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Far-right extremist member
of the Republican Party representing
District 17. She is a founding state house
member of the radical pro-insurrectionist "Freedom Caucus".
Starting in February of 2023 Wadsack also
became involved with the virulently
homophobic and extreme MAGA right-wing "Gays
Against Groomers". Wadsack assumed
office on January 9, 2023. Her current term
ends on January 13, 2025. Wadsack ran for
election to the Arizona State Senate to
represent District 17. She won in the
general election on November 8, 2022. She
campaigned as a "constitutional
conservative," gaining popularity with her
strong stance against mask and vaccine
mandates and advocacy of Republican
priorities like private school subsidies.
Wadsack defeated incumbent State Senator
Vince Leach in the Republican primary.
Wadsack also ran for Arizona State Senate,
District 10 AND United States House of
Representatives, Arizona, District 2 in 2020
and failed. Wadsack is running for
re-election to the Arizona State Senate to
represent District 17. She is on the ballot
in the Republican primary on July 30, 2024. |
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Tucson Lawmaker: Real Estate Agents Should
Give Homebuyers Political Information |
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"The way Justine
Wadsack sees it, some people looking for
new homes may want to be in a legislative
district where they are represented by
someone who shares their political views.
Only thing is, the Tucson Republican said
state laws now preclude real estate agents
like herself from providing that kind of
information. Ditto the districts for
Congress, county supervisors or city
councils. So Wadsack got members of the
Senate Government Committee to vote
Wednesday to not only repeal the prohibition
but require agents to affirmatively provide
that information to home buyers." |
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Feb. 14, 2024 |
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Whose Ballot Did Justine Wadsack Post
Online? Pima County Says It Couldn’t Have
Been Hers |
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"A photo that Sen.
Justine Wadsack posted on social media
on Oct. 30, 2023, featured a ballot that she
claimed was hers. However, Wadsack is
registered at an address in the 85747 ZIP
code (green box), which is in the Vail
Unified School District, while the ballot
includes a question about a Tucson Unified
School District bond (red box). Pima County
officials said Wadsack's ballot did not, and
could not, have the TUSD ballot measure on
it,
raising questions about whether she broke
state law by publishing a photo of someone
else's ballot" |
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Conservative Lawmakers To Speak At Moms For
Liberty Town Hall In Mesa |
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"Superintendent of
Public Instruction
Tom Horne and other Republican elected
officials are slated to speak at a Mesa town
hall Thursday organized by
Moms for Liberty, a "parental rights"
organization founded in Florida that has
been labeled an extremist group and has made
national headlines in recent years for
attempts to take over school boards and
restrict teaching related to race, gender
and sexual orientation." [ . . . ] "State
lawmakers Sen.
Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, Sen.
Justine Wadsack, R-Tucson, Rep.
Justin Heap, R-Mesa, and
Barbara Parker, R-Mesa, are expected to
participate in a panel at the event. The
panel will be moderated by Descovich, and
attendees will be able to ask
education-related questions." "Moms for
Liberty was founded in 2021 by Descovich and
Justice, former school board members in
Florida, out of opposition to
pandemic-related school closures and mask
mandates. Its chapters have since made
national headlines for attempts to take over
school boards, explosive appearances at
school board meetings and efforts to
restrict the teaching of race and
gender-related topics." |
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AZGOP’s Senator Of The Year: 9/11 ‘Never
Added Up’ And Was An ‘Inside Job’ |
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"On the 22nd
anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, Tucson Republican state Sen.
Justine Wadsack
shared a fake transcript from United Flight
93 and liked multiple posts on social media
alluding to the events of the day being a
“false flag” and an “inside job.” “It
was an inside job, a false flag, to steal
Middle East oil,” read one post on the
social media site X, formerly Twitter, that
Wadsack liked. Another post that she liked
said 9/11 was an “inside job” resulting in
“millions” of deaths." [ . . . ] "“I made
the decision to NOT trust my government THAT
day!” Wadsack said on Sept. 12 in a reply to
someone alleging government involvement in
the attacks. “It never added up. Still
doesn’t, and now look at the state of thing.
(sic)” |
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Arizona GOP Pounces On Viral Gender Identity
Feud Hitting U Of A Nursing School |
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“I’m absolutely
sickened that this institution of higher
learning is perpetuating the lie that a
person’s gender is based off feelings and
not their God-given biological sex
established upon conception,” Sen.
Janae Shamp, vice-chair of the Senate
Committee on Health & Human Services says in
the release. “This is completely groomer
garbage that strives to confuse our kids in
an effort to cater to the evil that is being
accepted by today’s society. As a nurse, I
am so disheartened that the next generation
of nurses are being hijacked of their
capabilities to deliver ethical care.”
Tucson lawmaker, Sen. Justine Wadsack,
also is quoted." [ . . . ] "“If this issue
is not immediately resolved by the
university, Senate Republicans will weigh
all options to make certain tax dollars are
no longer used in such an egregious
fashion,” said Senator
T.J. Shope, who chairs the Senate
Committee on Health & Human Services. “The
mental health of our children and the state
of our health care industry (are) being
threatened by this radical ideology.” |
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Sep. 8, 2023 |
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Wadsack And Supporters Target Critics And
Recall Campaign Volunteers |
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"The state senator
called one critic a ‘stalker’ and accused
another of being a ‘registered communist’" |
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Jul. 24, 2023 |
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How Facebook Led Arizona State Sen. Justine
Wadsack To Claim Uvalde Tragedy Was A False
Flag |
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“Newly uncovered
Facebook posts show that Arizona Republican
state Sen. Justine Wadsack declared
that the Uvalde, Texas, mass school shooting
was a false flag event enacted to install
“Red Flag laws and gun regulations.”” [ . .
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conspiracy theories online: She has tweeted
the QAnon slogan and shared false claims
about the 2020 election being stolen.” |
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LD17 state
senator Justine Wadsack
appearing at a College
Republicans United event
alongside neo-nazi steamer Tim
“Baked Alaska” Gionet. When
Gionet, who also marched at
Unite the Right, was still
living in AZ, he was charged for
defacing a Hanukkah display at
the PHX Capitol. More on Baked
Alaska can be found
here,
here
and
here.
Click here for more about
David Stringer. |
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29, 2023 |
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Arizona Republican
Said She ‘Barely’
Met With Lobbyists,
But Her Calendar
Shows Otherwise |
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"Tucson Republican
state Sen.
Justine Wadsack
said last month that
she “ barely” meets
with lobbyists after
she faced criticism
from gun control
lobbyists who she
refused to meet, but
a copy of her
legislative calendar
shows the freshmen
lawmaker meets
regularly with
lobbyists and
special interest
groups. “I don’t
meet with activists.
I barely meet with
lobbyists. I am not
required to meet
with either. I don’t
meet with haters
either. I meet with
the people from my
district,” Wadsack
said in response to
criticism on
Twitter.
A public records
request by the
Arizona Mirror
revealed that the
majority of Wadsacks’
meetings were with
lobbyists, many of
whom do not reside
in her legislative
district. Wadsack’s
calendar listed four
meetings with voters
from her district,
and more than 30
meetings with
lobbyists and
special interest
groups. Since
January, Wadsack has
met a number of
lobbyists and
special interest
groups to discuss
her bills and other
legislative
priorities. Those
lobbyists represent
a wide range of
special interests,
from public
utilities like
Arizona Public
Service to car
dealerships." |
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Facing Recall,
Wadsack Threatens
GOP Control Of
Arizona Legislature |
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"The Republican
state senator's
opponents have opted
to try to dump her
sooner rather than
try to vote her out
in 2024. They don't
have a candidate but
they have a sense of
initiative in
launching a recall
effort against the
freshman legislator.
Wadsack has
been a prolific
lawmaker, unleashing
her brand of hatred
on the Capitol
Complex.
Books? Ban them.
Homeless? Jail 'em.
Drag queens?
Imprison 'em. Guns?
More! More! More!
Wadsack is acting as
if freedom is the
obligation to do
what she says. The
record she's piling
up makes her
re-election by
voters in suburban
Tucson a dicey
prospect and that's
a problem for
Arizona Republicans.
Someone in GOP
leadership needs to
have a talk with
Wadsack because she
looks like death to
the party's
legislative majority
come 2024. She may
be the destroyer of
their world because
she's forgetting
three things. First,
she won by just 51
percent to 49
percent. That's not
a mandate to rule as
much as it is an
onus to listen or
else." |
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Wadsack Recall Effort Underway |
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"Freshman Sen.
Justine Wadsack, R-Tucson, is facing a
burgeoning recall effort led by her
constituents in Legislative District 17 and
out-of-district organizers frustrated by
controversial bills and colorful comments.
“People who do live in the district,
retirees, are fed up and came to me because
I have an organizing background,” organizer
Christina Rodriguez said. She is one of
three people pushing the recall effort and
said her name won’t ultimately be attached
to the filing." [...] The group hasn’t filed
its recall petition yet but plans to in the
second week of May. It will host five events
each Saturday in April at Purple Heart Park
in Tucson to drum up support. They intend to
file in the first week of May and hope to
overshoot the required 33,000 signatures by
at least 2,000 since some may get thrown out
in the verification process." |
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Justine
Wadsack Goes All In For Gays Against
Groomers |
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Not a surprise that
rabid homophobe and 4th rate cartoon
character Justine Wadsack (J-Wad) would be
heavily associated with and supportive of
Gays Against Groomers. |
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Arizona Senate Republicans Agree To Ban
Books With Gender Fluidity, Pronouns |
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"Wadsack,
a proponent of the violent QAnon conspiracy
that a global cabal is sexually abusing
children, has focused intensely on the
“grooming” myth in her first year as a
legislator and has sponsored other
anti-LGBTQ legislation. She has
claimed that Arizona schools are exposing
students to harmful sexual content. To back
up those claims, she has pointed to a book
of interviews from transgender and nonbinary
youth found in some Arizona high school
libraries, titled “Beyond Magenta:
Transgender Teens Speak Out,”" |
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Wadsack Throws Barbs At Arizona State Bar,
Refused To Offer Any Proof |
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"Republican state Sen.
Justine Wadsack has proposed a law
based on claims that the State Bar told
lawyers they would be disbarred if they took
COVID-19 related court cases. But Wadsack
wants you to take her word for it, as she
refused to provide any evidence of those
claims to lawmakers or to the Arizona
Mirror. Wadsack’s Senate Bill 1435 would end
the requirement for Arizona attorneys to be
members of the State Bar of Arizona, instead
moving the responsibility for licensing
attorneys from the Bar to the Arizona
Supreme Court. “I had hundreds, if not over
a thousand people, who tried to sue doctors,
state officials, county officials, city
officials who were telling them if they
didn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, if they
didn’t mask their children in schools, if
they didn’t comply, that they would lose
jobs or be kicked out of school,” Wadsack
told the Arizona House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee on March 8. “The
attorneys came to me telling me they were
restricted from taking any of those cases
because, if they did, the Arizona State Bar
would immediately disbar them.” The State
Bar denies this. “The State Bar does not
tell attorneys what cases they can take, nor
does it advise attorneys they will be
disbarred for taking certain cases,
including those related to COVID-19,”
Jessica Sanchez, president of the State
Bar’s board, told the Mirror in a
statement." |
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The anti-Drag Storey Time Bill. This bill
would apply only to libraries and other
government facilities. |
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This bill, had it become law, would be the same as laws covering a cabaret but with
the words "drag
show" instead of "cabaret". This is simply a sneaky attempt to
outlaw drag shows. |
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Arizona Senate Panel Ignores Own
Attorney, OKs Bills Attacking Trans
Students And Drag Queens
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Republicans advanced three anti-LGBTQ
bills to the full Arizona Senate on
Monday despite warnings that the bills
might be unconstitutional." |
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sponsored by first-term Republican
Senator
Justine Wadsack, would add drag
shows to a state law about "dangerous
crimes against children." The bill
defines drag shows as adult-oriented
performances and compares them to
bestiality, child sex trafficking,
second-degree murder, and sexual
assault." |
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Tucson Lawmaker
Loses First Bid To
Dump Cities' Rights |
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A bid to kill home
rule in 19 cities was defeated Tuesday when
two Republican senators who represent some
of those areas refused to go along. But Sen.
Justine Wadsack, R-Tucson, who has
been leading the charge because she is
unhappy with Tucson’s system of electing
council members, told Capitol Media Services
she already is working on changes she
believes will overcome their objections. And
it would do it in a way that her SCR 1023
would be narrowed to
save their home
cities from losing
their charters — and
then affect only two
largely Democratic
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This bill, had it become law, would be the same as laws covering a cabaret but with
the words "drag
show" instead of "cabaret". This is simply a sneaky attempt to
outlaw drag shows. |
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Take Your kid To
Watch 'Mulan' And
Wind Up In Prison?
What Will Lawmakers
Think Of Next? |
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House Bill 1698
would criminalize anyone who exposes a child
to a drag performance. Take your daughter to
see “Hairspray” and, by my read of the bill,
you’d be guilty of a class 4 felony,
punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
You’d also have to register as a sex
offender. This bill is brought to you by
Rep. Justine
Wadsack, R-Tucson, a
member of the House
Freedom Caucus.
Freedom, that is,
unless you allow
your child to watch
“Mulan,” in which
case you’d be guilty of a “dangerous crime
against children” if said child is under the
age of 15. I realize there’s political gold
these days in demonizing drag but isn’t this
just a tad … I don’t know … full-on,
flat-out bonkers? |
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As
Hobbs Called For
Collaboration, Some
Republicans
Literally Turned
Their Backs |
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As Democratic
lawmakers applauded Hobbs’ education agenda,
Republican Sens. Justine Wadsack and
Anthony
Kern stood and
turned their backs
to the governor.
Earlier, GOP Reps.
Rachel Jones,
Alexander Kolodin
and
Jacqueline
Parker walked out of
the speech. Midway
through the speech,
Rep.
Jake Hoffman
exited the House
floor. “It’s unfortunate that some members
chose an immature stunt instead, but we have
really tough issues in front of us and we
need to work together to stop them,” Hobbs
said during a news conference after the
speech. |
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Civic Engagement
Beyond Voting - Fact
Sheet For Justine
Wadsack |
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Arizona State Senator-Elect Told A Judge
That 'Antifa' Attacked Her Home. Police
Reports Show Something Else |
She testified at the
court hearing this summer that her family
was accosted by people, some of whom she
believed were affiliated with Antifa, since
she first filed to run for office in 2019.
Antifa, short for "anti-fascist," refers to
a loosely associated group of left-wing
militants who target neo-Nazis, racists and
anyone they deem "fascists" for action that
sometimes includes physical violence.
Protesters "were coming to my house,"
yelling anti-white insults and would "tell
me I was going to die," she testified. She
described a night when "Antifa" surrounded
her home and were run off by police but
returned in the early morning hours and
tried to set the home on fire with
"professional grade" fireworks.
Tucson police reports show a call to police
due to loud fireworks in 2020. Yet if
officers dealt with protesters at her home —
Antifa or not — they apparently didn't write
it down in their reports. The Republic asked
the Tucson Police Department for all calls
for service or other police action at her
family's home from 2019 to present, and any
reports associated with calls for service.
The reports do confirm some, though not all,
details of two incidents that she testified
about: a man showing up at her door and
calling her names, and a dog biting her
husband while he was out for a jog. But in
both cases, Wadsack's court version was more
dramatic than the one she and others gave to
police. |
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MAGA
Candidate Defeats
Arizona Senator
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Republican primary
voters from Tucson's northwest side, far
east side and Rita Ranch area are embracing
the party's MAGA wing, preliminary results
for state Senate District 17 show. With
nearly all precincts reported as of midday
Wednesday, Justine Wadsack, who described
herself as a "Pro Trump America First"
conservative, was poised to defeat
Vince
Leach, a state senator seeking a third term,
by an unofficial margin of about 1,200
votes. Wadsack, 48, opposes abortion rights,
the teaching of critical race theory and
mask requirements to prevent the spread of
COVID-19. She participated in storming a
Vail school board meeting last year to
protest mask requirements. Her endorsements
included the Arizona Tea Party; Purple for
Parents, an online group formed in
opposition to the Red for Ed movement; and a
group called Tucson
Trump MAGA. She has
appeared in election ads with
Kari Lake,
the Trump-backed choice for governor. |
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*Purple
for
Parents
= "Purple
Parents’
Hate
Group
Disrupts
School
Boards
Across
Arizona" |
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*GLSEN =
"Gay,
Lesbian
&
Straight
Education
Network)
is an
American
education
organization
working
to end
discrimination,
harassment,
and
bullying
based on
sexual
orientation,
gender
identity
and
gender
expression
and to
prompt
LGBT
cultural
inclusion
and
awareness
in K-12
schools" |
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Arizona" as the NAZI's insist. They remain across
the state as of today. |
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Crazy/Stupid
Republican Of The
Day: Justine Wadsack |
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What Ever Happened To Them: Arizona Election Edition |
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Candidates Spread Conspiracy Theory In Bid To Be Elected |
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QAnon in Arizona
Politics: A Guide |
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Justine Wadsack
is a Republican running for a state Senate
seat in Legislative District 10, which
includes Tucson. She has voiced pro-QAnon
sentiment online and engaged with a
prominent figure in the QAnon community,
Praying Medic |
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Arizona
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2020 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Senate LD-10 |
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Question 2:
Adding “sexual orientation,”
“gender identity,” or “gender
expression” to the protected
classes of race, religion, age,
sex, and ancestry in
nondiscrimination law. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Oppose. |
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Question 4:
Allowing biological males that
identify as transgender to play
on female sports’ teams. |
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Position: Oppose |
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Question 9:
Protecting a parent's right to
seek professional counseling for
their minor child with same-sex
attraction or gender identity
issues to help them reach their
desired outcome.* |
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Position: Support |
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Question 11:
Protecting individuals and
businesses from being required
to provide services or use their
artistic expression in a manner
that violates their moral or
religious beliefs.** |
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Candidates' Position:
Support. |
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This is in reference to the
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"Religious Freedom" laws. |
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GOP Trots Out 6 Extreme Candidates At Secret CD2 Forum |
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