Serial homophobe and far-right
MAGA Republican
extremist serving as a member of the Arizona
State Senate, representing District 7. She
assumed office on January 9, 2023. Her
current term ends on January 13, 2025.
Rogers ran for re-election to the Arizona
State Senate to represent District 7. She
won in the general election on November 8,
2022. Rogers also ran for re-election to the
Arizona State Senate to represent District
6. She did not appear on the ballot for the
Republican primary on August 2, 2022. Rogers
was a member of the United States Air Force
from 1976 to 1996. An outspoken supporter of
Donald Trump, Rogers led a successful
primary challenge in 2020 against incumbent
Republican state senator Sylvia Allen and
defeated Democrat Felicia French in the
general election. She had previously made
five unsuccessful campaigns for public
office. Since her election, Rogers has
emerged as a divisive and controversial
figure, embracing inflammatory rhetoric
including the white nationalist Great
Replacement conspiracy theory, and appearing
on TruNews. Rogers is a member of the "Oath
Keepers", an alt-right anti-government
militia whose members took part in the 2021
U.S. Capitol insurrection. In March 2022,
the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate
censured her for remarks she made at the
America First Political Action Conference.
"If you’re an Arizona
state senator, the law says you need to live
in the district you represent. Public
records show that Arizona State Sen.
Wendy Rogers and her husband own three
homes. One in Tempe. One in Chandler. One in
Flagstaff. Only the Flagstaff home is in her
district. Which begs the question, where is
Wendy Rogers? Is she in Tempe, Chandler or
in Flagstaff? That part is not entirely
clear. But what we do know is Wendy Rogers
has proven beyond a doubt that she is in the
one place she doesn’t belong. In politics."
"Republican Sen.
Wendy Rogers obtained an injunction
against harassment against a reporter
investigating whether Rogers lives in the
northern Arizona legislative district she
was elected to represent. A judge at the
Flagstaff Justice Court granted the petition
on Wednesday, ordering Arizona Capitol Times
reporter Camryn Sanchez to not contact
Rogers at her residence." [ . . . ] "Where
exactly that residence is now the question.
According to property records uncovered by
Sanchez,
Rogers and her husband recently bought a
home in Chandler. Around the time of the
sale, Rogers signed documents claiming she
resides in Tempe, far from Legislative
District 7, which includes Flagstaff,
Payson, Show Low and Williams." [ . .
. ] "The Arizona Constitution requires
legislators to live in the county they will
represent for at least one year prior to
election or appointment. Rogers was elected
to represent LD7 in Coconino County, while
her prior home in Tempe and new home in
Chandler both fall within Maricopa County."
"“They didn’t find
criminal fraud, something they could
actually attach a criminal charge to,”
Republican state Senator
Sonny Borrelli said, his voice raising
in response to a guest speaker who suggested
that Republican election security bills are
inspired by conspiracy theories. “But there
were numerous, numerous violations of the
civil law of the code.” “For you to make
that broad statement and impugn everyone..."
The Republican from Lake Havasu didn’t
finish his thought before Juan Mendez, a
Democrat from Tempe, jumped to the speaker’s
defense. “He doesn't have to abide by that
rule,” Mendez said, referring to committee
chair
Wendy Rogers’ rule against using the
phrase “conspiracy theory” in her committee.
The three went back and forth until Rogers,
a Republican from Flagstaff, threatened to
remove Mendez from the room."
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.
"Not long
ago, Republican state Sen. Wendy
Rogers, the unhinged Arizona
lawmaker running the joint
Senate Elections and House
Municipal Oversight and
Elections committees, welcomed
the testimony of an unhinged
woman making unhinged
accusations about bribery and
connections to a drug cartel
against the governor, the county
supervisors, Maricopa County
judges and even against the
unhinged lawmakers who invited
her.
Now,
Republicans in the Legislature
are suffering from ligament
damage and tendon injuries from
all the finger pointing.
Meantime,
members of the press, other
elected officials, social media
respondents and the vast
majority of, you know, sane
people, condemned this
one-flew-over-the-cuckoo’s-nest
extravaganza as a horrible way
for politicians to behave.
I
understand where they’re coming
from but … they are wrong.
They're doing what they
promised: Nothing
Rogers
and the rest of her mad mob
should be celebrated, not
condemned. Seriously,
celebrated.
[...]
Rogers
and her conspiracy crazed
Republican cohorts are doing
exactly what they promised they
would do and, unwittingly,
exactly what those of us with
sound minds should want them to
do.
Which is
– nothing.
They can
rant about all the debunked
conspiracies they want. They can
hold all the hearings they want.
They can propose all the
bizarre, irrational,
irresponsible election bills
they want. In the end, they will
come away with – you guessed it
– nothing."
"Aaaand the crazy just
keeps on a’coming in Arizona. Sen. Wendy
Rogers on Friday announced she’s been
appointed to chair the committee that will
deal with election law. (That is, assuming
the Republicans maintain control of the
chamber.) “Arizona WILL NOW get it’s house
in order with @KariLake to ratify Election
Integrity bills via Special Session come
January 2023. #LockandLoad #State48” she
tweeted. Rogers is perhaps the looniest
legislator that Arizona has elected … ever.
She built a national following on the far
right by ranting about election conspiracies
and railing about George Soros and the cabal
of Jews, elites and other nefarious
characters who plot to create a New World
Order. She lauds white nationalists as
“patriots” and warns about immigrant
invasions and the conspiracy to take over
our country."
"It was in both 2017,
and in 2018, as well as 2021, “Fanatical
Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled
Wendy Rogers, who not only failed to get
herself elected to the Arizona State Senate
during the 2010 Tea Party Wave then failed
in four consecutive elections to get herself
elected to Congress"
"This being Arizona,
it figures that a
politician who
continues to spread
the Big Lie about
election fraud –
with absolutely no
proof – would be the
one caught on tape
making a sleazy
attempt to convince
people to lie to
poll workers when
they go to vote on
Election Day.
It also figures –
this being Arizona –
that the politician
making such a sleazy
suggestion is … you
guessed it … state
Sen. Wendy Rogers.
It happened at a in
Payson recently.
Rogers kept
reporters out of the
meeting but a
recording was made
and came to the
attention of
resourceful
journalists at the
Payson Roundup.
They quoted Rogers,
who is perhaps the
most unhinged member
of the Arizona
Legislature (which
is saying A LOT),
urging those at the
meeting to
participate in a
deceitful,
bone-headed scheme
Rogers believed
would undermine
trust in Arizona’s
mail-in ballot
process. Something
she would like to do
away with, even
though it is safe
and is used by the
vast majority of
Arizonans of all
political parties.
Rogers says on the
tape, “You’re going
to get a vote in the
mail like I will.
About 83% vote by
mail. Keep it
sealed. Put it in
your pocket. Wait
until Election Day.
Then go in and say,
‘Hi, I’m Nancy Cox.’
They’ll say, ‘Oh,
you’ve voted
already.’ You say,
‘I haven’t voted.
I’ll take a
provisional ballot.’
And Nancy Cox votes.
Then you call the
sheriff’s office.
Call and say, ‘I
have an identity
theft problem.
Please come up and
document it.’ Why do
this? This just
shuts down one of
the avenues of
deceit. Are they
going to steal this
election? Oh yeah –
they’re going to try
to steal it.”
Who's disrupting
the election
process?
They?
Really?
Because the only
double-dealing going
on here is by
Rogers.
And should that
surprise anyone?
After all, this is
the same politician
who supports the
proudly antisemitic,
homophobic Oklahoma
Legislature
candidate Jarrin
Jackson.
The same politician
who has hung out
with
Holocaust-denier
Nick Fuentes.
The same politician
who is an Oath
Keeper, whose leader
and others are
charged with
seditious conspiracy
in connection with
the Jan. 6
insurrection.
The same politician
who is , believes
her personally
designated
“traitors” should be
publicly hanged,
promotes QAnon
lunacy, backed the
vile Alex Jones over
the mourning parents
of murdered children
in Sandy Hook, and
has tweeted an
antisemitic photo of
herself next to a
dead rhino branded
with the Star of
David that reads, “I
stand with the
Christians worldwide
not the global
bankers who are
shoving godlessness
and degeneracy in
our face.”
We all know where
Rogers is coming
from
Rogers has been in
conflict with the
Gila County
Republican Party and
she has been
censured by the
Republican-controlled
Arizona Legislature.
Now, she’s asking
voters to lie at the
polls. And for what?
Gila County
Elections Director
Eric Mariscal said
her idiotic scheme
involving a
trumped-up notion of
identity theft would
not fool anyone and
made no sense.
Mariscal said, “I’m
not sure where
(Rogers) is coming
from.”
That’s easy. The
location is always
the same.
Whenever Rogers says
anything, does
anything or goes
anywhere, she comes
out of left field."
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."
"Two Arizona
Republicans are
trumpeting an
endorsement from
Andrew Torba, the
CEO of far-right
social media
platform Gab, who
said earlier this
month that Jewish
people aren’t
welcome on Gab — and
should be exiled
from the
conservative
movement altogether."
Jun. 29, 2022
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2022 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates
Position Sought:
State
Senate
District
7
Question 2: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position:
Oppose.
Question 4: Allowing biological males that identify as transgender to play on female sports’ teams.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
Question 8: Allowing parents to seek professional counseling for their minor child with same-sex attraction or gender identity issues.*
Candidates'
Position: Support
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.**
Candidates' Position:
Support.
*
This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy".
"After vowing to create
jobs, Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers
said she intends to put more than 1 million
Americans out of work. Federal employees,
specifically. And Arizona has a lot of ‘em.
Rogers promised it would be a “fed boy
summer” in the wake of a racist mass
shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New
York, in May. Political observers said
Rogers was employing the debunked trope that
the attack was a false-flag operation,
kindling her apathy toward the federal
government. Attention all fed boys: Enjoy
your summer while you still can. The
first-term Republican from Flagstaff made
her stance on fed boys crystal clear in a
tweet on Monday. And yes, "fed boy" indeed
means the federal government, her attorney
Tim LaSota confirmed in a June 17 report
from the Arizona Senate Ethics Committee."
"The Arizona Senate
will investigate a social media post from
state Sen. Wendy Rogers that suggested the
shooter in a mass killing in Buffalo, New
York, last weekend was a federal agent and
part of a federal conspiracy. The Senate
voted 24-3, with three members not voting,
to move forward with an investigation by the
Senate Ethics Committee. The committee will
now examine Rogers' remarks "relating to the
Buffalo shooting as inappropriate of an
elected official with this body.""
"After an 18-year-old
uploaded a racist manifesto before targeting
Black people in a mass shooting, the
shooter’s fellow racists are scrambling to
obfuscate the truth."
"Not content with
peddling election fraud conspiracy theories
stateside, Arizona State Senator Wendy
Rogers is now exporting her own brand of Nutella to France, which ended its
presidential election on Sunday. That night,
Rogers regurgitated a trope about stolen
elections on Twitter. That's not news for
the first-term Flagstaff Republican, but
this time, she wasn’t talking about Arizona
or the United States."
"This fall, Nick Jongebloed, a
wellness coach out
in Lewisville, North
Carolina, began to
pay attention to one
particular lawmaker
in Arizona — Wendy
Rogers.
He had no connection
to the state. But he
was captivatedby her social
media crusades on
voter fraud and
believed Rogers when
she said that she
was fighting for a
“movement” beyond
just Arizona. He
became a $15-a-month
contributor to her
campaign.
As Arizona’s
high-profile,
far-right state
lawmaker begins her
campaign for
re-election, Rogers
has plenty of money
in her political war
chest.
Much of it comes
from people like
Jongebloed:
small-time donors
with little
connection to
Arizona but are
devoted to Rogers’
platform. A Phoenix
New Times analysis
found that donations
came from every
state in the
country, spiking
when Rogers appeared
on far-right
podcasts or
collected
endorsements.
This following has
given Rogers
significant
resources, despite
being rebuked and
censured by her
colleagues in the
Senate in recent
weeks. This, despite
her refusal to
apologize for
increasingly
unhinged comments,
which critics say
often tacitly
endorse white
nationalism and
racist conspiracies."
"Wendy Rogers
always has been a
hard-edged
conservative
political candidate,
taking extreme
positions on
abortion, LGBTQ
rights and other
issues that have
raised concern among
left-leaning voters
and Democrats.
Rogers took a
harder right turn in
the Trump era and
finally won
political office in
2020 after 10 years
of trying.
As a state
senator for
Flagstaff and part
of northern Arizona,
she’s been pushing
for extreme changes
to the election
system that have
caused even some
Republicans to
recoil, like
eliminating mailed
ballots for most
voters.
But that’s not
all that changed
after she gained
office
Rogers, 67,
turned up the heat.
She became far more
prolific on social
media as her fandom
grew, and her
rhetoric grew bolder
— and meaner. She’s
turned into one of
the state’s greatest
dividers, with her
statements recently
going too far for
most of her
Republican peers in
the state Senate.
Most of them
voted with Democrats
on March 1 to
censure her.
The historic
action came amid
criticism of
Rogers for appearing
via video at a
Florida conference
hosted by Nick
Fuentes, a white
supremacist and
Holocaust denier who
attended the violent
“Unite the Right”
rally in
Charlottesville in
2017 and rallied his
followers on Jan. 6,
2021, to storm the
Capitol and overturn
the presidential
election results. In
the video, Rogers
grinned as she spoke
of convicting, then
hanging, political
enemies.
"If we try some
of these high-level
criminals, convict
them, and use a
newly built set of
gallows, it’ll make
an example for these
traitors who have
betrayed our
country," she told
the group. "They
have yet to be
justly punished for
the crimes they have
committed.”
She heaped lavish
praise on Fuentes,
who infamously
compared Jews to
cookies in an oven
in an October 2019
web broadcast,
saying the "math"
adds up to "only
200,000 to 300,000
cookies," not 6
million, and made
other antisemitic
remarks.". .
"Midway through a
white nationalist’s conference in Orlando
last month, one speaker drew applause
calling for gruesome violence against
“traitors” after excoriating critics of the
“honorable” Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
and proponents of the “bioweapon”
coronavirus vaccine. “We need to build more
gallows,” the speaker said, adding that such
a deadly fate would “make an example of
these traitors who’ve betrayed our
country.”"
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5)
- "The state’s top
business group is
done with Republican
state Sen. Wendy
Rogers. The Arizona
Chamber of Commerce
and Industry
president and CEO
said Friday that
she’s unfit to serve
in office and unfit
to get any more of
their money."
"Republican and
Democratic state
senators joined
together Tuesday in
a historic vote to
censure Sen. Wendy
Rogers following
violent and
discriminatory
comments she made to
a white nationalist
conference and on
social media
attacking the
president of
Ukraine.
Thirteen Democrats
and 11 Republicans
voted for the
censure language
read on the Senate
floor. It was the
first time in three
decades senators
publicly censured
one of their own
members, and the
move was applauded
by Gov.
Doug Ducey —
who just days ago
was criticized for
his support of
Rogers.
Rogers engaged in
“conduct unbecoming
of a senator,
including publicly
issuing and
promoting social
media and video
messages encouraging
violence against and
punishment of
American citizens
and making
threatening
statements declaring
'political
destruction' of
those who disagree
with her views. The
senator from
District 6 has
damaged the
reputation of the
Arizona state Senate
by her actions,"
Sen.
Rick Gray said,
reading the censure
motion.
[
. . . ]
Rogers,
R-Flagstaff, was the
first to speak about
her censure,
citing a "corrupted
process" and
painting the issue
as one of First
Amendment free
speech rights. She
slammed her peers
for "colluding with
the Democrats to
attempt to destroy
my reputation."
"I
do not apologize. I
will not back down,"
she said."
"The country is
"forcibly vaccinating people with a bioweapon … it’s criminal!” she said. “When
we do take back our God-given rights, we
will bring these criminals to justice. We
need to build more gallows. If we try some
of these high-level criminals, convict them,
and use a newly built set of gallows, it’ll
make an example for these traitors who have
betrayed our country. They have yet to be
justly punished for the crimes they have
committed.” On Twitter, Rogers also posted
over the weekend that Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy "is a globalist puppet
for Soros and the Clintons," naming the
Democratic mega-donor George Soros and the
political dynasty. In another post, she
claimed "half of the combat footage of Kiev
out there is from a video game." She said
she refused to spell the Ukrainian capital
city Kyiv, saying Kiev was the preferred
"American spelling."
"Arizona state Sen.
Wendy Rogers, who spoke at last week’s white
nationalist America First Political Action
Conference, called on white nationalist and
Holocaust denier Vincent James Foxx to “run
for office.” Rogers also recently forwarded
a piece from VDare, a white nationalist
website that is dedicated to warning readers
about the supposed dangers of nonwhites.
Foxx is a white nationalist streamer and
writer. He is also a Holocaust denier who
has said that “the Holocaust is weaponized”
against white people"
"A Republican state
senator fawned over the leader of a white
nationalist movement on Friday and told his
followers that
she fantasizes about
hanging her perceived enemies from gallows.
“I’ve said we need to build more gallows.
If we try some of these high-level
criminals, convict them and use a newly
built set of gallows, it’ll make an example
of these traitors who have betrayed our
country,” Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff,
said Feb. 25 in her speech to the white
nationalist America First Political Action
Conference in Florida.
Rogers told the white nationalists who were
assembled in the ballroom at the Orlando
World Center Marriott that they were
“patriots.” She
addressed the AFPAC crowd remotely, speaking
from Arizona, where she said she was busy
pushing legislation. Rogers effusively
praised Nick Fuentes, the event’s racist
organizer [...] AFPAC opened with Fuentes
soliciting a round of applause from the
crowd for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The
white nationalists chanted in response,
“Putin! Putin! Putin!” In his closing
speech, Fuentes said “the United States
is the evil empire in the world.” “Now,
they’re going and saying, “‘Vladimir Putin
is Adolf Hitler,’ as if that isn’t a good
thing,”"
"The
Republican state senator was
clear in what she wanted in a
recent post on Telegram, the
encrypted messaging app that has
become a haven for far-right
politics and extremists. “Dear Groyper army, please hit
Ron
Watkins. Love, Wendy,” she
wrote. State Sen. Wendy Rogers
was asking her fans and allies
in the “groyper army” to go
after the QAnon conspiracy
theorist turned Congressional
candidate because he had alleged
Rogers, who has built her
political brand on spreading
lies about the 2020 election,
was involved in some sort of
“backroom deal” that was
preventing Splunk logs and
routers from being examined for
alleged election fraud. There is
no evidence of such a backroom
deal."
"It’s not surprising
that our leaders finally broke down and
agreed to allow the public schools to spend
money that’s already sitting in their bank
accounts – money the Legislature
appropriated last June. What is stunning is
that 20 Republicans – 14 in the House and
six in the Senate – actually voted to stiff
the schools and to heck with the impact on
the one million Arizona children who attend
them."
"For the past 11
days, hundreds of
protestors, many of
whom are driving
big-rig trucks have
occupied Canada’s
capital city of
Ottawa, blocking
streets and
disrupting the city
with raucous
demonstrations.
These trucker
protests, led by the
so-called “Freedom
Convoy” now
besieging Ottawa,
began after the
Canadian and U.S.
government enacted a
rule requiring
cross-border
truckers to be fully
vaccinated in order
to get into either
of the two
countries.
The protests, like
massive, heavily
polarized movements
are wont to do,
spiraled into a
wider, incoherent
demonstration
against public
health measures as a
whole. And now, they
may be coming to the
U.S.
Analysts watching
right-wing chatter
on apps like
Telegram have
recently seen an
outpouring of
organizing around
direct actions
similar to Canada’s
trucker protests,
which spread from
the Ottawa
occupation to large
disruptive actions
across the country,
including at a
border crossing to
the U.S. in Alberta.
In particular, some
right wingers seem
to be plotting to
shut down the Super
Bowl this weekend.
Trump megafan and
Arizona State
Senator Wendy Rogers
took up that mantle
yesterday, giving us
this particularly
bizarre take: "
"If
truckers
shut
down the
Super
Bowl it
would
partially
be
payback
for
Colin
Kaepernick
and the
kneeling."
"Rogers routinely
shares inflammatory messages, and appears on
web shows affiliated with alleged White
Nationalist and anti-Semitic hosts." [...]
The first-time state lawmaker routinely
rails on social media against what she calls
“cancel culture” with incendiary tweets that
appear intended to shock. “Merry
Christmas to Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, the
Washington Redskins, and the Land O Lakes
Indian – all whom the racist communists have
cancelled,""
"Commentator Nick
Fuentes is a Holocaust denier who opposes
interracial marriages, supports racial
segregation, and has encouraged violence
against his perceived political opponents.
One of Fuentes’ biggest fans is Arizona
Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers, who has
said that she loves him, compared receiving
a compliment from him to receiving
“knighthood,” and urged her followers to
“listen to” Fuentes because he is “exposing
the truth.”"
"Senate Bill 1045
would penalize
school personnel,
from principals to
counselors, if they
encourage a student
to withhold their
transgender identity
from their parents,
or if the school
official withholds
such information
from the parent. It
also would make it a
felony for a
physician to do any
kind of
gender-altering
treatment on a
minor.
Senate Bill 1046,
also sponsored by
Rogers, is similar
to the bill the
Judiciary Committee
approved earlier
Thursday. It would
allow any student
who challenges their
assignment to a team
to appeal the
decision if they
present a doctor's
testimony
establishing the
student's gender
based on the
student's internal
and external
reproductive organs,
a genetic analysis
and the student's
testosterone levels."
"Arizona state Sen.
Wendy Rogers (R-AZ)
retweeted white
nationalist Scott Greer on Monday calling
for celebrating Confederate Generals Robert
E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Greers’ call
to celebrate Confederate generals came on
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, in an apparent
message to his supporters that he believes
in the tenants of the Confederacy over those
the slain civil rights leader. Rogers
retweeted the controversial message just
days after she spoke at former President
Donald Trump’s rally in Florence, Arizona.
“Arizona is a red state,” Rogers declared
during the rally. “We are not turning
purple.” The Arizona lawmaker, who has
embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and
pushed allegations that the 2020
presidential election was stolen, also led
the crowd in chanting “decertify” during the
rally."
"Kari
Lake, a former
TV anchor who's
running for
governor, began her
speech with the
theme of some of the
other speakers,
praising America
under Trump and
listing its problems
under Biden. As did
others, she called
Trump “president”
and slammed the 2020
election as “rotten
to the core.”"
[...]
"We are so blessed
to have
Donald Trump
with us here today.
We know the election
was stolen,” state
Sen. Wendy Rogers,
R-Flagstaff, said
when she took the
stage, echoing the
sentiments of other
speakers and crowd
members, who cheered
her in response."
"Rogers is perhaps
the
kookiest person ever to sit in the Arizona
Legislature (and that is saying something).
She spent a decade trying to convince
Arizona voters to send her to Congress,
going so far as to baselessly accuse a
Republican rival of having ties to a
sex-trafficking ring in 2018. When that
didn’t work, she moved from her home in
Tempe to a travel trailer in Flagstaff in
2020, hoping to land a spot in the state
Legislature. She spent more than a million
dollars to win her seat in 2020, running a
slash-and-burn campaign against then-Sen.
Sylvia Allen. Rogers actually charged that
Allen, one of the Legislature’s most
conservative members, was “not conservative
enough.”"
Jan. 13, 2022
On the one year
anniversary of the
January 6, 2021
armed insurrection
at the U.S. Capitol,
this traitor had
this to say on
Twitter:
"The author of both
proposed measures is Republican state
Senator Wendy Rogers (R-SD6), an outspoken
supporter of Donald Trump and a member of
the Oath Keepers, an anti-government militia
organization whose members took part in the
January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
This past Fall in October 2021, Rogers spoke
at a QAnon-linked political conference in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Rogers first measure,
Senate Bill 1045 would prohibit medical
procedures that affirm the gender identity
of children and teens who are transgender.
The law would ban medical professionals in
Arizona from performing gender affirming
surgeries on Trans minors and also would
forbid prescribing testosterone to Trans
male youth or estrogen to Trans female youth
who are under 18. Any Health professional
found guilty would be convicted as a Class 4
felony offender, with a prison sentence of
one to three years. Her second measure,
Senate Bill 1046 would restrict transgender
children from participating in sports at
public and private schools, community
colleges and universities. The measure would
divide all interscholastic and intramural
sports teams into male, female and co-ed
teams “based on biological sex."
"Wendy Rogers, the
QAnon-loving GOP
state senator from
Arizona, was born in
1954, but apparently
has a mad crush on
confederate general
and second place war
finisher Robert E.
Lee. She tweeted on
November 2 that
Virginians should go
elect some lousy
Republicans and
“make General Lee
proud.” Robert E.
Lee is dead and
incapable of feeling
pride in hell.
And on Christmas
Day, Rogers tweeted
a photo of Lee
wearing a
photoshopped Santa
hat, as well as this
unhinged message
that reminded her
followers of the
racist reason for
the season."
"Republican Arizona
State Senator Wendy Rogers praised a QAnon
podcast host for continuing to push baseless
election fraud claims. Rogers joined Zak
Paine on a Saturday live stream on the
RedPill78 podcast where they both pushed
claims the 2020 Presidential Election was
somehow stolen" from
Donald Trump.
"Kiwis on Twitter have
come together to respond to a Republican
senator in Arizona, US, who says she's been
receiving "a lot of emails" from New
Zealanders complaining about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and "Covid camps" in New
Zealand. Wendy Rogers, a conservative
senator from Arizona, says the emails are
coming from Kiwis "who are glad I am
speaking out against their commie prime
minister". The politician went on to imply
New Zealand has "Covid camps" and called
Ardern a "nut job"."
"Arizona State Senator
Wendy Rogerstweeted a photo of late U.S.
Senator Joe McCarthy on Saturday, with text
encouraging people to follow in his
footsteps"
"Family Research
Council
President Tony
Perkins rebuked
the Republican
National
Committee (RNC)
and its
chairwoman,
Ronna McDaniel,
for forming a
"Pride
Coalition" with
the LGBT Log
Cabin
Republicans on
Saturday,
stating that
the LGBT agenda
is "incompatible
with religious
freedom and
parental
rights."
"The more I see Kyle
Rittenhouse,” Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers wrote on
Telegram, a messaging app, on Wednesday, “the more I
love him.”
She added that the shooter represents “everything
good about America."
"Wendy Rogers is the
QAnon-loving GOP state senator from Arizona who
really got excited when she heard about the Arizona frauditors scanning the ballots for secret bamboo,
because that's how stupid she is. She wasn't even
trolling. She thought it was so cool that the
frauditors were examining ballots like that, to find
out if China had secretly sent a bunch of 'em to
Arizona on Joe Biden's behalf. Anyway, she's also a
vile racist, if this tweet she sent about Virginia's
elections today is a reliable barometer for such
things, and if the bamboo thing didn't spoil that
surprise for you."
"Four Republican members of
Arizona’s state legislature attended a QAnon
convention in Las Vegas over the weekend that
included speakers from the fringe of the conspiracy
world as well as antisemitic imagery."
"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."
"Sen. Wendy Rogers declines to
cite a law that would allow Arizona's election to be
decertified. But then, who needs laws or facts or an
audit run by unbiased people with actual expertise?"
"Arizona Senator
Wendy Rogers has
suggested that the
Labor Day
celebration is in
fact a "Communist
Holiday." [...]
Labor Day was first
celebrated in New
York in 1882,
although it did not
become an official
federal holiday
until 1894."
"one of the
cybersecurity
experts that Lindell
hired told the
Washington Times
that Lindell failed
to provide the data
he had long promised
to deliver. The
expert, Josh
Merritt, said the
data that Lindell
did provide cannot
prove China hacked
the election. “We
were handed a turd,”
he said."
"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."
"Most recently,
Rogers went on the
August 4 edition of
the Stew Peters
Show. Host Stew
Peters is a
right-wing
conspiracy theorist
who has pushed false
claims about the
coronavirus. He has
also called for the
execution of Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the
director of the
National Institute
of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
In addition to
Rogers, Arizona
Republican Party
Chair
Kelli Ward and
Rep.
Paul Gosar
(R-AZ) have also
appeared on Peters’
program. During the
interview, Rogers
promoted her call to
arrest election
officials in
Maricopa County who
are not going along
with the fraudulent
Arizona “audit.” She
also talked about
the pandemic and
urged people to
fight against
vaccine mandates in
the workplace.
Peters continued the
discussion by
falsely claiming
that “the fact is,
nobody can prove
that a virus exists”
and that vaccines
have actually killed
over 55,000 people.
That lie has no
basis in reality."
"Late Monday, Rogers
tweeted "I would
have arrested all of
these people already
if I had the power
to do so. I vote to
arrest. Arrest and
put them in
solitary" after the
head of Board of
Supervisors called
the request for more
information an
excursion into
"never never land."
She later tweeted,
"I would like to
know if we have
enough solitary
confinement cells in
Arizona available
for the entire
Maricopa Board of
Supervisors and the
execs at the fraud
machine company. We
are going to need a
lot.""
"Rogers, who has
been a key figure in
promoting the
discredited "audit"
of ballots in
Maricopa County, has
drawn nationwide
attention for
calling for a
do-over of the
presidential
election,
pushing
neo-Nazi conspiracy
theories about the
"Great Replacement"
of white people, and
sung the praises of
Confederate
generals."
"On Friday, Rogers
sent a short tweet
that appeared to
reference a variety
of issues, including
so-called "cancel
culture" and the
removal of statues.
"I like Indians and
I like Redskins,"
Rogers wrote.
"I
like Aunt Jemima and
I like Uncle Ben. I
like Robert E Lee
and I like Stonewall
Jackson. I don't
like traitors who
hate America. Stand
up for our culture!"
"TruNews
has a history of
antisemitic rhetoric
on the site, the
most infamous of
which is a piece in
which the founder,
Rick Wiles, spent an
hour and a half
saying that
“seditious Jews”
were “orchestrating”
to impeach
Trump.
Calling the Jewish
people “tyrants.”
Wiles has also
claimed that the
anti-Christ will be
a “homosexual Jew.”"
"After a media report
highlighting her use
of language
mirroring a racist
conspiracy theory
that was cited by
white supremacist
mass shooters,
Flagstaff Republican
state Sen. Wendy
Rogers doubled- and
tripled-down on her
assertion that
immigrants are
“replacing” white
Americans and
destroying “western
civilization.”"
“The Jewish
Community Relations
Council of Greater
Phoenix is deeply
concerned with Sen.
Rogers' use of
extremist terms that
have inspired some
of the worst
atrocities in recent
history,”
"Fresh off of
calling for
overturning the
election and basking
in the glow of
Donald Trump's
resulting praise,
Sen. Wendy Rogers on
Saturday sounded the
alarm to white
supremacists."
"One of the
Republicans pushing
the widely-panned
Arizona audit is now
demanding a new
election. [...]
There is no legal
mechanism to recall
Biden electors,
whose role ended
after the Electoral
College met on
December 14th. There
is also not a
mechanism to redo
the presidential
election in Arizona.
And even if there
were a way to switch
Arizona's 11
electoral votes from
Biden to Donald
Trump, Biden still
would have won the
election by over
fifty electoral
votes."
"TruNews, an outlet that warns viewers
about the supposed threat of “seditious Jews,” “a Jewish cabal,”
and “Jewish tyrants.” The interview was co-hosted by white
nationalist and QAnon conspiracy theorist Lauren Witzke"
Laurie
Roberts/Arizona
Republic Published
12:10 p.m. MT Apr.
13, 2021
- - -
"Sen. Wendy Rogers
may have failed in
her quest to turn
doctors into felons
but she's hoping to
turn a tidy profit
by misleading voters
about her bill’s
prospects.
The Flagstaff
Republican on Sunday
sent out a campaign
fundraising email,
hoping to raise cash
off of her
proposal to
virtually outlaw
abortion.
“I am proud that
Arizona may be among
the first states to
pass a Heartbeat
Bill,” she wrote.
“HB 2140 passed the
Senate
Appropriations
Committee and
hopefully is headed
to the Senate floor
– further than it's
ever been.”
Actually, the only
place her bill is
headed is to the
trash heap.
The bill will not
get a floor debate
Rogers put out her
plea for money on
Sunday, five days
after Senate
President
Karen Fann
said she would not
bring the bill to
the floor for
debate. The bill
would make it a
class 3 felony for
doctors to perform
an abortion after a
heartbeat is
detected, which can
be as early as
five and a half
weeks.
“This bill was not
vetted properly with
stakeholders to
ensure it is
constitutional,”
Fann told Capitol
Media Services’
Howard Fischer on
April 6, adding that
Rogers didn’t check
with her fellow
Republicans to see
if they’d support
her proposal.
Yet five days later,
there was Rogers, a
self-described
“pro-Trump
firebrand” pleading
for money “to make
sure I can get the
truth out there”.
Rogers is what you
might call a
stand-out at the
state Capitol, so
far out there on the
fringe that she’s in
a legislative league
of her own.
She spent a decade
trying to convince
voters to send her
to Congress, going
so far as to
baselessly accuse a
Republican rival of
having ties to a
sex-trafficking ring
in 2018. When that
didn’t work, she
moved from Tempe to
a travel trailer in
Flagstaff last year,
hoping the
Legislature would be
a springboard to
loftier heights.
Rogers has misled
others before
She spent more than
a million dollars to
win a seat in the
state Legislature in
2020, running
a slash-and-burn
campaign against
then-Sen.
Sylvia
Allen – charging
that one of the most
conservative members
of the Legislature
was “not
conservative
enough”.
Rogers’ campaign was
so obnoxious
that state Rep.
Walter Blackman, a
Snowflake Republican
and staunch
conservative, told
the Arizona Capitol
Times after the
primary election
that he would not
campaign with or
even vote for her,
saying she phonied
up endorsements.
“Integrity is a big
deal,” Blackman
said. “When she went
to my neighbors,
people I go to
church with, people
that I serve as a
sitting
representative and
lied about their
endorsements, it’s
really hard for me
to hitch on to
someone’s wagon and
really effectively
campaign with them.”
Perhaps
Rogers’ biggest
legislative
accomplishment thus
far has been
escaping censure
from the Senate
Ethics Committee. In
March, the panel on
a partyline vote
dismissed a
workplace harassment
complaint, filed by
a former aide even
before the
legislative session
began.
Now she’s raising
money for what
undoubtedly will be
another bruiser
campaign in 2022.
Not even Cathi
Herrod was pushing
this bill
Which brings us back
to Sunday’s plea for
money, in which she
points to her
(doomed) abortion
bill as Exhibit A in
showcasing her
legislative
effectiveness.
Speaking of “truth,”
I reached out to
Rogers to ask her
whether it’s ethical
to mislead people
about her bill’s
prospects in order
to raise money.
I’m still awaiting
her answer.
In fact, her
original abortion
bill never even got
a hearing in the
Senate. Instead, it
was revived late
last month when the
Senate
Appropriations
Committee amended it
as replacement
language on a bill
dealing with license
plate design that
already had cleared
the House.
Not even the state’s
most ardent
anti-abortion
lobbyist, the Center
for Arizona Policy’s
Cathi Herrod, pushed
for passage of
Rogers’ bill,
telling Fischer she
was focused on bills
that actually have a
chance of becoming
law, both
politically and
legally.
“The courts have
declined to uphold
heartbeat laws as
constitutional,”
Herrod said.
You sure wouldn’t
know it from Rogers’
fundraising letter,
in which she also
touts a bill to
establish a $30
million Border
Security Fund and
asks supporters to
send “the largest
donation you can
afford.”
“In the age of
Biden, you can’t
back down,” she
wrote. “You have to
stand up for your
beliefs to show the
people that America
First policies
work!”
If one of those
beliefs is to grift
money from
suckers by outright
lying to them, then
yeah, Rogers is not
just standing up.
She’s standing tall."
"A Republican state
senator fawned over
the leader of a
white nationalist
movement on Friday
and told his
followers that she
fantasizes about
hanging her
perceived enemies
from gallows. “I’ve
said we need to
build more gallows.
If we try some of
these high-level
criminals, convict
them and use a newly
built set of
gallows, it’ll make
an example of these
traitors who have
betrayed our
country,” Sen. Wendy
Rogers, R-Flagstaff,
said Feb. 25 in her
speech to the white
nationalist America
First Political
Action Conference in
Florida."
"Shortly after
she was elected,
Rogers praised
Confederate General
Robert E. Lee on
Twitter, calling him
a “great patriot and
a great leader.”
Rogers has publicly
stated she’s a
member of the
anti-government
militia group known
as the Oath
Keepers."
"Arizona’s
legislative
leadership are
hearing calls that
seven of their
Republican
colleagues be banned
from the House and
Senate. The incoming
legislators in
question back “Stop
The Steal.” They are
Republican
Representatives
Mark
Finchem,
David Cook,
and
Walt Blackman
along with
Republican Senators
Wendy Rogers,
Kelly
Townsend,
Sonny
Borrelli, and
David
Livingston."
Question 2:
Adding “sexual orientation,”
“gender identity,” or “gender
expression” to the protected
classes of race, religion, age,
sex, and ancestry in
nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position:
Oppose.
Question 4:
Allowing biological males that
identify as transgender to play
on female sports’ teams.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
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.*
Candidates'
Position: Support
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.**
Candidates' Position:
Support.
*
This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy".
"Dwight Kadar researched and
wrote an article titled “Follow The Wendy Rogers Campaign Money
Trail,” which appeared in the July 26 issue of the Arizona Daily
Independent.
"Here’s an interesting piece
of information discovered by Mr. Kadar:
Rogers’ money trail starts
in Aspen, Colorado with one of Colorado’s “top ten” political
donors, Tatnall Hillman. Mr. Hillman is the son of John Hartwell
Hillman, Jr. who made his billions from coal, steel, and gas.
Mr. and Mrs. Hillman donated the maximum of $5,200 each, a total
of $10,400, directly to the 2020 Rogers campaign in March 2019.
Hillman also contributed $235,000 to the Washington, D.C.- based
Rural Arizona (Federal) PAC, which in turn contributed $200,000
to the Washington, D.C.- based Rural Arizona (State) PAC, who
then spent almost $100,000 on mailers, radio ads, and other
campaign communications against Senator Allen. This kind of
“pea-in-the-shell” or “dark money” game happens in national
elections, not in rural Arizona state election races. This has
allowed the Rogers campaign, with all its signage, mailers,
radio ads, etc., to generate name recognition to influence
“low-information” voters. Arizona voters have come to expect
nothing less from Rogers since she can’t run on issues and
policies because she doesn’t know them.
One more fact that should
not go unnoticed by LD6 voters – more than $250,000* has been
paid to Go Right Strategies of Orange Park, Florida for
“professional consulting services.” Go Right Strategies, whose
president is Rogers’ nephew Spence Rogers, has received more
than twice the total amount of money raised by the Allen
campaign. This kind of campaign finance nepotism has been
practiced by Bernie Sanders and his wife.
*As of July 27, $329,309.04
had been paid to Go Right Strategies.
Wendy Rogers stated in the
July 31 issue of Republican Briefs: “I am not backed by any
PACs, lobbyists or special interests.""
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-1
Question
4: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
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.*
Candidates'
Position: Support.
*
This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy".
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-1
Question 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.*
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
9: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
"Wendy Rogers:
"Is Social Security constitutional? No.
Should it be phased out? I'd like to see it
phased out. If it can't be phased out, I'd
like to see private options.""
Position Sought:
U.S. House of
Representatives CD-9
Question
3:
Arizona's voter-approved
constitutional definition of
marriage should be defended to
the fullest extent legally
possible.
Candidates'
Position/Comment:
Support.
Question
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.*
Candidates'
Position/Comment:
Support.
Question
8:
Adding "sexual orientation,"
"gender identity," or "gender
expression" to the protected
classes of race, religion, age,
sex, and ancestry in
anti-discrimination law.
Wendy Rogers
Said That She Would Vote To Shut Down The
Federal Government In Order To Defund The
Affordable Care Act
"In August 2013, Rogers said that she would
vote to shut down the federal government if
that’s what it took to defund the ACA."
Aug. 17, 2013
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2012
Candidate
Questionnaire
Position Sought:
United
States
House of
Representatives
CD-9
Question
3: Amending the United States
Constitution to define marriage
as the union of one man and one
woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
11: Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
Question
13: Repealing the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and declares states do not have to recognize same-sex marriage from other states.
Rogers Said She Would Eliminate the
Department of Education.
"In July 2012,
Rogers
indicated in a
candidate forum that
she would not
support keeping the
Department of
Education. Question:
Do you support
keeping the
Department of
Education? Rogers:
[raised up “no”
sign]"
Wendy Rogers Says She Would Cut Medicare and
Social Security.
In June 2012, when
asked where she
would make cuts in
government spending,
Rogers
said that she would
cut Medicare and
Social Security.
Jun. 4, 2012
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2010
Survey
Questions
For
Arizona
And
County
Candidates
Position Sought:
State Representative
LD-1
Question
9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support
Question
12: Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
Question
15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.*
