Blame it on Right-Wing Pundits is a way-too-simple and way-too-shallow explanation for all the deep dirt running under the surface and under-the-radar here in Maricopa County - that includes all things political + an entire cast of characters making Maricopa County the Folly of The Nation.
Ever since the forced resignation of the former Maricopa County Assessor in 2019. the Arizona State Capitol had become a pressure-cooker even before the November 2020 General Election. took a while for the dust to settle while Politicians attempt to troll the media even more
Here we go again!
Fact-checking the audit Logan and Ben Cotton, the CEO of the digital forensics company CyFIR, which is a subcontractor on the election review, made a number of claims during the July 15 briefing that have since been debunked. . .
Once the bad information gets out there, people have got to hear the truth and they’ve got to hear it from a credible source.
– Gowri Ramachandran, Brennan Center for Justice
Some sketchy details for the latest episode just yesterday September 21, 2021
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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is comprised of, from left, Bill Gates, Steve Chucri, Jack Sellers, Clint Hickman and Steve Gallardo. Photo courtesy Maricopa County
Chucri to resign after recordings of him bashing colleagues over ‘audit’ become public
> "Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri announced that he will resign his seat after a recording surfaced in which he criticized his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors for not supporting the Senate’s review of the 2020 election, speculating that two of them were worried about what such a review would show about their own narrow victories in November in a newly released recording. Chucri’s resignation will be effective Nov. 5. The remaining four members of the Board of Supervisors will select his replacement.
Arizona Mirror reporter Jeremy Duda tracked down some details from conversations and comments Chucri made back in January and March of this year (9 months and 6 months after) that were, as he reported, "provided to right-wing media." > The comments were made during a meeting in March with Shelby Busch and Steve Robinson of the conservative group We the People AZ Alliance, which, at the time, was attempting to force recall elections against all five members of the Board of Supervisors, . .
Gateway Pundit, a far-right conspiracy theory website, that has promoted countless false claims and conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 election, first published the recordings. . .According to Gateway Pundit, the recording was made on March 22, a little more than a week before Fann announced that she’d hired the Florida firm Cyber Ninjas to conduct the upcoming “audit,” which began several weeks later.
- Chucri said he first ran in 2012, a time when the Board of Supervisors and Maricopa County government in general had been rocked by years of discord and scandal, to bring civility, innovation and a business mindset to government.- “I do not want to perpetuate the very problem I ran to eliminate several years ago. While I have had my differences with my colleagues, I have known them to be good, honorable and ethical men,” he said.
Chucri: Comments twisted to prove non-existent ‘cover-up’
Chucri said the political landscape “has changed for the worst this year,” a trend he blamed on the proliferation of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, an issue which, in Arizona, has put Maricopa County’s elections officials and supervisors in the center of the storm.“The environment is wrought with toxicity — and all civility and decorum no longer seem to have a place. The fixation with the 2020 election results and aftermath have gotten out of control,” Chucri said.
- He also criticized Gateway Pundit and others for presenting his comments as evidence of problems with the election in Maricopa County.“The picture some individuals are trying to paint about a cover-up, scam and other nonsense about my colleagues and myself is simply false. There was no cover-up, the election was not stolen. Biden won,” he said.
- Chucri’s criticism wasn’t limited to his fellow supervisors. At one point, he said he was proud to have helped “take out” Adrian Fontes, the Democratic county recorder who lost his re-election last year, opining, “That guy’s a scumbag.” Fontes and the board clashed several times, and the supervisors stripped him of some of his powers over elections after problems during the 2018 vote. . .
READ MORE > Jeremy Dude Arizona Mirror
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06 September 2021
Pundits & Pop Psychology: Baffled and Bamboozled
Try to get a grip on this one article: it is a book review
Don't know about you, dear readers, but I miss the step-by-step logic of proving a theorem in the science of geometry that usually ends with three initials QED Classic Latin 'Quod erat demonstrandum' That which was demonstrated [to be true]
The Rhetoric of Pop Psychology
Jesse Singal’s takedown of trendy science aimed at fixing human behavior in The Quick Fix reveals the limits of a certain strand of journalism
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