Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:47 pm
[Kyle Griffin on Twitter: "An Arizona judge has rejected Kari Lake's election lawsuit, affirming governor-elect Katie Hobbs' win."
Today the judge in the case ordered Kari Lake to pay Katie Hobbs more than $33,000 as reimbursement for Hobbs's payment to expert witnesses, but he did not sanction Lake or her attorneys.
Last June, Kari Lake, the unsuccessful 2022 Republican candidate to be Arizona's governor who is now a 2024 Republican candidate vying to become Arizona's next U.S. senator (facing off against Democrat Ruben Gallego in the race to succeed the retiring Krysten Sinema), was sued by Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County Recorder. Richer said that Lake had defamed him with multiple accusations of 2022 election improprieties. Lake was unable to get Richer's lawsuit dismissed three months ago, a state appeals court turned her away in January, and the state supreme court also did so this month.
Then last night Lake "filed a default judgment motion that indicated she was not challenging her culpability". In other words, she's conceding that she lied about Richer and wants to move right to the question of how much she owes him.
N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:53 pm
Madison Cawthorn, the freshman Republican Congressman from North Carolina who lost a primary race in his bid for reelection, seems to have largely abandoned his job with more than three months left to serve in his term in office: "It is difficult to discern what Cawthorn has been doing for his constituents ... a caller to two of his four district offices hears a recording that the offices are 'no longer regularly staffed' and that voice mail is not 'regularly' monitored." (source)
There's been new reporting yesterday and today about how it appears that the office of former Rep. Dan Cawthorn, Republican of North Carolina, "basically stopped casework when he lost the primary in May 2022." That would mean "eight months of his constituents not getting help with social security, Medicare, VA services, tax returns, passports, etc." So now his Republican successor's office is struggling to catch up with requests from all the people that Cawthorn abandoned. It seems Cawthorn also moved to a new house he bought Florida six months before the end of his term.
Today in Florida, Madison Cawthorn, the former Republican Congressman from North Carolina, apparently rear-ended a state trooper on I-75.
