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MEET AUSTIN
Austin Smith is a proud 5th-Generation Arizonan. Growing up in LD-29, he became a National FFA Award recipient and an All-State award-winning football player at Millennium High School. Working in the agriculture industry on ranches and farms across Arizona, he saw firsthand how devastating an out-of-control government can be to water, business, and freedom. This led him to become involved with grassroots activism as early as the 2014 midterms. Beginning in 2016, Austin joined a young team of Conservative Activists led by Charlie Kirk and helped convince Charlie to move Turning Point USA’s headquarters from Chicago to Phoenix. Turning Point would go on to create over 200 Arizona jobs thanks in large part to Austin’s insistence that the heart of the Youth Movement for Freedom & Free Markets be based in America’s next great Battleground State. After four years working directly under Charlie Kirk—one of America’s foremost conservative fighters—Austin helped him to run Students For Trump, a 501(c)4 project of Turning Point Action. In his capacity there as National Field Director, Austin organized a state-of-the-art effort, creating college chapters on over 300 campuses, amassing over 750,000 doors knocked—effectively reaching millions of voters with President Trump’s America First message. Following the 2020 election, while actively engaged in the grassroots effort to Audit the Vote in Maricopa County, Austin completed a robust offensive to recruit 1,000 Precinct Committeemen in Arizona, fighting every day to take back our state from the grips of tyrannical Democrat rule both here at home and in Washington DC. In the Arizona House of Representatives, he has one of the most consistent conservative voting records fighting for Arizonan's Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. An avid outdoorsman, golfer, and member of his church community, Austin spends what free time he has with his fiancee Amy, who he met at Turning Point USA, his mom Sabrina, dad Rick, and brother Troy enjoying the natural beauty of the state his family has called Home since 1908.
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AUSTIN: ON THE ISSUES
ELECTION INTEGRITY
What happened on November 3rd, 2020 in Maricopa County continues to be a national disgrace and embarrassment. Not only that, Austin believes it was criminal and will fight every day in the State Legislature to hold those responsible to account. America cannot expect to survive without public trust in such a basic democratic institution. In the legislature Austin supports mandatory voter ID, precinct based polling, and strengthening signature verification requirements. Austin has led the charge to permanently bank Ranked Choice Voting (Instant Run-Off Voting) and Jungle Primaries in Arizona. He is the chief sponsor of HCR2033 that will appear on the general election ballot in 2024 to amend Arizona's Constitution - officially banning the scheme known as Ranked Choice Voting. As a member of the Arizona Freedom Caucus and Municipal Oversight and Elections Committee in the House, Austin will continue to fight to protect our state’s 10th Amendment Right to facilitate and administer our own elections and work to hold those accountable that break Arizona election law.
CONSERVING ARIZONA WATER:
As Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, Energy and Water, Austin is a leader in enacting sound water conservation measurers that will sustain the Grand Canyon State for generations to come. In Arizona, water is the lifeblood of our very existence—and we cannot continue to inhabit Arizona without a strong roadmap that both protects our ever-important agricultural priorities and strengthens our suburban communities and businesses. Austin is working hard to ensure that Arizona water goes to Arizonan's first, not foreign countries.
ENDING LOCKDOWNS,
MANDATES & MEDICAL TYRANNY:
Two years ago, Chinese Communists engaged in the world’s greatest act of bioterrorism by unleashing COVID-19 from a lab in Wuhan. The American response to the virus laid bare the deepest tyrannical impulses of this nation’s so-called leaders. It is imperative for the survival of our civilization that we course correct immediately. In the legislature, Austin has supported bans on mandatory masking, outlawing the closure of Arizona schools & businesses, and—in accordance with the Supreme Court of the United States—criminalize any attempt to mandate the highly questionable & experimental COVID-19 vaccine. It’s far past time Arizonans are empowered to reject medical tyranny and stand for freedom, individual liberty, and bodily autonomy.
STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION
AND SECURING OUR BORDER:
America is being invaded by an unmanageable stream of illegal aliens. Unvetted, unaccounted for, and dangerous criminals are streaming across our Southern Border and Arizona is facing the brunt of this crisis at the expense of legal American citizens. Austin has co-sponsored legislation to designate the drug cartels as terrorist organizations. The completion of President Donald Trump’s Border Wall is critical to keeping our county, state and communities safe. Joe Biden is derelict in his duty to protect our nation. Until our border is secure, every town is a border town. Austin won’t rest until this invasion is stayed and our border is secure.
PROTECTING ARIZONA'S UNBORN:
Austin believes the Right to Life is a non-negotiable, intrinsic, and God-Given right—he always has and always will. Arizona is the greatest state in America and every child deserves the right to grow up here and live a long, successful life. Austin is an advocate for Arizona’s children by working with the legislature to protect life - from conception to natural death.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED:
Every Arizonan is entitled to their God-Given, non-negotiable, Second Amendment Right to self-defense outlined in the United States Constitution. Austin works every day to stem the will of authoritarians hellbent on disarming the people of this state, especially in the face of the Illegal Invasion and creeping government tyranny. He is a champion for the Second Amendment in our state's Capitol. Arizona has always been a national leader in gun rights, and with Austin’s bold and decisive leadership, it will stay that way for generations to come.
SAVING ARIZONA SCHOOLS:
For the last 115 years, Austin's family has raised generations of children in a free state that valued God, family, and country. Strong Arizona schools, who empowered strong families like Austin's, built a foundation of educational greatness for State 48. Arizona has led the nation on implementing effective school choice policies that shifted the power to parents and unshackled students from circumstances beyond their control. Austin believes that a Zip Code should never determine a child's future. Arizona's children belong to Arizona's parents—not the state, not the school boards, not the teacher's unions. In the legislature, Austin fights to strengthen policies that empower parents and build on our state's progress towards educational freedom for all children.
EMPOWERING ECONOMIC FREEDOM:
Growing up in Wittman, Austin knows for a fact that the people of LD-29 pour more blood, sweat, and tears into earning their pay than anywhere else in this state. And he believes that the people of Arizona know how to spend and save their hard-earned money better than any bureaucrat or politician at the Capitol could. Austin supports abolishing the Arizona State Income Tax, he’ll ensure you keep every penny you earn. By empowering Arizonans to make their own financial decisions, Austin will help make Arizona a continued top economic powerhouse in the United States.
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