Opinion: Just in time for the 2022 election, secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem is holding a ‘hearing’ on … wait for it … 2020 election fraud.
By Laurie Roberts | Arizona Republic
The Desperate Arizona Quest to Uncover a Conspiracy continues on Monday as Rep. Mark Finchem convenes a “hearing” into voter fraud in the state’s 2020 election.
This time, he’s delving deep into the details of a 13-month old email.
An email from some anonymous guy whose claims already have been investigated and discarded.
Told you desperation has set in.
Finchem held a 2020 ‘hearing’ with no evidence
Finchem is one of the state’s loudest Stop the Stealers, an Oro Valley Republican who is hoping to howl his way into the Secretary of State’s Office so he can oversee elections in one of the country’s key swing states.
It was Finchem who hosted a daylong “hearing” in November 2020, allowing Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to regale the public with various conspiracy theories of the many ways in which Arizona’s election was stolen. Giuliani spent all day presenting “expert” witnesses, not a single one of whom provided any actual evidence of fraud.
But Finchem was undaunted.
“Ladies and gentleman, this is a skirmish,” he said, at the end of that Nov. 30 meeting. “You ain’t seen nothing yet. Because when Satan wants to extinguish a light, he will stop at nothing. So be on your guard, put on the full armor of God, and be prepared to fight.”
Five weeks later, Finchem was in Washington, D.C., for the Jan. 6 rally-turned-riot in which Trump supporters broke into the Capitol hoping to stop certification of the election results.
