A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for using nominating petitions that contained forged signatures in a bid to qualify for a 2024 primary election.
Austin Smith, 30, pleaded guilty in mid-November to charges of attempted fraudulent schemes and practices, and illegal signing of election petitions. He had acknowledged trying to use petitions with forged signatures that he knew were false and forging a dead woman’s signature on a nominating petition.
Smith represented an Arizona House district in the Phoenix suburbs for one term before dropping his reelection bid in April 2024 when questions arose about signatures on his nominating petitions.
Every accusation is a confession
"I know it’s corrupt because I’m actively cheating!
…um…that came out wrong…"
[Shakes head] It’s always the ones you most suspect.
don’t worry: once trump pardons him, he’ll be appointed to some position in charge of all the people who held him accountable
Pardons are only for federal offenses. Has to be the governor.
“laws” LOL
Damn thats a rough 30.
Projection as always
You’d think we as a society would have figured this out by now.
And yea, if I knew I was secretly corrupt AF and assumed everyone else was like me, then I’d probably want rules against it too.
Huh, gets me thinking, maybe we should treat extreme views like a mental illness. Then again, maybe not because it’s probably get abused quick like it did last time.
Austin Smith, 30
(Emphasis mine)
Interesting.
Because…?
Well, partly because I am constantly seeing this drumbeat (probably planted by the elites) that sets younger generations against older generations, etc., and that the younger somehow have it all figured out and the older generations took everything good from the world, and all we need to do is sit back and wait for the younger generations - which are somehow magically different than every generation prior and have figured it all out - to fix it.
Meanwhile, I keep seeing plenty of instances of people that are theoretically in these younger age brackets being horrible people as well, so I don’t think the problem is really one about how many times someone has been around the sun…it’s almost like maybe it’s a human condition vs. something where people born between arbitrary dates are monoliths…
Also, this guy looks like a pretty rough 30, LOL.
Delicious.
