Justin Heap
is an
Ultra-MAGA
Republican
who has
served as
Recorder of
Maricopa
County since
2025. He is
a former
member of
the Arizona
House of
Representatives
and member
of the
extremist "Freedom
Caucus"
having
represented
the 10th
district
from 2023 to
2025.
"A day
before 1.9
million
early
ballots go
out to
Maricopa
County
voters, the
U.S. Postal
Service is
contradicting
the official
in charge of
early
voting,
saying it
never closed
the Phoenix
mail
facility
blamed for
potential
ballot
delays.
Recorder
Justin Heap
made the
claim Sept.
30 while
presenting
his early
voting plan
to the Board
of
Supervisors."
[ . . . ]
"“The Postal
Service has
not closed
any
Phoenix-area
processing
facilities
and has more
than enough
capacity to
successfully
process
local
Election
Mail
volume,”
USPS
spokesperson
Sherry
Patterson
told KTAR
News 92.3 FM
in a
statement."
"On Monday,
President
Donald Trump
spread
conspiracy
theories
involving
one of his
most loyal
allies in
the effort
to promote
election
denialism.
Maricopa
County
Recorder
Justin Heap,
the top
election
official in
Arizona’s
largest
locality,
has been so
committed to
using his
office to
assist the
Trump
administration
that his
actions have
even alarmed
fellow
Republican
officials in
the Phoenix
area.
Nonetheless,
Trump
effectively
trampled all
over him
when he
spread
falsehoods
about Heap’s
office
having been
“caught”
sending out
thousands of
mail-in
ballots
“illegally.”
He added
that
Maricopa “is
a very, very
dishonest
county.”"
"A Maricopa
County
supervisor
is sounding
the alarm
over what he
describes as
“highly
problematic”
and
potentially
criminal
actions
taken by
employees of
County
Recorder
Justin Heap
during a
live
election
earlier this
year." [ . .
. ] "The
growing rift
centers on a
March 12
incident at
the county’s
election
headquarters
during a
local
election.
According to
Galvin,
security
footage
captured an
information
technology
employee
working for
Heap gaining
unauthorized
access to a
secure
ballot
storage
area. “They
went into
what we call
the ballot
cage where
ballots were
being kept,
but the
recorder’s
employees
who work for
Justin
emerged with
white
envelopes,”
Galvin said.
“I have no
way of
knowing if
they were
walking out
with live
ballots, or
if there’s
anything in
those
envelopes.
However, I
think it is
highly
problematic
… because
only certain
people have
access to
that space
in that
building.”"
"In an
ominous
letter to
the county
board, the
Maricopa
County
Recorder’s
attorney
suggested on
Wednesday
that
election
employees
could face
“criminal
exposure” —
potentially
including
jail time —
if the board
approved the
use and
locations of
voting drop
boxes. That
came as news
to the
Maricopa
County Board
of
Supervisors,
who had a
seemingly
routine
resolution
before them
to do just
that.
Members of
the board
sized up the
letter,
righteously
ripped into
County
Recorder
Justin Heap
and
unanimously
passed the
resolution
before them,
5-0. “He is
purposely
trying to
corrupt this
election,”
said Steve
Gallardo,
the lone
Democrat
among the
five county
supervisors.
“He never
intended to
make sure
our
elections
were safe,
secure,
transparent.”"
"Maricopa
County
Recorder
Justin Heap
said he
plans to
soon refer
suspected
noncitizen
voters
identified
via a
federal
system to
law
enforcement
for
prosecution
and change
their
registration
status, but
election
lawyers and
experts
questioned
whether his
office is
following
the correct
legal
process." [
. . . ]
"Heap
appears to
be using a
process
outlined in
the state’s
election
rulebook
that applies
to new
registrants
suspected of
being
noncitizens,
rather than
following
requirements
in a state
law that
lays out how
to notify
and remove
potential
noncitizens
who are
already on
the voter
rolls."
"At
Wednesday’s
Turning
Point
event,
Heap
appeared
alongside
congressional
candidate
Abe Hamadeh,
a long-time
proponent of
election
conspiracy
theories who
encouraged
the audience
to make this
year’s
Republican
turnout “too
big to rig.”
Heap has
avoided
questions
from
reporters
and debate
opportunities
that would
require him
to take a
stance on
whether or
not the 2020
election was
stolen."
""State Rep.
Justin
Heap,
the MAGA
Republican
who knocked
off Maricopa
County
Recorder
Stephen
Richer in
the primary,
has
repeatedly
pledged to
bring more
transparency
and honesty
to Arizona’s
elections.
Sadly,
however, he
apparently
has no
interest in
bringing
transparency
and honesty
to Arizona’s
voters.
Heap is
ducking both
of this
week’s
planned
debates with
his
Democratic
opponent,
Tim
Stringham."
Sep. 10,
2024
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.
"The Arizona
Secretary of
State’s
Office found
reasonable
cause to
believe
Republican
state Rep. Justin
Heap violated
state
campaign
finance law.
Democratic
strategist
Tony Cani
asked the
secretary of
state to
investigate
Heap in
February for
failing to
report five
donations
totaling
about $2,500
from
political
action
committees
on a
campaign
finance
report for
2023. The
donations in
question
came from
PACs
connected to
mining
company
Freeport-McMoran,
Arizona
Association
of Realtors,
the Arizona
Fraternal
Order of
Police, and
APS
parent-company
Pinnacle
West Capital
Corporation."
"Current law
requires a
property
owner to
feel
threatened
by an
intruder
that is
inside their
home to
justify the
use of
deadly
force. But
Heap’s
bill would
have changed
that to
allow for
deadly force
if an
intruder was
merely on a
person’s
property and
the owner
felt
threatened,
broadening
the
circumstances
in which
deadly force
can be used
and
justified.
Heap, along
with many of
his
Republican
colleagues,
have since
denied that
the bill was
intended to
impact
migrants.
But criminal
defense
attorney
Jack Litwack
told the
Arizona
Mirror in
February
that the
change would
give a much
broader
defense to
people who
use deadly
force."
"Justin
Heap pals
around with
and panders
to election
deniers,
whether or
not he’ll
admit to
being one
himself. " [
. . . ]
"When Heap
announced
his run for
county
recorder at
a Feb. 28
press
conference,
he refused
to answer
questions
from
reporters
about
whether he
believes the
2022
election for
Arizona
governor was
stolen from
Republican Kari
Lake or
if the 2020
election was
stolen from
her mentor,
former
President Donald
Trump."
[ . . . ]
"Heap’s
voting
record in
the House,
his comments
during the
chamber’s
Municipal
Oversight
and
Elections
Committee
meetings,
his campaign
events and
endorsements,
and his
statements
on social
media show
that he is,
at a
minimum,
sympathetic
to election
deniers — if
not a
believer in
election
conspiracies
himself."
"Arizona
would run
its own
census in
2030 and use
only that
citizen-count
to redraw
state
legislative
districts
under a
Republican-backed
proposal
that could
be placed on
the November
ballot." [ .
. . ] "The
ballot
referral is
being touted
by Rep. Justin
Heap, a
freshman
Republican
from Mesa,
as a way to
ensure that
legislative
districts
are drawn
without
using what
he called a
skewed
system that
counts
everyone
instead of
just people
who are
citizens and
potentially
eligible to
vote." [ . .
. ] "Steve
Gallardo, a
former state
senator who
is now the
only
Democrat on
the Maricopa
County Board
of
Supervisors,
called
Heap’s
proposal a
recipe for
ensuring GOP
control and
undermining
the growing
strength of
the
Democratic
Party in the
state."
"Rep. Justin
Heap (R-Mesa)
announced on
Wednesday
that he’s
running
against
Maricopa
County
Recorder
Stephen
Richer — the
same day he
filed a late
campaign
finance
report for
his
legislative
campaign.
But the
report
failed to
include
donations
from
multiple
political
action
committees,
amounting to
a few
thousand
dollars."
"Far-right
state Rep. Justin
Heap announced
Wednesday
that he was
launching a
challenge
against
Maricopa
County
Recorder
Stephen
Richer, a
fellow
Republican
who has
infuriated
election
conspiracy
theorists
during his
tenure as
election
administrator
for
Arizona's
largest
county. Heap
entered the
July 30
primary with
the support
of state
Sen. Jake
Hoffman,
a fraudulent
elector for Donald
Trump in
2020 who,
along with
Heap,
unsuccessfully
tried to
pass a bill
last year to
gerrymander
Maricopa
into four
separate
counties to
ensure
Republicans
would remain
in control
of three of
them." [ . .
. ] "Heap,
who like
Hoffman
belongs to
the state's
branch of
the Freedom
Caucus,
appears to
have avoided
statements
expressing
direct
support for
election
denialism,
but he's
promoted
legislation
supported by
conspiracy
theorists.
Among other
things, he's
sponsored a
bill to bar
Arizona's
participation
in "any
multistate
voter
registration
or voter
registration
list
maintenance
organization,"
as well as a
measure
making it
easier for
election
results to
be
challenged
in court."
"Arizona
Republicans
want to let
ranchers in
southern
Arizona
legally
shoot and
kill
undocumented
immigrants
who cross
their land. A
bill moving
through the
state House
of
Representatives
would make
changes to
the state’s
existing
“Castle
Doctrine”
law, which
permits
Arizonans to
use deadly
force
against
people who
are
trespassing
or breaking
into their
home. Rep. Justin
Heap, a
Mesa
Republican,
told the
House
Judiciary
Committee on
Feb. 14 that
his House
Bill 2843 is
designed to
close a
loophole
that he
claims has
led to
“increasingly
larger
numbers of
migrants or
human
traffickers
moving
across farm
and ranch
land.”"
"Arizona
House
Representative
and Maricopa
County
Recorder
Candidate
Justin Heap
has been
caught once
again in
multiple
lies and
multiple
violations
of the
Arizona
Constitution.
The video
begins with
a news story
segment, but
at 1:40
dives into
the Arizona
Constitution
and specific
issues the
people have
been having
with Heap.
Please watch
the entire
video. This
is a pattern
of behavior
of an
arrogant
liar,
violating
the rights
of the
people on
both sides:
left and
right. This
unethical
man is in
complete
violation of
his oath of
office and
Constitutional
duty to the
People of
Arizona."
"Maricopa
County
Recorder
candidate
Justin Heap
has been
caught in so
many lies I
can barely
keep count.
Not to be
outdone, his
defacto
Campaign
Manager
Merissa
Hamilton
was again
caught in
another lie
over why
Heap skipped
the June
11th, 5:00pm
MST Public
PBS Recorder
Debate.
"Superintendent
of Public
Instruction Tom
Horne and
other
Republican
elected
officials
are slated
to speak at
a Mesa town
hall
Thursday
organized
by Moms
for Liberty,
a "parental
rights"
organization
founded in
Florida that
has been
labeled an
extremist
group and
has made
national
headlines in
recent years
for attempts
to take over
school
boards and
restrict
teaching
related to
race, gender
and sexual
orientation."
[ . . . ]
"State
lawmakers
Sen. Jake
Hoffman,
R-Queen
Creek, Sen. Justine
Wadsack,
R-Tucson,
Rep. Justin
Heap,
R-Mesa, and Barbara
Parker,
R-Mesa, are
expected to
participate
in a panel
at the
event. The
panel will
be moderated
by Descovich,
and
attendees
will be able
to ask
education-related
questions."
"Moms for
Liberty was
founded in
2021 by
Descovich
and Justice,
former
school board
members in
Florida, out
of
opposition
to
pandemic-related
school
closures and
mask
mandates.
Its chapters
have since
made
national
headlines
for attempts
to take over
school
boards,
explosive
appearances
at school
board
meetings and
efforts to
restrict the
teaching of
race and
gender-related
topics."
Sep. 13,
2023
Arizona State Representative Heap Under Fire For Dishonest Statements
Arizona
State Rep. Justin
Heap of
Mesa told
12News last
month he met
with a
lobbyist at
the center
of a story
that gained
news
coverage in
January. But
the lobbyist
involved
said Heap’s
claim is not
true. Public
records also
do not
support
Heap’s
statement.
On
Wednesday,
Heap did not
explain to
12News the
reason for
the
discrepancy.
Instead,
Heap
criticized
12News for
covering the
story at
all. “Why do
you keep
running this
ridiculous
nonsense
story from
day one that
nobody cares
about but
you?” Heap
said. The
story, first
reported by
the
Washington
Post in
January,
revealed
when a
representative
of the
lobbyist
firm
Consilium
Consulting
asked to
meet with
Heap to
discuss
deregulation
issues in
Arizona,
Heap
responded by
saying he
needed to
prioritize
his meetings
and wanted
to know if
the lobbyist
or its
clients
donated to
his campaign
fund. If
not, Heap
wanted to
know why.
[...] Kirk
Adams,
president of
Consilium
Consulting,
told 12News
Heap did not
meet with
them. A
spokesperson
for the firm
added that
Heap
“ghosted”
the
organization.
"As of
Wednesday,
Jan. 18, Arizona
Republicans
have
introduced
at least
four extreme
proposals to
seriously
curtail or
fully repeal
early and/or
mail-in
voting in
the Grand
Canyon State.
These bills
come on the
heels of the
state’s
highest
court
rejecting —
for the
second time
— the
Arizona
Republican
Party’s
attempt to
undo the
state’s
popular
mail-in
voting
system.
Arizona
adopted
no-excuse
mail-in
voting in
1991. Yet,
after
enjoying
years of
bipartisan
support,
Republican
lawmakers
have
prioritized
restrictions
on this
convenient
form of
voting.
Nationwide,
the use of
mail-in
voting
surged
during the
2020
election due
to the
COVID-19
pandemic. In
Arizona, the
practice has
a long
legacy and
is
especially
popular: In
2020, nearly
90% of
voters took
advantage of
early
voting, the
majority by
mail. " [ .
. . ] "three
bills were
introduced
by the same
quartet of
Republican
lawmakers,
Reps. Liz
Harris, Justin
Heap, Rachel
Jones and Austin
Smith"
Jan. 19,
2023
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