Here's another Republican slug who should never hold public office again (and should have his law license suspended or revoked):
Nearly a year after the 2020 election, Arizona’s then-attorney general, Mark Brnovich, launched an investigation into voting in the state’s largest county that quickly consumed more than 10,000 hours of his staff’s time.
Investigators prepared a report in March 2022 stating that virtually all claims of error and malfeasance were unfounded, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Brnovich, a Republican, kept it private.
In April, the attorney general — who was running in the GOP primary for a U.S. Senate seat — released an “Interim Report” claiming that his office had discovered “serious vulnerabilities.” He left out edits from his own investigators refuting his assertions.
His office then compiled an “Election Review Summary” in September that systematically refuted accusations of widespread fraud and made clear that none of the complaining parties — from state lawmakers to self-styled “election integrity” groups — had presented any evidence to support their claims. Brnovich left office last month without releasing the summary. [snip]
The records show how Brnovich used his office to further claims about voting in Maricopa County that his own staff considered inaccurate. They suggest that his team privately disregarded fact checks provided by state investigators while publicly promoting incomplete accounts of the office’s work. The innuendo and inaccuracies, circulated not just in the far reaches of the internet but with the imprimatur of the state’s attorney general, helped make Arizona an epicenter of distrust in the democratic process, eroding confidence in the 2020 vote as well as in subsequent elections...
The article gives a full accounting of Brnovich's dishonesty and corrupt intent in bowdlerizing his own office's findings that the 2020 election in Arizona was free and fair, contrary to his public innuendos that there were "serious vulnerabilities." Fortunately, Arizonans elected an honest Democrat, Kris Mayes, who put an end to the Brnovich witchhunts in Maricopa County, and ordered the full records of the investigations released saying,
“The people of Arizona had a right to know this information before the 2022 election,” Mayes said in an interview. “Maricopa County election officials had a right to know that they were cleared of wrongdoing. And every American had a right to know that the 2020 election in Arizona, which in part decided the presidency, was conducted accurately and fairly.”
The liars and charlatans like Brnovich who are undermining faith in our elections and our democracy need to be exposed and face accountability for their actions. Anything less and it's sic transit gloria, America.
(Photo: you know where you can stick those fingers, right, Brnovich?)
