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Arizona lawmaker seeks bar discipline for attorney who published racist cartoons [1]
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Date: 2025-08
A Republican state lawmaker has filed a complaint with the Arizona State Bar Association after a disgraced former state lawmaker who has faced child sex charges and espoused racist views posted racist AI-generated cartoons aimed at the lawmaker.
Stringer, a licensed attorney, owns and publishes Prescott eNews, an online news site that covers Prescott and the surrounding communities. He and the publication have been facing pointed criticism for publishing multiple AI-generated “political cartoons” that depict Prescott Valley Republican lawmaker Quang Nguyen in a racist manner.
Nguyen’s family fled communist Vietnam when he was a child and immigrated to the United States and he became a naturalized citizen.
“As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I’m disgusted by attorney David Stringer’s publication of racist material. His conduct impugns the integrity of the legal profession,” Nguyen said in a post on X accompanied by his complaint to the Arizona State Bar. “Peddling racist tropes has no place in America.”
Nguyen’s complaint cites the Bar’s own recent history of disciplining Stringer, who was formally reprimanded in 2022 for using the likeness of a federal judge and mischaracterizing language from the judge’s order in his unsuccessful bid for Yavapai County Attorney in 2020.
“In light of Mr. Stringer’s recent and established disciplinary history, the present matter is of serious concern,” Nguyen says in his complaint. “Three years after being reprimanded for professional misconduct, Mr. Stringer has again engaged in conduct undermining the integrity of the profession–this time by publishing offensive drawings that misrepresent an elected official’s eligibility to hold office.”
Nguyen also called out the “blatantly racist” cartoons for falsely claiming that he does not meet the constitutional criteria to hold office and that, by publishing them, Stringer is demonstrating “his intentional disregard for the ethical duties of the profession” and undermining the “public confidence in the legal profession and the integrity of the state’s judicial system.”
He urged the Bar to harshly punish Stringer, citing American Bar Association standards for aggravated punishments, including a pattern of ethical misconduct and a “dishonest or selfish motive” for attacking Nguyen.
Stringer did not respond to a request for comment.
Nguyen previously told the Arizona Mirror that he believes that Stringer is using his publication to attack him because he doesn’t support ending all immigration to the United States.
Nguyen said that, during a Q&A with a local Republican group several years ago, Stringer asked if he would support the moratorium on all immigration that was being proposed by U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, who similarly believes immigration is the root of all problems in America and has close ties to — and has employed — white nationalists and antisemites. Nguyen said he does not back Gosar’s proposal, as it would prohibit legal immigrants such as himself from entering the country.
The cartoons take aim at Nguyen for being an immigrant and question his loyalty to America. One cartoon suggested he was falsely claiming to be a naturalized citizen.
They also traffic in other racist stereotypes. In a cartoon titled “Going To The Dogs,” Nguyen is depicted being investigated by the police for stealing and eating neighborhood pets, a racist anti-immigrant trope that dates back to anti-Chinese immigrant rhetoric of the 1880s. Republicans in 2024 employed the racist trope against Haitian immigrants, even as they acknowledged it was untrue.
The AI-generated cartoons also purposefully misspell Nguyen’s first name and use other racially charged imagery in its depictions.
Stringer used to hold the seat in the Arizona House of Representatives seat that Nguyen currently does, but he resigned from the legislature in disgrace in 2019 after refusing to cooperate with an ethics investigation into child sex crime charges he faced in 1983. Stringer took a plea deal on charges that he had repeated sexual contact with two boys younger than 15 years old, including one who was intellectually disabled.
Prior to that, Stringer had faced pressure to resign after racist comments he’d made became public. Additional comments emerged after the Prescott Republican won reelection in November 2018.
Stringer has long cozied up to white nationalists and espoused nakedly racist views.
In 2023, Stringer attended an event at Arizona State University that featured white nationalist Jared Taylor as a speaker and was put on by College Republicans United, which supports white nationalist Nick Fuentes and whose members have been caught sharing racist views. The group also recently gained controversy for a tabling event it planned at ASU encouraging students to report other students to ICE. Stringer has long been an ally of the group and promoted the event on Prescott eNews.
Taylor also has more than 20 articles published on Prescott eNews, including one that pushes the racist trope that white men are the most intelligent people, with non-white people, Jews and women less intelligent to varying degrees. Taylor has a long history of racism dating back to the 1990s, when he created a think tank that aimed to create research proving the superiority of whites.
Stringer has published his xenophobic views on immigration on Prescott eNews over the years, espousing views that have their roots in unabashedly racist organizations like Stormfront, and he has said there “aren’t enough white kids to go around” and that immigration was “an existential threat” to America.
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