Tea Party
now MAGA Republican Ron Gould was a 2016
candidate for District 5 of the Arizona State
Senate. Gould was previously a member of the Arizona
State Senate, representing District 3 from 2005 to
2013. He previously served as a member on the Lake
Havasu City Council. Gould was term-limited and
could not run for re-election in 2012. He instead
decided to run for Arizona's 4th Congressional
District. He was defeated in the primary by
incumbent Paul Gosar. Gould currently serves on the
Mohave
County Board
of
Supervisors,
District 5.
"Attorney
General Kris
Mayes wants
a judge to
toss a bid
by a Mohave
County
supervisor
seeking a
court order
granting him
immunity if
he votes to
scrap
machine
counting of
ballots. In
court
filings,
Emma Mark,
one of the
lawyers in
Mayes’
office, told
Maricopa
County
Superior
Court Judge
Brad
Astrowsky
said what
Supervisor Ron
Gould really
wants is a
judicial
declaration
that he can
vote to
require that
ballots be
counted by
hand. As
part of
that, the
supervisor
claims he
needs an
order
blocking
Mayes from
subjecting
him to
“threats and
intimidation’’
for pushing
for hand
counts of
elections. Gould
voted last
year to
require a
hand count
of the 2024
election.
But he was
on the
losing end
of a 3-2
vote by the
board to
scrap the
idea after
members got
a letter
from Mayes."
"Mohave
County Board
of
Supervisors
Chairman Ron
Gould said
Monday he
chose to
canvass the
2022 Arizona
general
election
because
otherwise,
he’d be
arrested."
[...] "In
what was
initially
done as a
political
statement
over
tabulator
issues at
some
Maricopa
County vote
centers, the
board
approved the
elections
along with
the state’s
largest
county on
Monday –
leaving
Cochise
County as
the lone
holdout on
Monday’s
deadline.
“Originally,
we postponed
it from last
Monday’s
meeting as a
political
statement to
let the
Maricopa
County Board
of
Supervisors
know that we
were
displeased
with the
poor
handling of
their
election,”
he said."
"“I cannot
imagine me
allowing
this to be
done to my
children so
I can’t
allow it to
be done to
the public
anymore,”
[...] Gould called
such plans
“antithetical
to free
people” and
said it
wouldn’t
work anyway.
That’s the
reason why
he is
against
testing of
the general
population"
"Gould sponsored
a bill to
ensure that
marriage
will be
reserved for
heterosexuals
only. He
perceives
being gay as
harmful and
points to
statistics
which,
according to
him, prove a
homosexual
male’s life
expectancy
is 42 years
[...] Gould
is a
self-described
climate
change
denier.
“Even if we
have it, it
is not
man-caused,”
he said.
“Man can’t
change the
weather.”"
Aug. 5, 2019
Center for Arizona Policy
2016 Survey Questions For Arizona Candidates
Position Sought: State Senate LD-14
Question 4: 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 6: Prohibiting government from discriminating against an individual, organization, or small business based on their beliefs about marriage.*
Candidates' Position: Support
Question 10: Implementing policies to allow students and faculty to use the restroom, locker room, and shower room that aligns with their gender identity.
Position Sought: United States House of Representatives CD-4
Question 3: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Candidates' Position: Support
Question 8: 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 13: Repealing the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and declares states do not have to recognize same-sex marriage from other states.
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.
"Ron Gould, candidate for the GOP nomination for Arizona's Congressional District 4, drinks deeply from the "2nd Amendment remedies" well, proving conclusively that he hasn't any actual ideas, only a ball of undefined rage which needs to be directed through the barrel of a gun.
Gould's latest ad features him toting a shotgun around the border (presumably hunting for them durned 'illegals') and then demonstrating his opinion of "government run health care" by shooting a copy of the Affordable Care Act, then smirking the exit line, "Because Washington needs a straight shooter." The double entendre – suggesting that we need to send someone to Washington to shoot the place up (maybe some liberals? maybe the President?) – couldn't more clearly appeal to the basest eliminationist streak in right wing politics."...
*SB 1365 would have allowed a doctor to refuse to treat a person who was LGBTQ or allow a waitress or waiter to refuse service to a person who was LGBTQ simply by saying it was against their sincerely held religious beliefs to treat or serve a queer person.
"Sen. Ron
Gould,
R-Lake
Havasu City,
yanked the
two
measures.
Gould said
he lacked
the backing
of four
other
members of
the
Republican-controlled
panel...Gould
said he will
keep trying
to secure
votes."
