Adam Stevens

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Adam Stevens
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Adam Stevens was a 2016 Republican candidate for District 16 of the Arizona House of Representatives. He ran unsuccessfully for the same seat in 2014.

Campaign themes

2016

Stevens' campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Jobs and Economic Growth:

  • Government does not create jobs! There is no substitute for a strong and vibrant free market based economy. As your representative, I will work with private businesses to make it easier to: develop our natural resources, expand farming opportunities, create manufacturing jobs, start businesses and grow our retail and service based economy, which will provide growth and stability for you and Arizona. I will also work to ensure that Arizona has the infrastructure it needs for today and the future. No economy or community can grow if it doesn’t have the infrastructure to support it. Arizona is a top destination state for people to come and live; now we should lead the country in job creation and economic prosperity.

Education:

  • We must develop a system that focuses on the individual learning and success of our children. Parents need to have real choices when it comes to their children’s education and teachers can’t be held down by politically motivated school boards and administrators. As your representative, I will take on the many obstacles that stand in the way of our children getting the quality education they need to succeed. For decades we have spent more and more money per child on education and the results have gotten worse. It is time to hold those who broke our education system responsible and let them know that Arizona will no longer pay for failure. We must have higher expectations if our children and grandchildren are to have the future we wan

Supporting Law Enforcement:

  • We cannot expect to have safe communities unless we support local, county, and state law enforcement agencies. Arizona must streamline the process for law enforcement to get the tools they need to keep us safe. We should not ask our law enforcement agencies to go into harm’s way without giving them what they tell us they need.

Tax and Budget Reform:

  • It is not the job of the people to pay for irresponsible government spending. We must create a state budget built on the principles of limited government, respecting the taxpayer, understanding that private programs are better than government programs, and that taxes should be low to stimulate investment and growth. Arizona must develop a conservative tax system that eliminates the capital gains tax and sets other tax rates to levels that do not punish the hard working people of Arizona. We can grow with a low tax paying, broad tax payer base. Continuing to grow government and expecting the people to pay the bill, regardless, must stop. As we have seen in our country and around the world, an out of control government will collapse, bankrupt the people, and leave everyone less free.

Welfare Reform:

  • There is no better welfare program than a job. The culture of welfare dependency, promoted by the Progressive Liberals, must stop. Arizona should work with private businesses and organizations to create opportunities to get people off of welfare and back to work. It is fundamentally wrong to pay someone to do nothing when they are capable of helping themselves. We must insist on and fight for real welfare reform. We can’t irresponsibly spend people’s money because Washington DC mandates that we must. Welfare should no longer be a way of life but a small hand up to help people access better opportunities where they can help themselves.[1]
 ”
—Adam Stevens, [2]

Elections

2016

See also: Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Arizona House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 30, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016.[3]

Incumbent Kelly Townsend and incumbent Doug Coleman defeated Sharon Stinard and Cara Prior in the Arizona House of Representatives District 16 general election.[4][5]

Arizona House of Representatives, District 16 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Kelly Townsend Incumbent 33.58% 51,466
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Doug Coleman Incumbent 33.48% 51,312
     Democratic Sharon Stinard 16.91% 25,912
     Democratic Cara Prior 16.04% 24,581
Total Votes 153,271
Source: Arizona Secretary of State


Cara Prior and Sharon Stinard were unopposed in the Arizona House of Representatives District 16 Democratic Primary.[6]

Arizona House of Representatives, District 16 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Cara Prior
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Sharon Stinard


Incumbent Doug Coleman and incumbent Kelly Townsend defeated John Fillmore and Adam Stevens in the Arizona House of Representatives District 16 Republican Primary.[7]

Arizona House of Representatives, District 16 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Doug Coleman Incumbent 29.82% 10,635
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Kelly Townsend Incumbent 34.17% 12,188
     Republican John Fillmore 19.17% 6,838
     Republican Adam Stevens 16.84% 6,006
Total Votes 35,667

2014

See also: Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for the Arizona House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on August 26, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was May 28, 2014. Cara Prior was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Incumbents Doug Coleman and Kelly Townsend defeated John Fillmore and Adam Stevens in the Republican primary. Coleman and Townsend defeated Prior in the general election.[8][9][10][11]

Arizona House of Representatives District 16, General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngDoug Coleman Incumbent 39.6% 28,908
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngKelly Townsend Incumbent 38.8% 28,300
     Democratic Cara Prior 21.6% 15,792
Total Votes 73,000


Arizona House of Representatives, District 16 Republican Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngKelly Townsend Incumbent 38.3% 12,035
Green check mark transparent.pngDoug Coleman Incumbent 28.1% 8,826
John Fillmore 21.8% 6,856
Adam Stevens 11.8% 3,724
Total Votes 31,441

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Adam for AZ, "Issues," accessed August 17, 2016
  3. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Elections Calendar & Upcoming Events," accessed January 11, 2016
  4. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "General election ," accessed September 9, 2016
  5. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "2016 official general election results," accessed November 11, 2016
  6. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "2016 Election Information - Primary Candidate List," accessed June 3, 2016
  7. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "2016 Election Information - Primary Candidate List," accessed June 3, 2016
  8. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Official primary election results," accessed August 27, 2014
  9. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "2014 Primary Election," May 27, 2014
  10. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Official general election candidate list," accessed September 11, 2014
  11. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Official general election results," accessed August 3, 2015


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