{"id":1739586,"date":"2022-11-15T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739586"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:47:56","slug":"top-maricopa-county-election-official-donated-to-far-left-resistance-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-maricopa-county-election-official-donated-to-far-left-resistance-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Maricopa County Election Official Donated to Far-Left &#8220;Resistance&#8221; Group"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftop-maricopa-county-election-official-donated-to-far-left-resistance-group%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=1739586&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>                On Monday it was revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-maricopa-county-election-officials-try-to-reassure-voters-amid-reports-that-nothing-is-working\">top Maricopa County<\/a> election officer Stephen Richer, who helped to oversee elections in Arizona, donated to the far-left &#8220;resistance group&#8221; PatriotTakes.<\/p>\n<p>PatriotTakes is a hybrid pack that describes itself on Twitter as a group of &#8220;dedicated researchers monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_richerpayment.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Data available on the Federal Elections Commission&#8217;s website shows that Richer donated $40.00 in July of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Richer had launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/maricopa-election-officials-launched-pac-in-2021-to-stop-maga-candidates\">PAC in 2021 to stop MAGA candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to a few generous donors this is now launching. Join me if you care about traditional Republican &#8216;stuff&#8217; (free people, free markets, rule of law), but also don\u2019t believe in conspiracies about the 2020 election or that Jan 6 was a tourist event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The PAC called Pro-Democracy Republicans of Arizona claims on their website that they are &#8220;fighting to keep our democratic institutions alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, during Tuesday&#8217;s midterms elections, Richer was<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-maricopa-county-official-apologizes-for-broken-voting-machines\"> forced to apologize <\/a>due to Maricopa County&#8217;s faulty tabulator machines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very sorry for any voter who has been frustrated or inconvenienced today in Maricopa County,&#8221; Richer wrote. &#8220;Every legal vote will be tabulated. I promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday it was revealed that top Maricopa County election officer Stephen Richer, who helped to oversee elections in Arizona, donated to the far-left &#8220;resistance group&#8221; PatriotTakes.PatriotTakes is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739589,"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-1739586","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\/1739586","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=1739586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}