Biggs is a far-right
Republican extremist member of
the U.S. House, representing Arizona's 5th
Congressional District. He assumed office on January
3, 2017. His current term ends on January 3, 2025. In September 2019, he was selected
to serve as chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
Biggs was first elected to the office in 2016 after
winning the Republican primary against Christine
Jones by 27 votes. Biggs served in the Arizona State
Senate, representing District 12 from 2011 to 2017.
He was president of the Senate from 2013 to 2017 and
majority leader from 2011 to 2012. He also served in
the Arizona House of Representatives, representing
District 22 from 2003 to 2011. Prior to public
service, Biggs worked as an attorney with a license
to practice in Arizona, Washington, and New Mexico.
He won a $10 million American Family Publishers
sweepstakes in 1993.Since the November election,
Rep. Biggs has been one of the prominent proponents
of Trump’s lie that the election was stolen. He
appeared on Fox News on December 22 to praise
Trump’s efforts to undermine the election:
“President Trump, he’s a fighter, he knows that the
country is at stake, he like so many of us believes
that the election was stolen and he wants to fight
through it. There are literally 70 million people
plus who think this was a stolen election.” Rep.
Biggs then went on to object to the counting of
Electoral College votes from Arizona and
Pennsylvania. His lies undoubtedly helped fuel the
Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Rep. Biggs did not
vote in support of the bipartisan commission
proposal to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Far right Rep. Andy Biggs
(R-Arizona) issued a press release over the weekend
celebrating the life of a racist former lawmaker who
had been pushed to resign from politics after he
suggested that women should only be granted public
benefits if they were sterilized beforehand. Biggs
appeared on the House floor last week to speak about
the life of former state Sen.
Russell Pearce, whom
Biggs had served with during his own time as a state
lawmaker. Pearce, who sponsored vehemently
anti-immigrant legislation, died earlier this month.
Biggs also praised Pearce in a newsletter (in which
he misspelled his name as “Pierce”) that was sent to
constituents on Friday, describing Pearce’s
political legacy as “truly unmatched.” Biggs’s
statements — both on the House floor and in the
newsletter — referred to Pearce as tough and
courageous, touting his public service in politics
and in the military while praising his fascist and
racist legacy.
Rep. Andy Biggs was among four
Republican members of Congress referred Monday to
the House Ethics Committee for failing to comply
with a subpoena from the panel that investigated the
riot at the U.S. Capitol. The move means that Biggs,
R-Ariz., could face investigation by the bipartisan
ethics committee and comes as he has thrown into
disarray the battle for the House speakership with
another member referred to the ethics committee
[...] Before issuing the subpoena, the panel
asked Biggs in a letter that was shared publicly to
meet with it about a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting at the
White House that involved Trump's chief of staff,
Mark Meadows. The panel wants to discuss what Biggs
knew about the "Stop the Steal" effort organized by
Ali Alexander, who credited Biggs as instrumental in
pulling it together. The panel wants to know about
Biggs' effort to persuade state lawmakers the
election was stolen and enlist their help in
preventing President Joe Biden's victory from being
certified. The committee has said Biggs was
identified as among a group of Republicans seeking
pardons after the attack by the pro-Trump mob and
wants to know why such pardons were sought. The
committee noted that Biggs participated in an effort
determined by a federal judge that more likely than
not involved a criminal effort by Trump to obstruct
Congress from certifying Biden's victory.
On Nov. 6, as
the votes were still
being counted,
Meadows wrote Biggs
looking for any
reason to be
optimistic. “Any
hope for Az,”
Meadows asked. “I’ve
been trying to get
hold of our legal
and party teams in
Arizona,” Biggs
replied, before
scratching off his
calculations of how
much of the
outstanding vote
Trump had to win to
come back. “So still
doable,” he
concluded. But
things were bleak
for Trump and his
allies. The
Associated Press
made its call
several hours after
Fox and the other
major broadcast
networks caught up
in the next few
days. By Friday,
when Meadows was
looking for a silver
lining in Arizona,
NBC, ABC and CBS had
all projected Biden
as the state’s
victor. Less than
eight hours after he
indicated an Arizona
victory was still
“doable” for
Trump,
Biggs had begun
cooking up a plot to
challenge the
results in the
state. Through the
typos, Biggs seemed
to be floating a
variation of the
fake electors
scheme, a gambit
where Trump allies
would put their
names to an
alternate slate of
electors that could
be approved by
Republican lawmakers
in states Biden won.
Versions of the plot
became popular among
members of the Trump
camp as legal
avenues to overturn
the 2020 election
dwindled, and the
idea that Trump
electors could be
swapped in for Biden
electors was key to
Trump allies’
growing interest in
the day when
electoral votes
would be counted and
certified, Jan. 6.
The fake electors
schemes have led to
multiple
investigations. On
Nov. 6, Meadows was
succinct in
response: “I love
it,” he wrote. While
the two continued to
track the numbers
and tried to
calculate the
outstanding vote
share in the state,
it was clear that
the door was
closing. Even as
they seemed to
acknowledge the real
results, the pair
took a turn toward
the tin foil-hatted
and set aside the
vote counts in favor
of increasingly
bizarre conspiracy
theories that could
help Trump clinch
Arizona anyway.
Biggs’ initial text
with the “highly
controversial” idea
was previously
published by CNN.
However, it is just
one of several
messages where Biggs
proposed last-ditch,
conspiracy-theory-fueled
schemes to wrench
back the state. Most
of those messages
are being reported
here for the first
time.
Biggs, who entered
politics after he
won a $10,000,000
magazine sweepstakes
in 1993, is good at
spewing Freedom
Caucus nonsense, and
he was a central
player in the Stop
the Steal movement,
even helping to plan
Jan. 6, according to
Ali Alexander. But
when it comes to
designing policy
that serves people, bupkis. So here’s
this week’s cup of
Biggs’ ugliness:
"Rep. Andy Biggs
(R-AZ): “[Speaker
Nancy Pelosi] is
losing the gavel but
finding the hammer.
Too soon? Is that
too soon?""
Republicans have
big plans for next
year if and when
they take back the
House of
Representatives. We
regret to inform
you, however, that
those plans are
really, really
fucking stupid. For
instance, there is
Arizona GOP Rep.
Andy Biggs. For
those of you
familiar with the
Biggs oeuvre, we
could stop right
there. You name an
issue, this cretin
has been on the
wrong side of it.
From his vote as a
state legislator
opposing a ban on
teenagers texting
while driving, to
his vote against the
second COVID relief
package because it
"redefined family"
by extending sick
leave to domestic
partners, to his
current opposition
to military aid for
Ukraine, Biggs is
fully committed to
being wrong about
every single thing.
So it should come as
no surprise that
he's all in on the
Big Lie, huddling up
with Mark Meadows
and the rest of the
treason weasels at
the White House
seeking to ratfuck
the Electoral
College
Elected
officials
and
candidates
for
office
in 2022
continue
to
challenge
and
question
the
results
of the
2020
presidential
election
in
Arizona.
The
results
have
been
examined
and
re-examined,
challenged
in court
and in a
monthslong
ballot
review.
No
evidence
has been
found of
widespread
fraud or
error in
the
results.
Yet
candidates
deny the
outcome.
Others
don't
quite go
as far.
But they
raise
questions
about
potential
irregularities
they say
could
have
influenced
the vote
and
should
be
examined.
The
Arizona
Republic
is
listing
candidates
by
category
by the
race
that
they are
entered
in. This
list is
not
complete
and will
be
updated
throughout
the 2022
election
season.
Election
deniers
These
candidates
in
Arizona
races
deny
that Joe
Biden
won the
2020
presidential
election,
either
in
Arizona
or
nationwide.
U.S. Reps.
Paul
Gosar and Andy Biggs
of Arizona were
among 11 House
Republicans who met
with then-President
Donald Trump in
December 2020 to
strategize how to
overturn the
presidential
election, according
to White House
visitor logs
unveiled Tuesday
during the Jan. 6
Capitol riot
hearings on Capitol
Hill. The White
House meeting
occurred Dec. 21,
just days after an
"unhinged" meeting
between White House
lawyers and Trump
allies, which also
was a focus of
Tuesday's hearings.
Jul. 13, 2022
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2022
Candidate
Questionnaire
Position Sought:
U.S.
Senate
Question
4: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
Question
9: Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
The panel's subpoena of Biggs
also cited texts Biggs sent to Meadows on recruiting
legislators to help overturn the election,
allegations he helped plan a Jan. 6 rally and his
reported efforts to receive a presidential pardon in
the aftermath of Jan. 6.
A House Oversight committee
on Wednesday heard from an 11-year-old child who
recounted the horror of playing dead inside her
classroom two weeks ago while a gunman killed 19 of
her classmates and two teachers. Rep. Andy Biggs
couldn’t bring himself to show up. “A child of
tender years, brought before this Committee to
relive the horror of the Uvalde murders is
tantamount to child abuse and will no doubt add to
the post-traumatic stress of the child going
forward,” he , explaining that he would instead
watch her testimony from his office. Biggs, you see,
is all about protecting children. He’s just not
willing to consider so much as a single reform to
the nation’s gun laws to do it. By day's end, he
voted against a bill that would have barred teens
from buying assault-style weapons like the one used
to eviscerate 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo's classmates
and teachers.
Rep. Andy Biggs is important
because this could tie in the link between certain
members of Congress who were working in alignment
with the extremists that day the Capitol was
attacked.
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs
makes a lousy victim. I mean, he’s trying. He’s
really, really trying to portray himself as a
martyr, a fall guy, a scapegoat, a sacrificial lamb.
But peeking out from beneath the wooly blanket of
indignation Biggs is hiding under is a partisan
wolf’s clothing.
Fat chance that Arizona
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs will voluntarily spill
the beans over his involvement in the U.S. Capitol
insurrection to keep Donald Trump in the White
House. On Monday, the congressional panel
investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots asked Biggs,
and Reps. Mo Brooks and Ronny Jackson to testify.
new texts were turned over by
Meadows to the House committee investigating the
events of January 6, 2021, when rioters breached the
U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were voting to certify the
2020 presidential election and declare Joe Biden the
next president. [...] Other names included Arizona
Congressman Andy Biggs, who represents much of the
East Valley, and Arizona Republican Party chair
Kelli Ward. Both have played high-profile roles
in disseminating election fraud conspiracies over
the last two years — Biggs from Washington and Ward
from Lake Havasu City.
The House of Representatives
passed a bill designed to provide more military
assistance to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion with
overwhelming bipartisan support on Thursday.
Lawmakers approved the Ukraine Democracy Defense
Lend-Lease Act of 2022 by a vote of 417 to 10, with
all votes against the bill's passage coming from
Republicans.
The motion, called the
Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and
Accountability Act, has the goal to "collect,
analyze, and preserve evidence and information
related to war crimes and any other atrocities"
committed by Russian armed forces in Ukraine. The
bill passed in the House of Representatives on
Wednesday, with 418 voting in favor and only the
seven Republicans voting against.
Controversial, embattled
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is going native. The
third-term U.S. congressman touched down in Phoenix
not long ago, donning an Arizona State University
Sun Devils cap and following the state’s GOP
kingpins to the U.S.-Mexico border for a screed
about the dangers of illegal immigration. Gaetz
accompanied Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and
Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs, who represents Mesa,
Chandler, Gilbert, and Queen Creek, for a stroll"
Just when you thought Arizona
Republican Reps.
Paul Gosar and
Andy Biggs could
bring no greater disgrace to the GOP than their
connection to the Big Lie and their alleged
association with organizers of what became the Jan.
6 insurrection … Stop. I take that back. If you’ve
lived in Arizona for any amount of time and follow
politics even a little you know that Gosar and Biggs
are more than capable of bringing even greater
ignominious disgrace to the GOP.
Reps. Andy Biggs and
Paul
Gosar, Arizona's most contrarian members of
Congress, again joined the few in Washington to vote
against banning Russian oil imports and further
economic sanctions. The largely symbolic measure
overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives
414-17, with the Arizona Republicans joined by 13
GOP colleagues"
Kari
Lake, a former TV anchor who's running
for governor, began her speech with the
theme of some of the other speakers,
praising America under Trump and listing its
problems under Biden. As did others, she
called Trump “president” and slammed the
2020 election as “rotten to the core."
[...]
We are so blessed to
have
Donald Trump with us here today. We
know the election was stolen,” state
Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, said
when she took the stage, echoing the
sentiments of other speakers and crowd
members, who cheered her in response.
"They attacked
Donald Trump because he exposed them and
their evil deeds,” said Finchem, who's
running for Arizona secretary of state, a
position that oversees state elections.
[...]
On Dec. 14, 2020,
Kern and 10 other Arizonans, including state
GOP Chair
Kelli Ward and Rep.
Jake Hoffman,
R-Queen Creek, signed a document that was
sent to Congress. All 11 people were listed
on the general election ballot as the
would-be electors for Trump.
[...]
Borrelli pushed back
on the fact that the belief in widespread
election fraud that stole the presidency
from Trump in 2020 was a “conspiracy
theory.” He said there was indeed a
conspiracy, but he claims "it’s not a
theory.” He said the problem was
“obstructionists” who oversee elections at
the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office and
in Maricopa County. Borrelli said that many
of his peers in the Arizona House and Senate
were behind him and other election deniers
and that they were going to “tighten up the
loopholes that these commie (expletive) have
exploited.” The crowd cheered as Borrelli
claimed that the “shamestream media” were
hiding facts like “ghost voters” he said
were found to have voted in Pima County in
2020. Pima County election officials deny
there were any widespread problems with the
election.
[...]
Arizona Republican
U.S. Reps.
Debbie Lesko,
Andy Biggs and
Paul Gosar, the
latter two national leaders in the spread of
falsehoods over the 2020 election, also
spoke at the rally
Biggs, who represents
Arizona's 5th District and has served in Congress
since 2016, was responding to a White House
statement that told unvaccinated people that they
are "looking at a winter of severe illness and death
for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you
may soon overwhelm."
Biggs called the message "sick."
The four Republicans who ...
circulated baseless conspiracy theories about a 2020
Donald Trump presidential victory in Arizona and
pushed for the Senate's partisan audit of Maricopa
County's election results are continuing on the same
path more than a year later. [...] U.S. Reps. Andy
Biggs and
Paul
Gosar, state Rep.
Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, and former
Representative
Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, were at the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, encouraging the overturn of
election results.
Thirteen Republican members
of the U.S. House of Representatives voted for the
infrastructure bill that will bring billions of
dollars of funding to Arizona. None of those GOP
members were from Arizona. Imagine that. Not Rep.
Paul Gosar. Not Rep.
David Schweikert. Not Rep.
Debbie Lesko. Not Rep.
Andy Biggs. Among them, Biggs
was the most vociferously opposed...
Biggs was one of
the leaders in the drive to reject the vote in six
states, including his own home state of Arizona.
He’s one of three congressmen fingered by ’“Stop the
Steal” organizer Ali Alexander as helping him plan
the rally that resulted in five deaths and more than
100 police officers injured.
The special House
committee examining
the Jan. 6 riot is
reportedly planning
to seek phone
records from former
President Donald
Trump and other
Republicans involved
in the "Stop the
Steal" rallies,
including Reps. Andy
Biggs and
Paul Gosar
of Arizona.
Three of Arizona's
four House
Republicans voted
Tuesday against
banning Confederate
statues from the
U.S. Capitol in an
issue shaped by the
Jan. 6 riot and GOP
pushback on
discussing systemic
racism.
Jun. 29, 2021
HR
1443
- Vote to pass a bill that requires
financial institutions to report certain credit application data to
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the purposes of
enforcing fair lending laws. Specifically, financial institutions
must report this data regarding lesbian-, gay-, bisexual-,
transgender-, or queer-owned businesses.
National Stop the Steal organizer Ali
Alexander claimed that Arizona Representatives
Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and
Andy Biggs (R-AZ) joined him to “plan pro-Trump rallies. That
included the one that ended with an attack on the Capitol.” The
consequences of their actions are chilling.
The Arizona
Republicans were
among the few
members in the House
and Senate to oppose
the measure, which
now heads to
President Joe Biden,
who is expected to
sign it into law.
Reps. Andy Biggs
and
Paul Gosar of
Arizona were among
the 21 House
Republicans who
voted against a bill
Tuesday to award
congressional gold
medals to Capitol
and D.C. police
officers for their
courage during the
Jan. 6 Capitol
riot."
Trump Zone-Fox
Island-Disinfowar-White
Nationalist-Election
Denying
Collaborating
Quislings Andy masks
take away freedom
Biggs and Paul my
family will not vote
for me Gosar found
time last Friday to
costar with fellow
traitors-fringe-potential
underworld figures Majorie Jewish
Lasers cause
California Wildfire
Taylor Greene and
Matt the indictment
probably is coming
soon Gaetz at a big
lie America First
rally at the Mesa
Community Center."
Biggs is a reminder that good
things always seem to happen to the worst people, as
in 1993, he was the winner of the Publisher’s
Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, to the tune of $10
million.
House Democrats, aided by 35 Republicans,
voted 252-175 to pass a bill to create a 10-member commission.
[...] Biggs was joined in voting no Wednesday by fellow Arizona
Republicans Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert, all
three of whom are Freedom Caucus members.
Four of the most
polarizing
Republicans in the
U.S. House of
Representatives
called on a top
Justice Department
official to allow
Arizona's audit of
Maricopa County
ballots to continue
unimpeded.
Text messages show
that Congressman
Andy Biggs was
apparently
coordinating with
Finchem to gather
signatures from
Arizona lawmakers
who endorsed a slate
of fake electors
from the state as
part of the broader
effort to overturn
the 2020 election
results. It's
unknown if that's
the same group of
fakers who were
caught in December
sending a letter to
the National
Archives in
Washington D.C. that
fraudulently claimed
Arizona's electors
cast their votes for
Trump. The real 11
electors cast their
votes a week later
for Biden, in
accordance with the
wishes of a majority
of Arizona voters.
In a letter to the editor at
The Arizona Republic, William Biggs and Daniel Biggs
of Tucson said their brother, who argued to set
aside Arizona’s election results in Congress, is “at
least partially to blame” for the deadly riot at the
U.S. Capitol two weeks ago.
Arizona Republican
Congressmen Andy Biggs and
Paul Gosar have asked
President
Donald Trump to preemptively pardon them
for their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the
U.S. Capitol, but the president has no plans to do
so
Position Sought:
United
States
Representative
CD-5
Question
5:
Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
Question
12:
Adding
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
HR 5
- Vote
to pass
a bill
that
prohibits
discrimination
based on
sex,
sexual
orientation,
and
gender
identity
in areas
such as
education,
employment,
and
housing.
Position Sought:
United
States
Representative
CD-5
Question
4:
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their conscience.
Candidates'
Position:
Support.
Question
9:
Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
House Concurrent Resolution 90 condemns
ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people, a
Muslim minority. Arizona Congressman
Andy Biggs
was one of only three to vote "no."
Andy
Biggs, a well-known
Donald Trump sycophant,
apparently would like to add to his list of
non-accomplishments the title of most heartless
politician in Washington.
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-4
Question
4:
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
Candidates'
Position:
Support.
Question
9:
Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Question
9:
Arizona’s voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage should be defended to the fullest extent legally possible.
Candidates'
Position: Support
Question
11:
Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in antidiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
Question
15:
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
Question
9:
Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support
Question
11:
Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
Question
15:
Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.*
SB
1178
-
Vote to
concur
with
House
amendments
and pass
a bill
that
authorizes
an
individual
to use
potential
infringements
of
religious
freedom
as a
claim or
defense
in a
legal
proceeding.
SB 1338 - Provide a blanket exemption, or license to discriminate, to anyone operating in a specific area such as child welfare services, medical care, businesses serving the public, or government officials/employees solemnizing marriages.
2010 Survey
Questions For
Arizona And County
Candidates
Position Sought:
State
Senate
LD-22
Question
9:
Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
11:
Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
Question
15:
Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.*
Question
8:
Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support
Question
9:
Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose
Question
15:
Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.*
SCR-1042
- Vote to pass a resolution that
proposes a constitutional amendment to allow only a union of one man
and one woman to be recognized as a marriage in Arizona.
