Secular AZ activists help shut down illegal rally by Christian nationalist figures!

Secular AZ attorneys helped shut down an illegal campaign event planned to be held at a public school last week by right wing gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and GOP Senate hopeful Jim Lamon. The candidates —  otherwise notable for their embrace of white Christian nationalism, Nazi sympathizers, and conspiracies theories such anti-masking and election fraud — had planned a rally at Scottsdale’s Coronado High School, ostensibly about a recent controversy at Scottsdale Unified School District.

The event was advertised in flyers paid for by Lamon’s campaign, which also alluded to a recall campaign against an embattled school board member. These details highlighted the likelihood that the event would run afoul state law that bans the use of school resources for electioneering, a detail brought to the attention of SUSD by Secular AZ’s legal team. SUSD’s counsel quoted the statute spotlighted in our letter in their warning to the candidates to keep the event off school grounds.

The event was consequently held from a nearby pickup truck bed instead, where the candidates afterward dodged reporters' questions about whether racism should be taught about in classrooms.

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