{"id":1906739,"date":"2023-03-29T15:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governors-press-secretary-resigns-after-appearing-to-suggest-violence-against-transphobes\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:30:29","slug":"arizona-governors-press-secretary-resigns-after-appearing-to-suggest-violence-against-transphobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governors-press-secretary-resigns-after-appearing-to-suggest-violence-against-transphobes\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Governor\u2019s Press Secretary Resigns After Appearing to Suggest Violence Against \u2018Transphobes\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Farizona-governors-press-secretary-resigns-after-appearing-to-suggest-violence-against-transphobes%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=1906739&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0329\/ff438fe5-39c2-4ad7-bfb0-01439555cf9b\/audio.mp3?length=3290445&#038;duration=274\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs\u2019 press secretary said she is resigning after posting a Twitter post that appeared to suggest violence against \u201ctransphobes\u201d following the deadly mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school that left three children and three adults dead.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the mass shooting took place on Monday,\u00a0Hobbs press secretary Josselyn Berry wrote:\u00a0\u201cUs when we see transphobes.\u201d It included a GIF image of an actress\u00a0pointing two handguns from a scene in the 1980 film, \u201cGloria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berry had written that \u201cif you work in the progressive community and are transphobic, you\u2019re not progressive\u201d earlier in the day.\u00a0It\u2019s not clear if her Twitter messages were connected to reports saying that 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a biological woman who police said used male pronounces, was named as the suspect in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial post was taken down, and Berry appears to have restricted her account to only her followers.\u00a0Her Twitter bio as of Wednesday afternoon said that she was the \u201cPress Sec for @GovernorHobbs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office of Hobbs, a Democrat, confirmed that Berry resigned from her position to local news outlets on Wednesday. The Epoch Times has contacted Hobbs\u2019 office for comment.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from her office said that \u201cthe Governor does not condone violence in any form. This administration holds mutual respect at the forefront of how we engage with one another. The post by the Press Secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration. The Governor has received and accepted the resignation of the Press Secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berry has not issued any public statements after it was confirmed she would resign Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Before her resignation, a number of Republicans and conservative users called for her ouster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than 12 hours after the tragic shooting in Nashville by a deranged transgender activist [Hobbs\u2019] Press Secretary calls for shooting people Democrats disagree with,\u201d the Arizona Freedom Caucus wrote Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Scarpinato, a former chief of staff and spokesman for former Gov. Doug Ducey, said that her Twitter post was tone-deaf and offensive. It was also\u00a0\u201cbelow the dignity of the office of the governor\u201d given Berry\u2019s connection to Hobbs, he told AZCentral.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5155233\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Officials have identified the suspect in Monday\u2019s Nashville Christian school shooting incident as 28-year-old Audrey Hale as Nashville Police released surveillance footage, seen above, on March 28, 2023. (Nashville Police Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone, no matter your political leanings, would look at that tweet\u2014any sane, professional person would look at that tweet and say, \u2018This is how I want one of the top advisers to the governor of my state to conduct themselves,&#8217;\u201d Scarpinato told the outlet. \u201cJUST IMAGINE if this was the spokesperson for a Republican Governor,\u201d he also wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kari Lake\u2014Hobb\u2019s Republican opponent during last year\u2019s midterm elections\u2014claimed earlier on Wednesday that the mainstream media \u201cis silent\u201d on Berry\u2019s Twitter post and highlighted what she believes is a double standard amongst Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a conservative made light of a mass shooting &#038; called for more violence, they\u2019d be personally &#038; professionally destroyed. But a member of Katie Hobbs\u2019 staff did just that &#038; the media is silent. We don\u2019t partake in cancel culture \u2013 but the media\u2019s bias has never been clearer,\u201d Lake wrote on Twitter, including Berry\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>Berry is the former spokeswoman for the Arizona Democratic Party and a former state Senate Democratic caucus spokeswoman. She joined Hobbs\u2019s team after the election.<\/p>\n<h2>Audrey Hale<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Hale\u00a0was a former student at the school but Hale did not target specific victims there.\u00a0Hale was under a doctor\u2019s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and was not known to police before the attack, he added.<\/p>\n<p>If police had been told that Hale was suicidal or homicidal, \u201cthen we would have tried to get those weapons,\u201d Drake said. \u201cBut as it stands, we had absolutely no idea who this person was or if (Hale) even existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Tennessee\u2019s governor said one of the victims, 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, was a close friend of his wife, Maria, and that the two had been scheduled to have dinner after Peak taught that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaria woke up this morning without one of her best friends,\u201d Gov. Bill Lee said, adding that his wife once taught with Peak and another victim, Katherine Koonce, and the women and \u201chave been family friends for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs\u2019 press secretary said she is resigning after posting a Twitter post that appeared to suggest violence against \u201ctransphobes\u201d following the deadly mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school that left three children and three adults dead. Hours after the mass shooting took place on Monday,\u00a0Hobbs press secretary Josselyn Berry wrote:\u00a0\u201cUs when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1906740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[23032,4942,4472,5638,4604,4975,3779,3699],"class_list":["post-1906739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-transphobes","tag-appearing","tag-arizona","tag-governors","tag-press","tag-resigns","tag-secretary","tag-violence"],"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\/1906739","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}