ward also signed their name to the document."
"Arizona
State
Sen. Jake
Hoffman is
pretty
upset
about
people
filming
porn
in
K-12
schools.
After
two
married
schoolteachers
were
busted
filming
raunchy
content
for
OnlyFans
inside
Thunderbolt
Middle
School
in
Lake
Havasu
City
last
year,
Hoffman
penned
a
bill
to
ban
filming
porn
in
government-owned
buildings."
"Saying
he
was
doing
what
the
Rev.
Martin
Luther
King
Jr.
would
have
wanted,
a
Queen
Creek
senator
got
Republican
colleagues
to
vote
to
outlaw
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
programs
in
state
and
local
governments
and
the
university
system.
SB
1694,
crafted
by Jake
Hoffman,
bans
the
use
of
government
money
for
any
such
program.
It
also
forbids
a
public
agency
from
requiring
workers
to
engage
in
those
programs,
allowing
those
employees
to
sue."
This bill, had it become law, would be the same as laws covering a cabaret but with the words "drag show" instead of "cabaret". This is simply a sneaky attempt to outlaw drag shows.
"It
did
not
take
long
for
Arizona’s
new
Gov.
Katie
Hobbs
to
show
her
true
colors.
And
it
took
even
less
time
for
Republican
lawmakers
to
show
theirs.
As
one
of
her
first
acts,
Hobbs
signed
an
executive
order
directing
the
Department
of
Administration
to
prohibit
discrimination
in
matters
of
hiring,
promotion
and
pay
based
on
sexual
orientation
and
gender
identity.
Same
with
all
new
state
contracts.
In
other
words,
the
governor
wants
to
make
sure
the
state
puts
into
practice
the
idea
that
all
Arizonans
are
“created
equal,”
a
truth
our
founders
believed
to
be
self-evident.
Although,
apparently
not
to
Republicans
in
the
Legislature’s
so-called
Arizona
Freedom
Caucus.
The
newly
formed
group
announced
that
it
will
sue
Hobbs
over
this
executive
order
and
others.
Republican
Sen. Jake
Hoffman railed
against
“Katie
Hobbs’
radical
woke
agenda”
and
in a
press
release
from
the
group
said,
“We’re
seeing
a
new
breed
of
Democratic
Fascism
take
hold
of
the
governor’s
office.”
I’m
not
sure
from
what
history
or
civics
class
Hoffman
came
to
believe
that
extending
equal
protection
under
the
law
to
all
citizens
is
“woke,”
since
that
would
make
the
U.S.
Constitution
“woke.”
I
also
don’t
believe
Hoffman
quite
understands
what
is
meant
by
“fascism.”
Although
he
should,
since
he
has
actively
tried
to
institute
it."
"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."
"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."
Conscience Rights for Creative Professionals: Allowing creative professionals (photographer, baker, wedding vendor) to decline to participate in events or create messages that violate their moral or religious beliefs. (Religious Freedom Laws)
Support
5.
Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. (Religious Freedom Laws)
Support
8.
Women's Sports: Preventing biological males who identify as female from competing in women's sports. (Transgender Discrimination)
Support
9.
Gender Identity Counseling: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for children struggling with gender identity issues to help them reach their desired outcome. (Dangerous Reparative Therapy)
Support
10a.
Protected Class for Sexual Orientation: Adding “sexual orientation” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. (Candidate supports LGBTQIA Discrimination)
Opposed
10b.
Protected Class for Gender Identity: Adding “gender identity” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. (Candidate supports LGBTQIA Discrimination)
Opposed
15.
Medical Rights of Conscience: Allowing health care workers and providers the freedom to practice medicine in accordance with their personal beliefs and conscience. (Religious Freedom Laws)
Support
16.
Parental Rights for Healthcare Disclosure: Requiring schools to disclose to parents if the school is providing counseling or medical services to a child who desires to undergo “gender transition.”
"Lawmakers
on
Capitol
Hill
are
continuing
to
press
Thomas
to
testify
about
her
role
in
pressuring
lawmakers
to
overturn
the
results
of
the
election
which
included
emails
from
the
FreeRoots
platform.
Queen
Creek
Republican Jake
Hoffman,
who
sent
a
letter
to
Vice
President
Mike
Pence
asking
him
on
January
5 to
not
accept
the
election
results
and
was
one
of
Arizona’s
fake
Trump
electors,
now
seems
to
operate
a
website
built
on
FreeRoots
and
has
connections
to
the
old
platform’s
owner."
"The
Fountain
Hills
Republican
said
he
supports
this
alternative
to
increase
the
number
of
Maricopa
County
supervisors
from
five
to
nine.
The
stalled
bill
was
introduced
by
GOP
State
Representative Jake
Hoffman,
whose
district
includes
southern
Gilbert
and
parts
of
Pinal
County. He
also
was
one
of
11
Republicans
who
falsely
declared
himself
an
elector
for
the
defeated
former
president Donald
Trump in
2020. Hoffman’s
bill
would
have
created
four
separate
boards
of
supervisors
in a
former
Maricopa
County.
The
bill
analysis
estimated
that
it
would
increase
costs
by
at
least
$155.2
million
each
year
for
new
county
officials
and
staff.
These
new
supervisors,
according
to
Democratic
Representative
Lorenzo
Sierra
of
Tolleson,
would
have
likely
skewed
Republican.
“When
you
did
an
assessment
of
the
political
breakdown
of
the
four
[proposed]
counties,
you
saw
it
was
gerrymandered
significantly,”
he
said.
At
present,
four
of
the
county's
five
supervisors
are
Republicans.
The
Board,
through
a
spokesperson,
declined
comment.
HB
2787
has
been
branded
by
Democrats,
some
Republicans,
and
many
in
the
media
as a
thinly
veiled
punishment
for
Maricopa
County’s
Board
of
Supervisors,
which
certified
the
2020
Presidential
Election
in
favor
of
Joe
Biden
and
resisted
efforts
by
state
GOP
lawmakers
to
force
a
now-discredited
audit
of
the
results.
The
stalled
bill
would
dilute
the
power
of
current
supervisors.
“At
the
time,
I
thought
it
was
just
a
way
of
being
able
to
have
more
folks
that
would
overturn
or
decertify
or
do
something
funky
with
the
elections,”
Sierra
added.
The
new
counties
with
boundaries
and
populations
proposed.
[...]
Hoffman
refutes
any
accusation
his
bill
is
about
anything
other
than
representation.
While
presenting
HB
2787
to
the
committee
on
February
16,
he
said,
“This
bill
is
not
designed
as
any
type
of
retribution
for
the
county.
It
is
explicitly
not
an
election
issue.”"
Mar.
11,
2022
In other words, as PROVEN by this bill, Republicans and ammosexuals find it wrong to discriminate against inanimate objects but have no problem discriminating against people.
"With an actual straight face, Rep. Jake Hoffman said his bill – which would strip the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors of their power – has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the supervisors refused to decertify the 2020 election.
Or that the supervisors poked gaping holes in every conspiracy theory offered up by the Senate’s ninja auditors.
Any attempt to paint this as retaliation or retribution toward the county is pure conspiracy theory ... ,” Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, told the House Government and Elections Committee during Wednesday’s hearing on his bill. “To say that this has anything to do with the election is laughable and nothing more than a conspiracy theory."
[ . . . ]
"And to suggest that we should take anything Jake Hoffman says at face value is, as laughs goes, a belly buster.
Hoffman is the guy who ran an internet troll farm in the months leading up to the 2020 election, hiring teenagers to blanket the internet with fake posts on conservative talking points and baseless conspiracy theories aimed at getting Donald Trump reelected.
He is one of the state’s now-infamous fake electors, avowing in December 2020 that he had been duly elected by Arizona voters to cast one of Arizona’s 11 electoral votes for Trump.
He’s the guy who on Jan. 5, 2021, sent an email to a White House staffer, containing an “urgent letter” to be passed along to then-Vice President Mike Pence. The email, obtained by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, implored Pence to “delay the certification of the election results and instead seek clarification from the Arizona legislature as to which slate of Presidential Electors are proper and accurate.” . . "
"The
day
before
rioters
stormed
the
U.S.
Capitol,
an
Arizona
lawmaker,
who
had
signed
a
document
falsely
asserting
he
was
one
of
the
state’s
presidential
electors,
sent
a
letter
to
Vice
President
Mike
Pence
asking
him
to
not
accept
the
state’s
official
electoral
votes.
The
two-page
letter
sent
by
Rep. Jake
Hoffman on
Jan.
5,
2020,
had
the
same
aim
as
the
rioters
would
the
next
day:
delaying
the
official
certification
of Donald
Trump’s
loss
in
the
2020
election
and
the
victory
of
President
Joe
Biden.
Hoffman’s
letter
asked
Pence
to
order
that
Arizona’s
electors
not
be
decided
by
the
popular
vote
of
the
citizens,
but
instead
by
the
members
of
the
state
Legislature.
Hoffman,
in
the
letter,
asked
Pence
to
“seek
clarification
from
the
Arizona
legislature
as
to
which
slate
of
electors
were
proper
and
accurate.”"
Feb.
16,
2022
Fake Elector Struggles To Explain Role In Scheme To Submit False Election Papers
"Rachel Maddow shares video shot by a KPNX photojournalist of Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas asking Arizona State Representative Jake Hoffman how he came to represent himself as an elector on paperwork that falsely claimed Donald Trump had won Arizona in 2020."
"Several
prominent
Arizona
Republicans
issued
a
joint
letter
Wednesday
afternoon
asking
Gov. Doug
Ducey to
withhold
funding
and
begin
legal
action
against
school
districts
that
are
not
following
state
laws."
"A digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible for a series of deceptive Facebook ads promoting Green party candidates during the 2018 US midterm elections in an apparent attempt to split the Democratic vote in a number of close races. The ads purported to come from an organization called America Progress Now (APN) and used socialist memes and rhetoric to urge leftwing voters to support Green party candidates.
Facebook was aware of the true identity of the advertiser and the deceptive nature of the ads, but the company determined that it did not violate its policies. The conservative marketing firm called itself “Rally Forge”, and went on to set up a pro-Trump domestic “troll farm” for Turning Point Action, a “sister” organization of Turning Point USA, in 2020, earning a permanent ban from Facebook. Turning Point is led by right-wing stooge Charlie Kirk, a favorite target of Twitter’s for his many gaffes as he continues to support Trump.
A right-wing political marketing firm that ran a $350,000 pro-Trump Super Pac in the 2016 election, Rally Forge was founded and run by Jake Hoffman, an Arizona Republican who was at the time a member of the town council in Queen Creek, Arizona. In November 2020 Hoffman was elected to serve in the Arizona state legislature."
"Hoffman signed
on
to a
letter
to
Congress
asking
lawmakers
to
accept
11
“alternate”
electoral
votes
for
Trump
or
to
have
all
of
the
state’s
electoral
votes
“nullified
completely
until
a
full
forensic
audit
can
be
conducted.”"
"Deceptive
political
campaigns
were
enough
for
Facebook
to
ban
newly
elected
Arizona
State
Representative Jake
Hoffman's
digital
marketing
firm
from
its
service
and
for
Twitter
to
permanently
suspend
his
personal
account."
"You
might
remember Jake
Hoffman for
his
pearly
smile,
or
for
the
time
his
digital
marketing
company
Rally
Forge
formed
a
Russian-style
disinformation
cell
of
local
teens
in
an
attempt
to
undermine
election
results
in
support
of
President Donald
Trump.
Hoffman's
hijinks
don't
stop
there.
A
Stanford
report
found
that
the
Queen
Creek
councilmember's
company
had
established
dozens
of
fake
social
media
accounts
in
support
of
conservative
political
causes."
"Revelations
about
right-wing
disinformation
boss Jake
Hoffman's
election
ratfuckery
have
spurred
a
last-ditch
effort
to
stop
him
from
ascending
to
the
Arizona
legislature."
"In
response
to
the
Post's
reporting,
Twitter
suspended
20
accounts
for
violating
the
site's
terms
of
service
and
Facebook
cracked
down
on
an
additional
number.
The
paper
found
nearly
4,500
identical
posts
associated
with
the
effort,
which
it
believes
is
just
a
small
fraction
of
the
total
output.
The
field
director
for
Turning
Point
Action,
the
Turning
Point
USA
entity
directly
managing
the
effort"
[...]
"Hoffman defended
the
identical
spam
messages
that
were
often
posted
in
the
comments
of
news
articles
as
similar
to a
phone-bank
script."
