David Burnell Smith

Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing Arizona Legislative District 7. He served in the House from January 2005 until January 2006, and again from January 2011 until January 2013. He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in November 2014. In 2004 he ran for the Arizona House of Representatives, and was elected to represent District 7. When irregularities were discovered in his campaign finances, the Arizona Citizens’ Clean Election Commission recommended that he be removed from office. Smith unsuccessfully fought the removal, and stepped down on January 26, 2006. In 2010 he again ran for the House, and was re-elected. He served from January 2011 through January 2013, but lost his bid for re-election in 2012.

Center for Arizona Policy

2014 Candidate Questionnaire

Position Sought: State Representative LD-15

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.*

Candidates' Position: Support

* Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws.

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Ex-State Legislator/Birther David Burnell Smith Picks Up The Ball, Files Lawsuit Challenging The Arpaio Recall Effort; Smith: Is "Barack Obama True To His Name, Or Is He A Puppet?"; Also, Some Legal Analysis

Mar. 21, 2013

PLEASE NOTE: A "Yes" vote would allow ranch dogs to be neglected or abandoned, killed and tortured. It would allow the owner of a ranch dog to inflict unnecessary injury to the animal and not provide medical attention.

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State Representative David Burnell Smith Hit With DUI, Pulls A "Do You Know Who I Am?"

Nov. 5, 2012

Center for Arizona Policy

2012 Candidate Questionnaire

Position Sought: State Representative LD-15

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.*

Candidates' Position: Support

* Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws.

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Center for Arizona Policy

2010 Candidate Questionnaire

Position Sought: State Representative LD-7

Question 9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Candidates' Position: Support

Question 12: 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.*

Candidates' Position: Support

* Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws.

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The Saga Of David Burnell Smith

Feb. 1, 2007

"David Burnell Smith, an attorney from Carefree, Arizona, won election to the state house in 2004. He opted for public financing --even though this antigovernment Republican insisted that he was opposed to Arizona’s Clean Election law. Perhaps to show his disdain, Smith carelessly exceeded the spending limit that the law imposes. In 2005, the Clean Elections Commission investigated his case and ordered Smith out of his legislative seat, ruling that he had acquired it by cheating. Smith imperiously asserted that he was now a sitting legislator and thus immune from the commission’s reach. Unfortunately for him, a string of courts, including the Arizona supreme court, disagreed with the little potentate, and he was booted.

Defiant, Smith ran again last year for the same seat, this time spurning public funding and pledging to kill the whole program. “I’ll win my re-election,” he spewed out. ”I’ll be stronger than ever. And I’m going to do what I can to rid this state of socalled clean elections….”

Alas, voters disagreed. Mr. DBS lost in the Republican primary last September, running third. He was last seen wrangling with the Clean Elections Commission to lower his fine. “They got their pound of flesh,” he said. “You’d think I could negotiate something.”"