Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer at an Oct. 20, 2022, event in Phoenix. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is suing Kari Lake and her campaign for defamation, after enduring a continuous onslaught of vitriol and false claims from her and her followers.

Richer, a Republican, has been one of Lake’s favorite targets as she continues to claim that the 2022 governor’s race was stolen from her, in the same fashion that she claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from her political idol, Donald Trump.

“For the last seven months, I have been subjected to constant harassment, intimidation, and threats to my and my family’s lives because the defendants in this case were spreading falsehoods about me, my work, and our elections,” Richer said in a statement. “While I followed the law and respected the will of millions of Arizona voters after the 2022 election, the defendants chose to engage in a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation, threaten my livelihood, and rob me and my loved ones of our safety and well-being.”

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Lake, also a Republican, lost the Arizona gubernatorial race last November to Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.

On Thursday, Richer, in his personal capacity, filed a defamation suit in Maricopa County Superior court against Lake, her campaign and the Save Arizona Fund, a dark money nonprofit that Lake controls and that has...

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