Arizona State Senate
1700 W. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Press Release
PHOENIX – Senators Mitzi Epstein (LD12) and Priya Sundareshan (LD18) released the following statement regarding the social media posts made by Senator Wendy Rogers (LD7) and ask that Senate Republican leadership denounce her hateful actions.
“Murder and genocide were not the start of the Nazi Party in Germany. They built power by spreading hate, misinformation, and bigotry. The Nazis defined targeted groups of people and used propaganda to justify violence against them. Their primary targets were Jews, but they also persecuted people from neighboring countries, non-white races, the LGBTQ community, and people with disabilities. As elected officials, it is our responsibility to remember those they persecuted and denounce the tactics Nazis used to spread their poisonous beliefs.
Senator Wendy Rogers has once again disgraced the Arizona Legislature by repeating Nazi slogans. She has shown time and again that she feels no remorse for aligning herself with this level of hatred that led to the murder of millions, and we no longer trust that asking her to act appropriately will change her behavior.
Senate Republican leadership must denounce her spreading of Nazi propaganda. Arizona deserves an answer as to why Republicans believe a Senator willing to post the Nazi rallying cry (“Deutschland, Deutschland über alles”) that Germany removed from its national anthem after WWII, and who previously received a Senate censure for similar antisemitic activities, should be in charge of overseeing the Senate Elections Committee.
Truth matters in a just and free nation. We will not tolerate Nazi-sympathizers trying to drag our state back into darkness. Hate has no place in Arizona.”
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