From the website of the Federal Election Commission -
Republican Olson is a former state legislator and a current member of the Arizona Corporation Commission. He's also a full-on Trumpkin.
No committee formed as yet, but the latest news is that the (alleged) "Q" in "QAnon" will be running for the AZ1 Congressional seat, currently held by Tom O'Halleran.
From CBSNews -
QAnon promoter Ron Watkins is running for Congress in Arizona
Ron Watkins, long-suspected of being "Q", the mysterious figure behind the QAnon conspiracy theory and one of the leading purveyors of the "Big Lie" that the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump, announced his candidacy for Congress in Arizona this week.
In a video posted to the social media platform Telegram, Watkins said that he was running for the Republican nomination in Arizona's 1st Congressional District to defeat the "dirtiest Democrat in the D.C. swamp," incumbent Congressman Tom O'Halleran, who has held the seat for four years.
AZBlueMeanie of Blog for Arizona offers his take here; in it, he characterizes Watkins as a "carpetbagger" in that he may not actually live in AZ.
Residency is a minor detail to Arizona Republicans.
Just ask elected, disgraced, indicted, convicted, imprisoned, and now pardoned former AZ1 Congressman Rick Renzi.
While he district-shopped and ended up running (and winning) in AZ, there are questions about whether he ever actually moved out of VA.
Maybe Watkins will beat the curve set by Renzi and be indicted even before the election.
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