Thursday, August 1st, 2024
ARIZONA -– Yesterday in Yuma, Martin Porchas, Chairman of the Yuma County Board of Supervisors, Lynne Pancrazi, Yuma County Supervisor and former State Senator, held a press conference highlighting how Kari Lake’s power-hungry agenda will hurt Arizonans.
“We deserve real solutions – and real public servants – not Kari Lake’s self-serving and dangerous extremism,” said Chairman Martin Porchas. “In my nearly three decades of public service, I have seen the power of collaboration and the importance of putting people over politics. Nothing I’ve seen from Kari Lake in the years that she’s been running for office leads me to believe Kari Lake can collaborate with anyone.”
“Ruben has the experience, and the knowledge, and the ability to work across the aisle to get legislation passed and for the people of Arizona. His opponent, Kari Lake, is all about doing what she’s told. Kari has no legislative experience, she doesn’t work across the aisle, and is proposing draconian measures concerning a woman’s right to health care,” said Yuma County Supervisor Lynne Pancrazi. “He has everything that Kari Lake doesn’t. Kari Lake has no skills except divisiveness.”
Kari Lake supports banning abortion and ripping away Arizonans’ freedom to make their own health care decisions:
- Lake supports Arizona’s “draconian” territorial ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, saying sheriffs should enforce the ban, and lamenting that it wasn’t enforced.
- Lake has a yearslong, on-camera record of calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, saying abortion is “not health care,” and saying she “very much support[s]” banning medication abortion.
- Lake calls abortion “killing,” “sacrifice,” “execution,” and the “ultimate sin.”
Kari Lake continues to relitigate her failed 2022 gubernatorial election and the 2020 presidential election – even after national Republicans “urge[d] her to look forward:”
- Just this month, Lake asked the Arizona Supreme Court to “either order a new 2022 gubernatorial election, or ‘proportionally strike 275,000 ballots’” and declare her governor of the election she lost two years ago.
- The U.S. Supreme Court “brushed aside” Lake’s request for them to “endorse a conspiracy theory” election denial case that has previously been described as “furthering false narratives,” “baseless,” and “reckless” – and it has resulted in over $100,000 in sanctions.
Kari Lake has made clear that she would rather score cheap political points than stand up for Arizonans:
- Lake is “absolutely opposed” to the bipartisan border agreement voted on in the U.S. Senate today, despite the legislation having been the “first major bipartisan overhaul of the nation’s immigration system since the 1990’s.”
- Lake “proposes massive cuts to Medicaid and Medicare” in a “budget proposal [that] could imperil border security,” which would “gut Medicaid, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits” and jeopardize health care for over 1.4 million Arizonans in Medicare, almost 1.5 million Arizonans on Medicaid, including children, and nearly half a million veterans living in Arizona.