Kari Lake in 2022 AZ Governor's race


On Drugs: Claimed that teacher's movement supported pot legalization

Like that time in 2018 when she announced that the teachers' Red for Ed movement was really a front for legalizing marijuana. Her source: a photo of a green T-shirt with the hashtag #GreenForEd. "What did I say?! #RedForEd is nothing more than a push to legalize pot," she tweeted. "Check this out. T-Shirts are already printed!! This is a big push to legalize pot and to make it more savory by tossing teachers a bone with a substantial raise. #IHateTheDishonesty"
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 1, 2021

On Health Care: Protested masking requirement at Arizona State University

A defiant Kari Lake challenged Arizona State University's new face mask requirement during an outdoor rally at the school's Tempe campus. "Who is sick and tired of this crap?" said the Republican candidate for governor. Lake dangled a face mask from her raised left hand and then stepped on it, as the crowd cheered. She later told the crowd of about 100, "Take the mask and tell Michael Crow to shove it." Crow, the president of ASU, later told 12 News he's never spoken to Lake.

Lake repeated a dubious offer to students she made recently on social media: If elected governor, she would pardon anyone cited for violating ASU's new policy requiring face masks indoors.

"If they arrest you, on Day 1 when I'm governor, I will pardon every patriot who stood up against this tyranny." The Arizona Constitution doesn't give a governor pardon power over tickets or misdemeanor offenses. Any discipline at ASU would likely be handled under the university code of conduct.

Source: The Western Journal on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 2, 2021

On Principles & Values: Cancel culture is meant to keep people from speaking out

[On free speech]: "That's exactly what that ugliness and cancel culture and name-calling is meant to do: keep people from speaking out, getting involved & doing the right thing. If we all cower when the media, social media trolls and hateful people try to hurt us, we will never accomplish great things," said Lake. "I am running because I care too deeply about this state and the wonderful people who live here to sit on the sidelines and watch us adopt the same policies that left California in shambles."
Source: The Western Journal on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 2, 2021

On Tax Reform: For individual liberties, low taxes, limited regulation

Republican candidate and former news anchor, Kari Lake, says she is taking a stand against Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, and running on a platform of common sense conservatism dedicated to individual liberties, low taxes, limited regulation, and protecting Arizona's great Western heritage.
Source: The Western Journal on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 2, 2021

On Homeland Security: Securing our border & our elections

Q: What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

A: Securing our border & our elections while locating and developing a new source of fresh water, reducing inflation and out-of-control housing costs, quality education with a renewed focus on technical education, creating smart economic growth, addressing our homelessness crisis, ensuring our businesses, churches and gyms are never closed again, and putting a stop to spiraling crime rates that are making our cities and towns less safe. Arizona faces enormous challenges. We cannot continue to do business and usual and expect anything to change. Our next leader must be a visionary with the courage to take them head-on.

Source: Ballotpedia Candidate Connection: 2022 Arizona Governor race Nov 1, 2022

On Abortion: We're not giving women choices, they're given one choice

LAKE: In Katie Hobbs' world, they're for abortion right up until birth, if you are in the hospital in labor, the abortionists are for giving you an abortion, If you desire one. This has moved beyond health care. We're not giving women choices. I'm for giving women true choices. And when they walk into an abortion center, they're only given one choice. And they're not told that you have the choice to keep your baby, and we can help and here's how.

KATIE HOBBS: Kari Lake is entirely misconstruing my position on this issue. Late-term abortion is extremely rare. If it's being talked about, it's because something has gone incredibly wrong in a pregnancy. A doctor's not going to perform an abortion late in a pregnancy just because somebody decided they want one. That is ridiculous. Under a Kari Lake administration, we would have government-mandated forced births that risk women's lives.

Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 9, 2022

On Government Reform: We have major problems in our election system

I think we have major problems in our election system. We had Democrats saying the 2000 election wasn't fair. They were complaining the 2004 election wasn't fair. 2016, Kamala Harris spoke out and said that the electronic voting machines were hacked in front of her eyes and nobody called them election deniers. And now all of a sudden in 2020, we don't have free speech anymore. We can't speak out against our own elections.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 9, 2022

On Government Reform: Plenty of evidence why people don't trust our elections

KARI LAKE (R): Well, there's plenty of evidence. We had 740,000 ballots with no chain of custody. Those ballots shouldn't have been counted. There's plenty of evidence. You can find it. Well, I'm happy to send it to your team. The problem is the media won't cover it. The real issue is that the people don't trust our elections.

KATIE HOBBS (D):I think anyone running for office who continues to say there was widespread fraud, they have yet to bring any evidence forward. This is absolutely disqualifying. This is somebody who will have a level of authority over our state's elections, the ability to sign new legislation into law, the responsibility of certifying future elections. This is a basic core of our democracy. She has nothing else to run on.

Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 16, 2022

On Immigration: We're going to protect our own border from invasion

LAKE: If you know the Constitution, you know that Article 4, Section 4 calls for the federal government to protect us from invasion, and under Joe Biden's lack of leadership, we just aren't seeing that. We have an invasion at our border, these Narco terrorist groups have operational control. They're using Arizona to smuggle people, to traffic children and to traffic fentanyl. We're going to invoke our Article 1, Section 10, authority to protect our own border.

KATIE HOBBS: My opponent's positions on this issue are nothing but empty rhetoric. She's not offering real solutions. When she talked about invoking the constitutional authority of the state, she's talking about declaring an invasion at our Southern border. That would do absolutely nothing to increase border security, but it would bring untold levels of chaos into our state. It's not a real solution.

Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 9, 2022

On Immigration: A lot of fraudulent asylum claims are being made

The vast majority of the people coming across don't really meet the criteria for asylum. There's a lot of fraudulent asylum claims that are being made. I'm really concerned about the people of Arizona. We have had five million people come in, and we have had a million of them called got-aways. That means we're not even processing them. They want to avoid capture because they have criminal records. We need to vet people coming into our country.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 16, 2022

On Principles & Values: I'm working hard to earn your vote; she's avoiding a debate

SPOT TITLE: "Debate"

ADVERTISER: Yuma County Republican Party/Lake for AZ Governor

Kari Lake is answering the tough questions and working hard to earn your vote. [Graphic: "Earning Your Vote" with background scene "Arizona Kari Lake, Nov. 22" appearing like a car license plate on podium with Lake speaking in a full-color video]. But Katie Hobbs is too timid to debate or defend her liberal record: [Graphic: "Katie Hobbs Running Away From a Debate", Arizona Republic Columnist Laurie Roberts, 10/12/22, headline and byline with background scene of Katie Hobbs in a still B&W photo]: crisis at the border; skyrocketing inflation; a looming recession. Arizonans want answers and solutions, and they deserve a gubernatorial debate. If Katie Hobbs is too afraid to debate, how can we trust her to make the tough choices? Katie Hobbs is too weak to lead Arizona. [Graphic: another Katie Hobbs B&W still photo with caption "Paid for by Yuma County Republican Central Committee; Authorized by Kari Lake."

Source: AdImpact.com AdWatch on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 17, 2022

On Principles & Values: 2020 resulted in illegitimate fool in the White House

Arizona Republican nominee Kari Lake has put false claims about the 2020 election at the center of her campaign--repeatedly and falsely declaring the election "stolen" and even calling it "disqualifying" and "sickening" that her top rival in the party primary wouldn't say the same. In early August, Lake said of Biden: "Deep down, I think we all know this illegitimate fool in the White House--I feel sorry for him--didn't win."

Lake has said she would not have certified Biden's victory in Arizona if she had been governor. She has continued, even in 2022, to demand the decertification of the Biden-won states of Arizona and Wisconsin, though that is a legal impossibility.

Lake has made numerous false claims about the 2020 election. She has falsely claimed Biden didn't receive 81 million votes he indeed received, falsely claimed Trump won Arizona, though he actually lost by more than 10,000 votes, and promoted baseless conspiracy theories about the vote count.

Source: CNN on 2020 Election Denial in 2022 Arizona Governor race Sep 9, 2022

On Families & Children: Struggle to raise kids in disconnected and digital world

Q: What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

A: Raising kids in an increasingly disconnected and digital world. Our kids have it tougher than we ever did, and we have to do a better job of nurturing, protecting, but also pushing them to succeed. And trying to inject some reality into an increasingly dystopian and dishonest news industry.

Source: Ballotpedia Candidate Connection: 2022 Arizona Governor race Nov 1, 2022

On Homeland Security: Secure our border & our elections

Q: What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

A: Securing our border & our elections while locating and developing a new source of fresh water, reducing inflation and out-of-control housing costs, quality education with a renewed focus on technical education, creating smart economic growth, addressing our homelessness crisis, ensuring our businesses, churches and gyms are never closed again, and putting a stop to spiraling crime rates that are making our cities and towns less safe. Arizona faces enormous challenges. We cannot continue to do business and usual and expect anything to change. Our next leader must be a visionary with the courage to take them head-on.

Source: Ballotpedia Candidate Connection: 2022 Arizona Governor race Nov 1, 2022

On Families & Children: Struggle to raise kids in disconnected and digital world

Q: What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

A: Raising kids in an increasingly disconnected and digital world. Our kids have it tougher than we ever did, and we have to do a better job of nurturing, protecting, but also pushing them to succeed. And trying to inject some reality into an increasingly dystopian and dishonest news industry.

Source: Ballotpedia Candidate Connection: 2022 Arizona Governor race Nov 1, 2022

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