Far-right 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.
"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."
Feb. 8, 2011
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2010 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates
Position Sought:
State
Senate LD-3
Question
9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support
Question
12: 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
15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.*
