This might be some hyperlocal breaking-bad news Meanwhile, the LD 10 Republican Committee in Mesa censure Mayor John Giles for endosring an unnamed Democratic candidate in the Aug. 2 primary, calling on local GOP memners to "cease recognition" of him as a Republican an
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d to cease supporting him in any future election. Giles could not be reached for comment.....
GOP censures Mesa lawmaker, Mayor Giles
State House Majority Leader Rusty Bowers is in a primary fight with former Sen. David Farnsworth for the Republican nomination for the Senate in the east Mesa Legislative District 10. (Cronkite News)
The Arizona Republican Party formally censured House Speaker Rusty Bowers July 19 as “unfit to serve” the party, less than one month after he testified to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The move came as Bowers is locked in a primary election fight with former state Sen. David Farnsworth for the Republican nomination for the state Senate seat in Legislative District 10 covering part of east Mesa.
Meanwhile, the LD 10 Republican Committee in Mesa censure Mayor John Giles for endosring an unnamed Democratic candidate in the Aug. 2 primary, calling on local GOP memners to "cease recognition" of him as a Republican and to cease supporting him in any future election. Giles could not be reached for comment.
The state GOP censure resolution makes no mention of the congressional testimony by Bowers, who detailed former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in what Bowers called a “tragic parody” that would have forced him to violate his oath of office.
Instead, the two-page resolution cites a litany of issues where it said Bowers worked with Democrats on issues ranging from election reform to school funding to LGBTQ rights.
As a result, the resolution said, Bowers has “lost the confidence of a majority of Republican Party leaders” and it ended “any and all recognition and support of him as a member of” the party.
Despite the stated justifications, most analysts said they have little doubt about what was behind the censure.
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