A hastily passed bill that changed the insider process of picking precinct committee members has lit a firestorm for Republicans at the state Capitol.
Shamed by angry grassroots activists, Republican lawmakers at the Arizona Capitol have spent the past week trying to undo part of aTheir first attempt failed, and hopes for a quick fix are getting dashed by Democrats, who see no need to lend their votes to help Republicans rebuild trust with voters from the GOP's grassroots base.
The solution was to allow party officials to appoint the PCs, as they are known by insiders, but have them considered"elected." That would allow them to carry out all the normal PC duties, such as voting for party officials from the district to the state level. Within a day of the bill's passage, activists lit up GOP lawmakers' phones, filled their email inboxes and crowded legislative hearing rooms, complaining that the PC portion of the bill was an assault on democracy, a step toward authoritarianism and a reason to distrust elected officials.“These people are our source of our information and they need to be chosen by the people," Barbara Jennings, a north Phoenix Republican told a House committee Tuesday.
"We erred, I erred, we all erred by not reaching out to our county party officials," she said at a Senate hearing Tuesday that echoed many of the complaints House members heard that day.But the urgency was all on the Republican side, propelled in part by an ongoing effort from allies of former President Trump to populate political party posts and elected offices with Trump supporters.
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