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Opinion|| The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Legislature on Wednesday approved a bill that would prevent you from finding out where your legislators live.
It’s clear why the bill is needed. Consider former House Speaker Rusty Bowers and his experience with some of Donald Trump’s “patriots” — creepers who descended upon his Mesa home, using loudspeakers to call him a pedophile and a pervert as inside his daughter lay dying.
This, because he stymied a scheme to decertify the 2020 election.
There is also one good reason for Hobbs to veto this bill: Sen. Wendy Rogers. Or rather, the Legislature’s obvious disinterest in considering whether she’s breaking the law.
It’s been several weeks since Rogers scurried to court for protection after a reporter who … gasp! … rang her doorbell. Arizona Capitol Times’ Camryn Sanchez was investigating whether Rogers really lives in her northern Arizona district, as the Arizona Constitution requires.
Of course, she doesn’t. It’s beyond belief that anybody would really believe that Rogers lives in a trailer in Flagstaff when she has two nice homes in the Valley — a Tempe home in which she has lived for a decade or more and a Chandler home she and her husband purchased in January.
Rogers even admitted it in January, signing a property deed declaring she is “currently residing” in Tempe.
Rogers isn’t the first carpetbagger ever to put one over on her “constituents.”
