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Justine Wadsack |
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Far-right extremist member
of the Republican Party representing
District 17. She is a founding state house
member of the radical pro-insurrectionist "Freedom Caucus".
Starting in February of 2023 Wadsack also
became involved with the virulently
homophobic and extreme MAGA right-wing "Gays
Against Groomers". Wadsack assumed
office on January 9, 2023. Her current term
ends on January 13, 2025. Wadsack ran for
election to the Arizona State Senate to
represent District 17. She won in the
general election on November 8, 2022. She
campaigned as a "constitutional
conservative," gaining popularity with her
strong stance against mask and vaccine
mandates and advocacy of Republican
priorities like private school subsidies.
Wadsack defeated incumbent State Senator
Vince Leach in the Republican primary.
Wadsack also ran for Arizona State Senate,
District 10 AND United States House of
Representatives, Arizona, District 2 in 2020
and failed. |
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Facing Recall,
Wadsack Threatens
GOP Control Of
Arizona Legislature |
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"The Republican
state senator's
opponents have opted
to try to dump her
sooner rather than
try to vote her out
in 2024. They don't
have a candidate but
they have a sense of
initiative in
launching a recall
effort against the
freshman legislator.
Wadsack has
been a prolific
lawmaker, unleashing
her brand of hatred
on the Capitol
Complex.
Books? Ban them.
Homeless? Jail 'em.
Drag queens?
Imprison 'em. Guns?
More! More! More!
Wadsack is acting as
if freedom is the
obligation to do
what she says. The
record she's piling
up makes her
re-election by
voters in suburban
Tucson a dicey
prospect and that's
a problem for
Arizona Republicans.
Someone in GOP
leadership needs to
have a talk with
Wadsack because she
looks like death to
the party's
legislative majority
come 2024. She may
be the destroyer of
their world because
she's forgetting
three things. First,
she won by just 51
percent to 49
percent. That's not
a mandate to rule as
much as it is an
onus to listen or
else." |
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Mar. 30, 2023 |
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Wadsack Recall Effort Underway |
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"Freshman Sen.
Justine Wadsack, R-Tucson, is facing a
burgeoning recall effort led by her
constituents in Legislative District 17 and
out-of-district organizers frustrated by
controversial bills and colorful comments.
“People who do live in the district,
retirees, are fed up and came to me because
I have an organizing background,” organizer
Christina Rodriguez said. She is one of
three people pushing the recall effort and
said her name won’t ultimately be attached
to the filing." [...] The group hasn’t filed
its recall petition yet but plans to in the
second week of May. It will host five events
each Saturday in April at Purple Heart Park
in Tucson to drum up support. They intend to
file in the first week of May and hope to
overshoot the required 33,000 signatures by
at least 2,000 since some may get thrown out
in the verification process." |
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Mar. 27, 2023 |
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Justine
Wadsack Goes All In For Gays Against
Groomers |
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Mar. 26, 2023 |
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Photo via Twitter |
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Not a surprise that
rabid homophobe and 4th rate cartoon
character Justine Wadsack (J-Wad) would be
heavily associated with and supportive of
Gays Against Groomers. |
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The Arizona Senate's Book Banning
Hysteria Has Gotten ... Hysterical |
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Laurie
Roberts / Arizona Republic |
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Mar. 21, 2023 |
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"Senate Bill 1700
is part of the Republican-run
Legislature’s ongoing hysteria over the
LGBTQ community and our leaders’ weird
paranoia that teachers and librarians
are secretly plotting to sexualize our
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Either that, or
it’s just a crass bid to pad their
reelection bona fides as fully engaged,
armed-and-at-the-ready culture warriors. |
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SB 1700 comes to us
courtesy of Sen. Justine Wadsack,
R-Tucson, part of a new crop of
far-right legislators who have come to
the Capitol to cleanse our schools of
anything that might offend her." |
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"The bill would
require the Arizona Department of
Education to create and maintain a list
of banned books that cannot be used in
public schools. Any time any parent
complained, ADOE would have to mount a
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The book then
would be banned if it was found to be
“to be lewd or sexual in nature, to
promote gender fluidity or gender
pronouns or to groom children into
normalizing pedophilia." |
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But, as Arizona
Mirror’s Jim Small pointed out, the bill
doesn’t define “gender pronouns.” |
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Nor does it say
anything about banning books with
non-gender specific pronouns such as
“they” or “them,” the ones often used by
those in the transgender community. |
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Therefore, I’m
assuming the goal of Wadsack and her
fellow Republicans must be to ban any
book containing gender-specific pronouns
like “he” or “she.” |
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That’s a lot of
books. |
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Of course, that’s
not really their goal but that’s what
the bill they just passed says. |
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And it's not the
first time Wadsack has overreached to
the point of falling flat on her face.
Earlier this year, in her rush to
regulate drag queens, she actually got
the Senate Judiciary Committee to
approve a bill that would have
criminalized parents who allow their
kids to watch movies like Mulan." |
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Fortunately, she
amended the bill after I pointed it out. |
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Her bill allowing
a ban on books that use gender pronouns
passed on a 16-12 party-line vote and
now goes to the House (en route to Gov.
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This, after
Wadsack waxed on about a book
chronicling the experiences of
transgender teens – one that she claims
contains “very explicit imagery of
6-year-old children giving oral sex.” |
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“You open the book
and you look at the pictures and you can
see very clearly when you have
6-year-old children giving oral sex that
the book is explicit,” she said. |
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It's worth noting that Wadsack admits
that she’s never actually seen the book
with this “very explicit imagery." |
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Wadsack Throws Barbs At Arizona State Bar,
Refused To Offer Any Proof |
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"Republican state Sen.
Justine Wadsack has proposed a law
based on claims that the State Bar told
lawyers they would be disbarred if they took
COVID-19 related court cases. But Wadsack
wants you to take her word for it, as she
refused to provide any evidence of those
claims to lawmakers or to the Arizona
Mirror. Wadsack’s Senate Bill 1435 would end
the requirement for Arizona attorneys to be
members of the State Bar of Arizona, instead
moving the responsibility for licensing
attorneys from the Bar to the Arizona
Supreme Court. “I had hundreds, if not over
a thousand people, who tried to sue doctors,
state officials, county officials, city
officials who were telling them if they
didn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, if they
didn’t mask their children in schools, if
they didn’t comply, that they would lose
jobs or be kicked out of school,” Wadsack
told the Arizona House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee on March 8. “The
attorneys came to me telling me they were
restricted from taking any of those cases
because, if they did, the Arizona State Bar
would immediately disbar them.” The State
Bar denies this. “The State Bar does not
tell attorneys what cases they can take, nor
does it advise attorneys they will be
disbarred for taking certain cases,
including those related to COVID-19,”
Jessica Sanchez, president of the State
Bar’s board, told the Mirror in a
statement." |
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*This
bill, if passed, would only apply to Drag
Storytime at public libraries or other
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*This bill, were it to become law,
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"drag
show" instead of "cabaret". This is simply a
sneaky attempt to outlaw drag shows. |
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Arizona Senate Panel Ignores Own
Attorney, OKs Bills Attacking Trans
Students And Drag Queens
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Elias Weiss
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Mar. 1, 2023 |
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Republicans advanced three anti-LGBTQ
bills to the full Arizona Senate on
Monday despite warnings that the bills
might be unconstitutional. |
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Attorney Chris Kleminich warned the
Senate Rules Committee that SB 1001,
which targets transgender children in
schools, and SB 1026 and SB 1698, two
weapons in the GOP’s war on drag queens,
weren’t likely to be upheld in a court
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sponsored by Republican Senator
John Kavanagh, prohibits teachers
and school officials from referring to
students by pronouns that don't match
their assigned gender at birth unless
they have written parental permission.
That bill moved forward in the Senate
Education Committee in January." |
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Kleminich’s admonition, Republicans
advanced the bill to the full Senate
with a 4-3 vote. Republican Senators
Warren Petersen,
Sonny Borrelli,
Sine Kerr, and
T.J. Shope voted to advance the
bill. Democratic Senators Lela Alston,
Catherine Miranda, and Raquel Terán
voted against it." |
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been attacking LGBTQ people in Arizona
for the past decade and who has a habit
of authoring unconstitutional bills,
also sponsored SB 1026, which would
prohibit public money from being used to
pay for “drag shows targeting minors.”" |
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"The Fountain Hills Republican sponsored
SB 1026 despite telling Phoenix New
Times that he can’t think of an instance
in which taxpayer dollars were used to
put on a drag show for children in
Arizona. The bill defines public money
as “tax monies of this state, federal
monies passing through the state
treasury, or any other state monies."
It was passed by the Senate Government
Committee on February 9." |
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sponsored by first-term Republican
Senator
Justine Wadsack, would add drag
shows to a state law about "dangerous
crimes against children." The bill
defines drag shows as adult-oriented
performances and compares them to
bestiality, child sex trafficking,
second-degree murder, and sexual
assault." |
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Tucson Lawmaker
Loses First Bid To
Dump Cities' Rights |
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A bid to kill home
rule in 19 cities was defeated Tuesday when
two Republican senators who represent some
of those areas refused to go along. But Sen.
Justine Wadsack, R-Tucson, who has
been leading the charge because she is
unhappy with Tucson’s system of electing
council members, told Capitol Media Services
she already is working on changes she
believes will overcome their objections. And
it would do it in a way that her SCR 1023
would be narrowed to
save their home
cities from losing
their charters — and
then affect only two
largely Democratic
cities. |
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were it to become
law, would be the
same as laws
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"drag
show" instead of
"cabaret". This is
simply a sneaky
attempt to outlaw
drag shows. |
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Take Your kid To
Watch 'Mulan' And
Wind Up In Prison?
What Will Lawmakers
Think Of Next? |
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House Bill 1698
would criminalize anyone who exposes a child
to a drag performance. Take your daughter to
see “Hairspray” and, by my read of the bill,
you’d be guilty of a class 4 felony,
punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
You’d also have to register as a sex
offender. This bill is brought to you by
Rep. Justine
Wadsack, R-Tucson, a
member of the House
Freedom Caucus.
Freedom, that is,
unless you allow
your child to watch
“Mulan,” in which
case you’d be guilty of a “dangerous crime
against children” if said child is under the
age of 15. I realize there’s political gold
these days in demonizing drag but isn’t this
just a tad … I don’t know … full-on,
flat-out bonkers? |
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Feb. 1, 2023 |
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As
Hobbs Called For
Collaboration, Some
Republicans
Literally Turned
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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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Arizona State Senator-Elect Told A Judge
That 'Antifa' Attacked Her Home. Police
Reports Show Something Else |
She testified at the
court hearing this summer that her family
was accosted by people, some of whom she
believed were affiliated with Antifa, since
she first filed to run for office in 2019.
Antifa, short for "anti-fascist," refers to
a loosely associated group of left-wing
militants who target neo-Nazis, racists and
anyone they deem "fascists" for action that
sometimes includes physical violence.
Protesters "were coming to my house,"
yelling anti-white insults and would "tell
me I was going to die," she testified. She
described a night when "Antifa" surrounded
her home and were run off by police but
returned in the early morning hours and
tried to set the home on fire with
"professional grade" fireworks.
Tucson police reports show a call to police
due to loud fireworks in 2020. Yet if
officers dealt with protesters at her home —
Antifa or not — they apparently didn't write
it down in their reports. The Republic asked
the Tucson Police Department for all calls
for service or other police action at her
family's home from 2019 to present, and any
reports associated with calls for service.
The reports do confirm some, though not all,
details of two incidents that she testified
about: a man showing up at her door and
calling her names, and a dog biting her
husband while he was out for a jog. But in
both cases, Wadsack's court version was more
dramatic than the one she and others gave to
police. |
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MAGA
Candidate Defeats
Arizona Senator
In Senate District 17 Primary |
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Republican primary
voters from Tucson's northwest side, far
east side and Rita Ranch area are embracing
the party's MAGA wing, preliminary results
for state Senate District 17 show. With
nearly all precincts reported as of midday
Wednesday, Justine Wadsack, who described
herself as a "Pro Trump America First"
conservative, was poised to defeat
Vince
Leach, a state senator seeking a third term,
by an unofficial margin of about 1,200
votes. Wadsack, 48, opposes abortion rights,
the teaching of critical race theory and
mask requirements to prevent the spread of
COVID-19. She participated in storming a
Vail school board meeting last year to
protest mask requirements. Her endorsements
included the Arizona Tea Party; Purple for
Parents, an online group formed in
opposition to the Red for Ed movement; and a
group called Tucson
Trump MAGA. She has
appeared in election ads with
Kari Lake,
the Trump-backed choice for governor. |
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*Purple
for
Parents
= "Purple
Parents’
Hate
Group
Disrupts
School
Boards
Across
Arizona" |
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*GLSEN =
"Gay,
Lesbian
&
Straight
Education
Network)
is an
American
education
organization
working
to end
discrimination,
harassment,
and
bullying
based on
sexual
orientation,
gender
identity
and
gender
expression
and to
prompt
LGBT
cultural
inclusion
and
awareness
in K-12
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GLSEN was never "ran out of
Arizona" as the NAZI's insist. They remain across
the state as of today. |
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Crazy/Stupid
Republican Of The
Day: Justine Wadsack |
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What Ever Happened To Them: Arizona Election Edition |
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Nov. 9, 2020 |
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Candidates Spread Conspiracy Theory In Bid To Be Elected |
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Sep. 4, 2020 |
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QAnon in Arizona
Politics: A Guide |
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Justine Wadsack
is a Republican running for a state Senate
seat in Legislative District 10, which
includes Tucson. She has voiced pro-QAnon
sentiment online and engaged with a
prominent figure in the QAnon community,
Praying Medic |
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Center
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Arizona
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2020 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Senate LD-10 |
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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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GOP Trots Out 6 Extreme Candidates At Secret CD2 Forum |
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