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Far-right Republican
conspiracy theorist and extremist member of
the Arizona State Senate, representing
District 1. He assumed office on January 9,
2023. His current term ends on January 13,
2025. Bennett ran for election to the
Arizona State Senate to represent District
1. He won in the general election on
November 8, 2022. Bennett was a 2016
Republican candidate who sought election to
the U.S. House to represent the 1st
Congressional District of Arizona. He was
defeated by Paul Babeu in the Republican
primary on August 30, 2016. Bennett ran for
governor in 2014 and was defeated by Doug
Ducey in the Republican primary on August
26, 2014. Bennett was the Arizona Secretary
of State from 2009 to 2015. Bennett, a
Republican, was first appointed to the
position by former Arizona Governor
Jan Brewer (R) in January 2009. Brewer
served as the secretary of state prior to
the resignation of former Governor Janet
Napolitano (D). He won election to a full
four-year term as secretary in 2010 and was
barred by term limits from seeking
re-election in 2014. In
2021, the Arizona state senate controlled by
Republicans provided $150,000 for funding an
audit of the 2020 election presidential
results in Maricopa County, with Bennett
becoming a liaison between the contractors
performing the audit, the state, and the
county. In late July 2021, it was reported
that Bennett had been "banned from entering
the building where the recount process is
ongoing, after he shared some data with
experts that showed the results match the
officially certified numbers in Maricopa
County" In 2012, Bennett made
national news when he requested President
Barack Obama's birth certificate from the
state of Hawaii as a prerequisite to listing
Obama on that year's presidential ballot.
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*This
bill,
were it to become
law,
would only apply to
Drag Story Time at
public libraries or
other locations
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*This bill,
were it to become
law, would be the
same as laws
covering a cabaret
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"drag
show" instead of
"cabaret". This is
simply a sneaky
attempt to outlaw
drag shows. |
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Center
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Arizona
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2022 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Senate
District
1 |
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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'
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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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| Candidates'
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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Audit Twitter
Accounts, Cyber Ninjas Contract
Dispute
And Other Details Revealed In New Documents |
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"Audit liaison Ken
Bennett and other audit officials would not
disclose to journalists, who asked
frequently, who was running the Twitter
accounts. Bennett at one point said the
initial account he started was run by a
group of volunteers." |
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Sep. 25, 2021 |
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There Will Be Winners And Losers When
Arizona's Election Audit Ends. Here Are A
Few |
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LOSER: Ken Bennett |
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former secretary of state decided to
volunteer his services to act as the
Senate’s liaison to the audit, hoping he
could lend his expertise in elections to the
ensure legitimacy in the audit. |
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became the affable stooge, unable even to
control his own Senate liaison Twitter
account, which at times appeared to be
authored by a third grader, chiding
journalists and promoting conspiracy
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Bennett is the first person you see in the
trailer for “The Deep Rig,” a documentary
about the supposedly stolen election. The
filmmaker was granted special access to the
auditors, possibly because the documentary
is based upon a book written by former
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who claims to
have raised $2.8 million to help fund the
audit. |
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| Ken Bennett is a respected Republican, a
longtime elected state official and Prescott
businessman who lent his time and his
generally good reputation to this audit. |
| “I’m not trying to give credibility to crazy
people or, as (12 News') Brahm (Resnik)
accused me of on Sunday Squareoff, I’m not
trying to add fuel to the insurrection
fire,” he told me in April. “I’m just trying
to make sure that Arizonans have confidence
that their elections are fair, transparent
and accurate.” |
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around. If Bennett was hoping this would
serve as a springboard back into statewide
office, he can put that dream to rest." |
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Jun. 22, 2021 |
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Article mentioned
can be found below on May 22, 2012, Photo:
Twitter,
Source |
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"Arizona Audit" Updates: Former Secretary Of
State Can't Convince Companies Audit Is Not
Part Of "Big Lie"; Notorious Atty Lin Wood
Is Major Funder AND Has Ties To Head "Cyber
Ninja" |
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Apr. 16, 2021 |
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Promoter Of False Election Fraud Claims Is Raising Money For Arizona
Senate GOP’s Election Audit. Is That even Legal? |
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"Spokesman Ken Bennett says Senate needs private donations because
costs will top the $150,000 being paid to election fraud promoter
who’s leading audit. |
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Apr. 11, 2021 |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
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2018
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position Sought:
Governor |
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4: 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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Position: Oppose. |
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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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This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy". |
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Dirty Tricks:
Ken Bennett Angles For Maricopa County
Elections Job |
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Mar. 2, 2017 |
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Center
for
Arizona
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2016
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-1 |
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4: 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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9: 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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Arizona
Congressional
Election
2016
Political
Courage
Test |
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Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-1 |
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Center
for
Arizona
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2014
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position Sought:
Governor |
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9: Arizona’s voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage should be defended to the fullest extent legally possible. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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11: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in antidiscrimination law. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Oppose |
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15: 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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Position: Support |
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Arizona
Political Candidates Hobnob With Cliven
Bundy At GOP Picnic |
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"PHOENIX – Outlaw
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed
posse hobnobbed with numerous Arizona
Republican political candidates last weekend
at the70th annual Mohave County Republican
Party Picnic. [...] Stumping politicians who
attended the Aug. 16 picnic along with Bundy
included: Gubernatorial candidates Treasurer
Doug Ducey,
Christine Jones and Secretary of State
Ken Bennett; Secretary of State candidate
Michelle Reagan; Attorney General
candidate
Mark Brnovich; Treasurer candidates
Jeff DeWitt and
Randy Pullen; and Superintendent of
Public Instruction candidate
Diane Douglas. [...] Bundy made national
and international headlines in April over
his tense standoff with local sheriff’s
deputies and federal land management
officials during which his followers trained
guns on law enforcement officers and media." |
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Aug. 22, 2014 |
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Top GOP
Candidate for Governor Led Birther Efforts
In Arizona |
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Jun. 3, 2014 |
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Ken
Bennett Is The Free Enterprise Crony Of
The Month |
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Jun. 2, 2014 |
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Arizona
Secretary Of State On Payroll Of Freedomworks
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"Arizona Secretary of
State Ken Bennett, a Republican,
has been
paid $2,000 a month by a key bankroller of
the Tea Party group
Freedomworks since he
took office in 2009" |
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May 7, 2013 |
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Ken Bennett Courts Ridicule With More
Birther Nonsense |
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Jun. 20, 2012 |
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Bennett Backs Off Birther Threat, Apologizes
To Arizona |
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May 22, 2012 |
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Emails Show How Hawaii Stiffed Arizona
Secretary Of State's
Birther Investigation |
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May 21, 2012 |
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Ken Bennett's
Son + Youth Camp + Broomsticks
= AZ SOS? |
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May 18, 2012 |
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Obama May Not Make The Arizona Ballot For Usual Stupid Arizona Reasons |
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"Arizona's Secretary
of State has threatened not to put President
of the United States of America Barack Obama
on the ballot this fall because (a) he had a
persuasive chit-chat with World Net Daily
arch-grifter Jerome Corsi and (b) "he got
more than 1,200 emails" demanding he look
into the president's birth certificate after
Joe Arpaio’s "investigation" came out. This
is the current power system in Arizona,
folks. This is how things are done now.
We're tempted to declare the devolution
complete and finally throw that big State of
Nature parade in the blood-soaked hellscape
streets of outer Phoenix, but maybe it's too
soon. They'll do something dumber,
eventually. They always do. Christ, Arizona.
Stop hitting yourself." |
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May 18, 2012 |
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Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary Of State,
Plays To The "Birthers" |
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May 17, 2012 |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
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2010 Survey
Questions For
Arizona And County
Candidates |
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Position Sought:
Secretary of State |
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9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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12: 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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Position: Oppose |
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15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.* |
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Position: Support |
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Senate President's Son Gets Plea Deal |
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"The son of Arizona Senate President Ken
Bennett may not see prison time, though he confessed that he and
another counselor sodomized 18 boys with broomsticks and flashlights
at a youth camp in June." |
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Apr. 3, 2006 |
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Marriage