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Those appearances might be starting to hurt him as he faces a recall effort, though Finchem is trying to use political alchemy to turn criticism into support.

on social media this week shows that Finchem was wrong when he said in January he was no closer than 500 yards to the Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6. He was much closer.

Another video that emerged this week shows Finchem echoing QAnon talking points about powerful pedophile networks, something he has not normally talked about in public.

The first video was unearthed by so-called 鈥渟edition hunters鈥� online. Using social media accounts, these people have been collaborating to use publicly available video and images to identify people who committed crimes at the Capitol on Jan. 6. More recently stepped up efforts to find Finchem in the video and photos from that day.

In the days after Jan. 6, Finchem said he never entered the Capitol or committed any crimes. In a Jan. 9 text message he said, 鈥淭he closest I ever got to the Capitol building was about 500 yards away.鈥� In later interviews, he said 鈥�300 to 500 yards.鈥�

But the video, spotted online by a person who goes by the nickname 鈥淐ommon D鈥橫ominator鈥� on Twitter, shows Finchem walking through a crowd roughly 100 yards from the east Capitol steps. He does nothing untoward in the picture and is walking in a direction that would take him away from the Capitol.

At about the same time, protesters were breaching and entering the Capitol building. Also around the same time, text messages previously released by Finchem show that a Stop The Steal event organizer told him, 鈥淭hey are storming the Capitol. I don鈥檛 think it safe.鈥�

While the Capitol video shows Finchem was closer than he earlier said, an interview he did for the Christian network Victory Channel is perhaps even more revealing. , shown by CNN in a story this week, he says this to host Greg Stephens:

鈥淲e鈥檝e got a serious problem in this nation, and that鈥檚 one of the things that disturbs me so much about our current congressional state of affairs. There鈥檚 a lot of people involved in a pedophile network and the distribution of children. And that makes me absolutely sick.

鈥淭hat is the war that we should be fightin鈥�, here domestically, rooting that out and finding every single person who鈥檚 involved in that kind of behavior. Unfortunately there鈥檚 a whole lot of elected officials that are involved in that.鈥�

No matter how much negative attention he receives, though, Finchem tries to use it as material to fire up his supporters in his run for the GOP nomination for 蜜柚直播 secretary of state. In his latest daily fundraising email, the subject line is 鈥淭hey literally hate my guts鈥�.

In it, he says, 鈥淭he Leftist Media is coming after me because they know I am the single biggest danger to their election-stealing operation.鈥�

For the record, there is no evidence of any 鈥渓eftist media election stealing operation,鈥� nor of a 鈥減edophile network鈥� populated by 鈥渁 whole lot of elected officials.鈥�

Finchem opponents are attempting to recall the Oro Valley Republican and must gather 27,000 signatures from registered voters in Legislative District 11 by July 8.

鈥� Tim Steller

Some harsh words for water group

When 蜜柚直播鈥檚 Citizens鈥� Water Advisory Committee met Wednesday to discuss the City Council proposal to hike water rates for 蜜柚直播 Water customers outside city limits, it was met with an outburst from a council member who is the proposal鈥檚 leading advocate.

Councilman Paul Cunningham started off his commentary politely, thanking the members of the committee, known as CWAC, for their service and adding, 鈥淚 really appreciate all the things you do for the city.鈥�

After listing reasons why he believes charging differential water rates to unincorporated Pima County residents would be fair, and why 蜜柚直播 has been put in an unfair position by Pima County, Cunningham raised his voice.

鈥淭his is the most unfair situation of all time. We should be charging 50% more, but my proposal was $4.88 a month to try to at least bring some equity into the system,鈥� Cunningham said. 鈥淭he fact that it鈥檚 been met with members of CWAC, who are supposed to be experts in this, who don鈥檛 know what the hell I鈥檓 talking about, why are you on CWAC then?鈥�

CWAC Vice Chair Alison Jones interjected with an 鈥渆xcuse me,鈥� to which Cunningham responded, 鈥淣o, it鈥檚 my time to talk. I鈥檝e listened to this group gripe about me and about this program. And I鈥檝e been very, very forthcoming and honest about the whole thing.鈥�

Later in the meeting, Cunningham apologized, saying, 鈥淚鈥檓 sorry, I got a little heated. That鈥檚 on me.鈥�

Placido dos Santos, a CWAC member, said Cunningham鈥檚 candor came across as 鈥渜uite offensive,鈥� but he also called it helpful.

鈥淚t demonstrates the profound divisiveness and controversy that surrounds this issue,鈥� dos Santos said.

鈥� Nicole Ludden

Liberals take swipe at Sinema

Amid a national debate about voting laws, liberal groups and news media personalities are slamming Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., for saying the filibuster 鈥減rotects the democracy of our nation鈥� during a visit to 蜜柚直播 on Tuesday.

Sinema鈥檚 comments showed up in national news coverage and cable news shows, including the MSNBC show hosted by Joy Reid, who said Wednesday that Sinema spoke 鈥渓ike someone who frankly has the luxury of not being personally impacted by these oppressive laws.鈥�

In a less direct swipe at Sinema, a slew of liberal groups, including Progress 蜜柚直播, wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday calling for the end of the filibuster.

They cited the failure of the Senate to create a commission last Friday to study the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, along with efforts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to 鈥渁ttack voting rights and play partisan games with their election laws.鈥�

鈥淲e call on you and the Senate Democratic caucus to eliminate the filibuster as a weapon that Sen. McConnell can use to block efforts to defend and strengthen our democracy and make our government work for the American people,鈥� the letter stated.

Despite a 54-35 vote in favor of creating the commission, the bill failed to get the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Sinema was one of 11 senators to miss the vote, of which nine were Republicans. During her visit to 蜜柚直播 on Tuesday, Sinema said she missed the vote due to a 鈥減ersonal family matter.鈥�

The only other Democrat to miss the vote, Sen. Patty Murray from Washington, also said she had to attend to a 鈥減ersonal family matter,鈥� the Seattle Times reported.

Both Murray and Sinema publicly supported the creation of the commission. Sinema on May 25 called the commission a 鈥渃ritical step to ensuring our nation never has to endure an attack at the hands of our countrymen again.鈥�

The main difference between the two was that Murray issued a statement the day of the vote, while Sinema did not provide an explanation of any kind for missing the vote until a reporter asked her about it during her visit to 蜜柚直播.

鈥� Curt Prendergast