The Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) is the public policy arm of the Diocese of Phoenix, the Diocese of Tucson, the Diocese of Gallup, and the Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix. The ACC is a non-partisan entity and does not endorse any candidates.
The ACC Voter’s Guide (En Español) is meant solely to provide an important educational tool containing unbiased information on the November 8 General Election. Pursuant to Internal Revenue Service requirements for churches and nonprofit organizations, this document does not endorse candidates or indicate our support or opposition to the questions.
Download the Arizona Catholic Conference Candidate Survey as a PDF
Included on the ACC Voter’s Guide are races covering the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, Corporation Commission, and the Arizona State Senate and Arizona State House of Representatives. It is important to remember that members of the State Senate and State House are elected by legislative district. Each legislative district includes one State Senator and two State Representatives. Find your legislative district here: http://azredistricting.org/districtlocator
All candidates in the aforementioned races were sent a survey and asked to respond with whether they Support (S) or Oppose (O) the given statements. The ACC Voter’s Guide lists every one of these candidates regardless of whether they returned a survey. Many candidates elaborated on their responses which are indicated by an asterisk and a hyperlink to a scanned document.
We would strongly encourage you to find out more information about those candidates who did not complete a questionnaire, as well as those who did. Contact information for each of these candidates can be found here.
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- Allowing parents to use tax credits, or empowerment scholarship accounts to enable children to attend any public, private, or home school.
- Legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
- Exploring a temporary guest worker program for foreign workers to those Arizona employers experiencing a labor shortage.
- Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
- Providing abortion providers with government funding.
- Placing a moratorium on the death penalty.
- Making the presence of undocumented immigrants in Arizona a state crime.
- Mandating healthcare providers to facilitate the distribution of “emergency contraception” (i.e., morning after pills).
- Providing an inflationary increase for the charitable organization tax credit which benefits organizations serving the working poor.
- Exempting religious employers from any abortifacient or contraceptive mandates that may violate the tenets of their faith.
| U.S. SENATE | Name | Party | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Ann Kirkpatrick | D | ||||||||||||
| Gary Swing | G | S | S | - | O | S | S | O | S | - | O | ||
| John McCain* | R | S | O | S | * | O | O | O | O | S | S | ||
| U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | Dist | Name | Party | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 1 | Tom O'Halleran | D | |||||||||||
| 1 | Ray Parrish | G | O | S | S | O | S | S | O | S | S | S | |
| 1 | Paul Babeu | R | |||||||||||
| 2 | Matt Heinz | D | |||||||||||
| 2 | Martha McSally | R | |||||||||||
| 3 | Raúl Grijalva | D | |||||||||||
| 4 | Mikel Weisser* | D | O | S | O | O | S | S | O | S | S | O* | |
| 4 | Paul Gosar | R | |||||||||||
| 5 | Talia Fuentes | D | |||||||||||
| 5 | Andy Biggs* | R | S | O | O* | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 6 | W. John Williamson | D | |||||||||||
| 6 | David Schweikert | R | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 7 | Ruben Gallego | D | |||||||||||
| 7 | Eve Nunez | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | O | O | O | S | |
| 8 | Mark Salazar | G | |||||||||||
| 8 | Trent Franks* | R | S | O | * | S | O | O | * | O | S | S | |
| 9 | Kyrsten Sinema | D | |||||||||||
| 9 | Dave Giles | R | S | O | - | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| CORPORATION COMMISSION | Name | Party | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Tom Chabin | D | ||||||||||||
| William "Bill" Mundell | D | ||||||||||||
| Robert "Bob" Burns | R | S | O | S | - | O | O | S | O | S | S | ||
| Boyd Dunn | R | S | O | S | S | O | S | O | O | S | S | ||
| Andy Tobin | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | ||
| ARIZONA STATE SENATE | Dist | Name | Party | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 1 | Karen Fann | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 2 | Andrea Dalessandro | D | |||||||||||
| 2 | Shelley Kais* | R | S | O | S | * | O | S | * | O | * | S | |
| 3 | Olivia Cajero Bedford | D | |||||||||||
| 4 | Lisa Otondo | D | |||||||||||
| 5 | Sonny Borrelli | R | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 6 | Nikki Check Bagley | D | |||||||||||
| 6 | Sylvia Tenney Allen | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 7 | Jamescita Peshlakai | D | |||||||||||
| 8 | Barbara McGuire | D | |||||||||||
| 8 | Frank Pratt | R | |||||||||||
| 9 | Steve Farley | D | |||||||||||
| 10 | David Bradley* | D | * | S | S | O | S | S | O | S | O | S* | |
| 10 | Randall Phelps | R | |||||||||||
| 11 | Ralph Atchue | D | |||||||||||
| 11 | Steve Smith* | R | S | O | O* | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 12 | Elizabeth Brown | D | |||||||||||
| 12 | Warren Petersen | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 13 | Steve Montenegro* | R | S | O | * | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 14 | Jaime Alvarez | D | |||||||||||
| 14 | Gail Griffin* | R | S | O | S | O | O | O | S* | O | S | S | |
| 15 | Tonya K. Macbeth | D | |||||||||||
| 15 | Nancy Barto | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 16 | Scott Prior | D | |||||||||||
| 16 | David Christian Farnsworth | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 17 | Steve Weichert | D | |||||||||||
| 17 | Steve Yarbrough | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 18 | Sean Bowie | D | |||||||||||
| 18 | Frank Schmuck* | R | S | O | S | * | O | O* | O* | O | S | S | |
| 19 | Lupe Chavira Contreras | D | |||||||||||
| 20 | Larry Herrera | D | |||||||||||
| 20 | Doug "Q" Quelland | I | |||||||||||
| 20 | Kimberley Yee | R | S | O | - | S | O | O | - | O | S | S | |
| 21 | Debbie Lesko* | R | S | O | S | S | O | * | - | O | S | S | |
| 22 | Michael Muscato | D | |||||||||||
| 22 | Judy Burges* | R | S | O | S* | S | O | O | * | O | S | S | |
| 23 | John Kavanagh* | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S* | O | S | S | |
| 24 | Katie Hobbs | D | |||||||||||
| 25 | Bob Worsley | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | O | O | S | S | |
| 26 | Juan Jose Mendez | D | |||||||||||
| 27 | Catherine Miranda | D | |||||||||||
| 27 | Angel Torres | G | |||||||||||
| 28 | Eric Meyer | D | |||||||||||
| 28 | Kate Brophy McGee* | R | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | |
| 29 | Martín Quezada | D | |||||||||||
| 29 | Crystal Nuttle | R | |||||||||||
| 30 | Robert Meza | D | |||||||||||
| 30 | John Lyon | R | |||||||||||
| ARIZONA STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | Dist | Name | Party | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 1 | Peter Pierson | D | |||||||||||
| 1 | Haryaksha Gregor Knauer | G | |||||||||||
| 1 | Noel Campbell | R | |||||||||||
| 1 | David Stringer | R | |||||||||||
| 2 | Rosanna Gabaldãn | D | |||||||||||
| 2 | Daniel Hernandez | D | |||||||||||
| 2 | John Christopher Ackerley* | R | * | O | * | * | O | S | O | O | S | S | |
| 3 | Sally Ann Gonzales | D | |||||||||||
| 3 | Macario Saldate | D | |||||||||||
| 3 | Edward J. "Trey" Cizek III* | G | O* | S* | O* | O | S | S* | O | S | S* | O | |
| 4 | Charlene R. Fernandez | D | |||||||||||
| 4 | Jesus Rubalcava | D | |||||||||||
| 5 | Beth Weisser | D | |||||||||||
| 5 | Leo Biasiucci | G | |||||||||||
| 5 | Regina Cobb | R | |||||||||||
| 5 | Paul Mosley | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | O | O | S | S | |
| 6 | Alex Martinez | D | |||||||||||
| 6 | Brenda Barton | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 6 | Bob Thorpe | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 7 | Wenona Benally | D | |||||||||||
| 7 | Eric Descheenie | D | |||||||||||
| 8 | Carmen Casillas | D | |||||||||||
| 8 | David Cook | R | |||||||||||
| 8 | Thomas "T.J." Shope | R | |||||||||||
| 9 | Randall "Randy" Friese | D | |||||||||||
| 9 | Pamela Powers Hannley | D | |||||||||||
| 9 | Ana Henderson | R | |||||||||||
| 10 | Kirsten Engel | D | |||||||||||
| 10 | Stefanie Mach | D | |||||||||||
| 10 | Todd Clodfelter* | R | S* | S | S | O | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 11 | Corin Hammond | D | |||||||||||
| 11 | Mark Finchem* | R | S | O | S | S | O | O* | S | O | S | S | |
| 11 | Vendon "Vince" Leach | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | |
| 12 | Eddie Farnsworth | R | |||||||||||
| 12 | Travis Grantham | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 13 | Iisha Graves | D | |||||||||||
| 13 | Darin Mitchell | R | |||||||||||
| 13 | Don Shooter | R | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 14 | Mike Holmes | D | |||||||||||
| 14 | Jason Lindstrom | D | |||||||||||
| 14 | Drew John | R | S | O | S | S | O | - | O | O | S | S | |
| 14 | Becky Nutt | R | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 15 | Brandon Dwyer | D | |||||||||||
| 15 | John Allen | R | |||||||||||
| 15 | Heather Carter | R | |||||||||||
| 16 | Cara Prior | D | |||||||||||
| 16 | Sharon Stinard | D | |||||||||||
| 16 | Doug Coleman | R | |||||||||||
| 16 | Kelly Townsend | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 17 | Jennifer Pawlik | D | |||||||||||
| 17 | J.D. Mesnard | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 17 | Jeff Weninger | R | S | O | S | O | O | O | - | O | S | S | |
| 18 | Denise "Mitzi" Epstein | D | |||||||||||
| 18 | Linda Macias | G | |||||||||||
| 18 | Jill Norgaard | R | S | O | S | S | O | S | O | O | S | S | |
| 18 | Bob Robson | R | |||||||||||
| 19 | Mark Cardenas | D | |||||||||||
| 19 | Diego Espinoza | D | O | S | S | O | S | S | O | S | S | O | |
| 20 | Christopher "Chris" Gilfillan | D | |||||||||||
| 20 | Paul Boyer | R | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 20 | Anthony Kern* | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S* | O | S | S | |
| 21 | Deanna Rasmussen-Lacotta* | D | S* | S | S | O | S | S | O | S | S | O | |
| 21 | Kevin Payne | R | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 21 | Tony Rivero | R | |||||||||||
| 22 | Manuel Hernandez | D | S | O | S | S | O | S | O | O | S | O | |
| 22 | David Livingston | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 22 | Phil Lovas | R | |||||||||||
| 23 | Tammy Caputi | D | |||||||||||
| 23 | Jay Lawrence | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 23 | Michelle Ugenti-Rita | R | |||||||||||
| 24 | Lela Alston | D | |||||||||||
| 24 | Ken Clark | D | |||||||||||
| 25 | Kathleen Rahn | D | |||||||||||
| 25 | Russell W. "Rusty" Bowers | R | S | O | S | S | O | O | S | O | S | S | |
| 25 | Michelle Udall | R | |||||||||||
| 26 | Isela Blanc | D | |||||||||||
| 26 | Athena Salman | D | |||||||||||
| 26 | Cara Nicole Trujillo | G | |||||||||||
| 26 | Steven Adkins | R | |||||||||||
| 27 | Reginald Bolding | D | |||||||||||
| 27 | Rebecca Rios | D | |||||||||||
| 28 | Kelli Butler | D | |||||||||||
| 28 | Mary Hamway | R | |||||||||||
| 28 | Maria Syms | R | |||||||||||
| 29 | Richard C. Andrade | D | |||||||||||
| 29 | Cesar Chavez | D | S | O | S | O | O | S | O | O | S | O | |
| 29 | John Wilson | R | |||||||||||
| 30 | Ray Martinez | D | |||||||||||
| 30 | Otoniel "Tony" Navarrete | D | |||||||||||
| 30 | Gary Leon Cox* | R | S | O | S | S | O | * | S | O | S | S | |
