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Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room's weekly recap of the extremism, chaos, and out-of-touch agenda Andy Biggs is bringing to the general election.

This week, Andy Biggs once again showed Arizonans exactly who he is—and why he can't be trusted to put Arizona first.

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One year ago, Andy Biggs refused to sign a bipartisan discharge petition to force the release of the Epstein Files. The following day, Biggs voted to send the Epstein investigation back to committee, a move that would have delayed the release even further. This occurred two months after Biggs was one of only two members who voted against releasing the Epstein Files in committee, later dismissing accountability as a "gotcha game" and "PR stunt."

Welcome to The Andy Biggs Files, Copper State War Room’s weekly look at Andy Biggs’ decades-long record of protecting pedophiles, sex traffickers, and abusers.

Each week, we’ll examine a different vote from Biggs’ career, what was at stake, and explain how he put politics ahead of protecting Arizonans.

Three months ago, Andy Biggs told Arizona’s Family he believed there was “an incredibly high likelihood that this [war] gets resolved in the next few weeks.” Instead, the war in Iran has now passed the six-month mark, and as one local FOX10 anchor put it, “tens of billions of dollars later, there’s no end in sight.”

This weekend on 12News’ Sunday Square Off, host Brahm Resnik recapped his recent interview with a “combative” Andy Biggs about Biggs’ support for a blanket pardon of January 6 rioters, including those who assaulted police officers.

In a letter to the editor, one Arizona voter put it plainly: what the Governor’s Office requires is “someone capable of working with people who disagree with them.” This echoes what Biggs’ own party has already warned: that his politics are too extreme for Arizona.

Andy Biggs' tariff agenda is hitting Arizona's farmers hard, especially in Yuma. After Washington imposed new 50 percent tariffs on Canadian imports that sparked a trade war between the two countries, Arizona's agricultural industry is bearing the brunt of the fallout.

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room's weekly recap of the extremism, chaos, and out-of-touch agenda Andy Biggs is bringing to the general election.

This week, Andy Biggs once again showed Arizonans exactly who he is—and why he can't be trusted to put Arizona first. On Tuesday night, after the Arizona Police Association's Public Safety Policy Forum, Biggs was confronted on his extremist record — and what followed was an unmitigated disaster.

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Last week, a group of Arizona advocates and survivors denounced Andy Biggs’ decades-long record of protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers, including Warren Jeffs, the convicted child rapist who ran a forced-marriage cult in Colorado City, Arizona.

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“NBC Washington and NBC News reported that Biggs was one of several U.S. House Freedom Caucus members who visited a D.C. jail on Jan. 21, 2025, after Trump issued the pardons.”

Welcome to The Andy Biggs Files, Copper State War Room’s weekly look at Andy Biggs’ decades-long record of protecting pedophiles, sex traffickers, and abusers.

Each week, we’ll examine a different vote from Biggs’ career, what was at stake, and explain how he put politics ahead of protecting Arizonans.

Andy Biggs was asked again last night about his 2005 vote against tougher penalties for spousal rape — and tripled down on it, getting into a verbal altercation with 12News' Brahm Resnik in the process. The bipartisan bill he opposed passed 52-5, making his vote a clear outlier even among his own colleagues.

Andy Biggs was directly asked last night, after the Arizona Police Association's Public Safety Policy Forum, about his decision to block bipartisan legislation that would’ve protected underage girls in Colorado City from sexual abuse and forced child marriage under Warren Jeffs, a convicted child rapist and cult leader. Asked if he knew the abuse was happening at the time, Biggs confirmed that “I was the Senate President. I knew what was going on.”

New reporting by the Copper Courier has uncovered Andy Biggs’ latest attempt to hide his extremist record: he scrubbed off a section titled “Defending Life” from his congressional campaign website, and his gubernatorial website makes no mention of his position on abortion at all.

Andy Biggs’ tariff agenda could soon drive up costs for Arizona businesses and families even more as a new 50 percent tariff hits Canadian imports, including lumber, aluminum, and other materials Arizona businesses rely on. From homebuilding to manufacturing and aerospace, businesses will be forced to absorb higher costs or pass them along to Arizona consumers.

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room's weekly recap of the extremism, chaos, and out-of-touch agenda Andy Biggs is bringing to the general election.

This week, Andy Biggs once again showed Arizonans exactly who he is—and why he can't be trusted to put Arizona first.

Don’t miss this week’s chaos:

New reporting from Copper Courier highlights how Andy Biggs was one of only three lawmakers who voted against a bill requiring registered sex offenders relocating to Arizona to re-register in the state.

New reporting from CNN's KFile is spotlighting Andy Biggs' extreme history of election denialism. Biggs pushed false claims of election fraud, schemed to overturn the will of Arizona voters, and reportedly helped plan the January 6th rally that led to the attack on the Capitol. Even his own brothers said he is "partially to blame" for the insurrection, and a former Trump aide accused him of seeking a pardon for his role in the attack.

Today, a group of Arizona advocates and survivors denounced Andy Biggs’ decades-long record of protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers, including Warren Jeffs, the convicted child rapist who ran a forced-marriage cult in Colorado City, Arizona.

Biggs’ record of protecting pedophiles spans nearly two decades.

In a Fox News interview today, former GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy sounded the alarm over Andy Biggs’ partisan, extremist record, saying: “I’m worried about Arizona because I don’t think the Republican nominee we have, Biggs, could cut across and get moderates and others and we picked up seats from Democrats to win the majority.”

Yesterday, the Arizona Republic spotlighted "The Andy Biggs Files,” Copper State War Room’s website exposing Andy Biggs’ decades-long record of protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers, including Warren Jeffs, the convicted child rapist who ran a forced-marriage cult in Colorado City, Arizona.

Andy Biggs is scrambling to rewrite his decades-long record of supporting tax hikes on working Arizonans, even as he keeps voting to jack up the price of gas, groceries, and everyday essentials for Arizona families.

“Biggs was the lone lawmaker in the entire legislature to object to the bill during the committee vote.”

Today, Copper State War Room launched "The Andy Biggs Files,” a website exposing Andy Biggs’ decades-long record of protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers, including Warren Jeffs, the convicted child rapist who ran a forced-marriage cult in Colorado City, Arizona.

Andy Biggs’ Washington tariffs are the largest tax hike on Arizonans in 50 years, and Arizona's business leaders aren't mincing words about it. In a recent interview on Arizona PBS, Todd Sanders, CEO and President of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, said bluntly, “We need to call these [tariffs] what they are… these are taxes.”

New reporting from MeidasTouch spotlights how Biggs was the lone "no" vote against a bill toughening penalties for child prostitution — a stance that prompted the Arizona Republic to run a piece titled "Biggs Puts Pimps, Johns Ahead Of Child Protection."

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room's weekly recap of the extremism, chaos, and out-of-touch agenda Andy Biggs is bringing to the general election.

The primary may be over, but the chaos isn't. This week, Andy Biggs once again showed Arizonans exactly who he is—and why he can't be trusted to put Arizona first.

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A new ranking confirms what Arizonans already know: Andy Biggs is one of the most partisan members of Congress. ​​

Andy Biggs continues to remain on defense, scrambling to rewrite his record of supporting tax hikes on working Arizonans. Here are the facts:

Andy Biggs is ducking questions about his record — reviving a tactic his campaign used a decade ago. Not much has changed, as this week, reporters pressed Biggs about why, as president of the Arizona Senate in 2013, he blocked bipartisan legislation to protect girls as young as nine from sexual abuse and forced child marriage. Biggs’ campaign deflected and said he “already addressed” this.

Global food prices jumped to a three-year high in July, and Andy Biggs' war in Iran is a major reason why, per the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's chief economist.

The Washington Post reports American households are shelling out an extra $1,000 due to the war in Iran that Andy Biggs has consistently voted to continue. This crushing burden comes on top of the $2,200 Arizonans were already paying for goods and services because of Biggs’ cost-hiking votes, which is driving grocery, gas, shipping, and living expenses to all-time highs.

Arizona’s Family is reporting on Andy Biggs’ record of blocking bipartisan legislation that would have protected girls as young as nine years old from sexual abuse and forced child marriage when he was president of the Arizona Senate. Instead of allowing the bill to move forward, Biggs chose to protect an extreme cult that enabled predators to continue abusing women and children for years.

As lumber prices have climbed to their highest levels in four years, making it even more expensive to build and buy a home, Andy Biggs keeps backing the Washington tariffs driving those costs up.

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room's weekly recap of the extremism, chaos, and out-of-touch agenda Andy Biggs is bringing to the general election.

The primary may be over, but the chaos isn't. This week, Andy Biggs once again showed Arizonans exactly who he is—and why he can't be trusted to put Arizona first.

Don’t miss this week’s chaos:

Yesterday, on KTAR, Andy Biggs’ running mate Sine Kerr doubled down on allowing Saudi Arabian corporations to deplete Arizona’s groundwater supply. Kerr said she “is not in favor of just singling out a certain industry, certain companies,” defending the Saudi-owned alfalfa farms that have been draining Arizona’s groundwater dry.

At his Goodyear rally last week, Andy Biggs mocked Arizonans working multiple jobs to provide for their families. After lashing out at Gov. Katie Hobbs for taking on an extra job driving Uber to make ends meet, he said that his running mate Sine Kerr "may not drive an Uber, but she knows how to drive a tractor."

Last week, far-right media host Dan Ball pressed Andy Biggs on the impact of the war on rising prices, saying, “I understand, fuel price is up while we have the Iran conflict going on, and everything has to get shipped, right? Whether it's on a plane, a big rig, or a train. And that takes fuel.”

In a letter to the editor, one of Andy Biggs’ constituents recounted a disastrous meeting with him, among a group of other Republican and Independent women, where Biggs dismissed their concerns and laughed them off. She described leaving in tears, feeling belittled.

Read more about why women in Biggs’ own district say he’s unfit for office:

Six years after the 2020 election, Andy Biggs is still making election denialism a requirement of being part of his campaign. New reporting from Arizona's Family shows that when his own running mate, Sine Kerr, acknowledged who won Arizona in 2020, Biggs stepped in to enforce his extreme election denial agenda.

Last week, Arizonans across Phoenix, Yuma, and Tucson joined Copper State War Room’s “Biggs Costs” tour to call out Andy Biggs’ disastrous Washington-first, cost-hiking agenda that has driven grocery, gas, and healthcare prices to record highs for Arizona families.

Read more about how Arizonans are absolutely fed up with Biggs’ cost-hiking agenda:

Last week, Washington pushed forward new tariffs as high as 12.5 percent, following the expiration of Trump’s 150-day, 10 percent global tariff. Andy Biggs keeps defending the cost-hiking agenda that's already hitting Arizona small businesses, workers, and families hard.

Today, Select Specialty Hospital's Tucson East campus announced that it's closing its doors, months ahead of its originally announced September date and one year after Andy Biggs voted for the largest healthcare cut in Arizona history. The closure eliminates nearly 100 jobs and deprives the region of specialty care for brain injuries, cardiac conditions, and infectious diseases.

Fresh off a nightmare first week since his messy gubernatorial primary, Andy Biggs is hosting a rally to introduce a new extremist who has to carry water for his dangerous record: protecting a corrupt pedophile cult, opposing investments in child safety, denying the will of Arizona voters, and pushing Washington’s cost-hiking agenda onto Arizonans.

Biggs has made it a habit of dodging questions about his extremist record. Here are five questions Arizonans deserve answers to:

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room's weekly recap of the extremism, chaos, and out-of-touch agenda Andy Biggs is bringing to the general election.

The primary may be over, but the chaos isn't. This week, Andy Biggs once again showed Arizonans exactly who he is—and why he can't be trusted to put Arizona first.

Don’t miss this week’s chaos:

In the past week, Biggs' disastrous record has been laid bare: protecting a corrupt pedophile cult, opposing investments in child safety, denying the will of Arizona voters, and pushing Washington’s cost-hiking agenda onto Arizonans.

Here’s a look back:

TUCSON – Today, Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, disability advocate and lifelong Tucsonan Chad Durns, and affordable housing builder David Wohl delivered a scathing condemnation of Andy Biggs’ cost-hiking economic agenda that has directly caused all-time high grocery, gas, and healthcare prices. This was the third stop on Copper State War Room’s “Biggs Costs” Tour.

Copper State War Room is launching its “Biggs Costs: Five Days, Five Ways” press release series this week, detailing exactly how Andy Biggs' Washington agenda is driving up prices for Arizona families. Day Five: Sky-High Cost of Utilities.

Arizona businesses are being forced to order holiday inventory months earlier than usual to avoid the higher costs created by Andy Biggs’ tariff agenda. Instead of focusing on growing their businesses, retailers are tying up cash and taking on additional risk just to prepare for the holiday shopping season.

Copper State War Room is launching its “The Cost of Biggs: Five Days, Five Ways” press release series this week, detailing exactly how Andy Biggs' cost-hiking Washington agenda is costing Arizona families. Day Four: Sky-High Cost of Housing.

YUMA – Today, Arizona Democratic Party Chair Charlene Fernandez and Yuma County District 4 Supervisor Tony Reyes delivered a scathing condemnation of Andy Biggs’ cost-hiking economic agenda that has directly caused all-time high grocery, gas, and healthcare prices. This was the second stop on Copper State War Room’s “Biggs Costs” Tour.

Copper State War Room is launching its “Biggs Costs: Five Days, Five Ways” press release series this week, detailing exactly how Andy Biggs' Washington agenda is driving up prices for Arizona families. Day Three: Sky-High Cost of Gas.

No matter what the Biggs’ campaign and his allies are trying to sell to voters now, the reality is former GOP Governor Jan Brewer has already been very clear in warning Arizonans how Andy Biggs can't win independents, can't win a general election, and voted for a partisan budget that, in her words, would "kill people."

Copper State War Room is launching its “Biggs Costs: Five Days, Five Ways” press release series this week, detailing exactly how Andy Biggs' Washington agenda is driving up prices for Arizona families. Day Two: Sky-High Cost of Healthcare.

PHOENIX – Today, District 26 State Senator Flavio Bravo and members of UFCW Local 99 delivered a scathing condemnation of Andy Biggs’ cost-hiking economic agenda that has directly caused all-time high grocery, gas, and healthcare prices.

Today, Copper State War Room has announced its post-primary tour, “Biggs Costs,” highlighting the disastrous, cost-hiking agenda of Andy Biggs. Biggs has consistently prioritized Washington over Arizona, and this tour will make sure voters understand exactly how his record is making life more expensive for Arizona families.

In his opening ad, Andy Biggs is already on defense, trying to rewrite his record after spending decades protecting pedophiles and opposing investments in child safety. Here are the facts:

Copper State War Room is launching its “Biggs Costs: Five Days, Five Ways” press release series this week, detailing exactly how Andy Biggs' Washington agenda is driving up prices for Arizona families. Day One: Sky-High Grocery Prices.

Today, Copper State War Room released “The Problem,” a new digital video highlighting Andy Biggs' latest claim that there is "no inflation"—the latest in a long pattern of Biggs dismissing the higher costs Arizona families are facing because of his votes in Washington.

Andy Biggs voted to gut healthcare, and Tucson is paying the price. The Tucson Sentinel reported that Select Specialty Hospital's Tucson East campus will close permanently in September, eliminating nearly 100 jobs and depriving the region of specialty care for brain injuries, cardiac conditions, and infectious diseases. Patients will now have to travel even further to get care.

New reporting from The Washington Post details how, as Arizona Senate President, Andy Biggs blocked bipartisan legislation that would have protected girls as young as nine years old from sexual abuse and forced child marriage. Instead of allowing the bill to move forward, Biggs chose to protect an extreme cult that enabled predators to continue abusing women and children.

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room’s weekly recap of the fails, feuds, and chaos in the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary.

In a Republican primary where his opponents and his own party are sounding the alarm, this week showed just how extreme Biggs really is no matter how much he tries to run from his own record.

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In a letter to the editor, one Arizona voter didn't mince words, writing that Andy Biggs is someone “one would have to look hard to find a more partisan Trump-supporting guy in Congress” — echoing what Biggs' own party has been warning for months: he's too consumed by partisan politics to deliver for Arizona.

With days left in Arizona's bruising Republican gubernatorial primary, it's become clear that no one in the Republican Party is safe from the divisive chaos of Andy Biggs’ campaign. Top Andy Biggs ally and radio host Garret Lewis of The Afternoon Addiction turned his fire on Ducey, declaring flatly that Ducey was “always a Democrat.”

As President Trump revives baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen tonight, Andy Biggs’ own election denialism is defining his gubernatorial campaign.

Trump’s national GOP convention is coming to Dallas in September, and Basement Andy Biggs won’t say whether he'll share a stage with the President. Rather than answer, he ducked the question entirely. A Biggs campaign spokesperson said they are focused on the July 21 primary and "haven't made any post-primary travel plans yet."

Last week Andy Biggs couldn’t even make it through a conservative podcast without letting the mask slip, boasting that "bipartisanship is probably not my number one goal."

As Andy Biggs and David Schweikert have repeatedly supported Washington’s cost-hiking agenda, polling from Equis Research released this month found that 83 to 89 percent of Latino voters — including respondents from Arizona — are frustrated with the soaring cost of groceries, gas, and healthcare.

As Washington moves toward another round of universal tariffs that could reach as high as 12.5 percent, Andy Biggs and David Schweikert continue doubling down on the cost-hiking tariff taxes that Arizona families and small businesses are already paying.

In new comments yesterday on KTAR’s AZ Political Podcast, Andy Biggs said his top political ally and congressional candidate Mark Lamb, would "do a good job" replacing him in Arizona's 5th Congressional District. Asked directly whether he was comfortable leaving his constituents in Lamb's hands, Biggs said: "I think Mark Lamb will do a good job."

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room’s weekly recap of the fails, feuds, and chaos in the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary.

In a Republican primary where his opponents and his own party are sounding the alarm, this week showed just how extreme Biggs really is no matter how much he tries to run from his own record.

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Arizona had the third-highest decline in Affordable Care Act enrollment in the country, according to new reporting from Axios today, a staggering 29.5 percent drop in coverage that's a direct result of the healthcare cuts Andy Biggs and David Schweikert supported.

Arizona’s Family highlighted Andy Biggs’ pattern of skipping multiple Republican-organized primary debates, the latest outlet to point this out following a Monday KJZZ report labeling Biggs a “debate dodger.”

A year after Andy Biggs and David Schweikert supported the disastrous Washington budget law that hiked healthcare costs for Arizona families, a new ABC15 report shows the damage isn’t finished — it's about to get worse.

New reporting by the Arizona Republic has confirmed what Arizonans already know: Andy Biggs is too extreme for Arizona.

“Biggs is so committed to his anti-abortion views that he openly wept while discussing the issue during a May 2020 interview”

As Arizonans celebrated the 250th anniversary of our nation this past Saturday, families gathering for backyard barbecues faced record-high prices for Fourth of July staples, including beef, soda, and beer. Despite the toll on Arizona families, Andy Biggs and David Schweikert have repeatedly voted to continue the cost-hiking tariff agenda that is driving up grocery prices across the state.

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room’s weekly recap of the fails, feuds, and chaos in the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary.

Andy Biggs is running for governor while running from his own record. In a Republican primary where his opponents and his own party are sounding the alarm, this week showed just how extreme Biggs really is.

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Tomorrow marks one year since Andy Biggs and David Schweikert signed onto the disastrous, cost-hiking GOP budget bill that made life more expensive for Arizona families — driving up healthcare costs and ripping away meals, all to hand billionaires a tax break.

Last week, Basement Biggs skipped the Sun City West Republican forum, the second debate he's skipped after ducking out on a televised PBS candidate forum.

Arizonans are paying the price for Andy Biggs and David Schweikert’s loyalty to Washington’s cost-hiking agenda.

Recently, Andy Biggs’ choice for attorney general, Warren Petersen, said Arizona Dreamers should "be ready to be deported." Andy Biggs previously wrote in an op-ed that there should be "no exceptions" to mass deportations, and he has failed to distance himself from Petersen’s extreme position.

In response to Andy Biggs killing a deal to protect Arizona’s cops, teachers, and firefighters while bringing accountability and transparency to the ESA program, Copper State Victory spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado released the following statement:

As National Dairy Month wraps up this June, Arizona’s $1 billion dairy industry, made up of more than 80 farms, is facing a crisis. Local family dairies supply 97 percent of the milk in Arizona grocery stores, yet Andy Biggs and David Schweikert have repeatedly voted to continue the cost-hiking tariff agenda that is squeezing dairy farms.

Last Thursday, Andy Biggs was one of only two members of Congress to vote against the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, bipartisan legislation that would allow greater oversight for financial institutions to delay or intervene in suspicious transactions where there is reasonable doubt of a scam or financial exploit targeting older Americans.

KTAR: “Three Arizona Republicans, including two who want to be the state’s next governor, voted against a bipartisan congressional bill that aims to reduce housing costs.”

Welcome to Copper State Chaos, Copper State War Room’s weekly recap of the fails, feuds, and chaos in the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary.

Andy Biggs is running for governor while running from his own record. In a Republican primary where his opponents and his own party are sounding the alarm, this week showed just how extreme Biggs really is.

Don’t miss this week’s chaos:

A new report from KJZZ is detailing how Andy Biggs’ 2020 election denial is still haunting his gubernatorial campaign, writing that he “still won’t say who he thinks won the 2020 election” and “dodged questions about the purpose” of a letter that was part of an effort to undermine election results.

Basement Andy Biggs is at it again, hiding from his record of voting to strip abortion rights from Arizonans.

Both Andy Biggs and David Schweikert have once again shown their true colors and put the interests of Washington ahead of lowering costs for Arizonans.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Both Andy Biggs and David Schweikert have extremist views on women’s healthcare, including support for a total ban on abortion that threatens access to IVF, contraception, and family planning.

A new report shows Arizona’s tourism economy is taking a major hit as Canadian visitors stay away, threatening up to $2.4 billion in annual economic activity. Despite the growing damage to Arizona businesses and communities, Andy Biggs and David Schweikert continue to support Washington’s cost-hiking tariff agenda. 

Andy Biggs is trying to reinvent himself as a bipartisan problem-solver. The problem? Even fellow Republicans aren't buying it. During Sunday's Square Off, host Brahm Resnik dismissed Biggs' latest pivot as "an obvious attempt to pivot to the center by a Trump partisan who votes for the president's priorities 94 percent of the time."

Copper State War Room released the statement below from spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado after Arizona PBS’ “Candidates in Conversation:"

Basement Biggs lived up to his name tonight, skipping Arizona PBS’ “Candidates in Conversation” rather than answering any questions about his record.

Less than 24 hours after last night's GOP primary debate, Andy Biggs escalated his increasingly bitter feud with David Schweikert.

Copper State War Room released the statement below from spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado after the Arizona Republican gubernatorial debate between Andy Biggs and David Schweikert:

Tonight, Andy Biggs and David Schweikert will finally face off one-on-one as they argue over who can further rubber-stamp Washington’s cost-hiking agenda onto Arizonans.

A mobile billboard truck highlighting David Schweikert's criticism of Andy Biggs' record of voting against protecting children was spotted today. The billboard features Schweikert's own words attacking Biggs:

Today, Copper State War Room launched a new digital advertising campaign highlighting Congressman David Schweikert's warning that voters can learn about Andy Biggs' record in just "five minutes on Google."