Republican Arizona state senators voted to censure fellow GOP Senator Wendy Rogers for speaking at the America First Political Action Conference, an event organized by a white nationalist. In this photo, Jose Munoz holds a poster of the Arizona Flag with a Ku Klux Klansman in the center during a protest outside Wrigley Field before the start of the Cubs game against the Arizona Diamondbacks April 29, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois./SCOTT OLSON/GETTY
By Bill Goodykoontz | Arizona Republic
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers gives a speech ahead of former President Donald Trump’s speech in Florence on Saturday, Jan.The antics of U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers are well known and well documented in Arizona. Their embrace of white nationalists is just the start.
When Rogers told the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference that we should “build more gallows” for political enemies — and the group’s members cheered — that was naturally going to garner headlines.
But these two clowns are no longer Arizona’s own. Judging by increasing national media coverage, they are now America’s clowns — and America’s burden.
For instance, a Washington Post story headlined “Arizona lawmaker speaks to white nationalists, calls for violence — and sets fundraising records” was the paper’s most-read story online for much of the day Tuesday. Rogers has “emerged as a dividing line for the GOP in Arizona and beyond,” the story says.
