Ultra-MAGA Republican "Freedom
Caucus" member of the Arizona
House of Representatives, representing District 10.
He assumed office on January 9, 2023. His current
term ends on January 13, 2025. Heap is running in
2024 for the office of Maricopa County Recorder. Heap ran for election
to the Arizona House of Representatives to represent
District 10. He won in the general election on
November 8, 2022.
"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.”"
"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
PAID
FOR BY STONEWALL DEMOCRATS OF ARIZONA
• NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE'S
COMMITTEE
