Arizona official targeted by election deniers now struggles with PTSD

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PHOENIX — Anger and resentment welled inside the local leader as he surveyed the mourners at his friend’s funeral reception last year.

Bill Gates, 51, a lifelong Republican elected to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, stood with his wife and a friend and ticked off the names of those gathered around them who had betrayed him, their party and their country.

Gates stewed that they had done nothing as he and other leaders in Arizona’s most populous county faced relentless criticism, violent threats and online harassment for upholding the results of the 2020 presidential election. They helped spread baseless conspiracies about the voting process that turned him and his colleagues into targets. They stood by as his family lived in fear and briefly fled their home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/06/bill-gates-maricopa-county-arizona-ptsd/
 
People have no idea, unless they have looked into it. Some have had to go into hiding, simply because they did their jobs.

It's a total disgrace. Trump, Kari Lake, Fox, pillow man - they have ruined so many lives.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
This guy needs to grow a pair of balls.

Maybe go work for Home Depot since he obviously can’t handle politics
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We'll get what we deserve in terms of governance.

No one sane or intelligent would get into politics in 2023. We'll get a bunch of crazy narcissists at every level, from local politics to DC.
 
BidenPresident said:
PHOENIX — Anger and resentment welled inside the local leader as he surveyed the mourners at his friend’s funeral reception last year.

Bill Gates, 51, a lifelong Republican elected to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, stood with his wife and a friend and ticked off the names of those gathered around them who had betrayed him, their party and their country.

Gates stewed that they had done nothing as he and other leaders in Arizona’s most populous county faced relentless criticism, violent threats and online harassment for upholding the results of the 2020 presidential election. They helped spread baseless conspiracies about the voting process that turned him and his colleagues into targets. They stood by as his family lived in fear and briefly fled their home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/06/bill-gates-maricopa-county-arizona-ptsd/
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Perhaps a teddy bear and time in their safe space would be in order.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
It comes with the job, don’t want them then do something else
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Death threats against minor election officials never used to come with the job. It used to be a lot of boredom that came with the job. The party of trump has turned minor election officials into frontline soldiers with their terrorism.
 
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