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.
Arizona’s 11 fake electors sign a document in Phoenix on Dec. 14 2020, falsely claiming that they were the state’s electors and that Donald Trump won the presidential election in Arizona. Screen capture by AZGOP
A grand jury has indicted 18 people, including two Arizona state senators and the former head of the Arizona Republican Party, in a fake elector scheme that aimed to install Donald Trump as the president after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has not released the names of everyone who was indicted, but all 11 fake electors were charged:
"Utah Sen.
Mike Lee
(R), who
endeavored
to have the
2020
election
overturned
in favor of Donald
Trump,
received
campaign
donations in
the tens of
thousands of
dollars,
from three
Arizona fake
electors,
according to
a report in
The Salt
Lake
Tribune." [
. . . ] "James
Lamon,
who
unsuccessfully
ran for U.S.
Senate in
2022,
donated
$8,700 to
Lee’s
campaign in
January and
March of
2021. Lamon
is the
former CEO
of DEPCOM, a
solar power
company.
Lamon also
donated
$15,000 to
Lee’s
leadership
political
action
committee in
January
2022."
Jim Lamon,
who launched
a failed
U.S. Senate
bid in
Arizona last
year, was
outed by
campaign
finance
expert Rob
Pyers, who
shared
documents
identifying
Lamon as the
lone backer
of a super
PAC that has
aired
multiple
anti-Trump
ads on
conservative
media.
"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"
