'For standing up for the facts, the law and his faith, Bowers incurred the wrath of Trump loyalists,' writes Gehrke.
Under intense pressure, Bowers would not cave to an unconstitutional scheme Utah Sen. Mike Lee helped concoct and promote.Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers believes the U.S. Constitution is inspired by God.It is a core teaching in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the faith they also share. Bowers and Lee belong to the Republican Party. And both men took an oath to protect and defend the country’s founding document.
And because there wasn’t a single shred of evidence that there was election fraud in Arizona, Bowers, a Latter-day Saint, would not defy his oath. Rusty Bowers, Arizona state House Speaker, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
More importantly, Lee promoted the alternate elector theory hatched by attorney John Eastman, which alleged that lawmakers in states Joe Biden won could simply appoint an alternate slate that then-Vice President Mike Pence could choose to recognize, overturning the rightful outcome of the election.In the days before the insurrection,at a rally in Georgia.