All posts tagged "Eli Crane"

Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) compared the Republican Party's planned army of poll watchers for the November election to SEAL Team 6 snipers, according to Rolling Stone.

Crane, himself a former Navy SEAL and winning "Shark Tank" contestant, declared that poll watchers would be “boots on the ground” to counteract a “desperate” opposition which will “do whatever it takes to hold on to power.”

A staunch ally of former President Donald Trump first elected to a redistricted Arizona congressional seat in 2022, Crane is an unrepentant election denier who has proclaimed the 2020 election was full of "massive amounts of fraud." There is no evidence of any significant degree of fraud....

WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy’s 2024 revenge tour is far from over.

Next stop: Arizona, where McCarthy, the former House speaker, hopes to exact 10 pounds of flesh from one of the eight Republicans who orchestrated his inglorious ouster last year.

That fellow GOPer is first-term Rep. Eli Crane, a retired Navy SEAL who currently holds Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. ...

More than 30 federal political candidates and party committees have together surrendered at least $160,000 worth of donor dollars to the U.S. Marshals Service in recent weeks, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal campaign records.

It’s an all-but-unprecedented relinquishing of precious campaign cash to a government agency best known for hunting down suspected criminals, and even veteran election officials say they’ve never seen anything quite like it in U.S. politics.

But this isn’t any routine situation: Most of these “disgorgements” stem from contributions made by executives of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, including former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Raw Story’s analysis indicates. And the Department of Justice is urging campaigns to give the money up....