(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Arizona GOP official: 'If Stephen Richer [a Jew] walked in this room I would lynch him.' [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-25 Yesterday I threw up a diary about a fascist “pastor” in Arizona who said women who get an abortion should be executed. He didn’t dance around the topic or speak in euphemisms; no, he said exactly that and he meant it. Get an abortion, we kill you. Today another Arizona Republican said she would execute an election official, who happens to be another Republican, because he is not “a good Christian man that believes what we believe.” Code for: He is a Jew. Maricopa County Republican Party co-chair Shelby Busch was speaking about Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who is also the official who filed a defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake because she repeatedly lied about him helping to steal the 2022 election she lost. Lake said Richer added hundreds of thousands of ballots for Democrat Katie Hobbs to the total, and he monkeyed with the voting machines to benefit Hobbs, none of which was true. However, Lake’s lies had their effect: Her goons followed Richer and his family to their home and places of work, and, in good old GOP fashion, threatened them with execution. Hence the defamation lawsuit, which Kari Lake tried to block, claiming her lies about Richer were just “rhetorical hyperbole.” That didn’t matter to the court—her “hyperbole” ruined a family’s life, and the lawsuit is going ahead. Lake has no defense and knows it, so she said she won’t defend herself at trial. Shelby Busch is a Kari Lake advisor, so she has no love for Stephen Richer, who is running again for Maricopa County Recorder as a Republican. Busch and other members of Lake’s cult know Richer’s lawsuit could send Lake, currently running for US Senate against Rep. Ruben Gallego, into bankruptcy or worse. We saw what happened to Rudy Giuliani in Georgia when he defamed election workers just like Kari Lake did: $148 million. Busch can’t really denounce Richer over the defamation lawsuit, because it’s verifiable, Lake all but admits it, and spotlighting her proven lies doesn’t help Lake’s Senate campaign. So instead Stephen Richer should die because he’s Jewish, and because he doesn’t worship MAGA, being one of the few Republicans who’ll say the 2020 and 2022 elections weren’t stolen. What is it with these Republican peckerheads who keep threatening to execute people who do not agree with their warped views? Feels like 1934 Germany. DA Alvin Bragg, Judge Juan Merchan, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, and many others are threatened daily with murder. That’s all the Republican Party has—threats, tricks, deceit, lies. They can’t engage on the playing field of facts, because they know they will lose (abortion, gun rights, gay marriage, tax rates, healthcare, etc.). Busch, in the video clip below, which was sent out by Richer’s office, says if you’re not Christian she can’t work with you, and in fact you don’t deserve to live. If Stephen Richer walked into the room, she “would lynch him.” x "If Stephen Richer walked in this room, I would lynch him." This is Shelby Busch. She is second-in-command for the Maricopa County Republican Committee (@MaricopaGOP). She was the county party's 2023 "volunteer of the year." She's an advisor to Kari Lake and others. She also… pic.twitter.com/L7lWTm3oSk — Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) June 24, 2024 They all try to sound so tough, like Bannon bullies. Instead, they are scared little piss ants who see their white, straight, Christian America slipping away—becoming more pluralistic, more secular, more fair. And so they revert to bogus history about the nation’s founding, as Busch does; and rather than engage “difference” in dialog, they’d rather kill you. What’s more frightening now is that the threats are not late-night anonymous phone calls or untraceable emails. Instead, it’s Republican officials with a microphone—and the crowd cheers. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/25/2248634/-Arizona-GOP-official-If-Stephen-Richer-a-Jew-walked-in-this-room-I-would-lynch-him?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/