Arizona Fake Elector In Trouble For Going On Nazi Podcast
by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror
May 6, 2024
A Glendale Republican lawmaker is no longer allowed to access legislative broadcast equipment after the Arizona Mirror reported on May 3 that he used the Senate’s broadcast studio to appear on a far-right talk show last week with a host who has declared Adolf Hitler a “hero.”
On May 1, Sen. Anthony Kern appeared on ”The Stew Peters Show” to discuss a Drag Story Hour that was hosted the day before in a basement meeting room in the Arizona House of Representatives. Kern joined the show live on video from the Arizona Senate studio.
The April 30 drag event in the House was hosted by Rep. Lorena Austin, D-Mesa, the nation’s first nonbinary Chicane legislator. When Republicans, who have spent the last several years crusading against drag and the LGBTQ community, learned about the event, it sparked an outcry.
Kern was quick to demonize the event, and he specifically called out House Speaker Ben Toma, his GOP primary opponent for Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District, for allowing the event to take place.