Arizona House Expels Republican Lawmaker: 'If You Don't Toe the Line, This Is What Happens' By Jack Davis
April 13, 2023 at 10:50am
Arizona’s state House has expelled Republican Liz Harris from the chamber.
Harris, only months into her first term in office, was kicked to the curb by the GOP-controlled state House of Representatives on a vote of 46-13 Wednesday, according to KNXV-TV in Phoenix.
The action came days after two Tennessee Democrats were expelled from that state’s legislature in a move that drew heavily sympathetic coverage for the expelled members from the national establishment media and Democrats in the U.S. Senate demanding an investigation, according to NBC News.
The resoluti on passed to oust Harris, who represented Legislative District 13, stated that she “brought ‘disrepute and embarrassment to the House of Representatives’” and “also ‘allowed the impugning of other members’ in violation of House Rule 1.”
The resolution zeroed in on the testimony of Jacqueline Breger, a witness at a Feb. 23 hearing on Arizona’s elections who was invited by Harris to speak.
Breger “purported to present ‘findings’ of an investigation that alleged the existence of numerous schemes within Arizona, including money laundering, drug trafficking and sales, public corruption, bribing of public officials and election fraud,” the resolution states.
The resolution stated the testimony cited the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” as well as “various private citizens, government employees, and appointed and elected officials, including current Arizona legislators.”
The House hearing was not the appropriate venue for such accusations, the resolution states.
“Representative Harris violated the inherent obligation to protect the integrity of the House of Representatives and used her elected position to provide Ms. Breger with a legislative platform as a substitute for a criminal court,” the resolution states.
One of the “current Arizona legislators” Breger discussed is Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Democrat, who filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee accusing Harris of knowing in advance what Breger was going to claim, according to The Arizona Republic.
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