{"id":1793931,"date":"2023-01-03T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793931"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:35:54","slug":"katie-hobbs-bans-reporters-from-swearing-in-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-hobbs-bans-reporters-from-swearing-in-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Hobbs Bans Reporters from Swearing in Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fkatie-hobbs-bans-reporters-from-swearing-in-ceremony%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=1793931&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1244805037-scaled-e1672707078967.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Katie Hobbs prohibited reporters from attending her inauguration as Governor of Arizona on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat\u2019s team allowed only a single photographer from the Associated Press into the room at the state Capitol while directing others to instead watch the event via live steam, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbarchenger\/status\/1609958799045193728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to local reporter Stacey Barchenger<\/a>. The media were present outside the event.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cArizona\u2019s 24th governor, Katie <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Hobbs<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, assumed power at 10 a.m. on Monday and in her first official act, she decided to take the public\u2019s business private. Not a great start,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaurieRoberts\/status\/1609984461143445505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> <\/span>Laurie Roberts, columnist for The Arizona Republic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New year, new leadership in Arizona, new stakeouts because reporters aren\u2019t allowed into the 10 a.m. swearing in of incoming Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katiehobbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@katiehobbs<\/a>. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adrian_Fontes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Adrian_Fontes<\/a> Arrive for the joint swearing-in <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ArWf8aWWfE\">pic.twitter.com\/ArWf8aWWfE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stacey Barchenger (@sbarchenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbarchenger\/status\/1609958793508704268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Roberts wrote in a column that the restricted access prevented reporters from asking questions of the officials now leading the state. Other people who were elected to office Monday included Kris Mayes, attorney general, and Adrian Fontes, secretary of state for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts also mentioned Monday as a state holiday, and Hobbs will be attending a ceremonial inauguration Thursday. She added that Hobbs will still be in attendance at the ceremonial inauguration Thursday. \u201cdecided to take the public\u2019s business private\u201d In her first official act, part a celebratory affair <a href=\"https:\/\/azcapitoltimes.com\/news\/2022\/12\/31\/hobbs-keeps-donations-secret-for-inauguration-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funded by secret donors<\/a>.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Hobbs was seen laughing while taking the oath. This viral clip prompted a rebuke by Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kari-lake-files-appeal-in-dismissal-of-arizona-election-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gone to the courts<\/a> To challenge her 2022 election defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the darkest moments in the history of Arizona. An illegitimate \u2018Governor\u2019 laughing in the face of our constitution. But it\u2019s always darkest before the dawn. We will expose this fraud for the world to see. Justice is coming. [Hobbs] won\u2019t be laughing then,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLakeWarRoom\/status\/1609976520931700736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted the\u00a0Kari Lake War Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Sandefur, vice president for legal affairs at the Goldwater Institute, came to Hobbs\u2019 defense, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimothySandefur\/status\/1609988422902611969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying the full video<\/a> Hobbs \u201cwas feeling emotional &#038; made a little joke to her mother (holding the Bible) about how they were both getting choked up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Hobbs prohibited reporters from attending her inauguration as Governor of Arizona on Monday. The Democrat\u2019s team allowed only a single photographer from the Associated Press into the room at the state Capitol while directing others to instead watch the event via live steam, according to local reporter Stacey Barchenger. The media were present outside &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793128,"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":[4929,5458,13073,8474,8475,3819,4738,12860],"class_list":["post-1793931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bans","tag-bongino","tag-ceremonies","tag-hobbs","tag-katie","tag-report","tag-reporters","tag-swearing"],"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\/1793931","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=1793931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}