RINO AZ Election Official Who Sued Kari Lake Reveals His Disgust for US Structure – Says The First Modification is “The Biggest Threat to Elections and Democracy”, Suggests Restrictions on Free Speech in FOIA’d Emails | The Gateway Pundit

An unpublished op-ed by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer found via a public data request reveals that he believes the First Modification is “the biggest threat to elections and Democracy,” People ‘ opinions are “disturbing,” and that “it may be time to revisit our First Amendment jurisprudence.”

The election official in Arizona’s largest county additionally refers to his constituents and Trump supporters who know that Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win 81 million votes as “gullible,” “crazies,” and “idiots.” He even means that suing residents for defamation can be a treatment to his issues if it weren’t for the First Modification.

Jack Butler, editor of The Nationwide Overview, rejected the drafted op-ed, citing Richer’s assault on freedom of speech.

Nevertheless, days earlier, Richer apparently gave a equally written speech, sarcastically in commemoration of Structure Day, to college students of the Maricopa County Group Faculty District, which was accredited by the district beforehand.

In his drafted speech, Richer warns, “Despite what I’m going to say, I’m a huge fan of the Constitution” earlier than remarking that “the Constitution today is in some ways a thorn in the side of my office. Specifically the First Amendment.” He additionally states, “It’s possible that our First Amendment jurisprudence needs to change,” even calling it a “religious problem.” In closing, Richer tells the faculty college students, “If you have some time to spare to think about the problem of disinformation, I’d greatly appreciate it, and so too would all elections workers in the country.”

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the same op-ed printed on CNN earlier than The Nationwide Overview rejected his extra edgy and anti-American opinion piece. In his prior article, titled “What Happened to Trusting Experts?” Richer complained concerning the so-called conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election and the continuing Arizona 2020 election audit whereas criticizing COVID-19 and vaccine skeptics as “Average Joes” who “somehow know better.”

This is similar Maricopa County official who sued Kari Lake with the backing of a Soros-funded nonprofit for talking out and criticizing the stolen 2022 election, the place she led by double digits within the polls till the intentional voter suppression that targeted Republicans on election day. However Richer, who helped oversee a sham election and is now attempting to silence critics, claims that “the gravest threat to voting rights and our elected form of government is no longer the systemic disenfranchisement of a particular class of people, but instead the undermining of the entire election system through lies and disinformation.”

It must be remembered that Richer oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor and based and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans dark money PAC geared toward eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda. He’s something however an goal election official, and when catastrophes equivalent to 60% of machines failing on election day and an estimated hundreds of thousands of early ballots being counted with no signature verification occurred in a race that Lake reportedly misplaced by lower than 1%, it will appear affordable for Lake to criticize and query the integrity of the officers who oversaw the election.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kari Lake not too long ago pled no contest within the lawfare defamation case, which is backed by a Soros-linked Defend Democracy, in order that she may concentrate on her marketing campaign in opposition to Soros-funded Democrat Ruben Gallego. This is similar leftist group that’s at the moment engaged in lawfare to silence The Gateway Pundit for questioning elections. Although they haven’t admitted it publicly, they seemingly share the identical views that the First Modification is “a thorn in the side” and must be diluted.

Closer Look: Kari Lake Didn’t Admit to Defaming RINO Election Official Stephen Richer in Defamation Case, She Outmaneuvered the Soros Thugs: “My Words Are True, But How Did They Hurt You?” (VIDEO)

It was additional revealed after the 2022 election that Stephen Richer’s workplace colluded with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to censor data they disagree with surrounding elections in Maricopa County, explicitly mentioning The Gateway Pundit’s reporting. Clearly, he hates the First Modification.

As our readers recall, The Gateway Pundit successfully sued Maricopa County for unconstitutionally barring our correspondent, Jordan Conradson, from their press room, citing “a real or perceived conflict of interest” and claiming he’s “not a bona fide correspondent of repute.”

Nonetheless, they allowed the far-left faux information media into their press room. They didn’t need us of their press room earlier than, throughout, and after the rigged 2022 election as a result of we’d have requested concerning the actual conflicts of interest:

• Soros-funded former Secretary of State Katie Hobbs oversaw and licensed her personal election for governor.
• RINO Recorder Stephen Richer ran an anti-MAGA PAC through the election.
• RINO Chairman Invoice Gates referred to as for the “humiliation” of Trump-Endorsed candidates on the poll field main as much as the final election.
• Far-left Supervisor Steve Gallardo served as a co-chair of the Latinos for Katie Hobbs coalition and a member of Hobbs’ transition workforce.
• Katie Hobbs threatened to sue or prosecute any county official who didn’t vote to certify her rigged election the place 60% of machines failed Republican election day voters. 

Grassroots activist and EZAZ.org founder Merissa Hamilton printed a bombshell thread exposing Stephen Richer’s anti-First Modification emails on X:

MARICOPA COUNTY FEATURING ELECTION OFFICIAL STEPHEN RICHER:
“THE FIRST AMENDMENT is the Biggest Threat to Democracy and Elections”

Many have seen the article by @azfreenews on Stephen utilizing authorities assets to have employees compile information on his “personal”… pic.twitter.com/vnXvDHGREJ

— Merissa Hamilton ⛽ (@merissahamilton) March 30, 2024

Through Thread Reader:

In August of 2021, Jack Butler, the Submissions Editor at Nationwide Overview, reached out to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, asking if he want to place one other op-ed in @NRO

Stephen supplied to put in writing a chunk making the case that the “Stop the Steal” motion is “anti-conservative”

However on Sept. twenty third, 2021, Recorder Stephen Richer introduced a really totally different op-ed & copied one in every of his employees on the e-mail

Stephen stated, “Not the article I promised, but what do you think about this one”

Jack Butler from @NRO gave a reply that it was primarily too excessive for them

What made it so controversial?

Jack stated Recorder Stephen Richer wanted to “shed the bits about reconsidering First Amendment jurisprudence”

However he may maintain the components concerning the D *mini*n lawsuits “having their desired effect”

Oh my gosh! What desired impact is that? Oh boy, buckle up!

Recorder Stephen Richer opens up lamenting that his job has brought about him to be disturbed by humanity

And that’s led to him having a brand new perspective on the First Modification…. He references European legal guidelines as a substitute

, those the place the Police arrest you for posting virtually any opinion on social media that the federal government doesn’t approve of at any given second

It must be famous that as I write this, there have been a number of posts of the FBI visiting folks to “check in on their social media posts”

He then strikes into fabricating a ridiculous faux instance of an clearly faux assertion saying that “gullible people” would possibly imagine this “fake” set of information

He goes on to lament that the First Modification is especially “protective of political speech” and that appears to be a BIG downside for him in terms of folks speaking about elections

In Recorder Stephen’s world of receiving a paycheck out of your hard-earned tax {dollars}, YOUR OPINIONS AREN’T WELCOME!

Recorder Stephen continues by saying that “local crazies” — YES YOU — imagine the “lies” about election operations

We must always apparently simply TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT because the MINISTRY OF TRUTH — how very Orwellian

He claims outstanding politicians inform him in non-public that they imagine elections are high quality

He says the First Modification means he “can’t touch these idiots” — particularly for him as a public official

He suggests suing for DEFAMATION as a treatment — sound acquainted

Recorder Stephen Richer goes on to complain about America First information @OANN and Telegram, calling his voters “IDIOTS”

What an election tagline — “YOU ARE AN IDIOT IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAY AND VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I AM THE GOVERNMENT”

Recorder Stephen Richer says that the First Modification is “the biggest threat to elections and democracy”

He claims the First Modification is the reason for folks “dropping out of elections” — In fact, folks dropping belief in elections has completely nothing to do with residents simply wanting essentially the most safe and competent elections doable that FOLLOW THE LAW {be aware my sarcasm}

This can be a theme we’ve seen not too long ago on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, the place Supervisor Clint Hickman blamed peaceable residents collaborating in public remark as the rationale they face violent threats

I’m a survivor of violence, and I discover Hickman’s statements extraordinarily offensive and, fairly frankly anti-American

Whereas violence ought to at all times be condemned, it’s massively irresponsible for a public official to falsely blame peaceable folks for the actions of others which have completely nothing to do with them

We’ve heard such rhetoric from despots within the final century in Europe, and it didn’t finish nicely

Whereas I condemn such rhetoric too, Clint Hickman has a proper to say such haphazard speech, seemingly seeking to whip folks up right into a frenzy because it was getting near the 11:30 MAG Area closing time

REMINDER: Elections are the First Modification antidote to politicians we don’t like!!!!

PS. As a former authorities worker, I additionally skilled threats. There are a variety of unstable folks on the market, and everyone seems to be their verbal punching bag, sadly. If solely there was a big county that had an incredible price range for psychological well being to assist folks resolve their demons

NOPE! Too busy distributing well being providers by race as an alternative of want.

Recorder Stephen Richer closes his op-ed with the hope that the D* mini *n defamation lawsuit “resets” a few of this First Modification jurisprudence “landscape”

He goes on to counsel that whether or not or not the election tabulation programs supplier wins their defamation lawsuits, it’s throughout the authorities’s finest curiosity to restrict First Modification rights in America

That is TERRIFYING STUFF!!!!

The person (Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer) who oversees one of the important features of the First Modification, OUR RIGHT TO VOTE, believes it’s the federal government’s function — in a approach his job — to restrict that basic human proper of speech

The Founders should be rolling over of their graves!!!

With out free speech, the consent to control doesn’t exist! We rapidly slip into tyranny!!

However IT GETS WORSE!!!!

A number of days earlier in 2021, Recorder Stephen Richer despatched his employees a model of the op-ed to make use of as a speech on CONSTITUTION DAY — a sacred day within the historical past of human rights

NOTE: He says he oversees the administration of elections, which is exactly the kind of description he’s suing @karilake for defamation over

Maricopa County Recorder Steven Richer’s speech appears designed to trample on the Structure, however he tries to offer it a smiley diet-coke cowl

He reminds us he’s damaged the principle promise he made to us — “Make the Recorder’s Office Boring Again”

The place can we get a refund for that one?

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer goes into the Constitutional historical past of voting rights earlier than laying down the hammer and totally trampling on one of the sacred paperwork in human rights historical past

THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS A THORN IN HIS SIDE

He says: “I posit that the gravest menace to voting rights and our elected type of authorities is now not the systematic disenfranchisement of a specific class of individuals, however as an alternative the undermining of the whole
election system via lies and disinformation.

And it’s on this respect, that the Structure right this moment is in some methods a thorn within the facet of my workplace. Particularly the First Modification.”

(WHAT ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH)

Effectively, yeah, dude…. LITERALLY, THE POINT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS SO IT WOULD BE A THORN IN THE SIDE OF TYRANTS AND DESPOTS

He additionally complains of “C*VID” misinformation on the vaccine — That is the place I get particularly perturbed

My facet be aware: I’m nonetheless heartbroken that I misplaced the co-founder of and one in every of my closest associates earlier this yr partly to a standard deadly symptom of taking vaccines, who was pressured to take the vaccine by Trudeau to see her new child grandbaby

My expensive buddy was disabled, so in 2020, she took a scooter she adjusted for her wants and went door to door in triple-digit climate to get that “Make the Recorder’s Office Boring Again” man elected in assist of the FIRST AMENDMENT and free, truthful, and competent elections!

The 501c3 arm of our group is at the moment suing Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and the County. My co-founder deliberate on being the principle plaintiff as a result of she noticed it as the very best recourse to get that man and his workplace to observe the regulation, giving us our greatest likelihood to pretty re-elect President Trump and save freedom! She needed Stephen to know the way she felt about his job efficiency.

Sadly, she died all of the sudden proper earlier than the lawsuit was imagined to be filed.

On the morning of her dying, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors held a particular assembly to overview the Presidential Choice Election Plan. We couldn’t make it as a result of I used to be attending to her household in guaranteeing her physique was nicely taken care of in accordance with her needs.

Reportedly, Clint Hickman complained we weren’t on the assembly. I’d have spoken about this on the PPE certification assembly final week, however Chairman @jacksellers banned public remarkEZAZ.org

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer closes his speech by saying, “he doesn’t have a solution” to the issue of the pesky First Modification —

He calls it a RELIGIOUS PROBLEM too — HAPPY EASTER FELLOW CHRISTIANS!

He says he’s “hesitant to disrupt something that has served this country well for so long”

Wow! Rather a lot can change in two (& three) years!!!! Doesn’t appear so hesitant now.

BUT IT STILL GETS WORSE!!!

The response from his employees (presumably) wasn’t something like Jack Butler’s — kindly saying it’s too excessive

NOPE!!!

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s employees is ALL-IN saying, “I love it”

This man, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, NOW has the hubris to ask the voters to re-hire him to complete what he’s began

This begs the query⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

If he’s utilizing his authorities employees to help on this effort of First Modification jurisprudence, what precisely is going on in his workplace along with your hard-earned cash?

That’s an ideal query and I hope we get some solutions on this!!!!

Within the meantime, you may obtain the complete speech and op-ed public report requests from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer at