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Theresa Holmes's avatar

Great article. Shared it (and your referral link) with the Montana Freedom Caucus as we're seeing the same kind of shenanigans in our current legislative session.

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

Keep up the good work up there! Yellowstone tells more truth than it really should...

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Pamela Germeroth's avatar

Makes me sick to my stomach!!!

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

You're not alone...

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Wendi Dial's avatar

That was a threat against his life and also a warning to her. I remember. I have long suspected this was the case with our elected and appointed officials. Threaten them (stick) and pay them off (carrot) in order to make them feel better. The love of money is indeed the root of all evil. That exchange didn’t escape me at all. Who would be threatening them? I refer you to our joint research project a couple of years ago. But that’s my guess and I have no proof. God bless, Seth.

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

The proof is that people stay in politics for a lifetime when supposedly making "174k"... to live in one of the most expensive markets there is and receive the worst press anyone could ever imagine.

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Wendi Dial's avatar

Or history. It certainly would lend itself to circumstantial evidence. No law abiding citizen conducts themself in such a manner. Only one that’s trapped in a gilded cage, so to speak. The geographical relationship between the elections and criminal activity is a tight one. And it’s across the entire country. Quite the mess.

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TVO's avatar

Yeppers 👍 being from Chicago.. it's always been about kickbacks n Payoffs n Bribes 🤔...grease da palm baby ... it's not whatcha know.. it's who ya know. We hand counted the whole city of Chicago and were done by 2am.. come on now...paper ballots...same day voting ..with proof of ID..all hand counted...DONE ✅ only mail in Ballots that made it by the cutoff time were counted...NO EXCEPTIONS 🦅 🇺🇲 🦅🗽⚖️ Let's Do it Maricopa County!!!

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

Wait, there's corruption in Chicago?

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RetiredCWO's avatar

I've long pondered why so many people entering politics for the first time, seemingly pure as the wind driven snow, and then once elected, literally do a 180 and stop being the "integrity" candidate they once proclaimed to be................. something is there

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

Because we aren't the ones in control...

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Ron Wiggins's avatar

You’ve HIT the nail on the head here. WHO will hear it? All RINOs fit this. How many different ways can you describe this corruption?

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

We had a few surprising votes on this bill here in AZ in the positive too.

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cheryie Palmer's avatar

So...you voted for Kamala.

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

Not me

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Christopher Warren Gardner's avatar

I’m still majorly frustrated by a Trump win

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Christopher Warren Gardner's avatar

Sorry - continued … Trump 5.5% win and Lake loss. I don’t get that split ticket in AZ

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

There are unfortunately a lot of them, but I share your concerns on 2024.

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Christopher Warren Gardner's avatar

Thank you, Captain K. I’ve read a lot of the reasons (I.e., no funding from the RNC, McCain contingent that hates her, potential fallout with Trump, etc.). But I just thought Trump’s dominant showing of 5.5% margin would have been enough to drag her over as well, and she was still quite short. Just sad for AZ.

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bara.ex.nihilo's avatar

I just figured that paid actors filled in the mail-in ballots as instructed: Trump and Gallegos.

If one is being paid to do such a thing, it matters not what the instruction is or how obviously unnatural such a pairing would be.

I am not from AZ, but have spent winters in the Valley and have watched closely some of the goings-on. I also heard the radio ads during this last election. I wondered if it was common for such political ads to be aired in a foreign language?

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Capt. Seth Keshel's avatar

There's a very good reason it takes 2 weeks to count a third the quantity of ballots as they have in Florida.

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