2022 AZ Senate race: on Government Reform
Blake Masters:
Supports audit of 2020 Arizona votes: lacked transparency
Masters said he "certainly supports" Arizona's ongoing Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential race. "I saw a lot of weird stuff and non-transparency in this election. People just know that most members of the media and most politicians
are happy to lie to them, so when you combine that with a lack of transparency, I totally sympathize with the desire to fix things legislatively and then to audit. Was everything as perfect as the Democrats say? I sort of doubt it."
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 12, 2021
Blake Masters:
Democrats want to federal elections so GOP can't win
If Republicans don't win these elections, we lose the country forever. The left and the Democrats, they have taken control of almost every major institution in our country. And they're very close to controlling it all. And so, if they win, they tell us
what they're going to do. They're going to pass H.R.1, S.1. They're going to federalize elections, so no Republican can ever win again. They want to add new states to our union, just so they can add more senators and control everything.
Like tens of millions of Americans, probably even 100 million Americans and some Joe Biden voters, if we're being honest, I look at what happened in the 2020 election, and I see a lot of problems. They want to say it was a perfect election with the
perfect result. Maybe. But it didn't look perfect, with the mass mailings of ballots. My campaign manager received four ballots in different states. And so maybe the result was right, maybe not.
Source: FOX News Sunday Morning Futures on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 25, 2021
Jim Lamon:
Supported Arizona audit of 2020 election votes
Lamon spoke favorably of an ongoing hand recount of votes and review of voting equipment in Maricopa County on behalf of the state Senate. "I will honor the result either way,"
Lamon said. "But I just believe there is too many people with too many questions that it is not that difficult for us as a nation to heal that wound and find out."
Source: KNAU Arizona Public Radio on 2022 Arizona Senate race
May 4, 2021
Jim Lamon:
Signed pledge to support term limits on Congress
U.S. Term Limits, the leader in the non-partisan movement to limit terms for elected officials, praises Jim Lamon, for signing the pledge for an amendment to term limit Congress. The U.S. Term Limits amendment pledge is provided to every announced
candidate for federal office. It reads, "I pledge that as a member of Congress, I will cosponsor and vote for the U.S. Term Limits amendment of three (3) House terms and two (2) Senate terms and no longer limit."
Source: U.S. Term Limits endorsement on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 1, 2021
Jim Lamon:
Signed document falsely claiming to be presidential elector
A U.S. Senate candidate who was one of 11 Arizona Republicans who signed a document falsely claiming he was authorized to cast the state's electoral votes for President Donald Trump said in an interview that the document was only a contingency plan.
Jim Lamon, who signed the document making the false claim on Dec. 14, 2020, said he understood he was only asserting himself as one of Arizona's official electors in case the results were decertified.
Source: Associated Press on KTAR 92.3 FM: 2022 Arizona Senate race
Sep 16, 2021
Jim Lamon:
National mandatory voter ID, signature verification
- National, mandatory voter identification (real citizenship ID, not blue state driver licenses)
- National, mandatory signature verification
- Ensure elections stay under the control of the States
- A defined minimum standard for free and
fair elections, and a routine audit across all 50 states to ensure compliance
- Require election supervisors to disclose findings to State legislatures
- Election supervisors not to receive funds from political entities (no Zuckerbucks).
Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website JimLamon.com
Apr 20, 2022
Jim Lamon:
Congress must continue to cut taxes and needless regulation
When it comes to jobs and economic growth, government is usually the problem, not the solution. From deciding what businesses are essential to imposing excessive regulations, government stifles American innovation, depresses wages, and hurts
American workers. Congress must continue to cut taxes and needless regulation to encourage economic growth and help working people and their families.
Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website JimLamon.com
Apr 20, 2022
Justin Olson:
Support election integrity reforms like voter ID
To protect the sanctity of our elections, Justin Olson will support election integrity reforms that make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Commonsense reforms like voter ID requirements for every ballot cast are overwhelmingly supported by the
American people. These reforms build confidence in the outcome of elections and protect this vital constitutional right.
Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website VoteJustinOlson.com
Mar 16, 2022
Justin Olson:
I voted for election integrity, ban ballot harvesting
When I was in the state Legislature, I voted for election integrity. I voted to ban ballot harvesting. We've got to put in place some enforcement mechanisms to stop that from happening because we did see significant anomalies occur both in the
2018 and the 2020 elections and we've got to investigate all of those anomalies so that we can be confident that every vote that was cast was cast by a legitimate voter.
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Oct 19, 2021
Mark Brnovich:
Criticism of GOP election laws divisive, not true
Brnovich reacted to Biden's comments calling the GOP's election bills an "assault" on free and fair elections, and the "most significant test of democracy since the Civil War.""I just think it's quite frankly shameful that the president of the
United States would use such divisive rhetoric. And not only is it divisive, it's just not accurate, it's just not true. I think it does a disservice for all those Americans that fought against discrimination and fought for voting rights in the 1960s."
Source: Fox News on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 17, 2021
Mark Brnovich:
Time, place and manner statutes on elections are valid
The Supreme Court recognizes that election integrity measures, common sense measures are okay. They're consistent with the Constitution and the Constitution recognizes that states can set time, place and manner statutes regarding
how elections are conducted. That's what the Constitution provides for.They are shredding the Constitution, and we need to stand up now because who knows when our liberties will be able to be saved again.
The fact is these people -- the Bidens, the Harrises, the Schumers, the Pelosis -- they're corrupting the military.
They're corrupting the entire system and they will do whatever they have to, to try to dominate us and to dominate all of the American people and impose their radical values. This is the greatest threat to the United States since the Civil War.
Source: Fox News on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 17, 2021
Mick McGuire:
Acknowledged that Biden is "duly elected" president
McGuire told CNN that Biden was the "duly elected" president and said "there is no outcome that I see where there is a reversal" of the election because of the audit. He acknowledged that Trump did "very poorly" among women voters in the
Phoenix and Tucson suburbs. He allowed that not all Arizonans have confidence in the integrity of their elections but expressed ambivalence about whether Maricopa's audit will help or hurt the public's perception of the state's election integrity.
Source: CNN "Dividing line" on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 17, 2021
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