This year's award honors those who showed “courage to protect and defend democracy in the United States and abroad.” The award created by Kennedy's family in 1989 is designed “to recognize and celebrate the quality of political courage that he admired most,” and is given each year to one or more political figures. “Honoring my oath and the people’s choices at the ballot box are not heroic acts - they are the least that Arizonans should expect from the people elected to serve them.” "I am very grateful for this honor yet cannot help but feel undeserving of it,” Bowers said in a statement. Trump and Giuliani urged Bowers in a phone call to retroactively change Arizona law to allow the Legislature to chose a different slate of presidential electors than those picked by the voters. Speaker Rusty Bowers rebuffed repeated direct efforts by Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and others to overturn results that saw President Joe Biden narrowly defeat Trump in Arizona. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for his refusal to consider overturning the 2020 election results despite massive pressure from former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
All rights reserved.PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's Republican House speaker on Thursday was named one of five recipients of the John F.
™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. The hearing is expected to focus on former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on state officials to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in 2020.īowers will join Georgia’s election officials - Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling - who will be part of a panel before the January 6 committee detailing Trump’s campaign to force states to overturn their certified election results.īowers, who supported Trump’s reelection bid in 2020, refused to bow to intimidation and efforts to get him to back efforts in the legislature to decertify Biden’s victory in Arizona.Ī spokesman for the January 6 committee declined to comment on the news of Bowers’ testimony. Rusty Bowers, a Republican who is the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, is expected to testify at Tuesday’s hearing held by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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