ARIZONA CITIZENS DEFENSE LEAGUE

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Candidate Questionnaires
 

Questionnaire

In July 2010 we sent a questionnaire to every known candidate for the Arizona state legislature.  The questionnaire contained the following 5 questions, which we asked the candidates to answer either “Yes” or “No”:

• Q1 - Law-abiding citizens have the right to carry a weapon, with or without a government issued permit, in any place that they have a right to be.
   
• Q2 - Article 2, Section 26 of the Arizona Constitution means what it says.  Our right to bear arms must not be subject to local laws.
   
• Q3 - Trained, law-abiding adult citizens have the right to carry their weapons onto the grounds of schools, colleges and universities in order to be able to protect themselves and others from criminals.
   
• Q4 - Law-abiding citizens have the right to defend themselves at any time or in any place they have a right to be.
   
• Q5 - Laws that impair the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves should be repealed.

We explained that we feel that no one should need to beg to exercise a Constitutionally protected right, and that these issues need no further debate.  They could expand their answers with comments if they so desired.  However, what we perceive as a “Yes, but…” answer would be treated as a “No” when we shared their response.  An unreturned questionnaire would result in the answers to all questions to be considered as “No.”

They were told that their responses to the Candidate Questionnaire would be shared with our membership and made available to the estimated one-plus million gun owners in Arizona, and passed along to the various national firearms related pro-rights organizations.

There are over 250 candidates for the legislature in 2010.  Fifty-two of those have responded to AzCDL’s survey.  Their responses are reproduced here.  If you do not see a candidate’s name, and they were not a legislator in 2010, you may assume we did not receive a response from them and that their answer to all the questions was “No!”

Candidates who were legislators in the 2010 session were not required to respond to our survey since we have their voting record on bills we considered important, like Constitutional Carry.

Ratings

Ratings and endorsements for candidates for Arizona statewide offices can be found at the AzCDL Political Action Committee (PAC) web site.

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