Kelli Ward is melting down over Rusty Bowers’ testimony to the House J6 committee

Simply someday after Home Speaker Rusty Bowers regaled the nation with the shameful scheme to overturn democracy in Arizona, Republican Social gathering payback has begun.

State GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward has come positively unglued over Bowers’ testimony earlier than the Home Choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 revolt, whereby he reminded us that there are nonetheless are Republicans who haven’t misplaced their ever residing minds.

Or their integrity.

Within the final 24 hours, Ward has demeaned Bowers, belittled him and even embraced her inside fifth grade bully and given him a nickname: “Rusty Bowels.”

And, oh yeah, she endorsed his opponent in Aug. 2 Republican main for the state Senate.

Events often do not take sides in a main

Let me say that once more. The pinnacle of the Arizona Republican Social gathering has taken sides in an Arizona Republican main.

Simply as she’s within the bag for a Trump-endorsed Kari Lake in what quantities to a three-way Republican main.

Different, extra skilled occasion operatives will let you know that by no means occurs. The occasion’s position, they are going to let you know, is to stay impartial because the candidates to duke it out a main, then unite voters behind the occasion’s nominee.

As a substitute, we’ve Ward endorsing former state Sen. David Farnsworth, who’s popping out of retirement to attempt to knock off Bowers. Farnsworth is among the 29 legislators who in December 2020 signed onto the plan asking Vice President Mike Pence to simply accept the 11 “alternate” electoral votes for Trump.

“Alternate” being one other phrase for pretend.

Because the vote tally, a number of legally mandated pattern recounts and one “full forensic audit” confirmed, Arizona voters didn’t elect Ward and her 10 fellow phonies to forged our electoral votes for Donald Trump. And Bowers wasn’t in regards to the go together with the plot to shred the Structure in order that Trump may steal the election.

As a substitute, Kelli Ward provides us this

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I suppose the “troll” is within the eye of the beholder.

At the very least one Republican official is asking Ward out, calling her “a maniacal Chair … hellbent on destroying the GOP.”

Is it too quickly to start out a marketing campaign to draft Sen. T.J. Shope, R-Cooldige, for state Republican Social gathering chairman?

Placing an grownup in cost would do wonders for the once-Grand Outdated Social gathering.

Bowers honored his oath. That is no ‘loser’

I suppose it’s not all that shocking that Ward has it in for Bowers, a staunchly conservative Republican who toes the occasion line in all methods however one – he received’t put aside his integrity for Donald Trump.

Ward, in the meantime, was front-and-center within the behind-the-scenes scheme to overturn Arizona’s election – from her stress marketing campaign on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors as Biden was pulling forward (“We want you to to cease the counting”) to her pretend elector plot avowing that she was duly elected to forged our electoral votes for Trump to her demand for a “full forensic audit”.

An audit, by the way in which, that discovered no proof of widespread fraud.

Bowers is a deeply non secular man who acted as his conscience required and honored his oath. The one to the Structure, that’s.

Solely in Kelli Ward’s warped thoughts would that make him a “loser”.

Attain Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Comply with her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.

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