Ultra-MAGA
Republican
extremist
and serial
homophobe 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.
Rogers is
running for
re-election
to the
Arizona
State Senate
to represent
District 7.
Rogers was
re-elected
in the
general
election on
November 5,
2024.
"Last week,
the Texas
Observer
unmasked the
people
behind four
anonymous
accounts
that spew
antisemitic
rhetoric on
X, the Elon
Musk-owned
social media
site
formerly
known as
Twitter.
Among the
followers of
two of the
accounts is
a certain
Arizona
state
senator:
extremist
Republican
Wendy
Rogers.
As of
Thursday
morning,
Rogers was
still
following
both
@TheOfficial1984
and
@9mm_smg.
The first
was
identified
by the
Observer as
40-year-old
Texas-based
marketing
official
Cyan Cruz,
also
spreads
pro-Hitler
messaging
and
conspiracy
theories
around
Holocaust
denialism.
The account
has nearly
223,000
followers.
The second
was revealed
to be a
42-year-old
retired
mechanical
engineer
named
Michael
Gramer, who
identifies
on the
platform as
a white
nationalist,
posts
Neo-Nazi
rhetoric
like “14
words” — a
code for a
slogan
coined by
white
supremacist
David Lane —
and “blood
and soil,”
which is a
foundational
Nazi slogan.
Gramer also
discusses
his
preference
for fascism
and national
socialism
over
democracy
with his
roughly
221,000
followers."
"Flagstaff
Republican
State Sen.
Wendy
Rogers
appears to
have
violated
Arizona’s
version of
the Hatch
Act, which
bars the use
of
government
resources
for campaign
activity,
after she
published a
letter on
official
Senate
letterhead
endorsing a
candidate
for
Cottonwood
City
Council." [
. . . ] "In
Arizona,
lawmakers
and other
members of
state
government
are
prohibited
from using
government
time, money
or resources
to campaign
for a
candidate or
cause.
Valley
attorney Tom
Ryan said
Rogers’ post
appears to
be a “clear
cut
violation”
of the state
law commonly
referred to
as Arizona’s
Hatch Act,
a reference
to a federal
law that
bars federal
government
employees
from
engaging in
politicking
at taxpayer
expense."
"Flagstaff
Republican
Sen.
Wendy Rogers
shared a
post on the
23rd
anniversary
of the 9/11
terrorist
attacks
amplifying
debunked
conspiracy
theories
around the
national
tragedy.
Rogers,
known for
her
far-right
affiliations
and
amplification
of white
nationalists
along with
election
fraud
conspiracy
theories,
reposted a
user on X,
formerly
Twitter,
spreading
debunked
claims of
bombs in the
building as
well as an
antisemitic
conspiracy
theory
around the
attacks.
The post, by
a user who
has promoted
a number of
conspiracy
theories,
including
ones with
anti-vaccine
messaging,
shared part
of a video
clip of
former
President
Donald Trump
being
interviewed
by a New
York
television
station on
Sept. 11,
2001,
discussing
the attacks
just hours
after the
twin towers
at the World
Trade Center
collapsed."
"Over the
years, she
has become
more
ingrained
with the
far-right,
and gone
from
amplifying
their
messages to
participating
in their
events. In
2021,
Rogers
appeared
multiple
times on an
online
broadcast
network that
had made
multiple
antisemitic
remarks. The
network,
TruNews, has
a history of
spreading
antisemitic
rhetoric,
including a
piece in
which Rick
Wiles, its
founder,
spent 90
minutes
saying that
“seditious
Jews” were
“orchestrating”
Trump’s
impeachment.
Wiles has
also called
the Jewish
people
“tyrants”
and claimed
that the
antichrist
will be a
“homosexual
Jew.” "
"A political
candidate and
Arizona State
Senator who has made
a reputation for
herself as the
poster board of all
things MAGA and
White Christian
Nationalism-Fascism
who likes to
frequent events with
Anti Semite guest
stars, glorify
Confederate Generals
like Robert E. Lee,
and thinks the COVID
vaccinations are the
machinations of the
Devil, Ms. Roger’s
recently surpassed
herself in political
lowness with a post
on social media
saluting the German
Neo-Fascist
Alternative for
Germany Party for
two victories in
local elections last
week with the
rallying cry of the
NAZI’s."
"Two Arizona
Republican
state
lawmakers
have shared
a debunked
conspiracy
theory that
alleges, in
part, that
President
Joe Biden is
using body
doubles.
Sen.
Wendy Rogers,
R-Flagstaff,
shared a now
deleted post
on X,
formerly
Twitter,
falsely
claiming
that Jill
Biden was in
Paris and
Washington,
D.C., at the
same time.
The first
lady left
the White
House and
flew to
France
shortly
after Biden
spoke to the
nation about
dropping out
of the race,
PolitiFact
reported,
and the
pictures
were taken
many hours
apart." [ .
. . ] "Rep.
Joseph
Chaplik,
R-Scottsdale,
shared a
similar
post,
reposting an
item by
former CBS
journalist
Sharyl
Attkisson,
who has
claimed
falsely in
the past
that
vaccines
cause
autism, a
belief that
has been
thoroughly
debunked."
"Republican
state Sen.
Wendy
Rogers
listed a
Tempe
address on a
campaign
finance
report,
renewing
questions
about
whether she
actually
lives in the
rural
Arizona
district she
represents.
Since 2020,
Rogers has
represented
a mostly
rural
district
covering
parts of
Coconino,
Gila, Navajo
and Pinal
counties. On
campaign
documents,
she says she
lives in a
Flagstaff
retirement
community
within that
district,
Legislative
District 7.
Last year,
the Arizona
Capitol
Times
reported
Rogers and
her husband
purchased a
home in
Chandler in
January 2023
and said
they were
“currently
residing at”
a home in
Tempe on
trust
documents
they signed
as part of
that
transaction."
(The "pal"
is the
stolen valor
candidate,
Steve Slaton)
"Sen.
Wendy Rogers'
loyalty to a
controversial
legislative
candidate
who
reportedly
resorts to
racial slurs
should be
disqualifying.
That it
won't be is
stunning."
Jul. 10,
2024
Wendy Rogers Knowingly Supports A Stolen Valor Fraud
"The Navajo County
Republican Committee
asked Steve
Slaton, who is
running to represent
Legislative District
7, to end his
campaign for
falsely claiming
that he was a
Vietnam War veteran
and that he had been
awarded multiple
military medals.
A veterans group
said Slaton trained
as a helicopter
repairman, not as a
helicopter pilot,
and he was stationed
in Korea in 1974.
Slaton also did not
join the U.S. Army
until June 1973 —
three months after
the final U.S.
troops pulled out of
Vietnam, the Arizona
Republic reported.
The Navajo County
Republican Committee
said he altered
military discharge
papers to falsely
claim combat veteran
status and showed
"qualifications and
awards which you
have not earned."
Slaton denied the
accusations as a
"left wing smear
campaign.""
Jun. 24, 2024
Even the Republican Party wants him out over his fraudulent military service but Wendy Rogers still supports him. These call themselves "Patriots".
"Public
records
obtained by
the Arizona
Capitol
Times
revealed
that two
state
senators
intervened
in a
business
license
complaint
case in 2023
for the
husband of
one of the
senators. On
Dec. 7,
2022, Sen. Wendy
Rogers,
R-Flagstaff,
called the
Arizona
Board of
Technical
Registration,
or BTR,
asking for
the board to
cease its
investigation
of her
husband, Hal
Kunnen, a
home
inspector
based in
Flagstaff
and the
Phoenix
metro area."
[ . . . ]
"Shortly
after
Rogers’
call, Sen. Justine
Wadsack,
R-Tucson,
attended the
Enforcement
Advisory
Committee
meeting on
Jan. 17,
2023, to
represent
Kunnen
during the
committee’s
executive
session
meeting to
review his
case."
Apr. 25,
2024
Celebrating the Arizona Supreme Courts Upholding of the Civil War Era Abortion Law
"At a
Tuesday
morning news
conference,
Sens. Sonny
Borrelli and Wendy
Rogers declined
to name the
source of
their
information.
Their claims
were quickly
disputed by
county
election
officials,
who said it
was "another
example of
people not
understanding
the election
system and
the data
they are
reviewing."
Despite the
senators'
refusal to
identify the
source of
their
information,
the passages
Rogers cited
at a morning
news
conference
exactly
matched a
petition
Kari Lake
and Mark
Finchem
filed last
week with
the U.S.
Supreme
Court as
they
continued to
argue that
vote-counting
machines are
insecure.
"While this
breach has
the
game-changing
magnitude of
the Allies'
deciphering
Germany's
ENIGMA
machine in
World War
II, it is
far worse,"
Rogers,
R-Flagstaff,
said. The
breach
"leaves the
decryption
keys bare,
in plain
sight.""
"Most of us
aren’t
business
analysts,
but I’d
guess if I
were to ask
you if a
company
like, say,
Google, was
successful,
you’d say
yes. And if
I was to ask
the same
thing about
Nike or
Apple or
Dell
Technologies
or Intel or
JP Morgan
Chase Bank
or TD Bank
or General
Mills or
Home Depot
or American
Express or
Progressive
Insurance,
you would
say yes
again. And
you’d be
correct.
Now, what if
I told you
that one of
the
attributes
that makes
these
companies
what they
are, one of
the things
about which
they are
most proud,
was
described by
Republican
Arizona
state Sen. Wendy
Rogers as
“rot”?"
"Sen. Wendy
Rogers,
the chair of
the Senate
Elections
Committee,
said that
Senate Bill
1288
legislation
would
“ameliorate
some
concerns of
voters” and
provide
consequences
for anyone
who tampers
with the
tabulators."
[ . . . ]
"The
original
sponsor of
Senate Bill
1288 is
Sen. Jake
Hoffman,
R-Queen
Creek, but
in its
current
iteration,
the bill is
entirely
owed to Rogers,
a Flagstaff
Republican,
who offered
what’s
called a
“strike
everything”
amendment to
Hoffman’s
bill. Strike
everything
amendments
completely
wipe out the
original
language of
a bill to
replace it
with
something
new.
Hoffman’s
bill
originally
concerned
how
illegible
ballots were
adjudicated
by elections
officials."
"Republican
Arizona
State
Senators David
Gowan and Janae
Shamp co-sponsored
new
legislation
(SB 1683)
which
promotes the
cross-certification
of peace
officers
from
adjacent
states
(California,
Nevada,
Utah,
Colorado,
New Mexico)
and paves
the way for
out-of-state
peace
officers to
work in
Arizona law
enforcement
agencies.
Fellow
Republican
Arizona
State
Senator Wendy
Rogers,
who supports
the
legislation,
as seen
below,
thanked
Coconino
Sheriff Jim
Driscoll and
his deputies
“for putting
forward SB
1683 to
supplant
[sic]
Coconino
County with
cross-state-border
law
enforcement
augmentation.”"
[ . . . ]
"Rogers’s
celebration
of
out-of-state
peace
officers
coming to
Arizona and
“supplanting”
or
“augmenting”
local law
enforcement
agencies may
be cause for
alarm among
some
Arizonans —
and federal
officials —
as she
has been
linked to
the Oath
Keepers, the
“far-right
anti-government
militia
whose
leaders have
been
convicted of
violently
opposing the
government
of the
United
States.”"
"Arizona
state Sen. Wendy
Rogers encouraged
her Twitter
followers
Friday to
follow
Michigan
state Rep.
Josh
Schriver,
calling him
“Michigan’s
voice for
MAGA.” The
far-right
Rogers is
one of the
public
officials
most closely
associated
with
antisemitic
white
Christian
nationalist
Nick
Fuentes."
"then
there’s our
own Arizona
home-grown
nut
cases—too
many to
count—Lake, Finchem, Masters, Hamadeh,
but standing
at the helm
is 66-year
old Sen. Wendy
Rogers,
the woman
who is
anxiously
waiting to
“build the
gallows” for
what she
describes as
America’s
“Christian”
enemies. In
an Arizona
Republic
column,
Laurie
Roberts
writes that
Maricopa
County
Supervisors
Chairman Bill
Gates and
Vice
Chairman Clint
Hickman lambasted
Rogers and
called on
business,
community
and
political
leaders to
speak out.
“Rogers
baselessly
declares
that
everyone who
doesn’t
support her
conspiracy
theories and
beliefs is a
Soros
puppet, a
traitor or a
communist,”
they said,
in a joint
statement.
“She has
made clear
what her
beliefs
are: She
asserts that
we should
‘hang’ our
political
opponents
and those we
disagree
with. She
embraces
anti-Semitic,
racist and
homophobic
rhetoric.
She
apologizes
for Putin
and condemns
our allies …
.”"
"It was in
both 2017,
2018, 2021,
as well as
2022,
“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,
first losing
in 2012 in
the GOP
Primary for
Arizona’s
9th
Congressional
District,
then in 2014
in the
general
election to Kyrsten
Sinema for
that
district,
before
carpet-bagging
her way down
to try to
get elected
further
north in
Arizona’s
1st District
and lose in
the primary
to the
child-abusing
anti-gay,
anti-immigrant
sheriff who
dates gay
illegal
immigrants, Paul
Babeu in
2016, before
losing to
Democratic
Congressman
Tom
O’Halleran
in 2018
after
petitioning
voters to
“send Trump
some back
up”, while
calling
Democrats
“radical,
crazy, and
unhinged” in
campaign
ads."
"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."
"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."
"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."
[...]
"Like-minded Trump supporters in the Legislature included speakers at Saturday's rally such as Rogers, Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, and former representative Anthony Kern, who's running for the state Senate."
"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."
"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.""
"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.""
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]"
