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Digg on Rusty Bowers, Arizona Speaker of the House blocking legislative action

Vote on sex offenders

(Bowers) cast the sole dissenting vote against a bill that would have required police to notify neighbors and schools when a convicted sex offender moved into the area, and which would have allowed the state to commit such offenders to mental institutions after serving their prison sentences.

Bowers says he based his opposition on the experiences of a friend convicted of child molestation–a friend whom he was convinced was innocent. -Red flag

Career/Faith

His career as a sculptor and painter provides for him, his wife and their seven children. – How do you pay for 9 people as an artist?

Of late, many of his commissions have come from individuals and institutions who have ample reason to curry favor with someone like Bowers. – Art is great money laundering as we know. Can we find his finances?

Bowers, a devout Mormon, says his religion is the "filter" through which he processes all issues that come before him – Lots of digs on Mormons with ties to trafficking. Any ties to those people?

Spoopy Family Ties

Bowers' grandmother, Lottie Crandell, was a stalwart supporter of Arizona's first governor, George W.P. Hunt; she sang at one of Hunt's numerous inaugurals.

From Wikipedia – George Hunt was interred in a white pyramid set atop a hill in Phoenix's Papago Park. Nothing to see here?

"We were an old family, but never a moving and shaking kind of family," Bowers says. – Operating behind the scenes like the cabal does?

The freshman senator was chosen by conservative Republican legislative leaders and Governor J. Fife Symington III to chair the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee – The Governor who went to jail for corruption.

He began sculpting lifelike bronzes and busts of notable Arizonans, including ASU football coach Frank Kush, supermarket magnate Eddie Basha, state legislators Polly Rosenbaum and Burton Barr, and state Senator Jake Flake.

Pattern of Delaying Votes

…considering his habit of postponing hearings over contentious issues until people whose testimony he wouldn't welcome had gone home for the day.

House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, acknowledged the system may be able to accommodate only six lawmakers at a time —perhaps as many as eight — before it would crash. – The Arizona House is closed for a week due to COVID and the backup system is glitchy. Nothing to see here.

Other

Bowers went out of his way to sponsor a bill that sought to relax regulations on day-care providers.

Sauce:

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-6423156

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._P._Hunt

http://noraburbatrulsson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/NoraTrulsson_RustyBowersProfile.pdf

https://tucson.com/news/local/arizona-house-members-can-now-vote-remotely-but-its-controversial/article_58531745-ba97-5b5c-8f21-0f6d3b4c2444.html

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