Janice Arnold-Jones
Janice Arnold-Jones (Republican Party) was a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, representing District 24.
Arnold-Jones (Republican Party) ran for election to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner to represent District 1. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Arnold-Jones served in the New Mexico House of Representatives, representing District 24 from 2003 to 2011. She was a candidate for Governor of New Mexico in 2010.
Biography
Arnold-Jones received a bachelor's degree in speech communications from the University of New Mexico in 1974. After becoming active in several community organizations, including Boy Scouts of America and the PTA, Arnold-Jones was elected to the state legislature in 2002 and served four terms there. She also worked in the private sector as a small business owner and contractor to Sandia National Laboratories. She received the William S. Dixon Freedom Award by the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: New Mexico Public Regulation Commission election, 2020
General election
General election for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission District 1
Incumbent Cynthia Hall defeated Janice Arnold-Jones in the general election for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Cynthia Hall (D) | 59.3 | 119,332 | |
| Janice Arnold-Jones (R) | 40.7 | 81,952 | ||
| Total votes: 201,284 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission District 1
Incumbent Cynthia Hall advanced from the Democratic primary for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission District 1 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Cynthia Hall | 100.0 | 50,151 | |
| Total votes: 50,151 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission District 1
Janice Arnold-Jones advanced from the Republican primary for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission District 1 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Janice Arnold-Jones | 100.0 | 28,406 | |
| Total votes: 28,406 | ||||
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House New Mexico District 1
Debra Haaland defeated Janice Arnold-Jones and Lloyd Princeton in the general election for U.S. House New Mexico District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Debra Haaland (D) | 59.1 | 147,336 | |
| Janice Arnold-Jones (R) | 36.3 | 90,507 | ||
| Lloyd Princeton (L) | 4.5 | 11,319 | ||
| Total votes: 249,162 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 1
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 1 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Debra Haaland | 40.6 | 25,444 | |
| Damon Martinez | 25.8 | 16,182 | ||
| Antoinette Sedillo Lopez | 20.6 | 12,919 | ||
| Paul Moya | 5.9 | 3,691 | ||
| Patrick Davis | 3.8 | 2,385 | ||
| Damian Lara | 3.3 | 2,063 | ||
| Total votes: 62,684 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Abrams (D)
- John Flores (D)
- Jesse Heitner (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 1
Janice Arnold-Jones advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 1 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Janice Arnold-Jones | 100.0 | 19,316 | |
| Total votes: 19,316 | ||||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 1
Lloyd Princeton advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 1 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Lloyd Princeton | 100.0 | 244 | |
| Total votes: 244 | ||||
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2012
Arnold-Jones ran for the U.S. House in 2012. She was unopposed in the June 5, 2012, Republican primary and was defeated by Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) in the November 6, 2012, general election.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Michelle Lujan Grisham |
59.1% | 162,924 | |
| Republican | Janice Arnold-Jones | 40.8% | 112,473 | |
| Write-In | Jeanne Pahls | 0.2% | 459 | |
| Total Votes | 275,856 | |||
| Source: New Mexico Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
2010
Arnold-Jones did not seek re-election to the 24th District in 2010. She instead ran for governor, losing in the primary.
| 2010 Race for Governor - Republican Primary[3][4] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Percentage | |||
 Susana Martinez (R)
|
50.71% | |||
| Allen Weh (R) | 27.58% | |||
| Doug Turner (R) | 11.56% | |||
| Pete V. Dominici, Jr. (R) | 7.06% | |||
| Janice Arnold-Jones (R) | 3.06% | |||
| Total votes | 122,269 | |||
2008
On November 4, 2008, Arnold-Jones won re-election to the 24th District Seat in the New Mexico House of Representatives. Arnold-Jones had no challenger.[5]
Polls
| Michelle Lujan Grisham vs Janice Arnold-Jones | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Poll | Grisham | Arnold-Jones | Margin of error | Sample size | |||||||||||||||
| ABQ Journal (October 30,2012) | 51% | 36% | +/-- | - | |||||||||||||||
| Note: The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org. | |||||||||||||||||||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Janice Arnold-Jones participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 7, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Janice Arnold-Jones's responses follow below.[6]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | Jobs & the Economy including Agriculture & Healthcare
National Security including a national Defense, Cyber Security & Immigration policy |
” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Process! Having served for eight years in the New Mexico Legislature, I saw the flag of "accountability" carried high, but the reality was the processes that were instituted made a joke out the pledge of accountability. Laws, regulation, procurement and process must work for the governed as well as the government. Lawmakers must ask, why this process? What benefit is gained by one process over another? At no time should citizens be asked to file (especially paper) a report that no one reads! Equally, as important, when citizens must interact with the government, being passed around an agency only to end up with the first person you talked to and no resolution, especially as policy, is unacceptable. The VA, IRS and Social Security are particularly guilty of this practice.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[8]
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” |
Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Janice Arnold-Jones answered the following:
Is there a book, essay, film, or something else that best describes your political philosophy?
| “ | A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.[8] | ” |
| “ | Be honest. Tell the truth. Understand that “what you see depends on where you sit”. Good policy makers seek many perspectives to make the best policy, and you must seek out the opinions of those with whom you may (or fear) disagree.[8] | ” |
| “ | Most important is listening, combined with preparation and reading the legislation.[8] | ” |
| “ | Fulfilling duties prescribed by the Constitution, listening to Constituents to solve problems at the national level, serving as the ombudsman (constituent services) for Constituents as they interface with the Federal government, working with the Congressional Delegation, State and Local leaders for the benefit our State and Nation.[8] | ” |
| “ | U2 incident, 1960. 8 years old.[8] | ” |
| “ | Evening shift at local Taco Bell, almost two years.[8] | ” |
| “ | The Joy of Words, a gift from my mother on my 12th birthday. It is a compilation of poetry, essays and quotes that span time and genre[8] | ” |
| “ | Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen[8] | ” |
| “ | Historically, it is the People’s House, because of direct election and to act on the will of the people. It is responsible for originating revenue bills and has the exclusive power to initiate impeachment proceedings.[8] | ” |
| “ | Yes. Being familiar with the process of creating, passing or repealing legislation, the committee process, and the ability to inform and persuade colleagues, shortens the time required to be an effective representative.[8] | ” |
| “ | Adjusting for an aging population and the impact of technology that will continue to change the way we work.[8] | ” |
| “ | Agriculture, Budget, Ways and Means, Space, Science and Technology[8] | ” |
| “ | Any change in the term of service requires a Constitutional Amendment. As technology has changed the way we communicate; voters are showing signs of voter fatigue. Therefore, four years for the House and six years for the Senate would provide relief to voters and a reasonable amount of time for Representatives to become effective.[8] | ” |
| “ | Any attempt to limit terms other than by the ballot box must be accompanied by equal term limits on ALL professional staff![8] | ” |
2012
According to her website, some of Arnold-Jones' campaign priorities were:[9]
- Jobs & The Economy -- changing regulations
- Government Spending & Debt -- ending bailouts
- Energy -- drilling domestically
- Foundational Issues -- covering gun ownership and marriage
- Social Security -- maintaining funding for the program
- National Security -- funding military bases and missions
Transparency
In January 2009, Arnold-Jones set up a website to stream live video and audio over the Internet from the two committees she served on: Taxation and Revenue and Voters and Elections.[10]
She received the Lights of Liberty award from the Rio Grande Foundation, a New Mexico think tank, for spearheading the use of webcams in the New Mexico legislature. She won the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government's 2010 William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award for her efforts to force the Legislature to webcast its proceedings.[11]
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Janice for Congress, "Janice," accessed March 5, 2018
- ↑ Associated Press, "New Mexico - Summary Vote Results," June 6, 2012
- ↑ New Mexico Secretary of State, "2010 Primary Election Results," accessed December 18, 2014
- ↑ New Mexico Secretary of State, "2010 General Election Results," accessed December 18, 2014
- ↑ New Mexico Secretary of State, "Official 2008 General Election Results," accessed April 15, 2014
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Janice Arnold-Jones's responses," May 7, 2018
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Janice Arnold-Jones campaign website, "Issues," accessed February 27, 2012
- ↑ Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics, "Dragging the Legislature into the 21st Century," January 22, 2009
- ↑ NMPolitics, "Arnold-Jones wins open government award," April 6, 2010
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