In Arizona, a private person suing for defamation must show that a defendant not only made a false and defamatory statement, but knew the false and defamatory nature of the statement and then acted in reckless disregard of the falsity of statement or negligently failed to ascertain them. Lake has not yet announced who will represent her in court, but Arizona Daily Independent has confirmed that service was effected against the three defendants last week by email. Points to Lake’s assertion that Richer, as Maricopa County Recorder, “sabotaged the election to prevent Republican candidates, including Lake, from winning.” Richer also contends Lake and the other defendants have “repeatedly and falsely” accused him of causing Lake’s loss to Katie Hobbs last November. Richer contends Lake “controls” Save Arizona Fund even though the Arizona Corporation Commission lists the only directors as Caroline Wren and Nicholas Moore. Richer’s lawsuit names two other defendants: Lake’s official campaign committee which she chairs and the nonprofit Save Arizona Fund Inc. It is a pattern Richer complains about in the lawsuit, alleging Lake has “raised money and benefited” from “defamatory falsehoods” about him. They want to outlaw questioning elections. Guess who's paying for lawfare attack against the Protect Democracy Project! The far-left organization that wages lawfare against #AmericaFirst politicians. In turn, Lake is using the litigation during public appearances and interviews to seek legal defense funds and as an opportunity to promote her book which comes out June 29. He is seeking compensation for “substantial reputational, financial, physical, emotional, and professional harm,” according to the lawsuit. Richer, also a Republican, is suing the former longtime television news anchor in his personal, not official, capacity. I’m told all expenditures went toward taking-down… Elections continues to bash me and President Trump.ĭo you think he will run 2024 elections fairly?įYI: In 2022 he formed a super-PAC to bring down MAGA candidates. The so-called “Republican” in charge of Maricopa Co. “Those who orchestrated the wide-spread fraud want us to shut-up and accept it. “I’m exposing the massive corruption in our elections and this jackass is suing me,” she wrote in a tweet after learning of the lawsuit. In fact, she has spent the last few days dogging Richer with a series of tweets and retweets. Zidich must mean that articles in Sunday's paper contain three-quarters of the relevant facts, instead of only half.Lake appears unfazed by the 104-page lawsuit filed June 22 on Richer’s behalf by attorneys Daniel Maynard and Douglas Erickson. John Zidich, president and publisher of Republic Media, explains to his newspaper's reporter that the company had been focusing intently on making the Sunday edition better. The state's largest newspaper forces its readers to turn to Editor and Publisher, or their local blogger, for the real story: Sunday circulation for The Arizona Republic increased slightly for the most recent six-month period, helping the newspaper join the ranks of top 10 Sunday newspapers for the first time.Īverage circulation on Sundays for The Republic rose by 1,039 copies to 516,562 for the September 2008-March 2009 period, as reported in the March Publisher's Statement, part of the Audit Bureau of Circulations' semiannual Fas-Fax accounting of newspaper circulation. 2 percent, but leaves out a significant drop in daily circulation: A story today in the Arizona Republic touts the fact that the paper's Sunday circulation rose a tiny.
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