This has been a very rude awakening into what politics has become. And if I'm not part of it four years from now, so be it. I can do other things that'll make me happy, what prompted me now ? I am tired of my people -- who are good people, who are my friends -- being defamed. It's just not right.

Stephen Richer

There are good people working here in Maricopa County, and I was tired of them being defamed, maricopa County's Maricopa County. That's my office. That's my friends.

I'm literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now, we can't indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country.