{"id":14486,"date":"2022-12-02T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T02:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:40:19","slug":"az-election-super-geniuses-bradcast-1222022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"AZ Election Super-Geniuses: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/2\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Finchem-Lake-CochiseCounty_120222.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Nope. We&#8217;re still not done with the 2022 Elections on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>. And that&#8217;s without even including next Tuesday&#8217;s U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia! [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p><i>Before we get to a number of election-related items today&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some thoughts on the bill <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-business-economy-government-and-politics-fe5f657b036b2b612d072368584e00cd?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_02\">signed on Friday<\/a> by <b>President Biden<\/b> to help avert a national <b>rail strike<\/b> and economic catastrophe along with it. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of misinformation out there from progressives over the past 24 hours or so about the <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/11\/30\/rail-workers-strike-house-bill\/?ref=the-lever\">political strategy<\/a> employed by the White House and Congressional Dems. So I try to clear up a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1598345989005475840\">few points<\/a> today, explain <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1598383401647898625?s=20\">why what happened happened<\/a>, and how the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddayen\/status\/1598413435435642880\">focus must now turn<\/a> toward ensuring that Biden includes paid sick days for federally contracted rail workers in an Executive Order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>As to the continuing 2022 midterm elections&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A teenage election worker, campaigning for Sen. <b>Raphael Warnock<\/b> (D) in Savannah, <b>Georgia<\/b> ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s runoff against <b>Herschel Walker<\/b> (R), was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savannahnow.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2022\/12\/02\/savannah-ga-teen-shot-while-campaigning-sen-raphael-warnock\/10816623002\/\">shot while knocking on doors<\/a> on Thursday. He was shot through a closed door and is being treated for what is described as &#8220;non-life threatening injuries&#8221;. The Savannah Police Dept. has arrested the alleged shooter and claims that &#8220;At this point, there is no indication the shooting was politically motivated.&#8221; Okay. Just shooting people randomly through front doors then?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Colorado<\/b> Sec. of State <b>Jena Griswold<\/b> has <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosos.gov\/pubs\/newsRoom\/pressReleases\/2022\/20221130ElectionOrder2022-14OrderDirectingRecountCD-3Race.pdf\">officially ordered<\/a> a mandatory recount in the 3rd U.S. House District race between incumbent far-right Rep. <b>Lauren Boebert<\/b> (R) and challenger <b>Adam Frisch<\/b> (D) because the final margin was smaller than 0.5%. Boebert was certified to have won the race by just <a href=\"https:\/\/results.enr.clarityelections.com\/CO\/115903\/web.307039\/#\/detail\/130\">550 votes out of more than 327,000 cast<\/a> across the 27 counties that comprise the 3rd District which blankets almost all of western CO. This race, according to the nation&#8217;s election forecasters, wasn&#8217;t even supposed to have been close. Obviously, it was. Sadly, according to state law, all counties must now re-tally ballots in the recount by the same method used to count them originally. That means that all but one county in the state will tally their hand-marked paper ballots on the same optical-scan computers that tallied them the first time, either correctly or incorrectly. The only way to know for sure, of course, is to hand-count them. San Juan County will be the only one to do so, since that&#8217;s how they originally tallied their voters&#8217; ballots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An even closer race will soon be recounted statewide in <b>Arizona<\/b>, where Democrat <b>Kris Mayes<\/b> will be certified on Monday by the state as having defeated Trump-backed MAGA Republican <b>Abe Hamadeh<\/b> in the Attorney General&#8217;s race by just <a href=\"https:\/\/results.arizona.vote\/#\/featured\/33\/0\">510 votes out of more than 2.5 <i>million<\/i> cast<\/a>. That&#8217;s a margin of just <i>two one-hundredths of a percentage<\/i> point! As in Colorado, Arizona, shamefully, recounts by computer as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A recount is only allowed in Arizona when the margin is less than 0.5%. But if the Republicans on the <b>Cochise County<\/b> Board of Supervisors had their way, there probably wouldn&#8217;t be a recount at all in the razor-close AG&#8217;s race, because Hamadeh would have lost by much more. Also, one U.S. House race would have flipped from a Republican victory to a Democratic victory, and the Dem, not the Republican would have been the winner in the state&#8217;s school superintendent race.  That&#8217;s because the MAGA Republican dupes on the Cochise Board tried to avoid certifying their county&#8217;s election results entirely, despite any evidence of fraud or miscount or anything else. Luckily for the County&#8217;s 46,000 mostly-Republican voters, Democratic Sec. of State and soon-to-be Governor <b>Katie Hobbs<\/b> sued the county to force them to certify. On Thursday, a state judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/01\/1140086777\/midterm-elections-cochise-county-arizona-ruling\">ordered them to certify results immediately<\/a>, preventing the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters (from all parties).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cochise had a difficult time finding an attorney willing to represent them in the above-mentioned matter, after the County attorney refused, citing his original advise to the Board that refusing to certify was unlawful.  Even the attorney for the buffoonish <strong>Cyber Ninjas<\/strong> turned them down! But attorneys thinking twice about taking lousy election cases is probably a good idea. At least a federal judge in Arizona thinks so, and is trying to make that point loud and clear. On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge <b>John Tuchi<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3UrJyIe\">sanctioned the attorneys<\/a> representing failed Gubernatorial candidate <b>Kari Lake<\/b> and failed Sec. of State candidate <b>Mark Finchem<\/b> &#8212; Trump-backed MAGA Republicans and election liars both &#8212; for frivolous their frivolous complaints challenging the election systems in Maricopa (Phoenix) and Pima (Tucson) Counties. As Judge Tuchi made clear in his <a href=\"https:\/\/docs-cdn-prod.news-engineering.aws.wapo.pub\/publish_document\/4ff67ed4-cfa6-415f-abad-3ddab5afba13\/published\/4ff67ed4-cfa6-415f-abad-3ddab5afba13.pdf\">order for sanctions [PDF]<\/a>, it was meant to &#8220;penalize specific attorney conduct with the broader goal of deterring similarly baseless filings initiated by anyone, whether an attorney or not&#8221; and to &#8220;make clear that the Court will not condone litigants &#8230; furthering false narratives that baselessly undermine public trust at a time of increasing disinformation about, and distrust in, the democratic process.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>And finally, today&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14484\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with good news for water drinkers in <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>; bad news for <strong>polluting oil and gas drillers<\/strong> in the U.S.; and disturbing news for everyone who lives near the <strong>rising seas<\/strong> on our coastlines&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-RunoffsGA-RailStrikeAverted-CD3RecountCA-CochiseAZCertifies-LakeFinchemSanctions_120222.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope. We&#8217;re still not done with the 2022 Elections on The BradCast. And that&#8217;s without even including next Tuesday&#8217;s U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia! [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] Before we get to a number of election-related items today&#8230; Some thoughts on the bill signed on Friday by President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1190,70,239,89,675,543,37,299,223,1630,72,1758,320,1791,1632,477,1628,1635,1731,22,822,551,147,1365,1563,1834,126,198,736],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","category-arizona","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-colorado","category-democrats","category-dept-of-justice","category-election-2022","category-georgia","category-herschel-walker","category-joe-biden","category-kari-lake","category-katie-hobbs","category-kpfk","category-labor-unions","category-lauren-boebert","category-mark-finchem","category-mississippi","category-native-americans","category-nra","category-lava","category-pollution","category-raphael-warnock","category-recount-2022","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-us-house","category-water","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}