Loser Lake Sued For "Frivolous" Election Suit

It's gratifying to see that Arizona Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs and other Arizona officials acted swiftly yesterday to seek sanctions against Trumpist election denier, conspiracy monger and loser Kari "Shallow" Lake for her frivolous and dishonest challenge of Arizona's election results. Lake, who lost by over 17,000 votes, came to Maricopa County superior court unprepared to offer any evidence of fraud or deliberate sabotage of ballots, causing the judge to throw her case out Saturday and Hobbs to file suit against Lake:

"Attorneys for Hobbs, who has been Arizona's secretary of state for four years, joined the county in its filing Monday seeking $25,050 from Lake, which includes attorney fees for Hobbs and the state’s most populous county. The county took aim at Lake’s remarks before the election indicating she would not accept the results unless she won, as well as her 'groundless' and 'frivolous' lawsuit after the election was certified.

'Before a single vote was counted in the 2022 general election, Kari Lake publicly stated that she would accept the results of the gubernatorial election only if she were the winning candidate,' the county said in the filing.

'But she has not simply failed to publicly acknowledge the election results. Instead, she filed a groundless, seventy-page election contest lawsuit against the Governor-Elect, the Secretary of State, and Maricopa County and several of its elected officials and employees (but no other county or its employees), thereby dragging them and this Court into this frivolous pursuit.'”  (our emphasis)

As with her mentor and cult leader the Malignant Loser, Lake's own mouth was her worst enemy, including when she told Republican supporters of the late Sen. John McCain to "get the hell out" at a campaign event before the election. They did, and she lost. It's a good bet she'll lose this latest suit, too, and Arizona would be the better for it.

(photo: ABC News)

 

Kari Lake's "Outrageous Arrogance" Led To Loss

The Washington Post's Isaac Stanley-Becker and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, writing in this morning's edition, dissected the failed campaign of extremist cult follower of the Malignant Loser:

"[Kari]Lake burst onto the national political stage this year as perhaps the purest embodiment of Trump’s grievance-fueled brand of politics. Her slash-and-burn campaign operation courted controversy, stoked distrust in the democratic process and earned her mentions as Trump’s possible 2024 vice-presidential pick — or perhaps even a presidential candidate herself.

Then she lost. [snip]

Interviews, internal documents and voting data point to the reasons behind her defeat: The candidate, so focused on parroting Trump and settling personal scores, failed to execute on a plan to court the independents and centrist Republicans who decide elections in Arizona, once a red state that now gleams purple.

As advisers urged her to consolidate GOP support after the primary, Lake remained fixated on a grudge match against people loyal to the legacy of the late Sen. John McCain. In the race’s closing days, she appeared in the suburbs alongside Stephen K. Bannon, the far-right radio host and former Trump strategist who was sentenced in October to four months in prison for contempt of Congress. [snip]

'It was both a collapse and, now in hindsight, it was a failed campaign from the beginning,' said a high-ranking Arizona Republican. 'I don’t really know what to say beyond outrageous arrogance and never getting out of primary mode. This election wasn’t stolen. It was given away.'"  (our emphasis) 

Lake has refused to concede and has nonsensically challenged the results of the Arizona gubernatorial election in court, inserting the usual conspiracy claims into a lengthy suit, and one that is sure to fail. She dismissed all of the calls to "moderate" her Trumpist message to appeal to independents and persuadable Republicans, and instead turned to the likes of Bannon and the Malignant Loser to campaign for her. 

An interesting fact that will be raised by Arizona officials who have to respond to Lake's suit: the Republican candidate for State Treasurer, Kimberly Yee, received nearly 120,000 more votes than her ticket mate Lake. It shows that Arizona voters saw Lake's "outrageous arrogance" and lies and said "no thanks."

(photo: Where's the p*ygrabber's other hand, Kari? Mario Tama / Getty)