PHOENIX — A House panel voted Feb. 9 to make the routine declawing of cats in Arizona illegal after the chairman of the committee called it “gruesome and unnecessary.’’
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Better she focus on this than her voter suppression bill or decertification of Arizona’s electors ala the Big Lie. She’s a protege of Paul Gosar and Mark Finchem. Nuff said. (This one ok)?
She needs to spend more time on this than trying to repress voting rights and join with her fellow clown Finchem to decertify Arizona’s 2020 electors. This Paul Gosar acolyte needs to stick to cats.
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