Soros kicked in $2M to elect Maricopa County sheriff now stonewalling election audit
More than four years before Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone used his law enforcement credibility to resist subpoenas in the Arizona Senate audit of the county's general election, he was running for the office he now holds.
Crucial to the Democrat's victory over incumbent Republican Joe Arpaio: $2 million from progressive megadonor George Soros.
It was the largest single donation Soros made in a local race in the 2016 election cycle, according to a Politico report at the time. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, kicked in another $250,000 to the pro-Penzone effort.
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Man, if Soros has got time-travel in his arsenal we're screwed.
Soros’ group focused a lot on prosecuting attorneys and law enforcement in that cycle. Conspiracy theory is that he set up the troubles of last year by creating zones where riots couldn’t be prosecuted (and swing state elections could be swung). Less theoretically, the social justice agenda thought that buying a bunch of lawmen and prosecutors would let them block unjust harassment of minorities.
Of course, that doesn't derail Tom's point. They may not have put that guy there four years ago to block the audit into the election they were already scheming to steal. But he's there now, and they paid for him to be there. "He owes us a favor," they might ordinarily think, "and he's going to want another favor soon when his re-election campaign comes around."
If I recall correctly there was a similar focus on Secretary of State offices after the 2000 Presidential election showed their influence over election processes. It's been a while but I wouldn't be surprised if that had some influence in 2020 as well.
Well, I wasn't suggesting that Soros had all this planned out four years ago. No, I think he just looked at ways to influence local politics in key counties with the expectation that some of the people he helped get into office would be useful.
Sometimes agents have specific missions; MI6 sends James Bond to take out Dr. No.
But sometimes agents are just thrown into potentially strategic places where they might have an opportunity to be useful. Some never do have a good opportunity, but if you send enough, some will.
@ Tom - that is likely the closest story to the reality.
Reality will crash. Because I said so.
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