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Far-right,
MAGA
extremist Republican member of the Arizona
House of Representatives, representing
District 29. He assumed office on January 9,
2023. His current term ends on January 13,
2025. Smith ran for election to the Arizona
House of Representatives to represent
District 29. He won in the general election
on November 8, 2022. Smith is a
member of the radical, pro-insurrectionist "Freedom
Caucus". Smith was running for
re-election to the Arizona House of
Representatives to represent District 29. |
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Photo: Rebecca
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Austin Smith at an
event in Sun City,
Ariz., in March.
Smith impugned the
process for checking
voters’ signatures
last year, saying
“Signature
verification in
Maricopa County is a
joke.” |
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"A senior
director for the pro-Trump group
Turning Point Action resigned
from his post on Thursday and
abruptly withdrew his
re-election bid in Arizona,
three days after being accused
in a court complaint of forging
voters’ signatures. It was
dramatic turnabout for Austin
Smith, a House member in his
first term representing parts of
northwestern Maricopa County. He
has been a vocal election
skeptic in Arizona, a
battleground state. On Monday,
Mr. Smith was named in a
complaint filed in state
Superior Court by one of his
constituents, who said that
dozens of signatures on Mr.
Smith’s petitions to qualify for
the July 30 Republican primary
ballot had resembled Mr. Smith’s
own handwriting." |
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Apr.
19, 2024 |
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Every name in
RED, as of this date, has now voted 3 times
in two weeks to keep the 1864 Abortion Ban
on the books and the law of Arizona. |
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Apr.
18, 2024 |
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Austin Smith Drops Reelection Campaign Amid
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"Republican state Rep.
Austin Smith has dropped his
reelection bid after being accused of
personally forging more than 100 petition
signatures to get on the 2024 ballot. And
he’s facing a possible criminal
investigation into his signatures after
state elections officials forwarded his
petition signatures to the Arizona Attorney
General’s Office. Smith is first-term
representative from Surprise, a member of
Arizona’s far-right Arizona
Freedom Caucus and a top official at
Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of
the far-right
Turning Point USA, which is aimed at
young Republicans and run by Charlie Kirk. " |
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Apr. 18, 2024 |
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6 Republican Lawmakers Push
Legislation To Ensure Trump Can Stay
On Arizona’s Ballot |
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"Six Republican
lawmakers are pushing legislation to
ensure former President Donald Trump
can stay on Arizona’s ballot,
regardless of claims that he
violated the 14th Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution. In other states,
the case has been made that the 14th
Amendment’s insurrection clause
disqualifies Trump from running for
president or holding public office.
Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of
State Adrian Fontes says current
state law doesn’t allow him to
unilaterally remove Trump from the
ballot, but that a decision from the
court could potentially have that
outcome." |
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Jan. 23,
2024 |
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Smith with
Paul Gosar |
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Another sleeper for
Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk |
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This is not the only Turning
Point candidate running in the 2022 election for the
Arizona House. With enough
Turning Point sleepers Charlie Kirk could sway a
vote. |
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Turning
Point Action Events Under Scrutiny By
Arizona Secretary Of State Over Election Law
Violations |
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"The Arizona Secretary
of State’s Office has started an initial
inquiry into whether get-out-the-vote
rallies organized by
Turning Point Action, a tax-exempt
organization led by conservative personality
Charlie Kirk, violated campaign finance
laws. Though the head of Turning Point
Action described the two rallies, held on
Saturdays in July at parks in Goodyear and
Mesa, as community events designed to
educate, the complaint suggests they were
designed to promote specific Republican
candidates in the August primary election.
The complaint, released to The Republic on
Monday, was filed by Tyler Montague, a
Republican political consultant who heads a
group called Public Integrity Alliance. His
initial complaint, filed on June 23,
mentioned a July 9 Goodyear rally whose
online promotion
featured Austin Smith, a Turning
Point Action employee who was also seeking a
state House seat. “This appears to be
a possible illegal collaboration between
(Turning Point) and Smith,” the complaint
said." |
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Aug. 2, 2022 |
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These
Arizona
Candidates
Still
Say
Donald
Trump
Won In
2020, Or
They're
Not Sure
What
Happened
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The
Arizona
Republic
via The
Rose Law
Group
Reporter |
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Jul. 15,
2022 |
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"Elected
officials
and
candidates
for
office
in 2022
continue
to
challenge
and
question
the
results
of the
2020
presidential
election
in
Arizona. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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These
candidates
in
Arizona
races
deny
that Joe
Biden
won the
2020
presidential
election,
either
in
Arizona
or
nationwide." |
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US Senate
US House
of
Representatives
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Josh
Barnett,
Republican,
1st
District
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Walter
Blackman,
Republican,
2nd
District
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Eli
Crane,
Republican,
2nd
District
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Ron
Watkins,
Republican,
2nd
District
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Jeffrey
Zink,
Republican,
3rd
District
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David
Giles,
Republican,
4th
District
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Jerone
Davison,
Republican,
4th
District
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Andy
Biggs,
Republican,
incumbent,
5th
District
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Brandon
Martin,
Republican,
6th District
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Debbie
Lesko,
Republican,
incumbent,
8th District
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Paul
Gosar, Republican,
incumbent,
9th District
Governor
Secretary
of state
Attorney
general
Treasurer
Arizona
Corporation
Commission
State
Senate
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Steve
Zipperman,
Republican,
Legislative District
1
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Sonny
Borrelli,
Republican,
Legislative
District
5
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Wendy
Rogers,
Republican,
Legislative District
7
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David
Farnsworth,
Republican,
Legislative District
10
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Jake
Hoffman,
Republican,
Legislative District
15
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Anthony
Kern,
Republican,
Legislative District
27
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Janae
Shamp,
Republican,
Legislative
District
29
State
House of
Representatives
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Judy
Burges,
Republican,
Legislative
District
1
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Robert
Scantlebury, Republican,
Legislative
District
9
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Liz
Harris, Republican,
Legislative
District
13
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Austin
Smith, Republican,
Legislative
District
29
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John
Gillette,
Republican,
Legislative
District
30
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Nohl
Rosen,
Republican,
Legislative
District
30
Maricopa
County
Board of
Supervisors
Read the
complete
article
on The
Arizona
Republic |
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Center
for
Arizona
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2022 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Representative
LD-29 |
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Question 2: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Oppose. |
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Question 4: Allowing biological males that identify as transgender to play on female sports’ teams. |
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Position: Oppose |
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Question 8: Allowing parents to seek professional counseling for their minor child with same-sex attraction or gender identity issues.* |
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Position: Support |
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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.** |
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Candidates' Position:
Support. |
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*
This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy". |
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**Discriminatory
"Religious Freedom" laws. |
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