State Rep. Alexander Kolodin is facing backlash for public statements about who he would 'shoot.' The statement comes after a Hobbs aide resigned.
A state lawmaker is facing a social media backlash for public statements about who he would"shoot" made the day Gov. Katie Hobbs' spokespersonComments by state Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, in the House Judiciary Committee and on Twitter on March 29 drew immediate comparisons to the March 28 tweet by Hobbs' former spokesperson, Josselyn Berry, which resulted in her resignation.
Chambers told The Arizona Republic later that, speaking for herself and not her organization, she was not surprised by his words.In their weekly press conferences, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gave their own solutions to gun violence."I hope he was joking," she said."I hope that in the future he takes gun safety and his statements about how guns should be used more seriously.
Kolodin, a lawyer who's serving his first term in office, said in an interview the comparison to Berry's tweet"doesn't track" due to context and he stands by his statements. But he acknowledged that he probably could have worded his tweets better. Kolodin then called Nelson a"Nazi." He retweeted a 2011 Politico article about a potential ballot measure in San Francisco that would have banned circumcisions. A judge later struck the measure from the ballot because of a California state law that designated the regulating of medical procedures strictly a state matter.
He called Scottsdale police to report Kolodin for a possible violation of a state law that criminalizes online threats, he said, but was told the lawmaker's statements were not specific enough to warrant a report. Hoffman published a statement from the right-wing Arizona Freedom Caucus that said"calling for violence like this is un-American & never acceptable," but the group hasn't complained about Kolodin.
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