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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Wendy Rogers- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-10-30  

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.



Now, why is it that Wendy Rogers has repeatedly failed to win office? Well, she touts her experience as an Air Force veteran, which is always good. On the other hand, she runs fear-mongering ads that should come with trigger warnings like when she included a few seconds of footage of ISIS beheading James Foley in her 2014 campaign video. Even the traditionally conservative Arizona Republic condemned that choice, especially because Foley lived in Phoenix, where his loved ones could get triggered whenever their local television programming went to commercials during election season. After Rogers’ campaign manager actually argued why this bit of Islamophobic propaganda wasn’t so bad…they changed the ad so instead it showed head lice, because once Kyrsten Sinema pointed out there were polls out that said Congress was less popular than head lice (and was correct).



Her insane campaign tactics continued, but this time may have proved more fruitful, as she won the GOP Primary in 2018 for this seat by running attack ads against fellow Republican, and State Senator Steve Smith, claiming the modeling agency he works for “specializes in under age girls” and is “linked to sex trafficking” (law enforcement actually spoke in Smith’s defense on this, and Smith’s former employer filed a libel lawsuit against Rogers for it as of October of 2021).



Anyway, looking at her issue stances, on immigration, she supported building a physical wall along the U.S. Mexico border (which explains why she campaigned with Trump in Arizona), opposed migrant resettlement including from Syria (of course she does, she’s scared of those Muslims doing all the terrorisms!), and even pushed for English to be made the official language of the United States, which has kind of repeatedly been established as unconstitutional (and the first historic time was in her home state, to boot). Her national security policy is her belief that the American government was doing nothing to help Christians being attacked by ISIS, but America was committing “suicide” by allowed Muslim refugees in “without screening”, in spite of the quite rigorous screening process in place. In May of 2018, she compared the fact that abortion is legal in the United States to… oh… you know… the Holocaust. It’s these sorts of details that have made Rogers a five-time loser.



Regrettably, in the 2020 elections, Wendy Rogers set her sights on winning a seat in the Arizona State Senate in District 6 of that body, in spite of her listing her “primary residence” at two addresses in the state over a hundred miles apart (and one well outside of her district) yet somehow pulled it off with 54% of the vote.



Rogers has repeatedly been making headlines for being an absolute lunatic since:



Wendy Rogers will apparently attempt to continue to be a blight on the Arizona State Senate and run for re-election in 2024, although it will be interesting to see what district it will be in and what “primary residence” she feels is her best opportunity to hang around office. As it is, the Arizona GOP have had just about enough of her s*** and asked for David Cook, a long time member of the Arizona House of Representatives to challenge her in the Republican primary for the seat. We might not be a fan of Cook, but anything would be an improvement over an outright white nationalist who boasts of membership in a domestic terror group.

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