Andy Biggs Doubles Down on Decision To Protect Pedophiles in Colorado City
10/8/26, 3:00 PM
After decades of siding with predators over victims, Andy Biggs can't keep his story straight on why he blocked a bipartisan bill to protect girls in Colorado City, Arizona from Warren Jeffs, a convicted child rapist. Every time he's asked, the answer changes. On Tuesday night, however, he doubled down on his decision as Senate president to kill the bill that could have ended the abuse:
October 2025: I don't remember. Biggs said he couldn't "remember the procedure" on HB2648, but he could "remember the bill."
August 2026: “I knew what was going on." After a public safety forum, Biggs flipped: "I was the Senate President. I knew what was going on."
Late August: Blame the police. Biggs claimed the bill would have left "every police department in the state of Arizona" in danger of being decertified.
Then-Republican Attorney General Tom Horne's office disagreed, citing "a number of safeguards" and a three-step process required to decertify a department like Colorado City's.
Same week: "The bill was too broad” and “there was no move to amend it." Biggs said HB2648 was "overly broad" and that "there was no move to amend it."
Then-Rep. John Kavanagh introduced a floor amendment narrowing the bill, undercutting Biggs' claim that "there was no move to amend it."
Last week: "That's a lie!" Asked why he blocked the bill, Biggs shot back with "That's a lie!" The Arizona's Family anchor fact-checked him on the spot: Biggs "controlled which bills came up for a vote and which ones didn't."
Tuesday night: “I did assign it [HB2648] appropriately.” When asked about the bill he blocked as Senate president, Biggs fully admitted that he used a tactic that the Arizona Capitol Times described as one "typically used by legislative leaders to sentence proposals to an early death.”
Copper State Victory spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado said:
“Another day, another excuse from Andy Biggs for protecting a corrupt pedophile cult in Colorado City instead of the women and girls they abused. No excuse can erase his decades-long history of siding with pedophiles, traffickers, and predators over their victims.”
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