{"id":1737560,"date":"2022-11-14T06:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737560"},"modified":"2022-11-14T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:33:37","slug":"kari-lake-says-katie-hobbs-created-major-ethical-problem-by-not-recusing-herself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-says-katie-hobbs-created-major-ethical-problem-by-not-recusing-herself-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake Says Katie Hobbs Created &#8220;Major Ethical Problem&#8221; by Not Recusing Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkari-lake-says-katie-hobbs-created-major-ethical-problem-by-not-recusing-herself-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737560&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Arizona Republican candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kari-lake\">Kari Lake<\/a> said her Democrat opponent, Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-katie-hobbs\">Katie Hobbs<\/a>, created a \u201cmajor ethical problem\u201d for not recusing herself as she runs for governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe called for her to recuse herself July of last year of 2021, right after we got into the race, recognizing that there\u2019s a major ethical problem there. Obviously, just the optics of it looks bad. And she didn\u2019t do that,\u201d Lake, a former local TV anchor, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/kari-lake-slams-dem-opponent-not-recusing-election-chief-despite-run-major-ethical-problem\">Fox News<\/a> on Sunday morning.\u00a0\u201cEven though many people been calling for her to recuse herself,\u201d she added, \u201cit creates problems to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to election data, Hobbs is leading Lake by more than 30,000 ballots with 88 percent of the vote counted as of Sunday. Officials in Maricopa County, the state\u2019s largest county, have drawn considerable criticism after voting tabulators suffered problems on Election Day and for taking nearly a week to count ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump on social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\">called<\/a> for a do-over of the midterm elections in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Masters, the Republican candidate for Arizona\u2019s Senate seat, told Fox News on Friday that \u201cthe most honest thing at this point would be for Maricopa County to wipe the slate clean\u201d and \u201cjust take all the ballots and do a fresh count.\u201d That came before some outlets called the race for his opponent, Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs, meanwhile, is the state\u2019s top election official. During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/arizona-elections-chief-katie-hobbs-wont-recuse-herself-in-governors-race-against-kari-lake_4845318.html\">interviews<\/a> earlier this year, Hobbs said she would not recuse herself despite former Arizona secretaries of state saying she should.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will be the one that would certify the election,\u201d Lake said on Sunday. \u201cShe has a lot to do with registration, voter registration, all kinds of things \u2026 voter rolls and advising counties on how many ballots they\u2019ll need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But several weeks ago in a CNN interview, Hobbs said that \u201d secretaries of state in Arizona have overseen elections where they\u2019re on the ballot since statehood\u201d and \u201chas\u00a0never been an issue until now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Arizona Secretaries of State Richard Mahoney, a Democrat, and Ken Bennett, a Republican, both called on Hobbs to recuse herself, according to Time magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be wise if the secretary of state seconded responsibility for ministerial oversight to either the attorney general or the Maricopa County recorder,\u201d Mahoney told the outlet. And Bennett added that she should have allowed \u201ca deputy secretary or somebody else\u201d to oversee the election so as to not create the appearance of a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted the Hobbs campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Republican candidate Kari Lake said her Democrat opponent, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, created a \u201cmajor ethical problem\u201d for not recusing herself as she runs for governor.\u201cWe called for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1895014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}