Hotze to host gala with Paxton, MyPillow CEO to raise money to investigate voter fraud

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Hotze is a major league asshole who has launched a number of bogus lawsuits including the attack on drive through voting in the 2020 races. https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1016308551 This asshole also funded the fired police officer who assaulted an air-conditioning repair person https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216185774

Hotze is joining forces with the MyPillow asshole

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Aided by Attorney General Ken Paxton, Houston conservative activist Steve Hotze is planning to again enlist private sleuths to uncover evidence of voter fraud in Harris County this year, even after one of his own investigators was indicted last year for allegedly holding an air conditioning repairman at gunpoint while in search of phony ballots.

The investigator, former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre, said he was surprised to find the A/C repairman’s truck contained only parts and tools, and not thousands of phony ballots, after allegedly running him off the road in the run-up to the 2020 election. The repairman later sued Hotze and his organization, Liberty Center for God and Country, for hiring and paying Aguirre.

Undeterred, Hotze is raising money to again support his group’s so-called voter integrity efforts. On Saturday, Paxton and Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who has spread incendiary false conspiracies about the 2020 election, are headlining a Freedom Gala at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Houston that will fund, in part, the hiring of “private detectives to investigate, identify, and expose the criminal vote fraud scheme in Harris County and across Texas.”

The funds also will go toward hiring poll watchers for the midterm elections in November, broadcasting radio ads offering rewards for evidence of voter fraud, and funding “legal defensive and offensive efforts to Stop Vote Fraud,” according to a website for the event. It is unclear if that includes Hotze’s own legal fees, though in a video previewing the event, he mentioned the lawsuit stemming from the Aguirre incident.

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1. Liberty Center for God and Country? Which god, Hotze? Russia, maybe? Ken & Mike?

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2. These people are an embarrassment to our state.

Texas is such a beautiful state, but full of so many people who don’t deserve her.

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3. I like Joe Jaworski

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4. Lindell is a nut case

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5. Hotze pushed the Texas bathroom bill and his group is listed as a hate group by SPLC

It takes work to be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center Hotze is a major league asshole

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http://www.scottbraddock.com/2017/03/hotzebathrooms/

As the Texas Senate was getting down to work on the “bathroom bill,” Dr. Steve Hotze, an anti-gay activist and longtime business partner of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, began running television ads against Speaker Joe Straus in his district demanding the measure receive a vote in the House. After Senate Bill 6 passed the full Senate, Dr. Hotze’s plan includes running TV ads and robocalls in the districts of other key Texas House members......

The Houston delegation is certainly familiar with Hotze. It’s probably an understatement to say Hotze’s history of involvement in Harris County politics is extensive. It was in the Bayou City where he was joined by Lt. Gov. Patrick in defeating the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance. Gov. Greg Abbott, risk averse as always, did not get involved with that until it was pretty clear HERO would be defeated and sent out a tweet supporting Hotze’s position right before the election. In the suburbs around Houston, Hotze’s activism and political cash were critical in unseating former Representatives Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, and Wayne Smith, R-Baytown, in last year’s Republican primaries.

Outside Southeast Texas, though, Dr. Hotze has not had nearly as much impact and therefore is simply not as well known. Critics of the “bathroom bill,” including the Texas Association of Business, argue Hotze’s latest cause will hurt the Texas economy because it is viewed by many as discriminatory......

Hotze’s group, the Conservative Republicans of Texas, has been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group alongside the New Black Panthers, Neo-Nazi organizations like the Atomwaffen Division in San Antonio, Holocaust Denial in Kerrville, and chapters of the KKK like the Militant Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Flint, Texas.