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Who is Rusty Bowers? The conservative Republican has a history of bucking his party's extremists [1]
['Fredreka Schouten']
Date: 2022-06-21
(CNN) Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers delivered emotional testimony Tuesday about his resolve in the face of enormous pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, vaulting the conservative Republican into the spotlight and the center of the national reckoning over the events of January 6, 2021.
Back in Arizona, Bowers long has been known as a maverick willing to buck the increasingly extreme elements of his own party -- sometimes with wry dismissals or a sly brand of showmanship.
Earlier this year, for instance, rather than just sitting on a bill that would have given the state legislature the power to toss out future election results, Bowers used an obscure procedural maneuver to kill it: He assigned it to 12 committees at once.
At the time, Arizona journalist Jeremy Duda described Bowers' takedown as "killing the bill, chopping it up, setting the pieces on fire, then digging up the ashes and throwing them into the ocean."
In a column earlier this year, Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts called the 69-year-old Bowers one of the "few Republicans at the (state) Capitol who declined to give in to the collective psychosis that has infected some of the baser portions of his political base."
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