Far-right Republican candidate who
ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent
Arizona in the 2022 election. He lost in the
Republican primary on August 2, 2022.
The
Arizona
Republic
via The
Rose Law
Group
Reporter
Jul. 15,
2022
"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."
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.*
"Lamon is the former
CEO and founder of
DEPCOM Power Inc., a
Scottsdale-based
utility-scale solar
company. In 2019,
the Paradise Valley
Republican claimed
on a Freedom Files
podcast that neither
he nor DEPCOM “ever
asked for a subsidy
or handout from
anyone.” “No
handouts,” Lamon
said in March. “We
can't have this
constant Big Brother
government to help.
That's not going to
allow us to be the
strong and the
powerful nation that
we can be to help
our own.” But in
December 2020, Lamon
accepted $2,660,600
in federal relief
from the Paycheck
Protection Program,
designed by Congress
to provide economic
reprieve for
payroll, rent,
mortgage interest,
and utilities,
records show."
"U.S. Senate hopeful Jim Lamon, who spends a lot of money
peddling anti-China rhetoric on the
airwaves, is in bed with Chinese Communists,
a new political ad claims. Lamon, who’s
using his own fortune to fund his campaign,
is accused by political opponents of bashing
Beijing and its cronies with money he earned
from lucrative dealings with the Chinese
Communist Party."
"A
Republican businessman
seeking his party’s
nomination to face Sen. Mark
Kelly (D-Ariz.) in the fall
has released a new
Western-style TV ad in which
the candidate, dressed as a
sheriff, fires a gun at
actors portraying Kelly,
President Biden and House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The
candidate, energy executive
Jim Lamon, said in a tweet
that the ad will air during
the Super Bowl.
Kelly
is the husband of former
congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was
shot in the head while
greeting constituents
outside a Tucson supermarket
in 2011. Six people were
killed in the shooting
rampage and many others were
injured.
Shannon Watts, the founder
of the group Moms Demand
Action for Gun Sense in
America, called the ad
“disgusting.”"
"A division of
industrial giant Koch Industries has bought Senate
hopeful Jim Lamon's company, likely providing a cash
infusion for the Arizona Republican as he pours huge
sums of his own money into the race. [...] Lamon
has already loaned his campaign $5 million and said
he is prepared to spend 10 times that sum."
"The most recent slate of
speakers also includes Republican state legislators
Mark Finchem and
Wendy Rogers — the former was at
the Capitol on Jan. 6 and the latter cheered on the
violent failed coup on social media — U.S. Senate
candidate Jim Lamon, and congressional candidates
Jeff Zink and
Eli Crane."
"The United States should not
accept Afghan refugees, including translators and
others who helped the American military during the
20-year war, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim
Lamon said"
"Arizona Senate
hopeful Jim Lamon,
at a July rally with
Trump, touted an
unsuccessful lawsuit
he and other Trump
electors filed to
challenge his
state’s election
results as
“something that had
to be done.”"
"In late April, Lamon, a renewable
energy executive,
announced his
donation to the
nonprofit Look Ahead
America, designed to
help register "tens
of thousands of new
conservative
voters." [...] The
group said it
planned to use Lamon's $2 million
to register and turn
out "America First
patriots.""
"Trump's endorsement could tip the scales in Arizona's 2022 GOP Senate primary.
To gain the upper hand,
Lamon is appealing directly to Trump with a 30-second spot touting his border
security bona fides exclusively on Fox News in northern New Jersey. The former president is
spending the summer on his private golf club in Bedminster, 43 miles west of New York City"
"Lamon was one of
Trump’s 11
presidential
electors in Arizona
and would have
represented the
state in the
Electoral College if
Trump hadn’t lost to
Democrat Joe Biden.
After the election,
Lamon and the 10
other electors sued
alleging Arizona
election systems
have security flaws
that let election
workers and foreign
countries manipulate
results and that
those systems
switched votes from
Trump to Biden. The
case was dismissed
for failing to
provide evidence to
back up its claims.
Lamon spoke
favorably of an
ongoing hand recount
of votes and review
of voting equipment
in Maricopa County
on behalf of the
state Senate. The
work is being
overseen by a
cybersecurity
consultant who has
cast doubt on the
legitimacy of
Biden's victory"
