Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers speaking Jan. 15, 2022, at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Florence. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0
Rogers says she will ‘personally destroy the career of any Republican’ who tries to punish her
By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
Discussions are underway at the Arizona Senate about possibly censuring Sen. Wendy Rogers over her recent inflammatory comments and her speech to a white nationalist conference over the weekend, according to the chamber’s second-ranking Republican.
“We’re talking about that. We’re discussing that. I think it’s better to consolidate on what we’re going to do before we start talking to the media about what we’re going to do,” Sen. Rick Gray, the Senate majority leader, told reporters on Monday.
Rogers lashed out at the idea Monday night, writing on social media that she “will not apologize for being white. Hit me all you want.”
She continued: “I will personally destroy the career of any Republican who partakes in the gaslighting of me simply because of the color of my skin or opinion about a war I don’t want to send our kids to die in.”
The America First Political Action Conference, as the event is known, is an annual white nationalist gathering. In a speech to the conference in Orlando on Friday, Rogers, a Flagstaff Republican, called for gallows to be built to hang “high-level criminals” and “traitors who have betrayed our country.”
