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David Burnell Smith |
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Republican member of the
Arizona House of Representatives,
representing Arizona Legislative District 7.
He served in the House from January 2005
until January 2006, and again from January
2011 until January 2013. He ran
unsuccessfully for re-election in November
2014. In 2004 he ran for the Arizona House
of Representatives, and was elected to
represent District 7. When irregularities
were discovered in his campaign finances,
the Arizona Citizens’ Clean Election
Commission recommended that he be removed
from office. Smith unsuccessfully fought the
removal, and stepped down on January 26,
2006. In 2010 he again ran for the House,
and was re-elected. He served from January
2011 through January 2013, but lost his bid
for re-election in 2012. |
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Center
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Arizona
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2014
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position Sought:
State
Representative
LD-15 |
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9: Arizona’s voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage should be defended to the fullest extent legally possible. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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11: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in antidiscrimination law. |
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Position: Oppose |
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15: 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.* |
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Position: Support |
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Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws. |
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Ex-State Legislator/Birther David Burnell Smith Picks Up The Ball, Files Lawsuit Challenging The Arpaio Recall Effort; Smith: Is "Barack Obama True To His Name, Or Is He A Puppet?"; Also, Some Legal Analysis |
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Mar. 21, 2013 |
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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. |
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State Representative David Burnell Smith Hit With DUI, Pulls A
"Do You Know Who I
Am?" |
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Nov. 5, 2012 |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
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2012
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position Sought:
State
Representative
LD-15 |
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9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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11: Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Oppose |
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15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.* |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws. |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
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2010
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position Sought:
State
Representative
LD-7 |
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9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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12: Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law. |
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| Candidates'
Position: Oppose |
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15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.* |
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| Candidates'
Position: Support |
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Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws. |
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The Saga
Of
David
Burnell
Smith |
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Feb. 1,
2007 |
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| "David Burnell Smith, an attorney from Carefree, Arizona, won election to the state house in 2004. He opted for public financing --even though this antigovernment Republican insisted that he was opposed to Arizona’s Clean Election law. Perhaps to show his disdain, Smith carelessly exceeded the spending limit that the law imposes. In 2005, the Clean Elections Commission investigated his case and ordered Smith out of his legislative seat, ruling that he had acquired it by cheating. Smith imperiously asserted that he was now a sitting legislator and thus immune from the commission’s reach. Unfortunately for him, a string of courts, including the Arizona supreme court, disagreed with the little potentate, and he was booted. |
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| Defiant, Smith ran again last year for the same seat, this time spurning public funding and pledging to kill the whole program. “I’ll win my re-election,” he spewed out. ”I’ll be stronger than ever. And I’m going to do what I can to rid this state of socalled clean elections….” |
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| Alas, voters disagreed. Mr. DBS lost in the Republican primary last September, running third. He was last seen wrangling with the Clean Elections Commission to lower his fine. “They got their pound of flesh,” he said. “You’d think I could negotiate something.”" |
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Center
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Arizona
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2006 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State
Representative
LD-7 |
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Question
7:
Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Support. |
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Question
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. Adding “sexual orientation” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in antidiscrimination law. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Oppose. |
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Court Orders State Legislator Out Of Office |
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Jan. 26, 2006 |
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