Posted on 08/21/2022 10:17:00 AM PDT by lowbridge
Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R), who testified before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said that the Constitution is “hanging by a thread” after he lost his bid for a state Senate seat.
Bowers in an interview with The Guardian described his phone conversations with former President Trump and Trump’s campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the aftermath of the 2020 election, adding that the Republican Party has embraced “emotional violence.”
“The Constitution is hanging by a thread,” Bowers told The Guardian. “The funny thing is, I always thought it would be the other guys. And it’s my side. That just rips at my heart: that we would be the people who would surrender the constitution in order to win an election. That just blows my mind.”
Bowers also noted that he had to confront Trump supporters protesting in front of his home just days before the Capitol insurrection, referring to those individuals as “bullies.”
“I never had the thought of giving up,” Bowers added. “No way. I don’t like bullies. That’s one constant in my life: I. Do. Not. Like. Bullies.”
Bowers told the Jan. 6 panel in June that Giuliani never produced hard evidence of election fraud in Arizona, and he refuted Trump’s claims that he said the former president had won the state and the election was rigged.
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These guys get elected and they look at it like they have a lifetime appointment. They grow further and further away from the people who elect them until they forget about us altogether. Our only use is to keep them in the style they have become used to.
Just used it. It is associated with Damocles, but it’s association with the U.S. Constitution I think dates to Joseph Smith.
Sounds more like a fairy tale or a cult. Of course the heathens say the same thing about Christianity.
I'm sure Mitt believes that.
What’s a OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN?
Is that contagious? Do I have to isolate?
Good riddance to this SOB who blocked the audits every step of the way.
A Viking Ninja.
It functioned perfectly. The STATE determined the voting process, people (citizens) voted, and his butt is out. Because he’d spent so many years doing what he damned well wanted, he felt he should be able to continue.
Well, Bow Wow, get up on that cross with Lizard Cheney, Tom Daschle and all the other no-good politician megalomaniacs who thought they were God.
Funny how so many pols think that the words “My rice bowl” mean “Constitution”.
Wow. He picked an interview with The Guardian? Guess the NY Times didn’t have time for him.
If there is justice, Rusty will be hanging by more than a thread, and Democracy will be restored.
liz said the same thing when she was crushed a few days ago ... seems like a trend for anyone who loses an election to declare that THEIR loss is the same thing as the Constitution being set on fire: “An attack on me is an attack on the Constitution!” ... hey, sounds a lot like Anthony “Mr. Science” Fauci: “An attack on me is an attack on science!” ...
Constitution ‘hanging by a thread’ and it only took the democrats 90 years to do it.
Sounds like Rusty Bowers has “Emotional Damage!”
Waaaaaaaah!!!
Goodbye Rusty. You’re gone. Just another worthless RINO thrown out on his ass by the voters.
Rusty is from Arizona. I have to wonder if he knows Ray Epps ?
The constitution he is talking about is a fluid whatever-the-need-of-the moment constitution that is not related to the real Constitutioin.
Those are not “emotional violence.’ They are physical violence that breaks things and kills people unlike emotional violence which is just bad dreams and fantasies.
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