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Candidate Background
Candidacy
Graduate education: Creighton Boyne School of Dentistry
Paul Gosar grew up in Wyoming and currently lives in Flagstaff, Ariz. He went to college in Nebraska and the Creighton Boyne School of Dentistry.
He has owned his own dentistry practice for 25 years in Flagstaff and has been active in various dental groups and charities.
He has never held political office, but began considering running for Congress in recent years as his concern with the direction of government increased.
Gosar and his wife, Maude, have three children.
Profile
Paul Gosar is making his first run for political office, and has reached out to the tea party movement for support. He beat the establishment candidate, Sydney Hay, in the 2010 primary to win the Republican nomination for Arizona's 1st Congressional District.
Gosar is a dentist who wants less government interference in small business, and lower taxes. He is anti-abortion and believes life starts at conception. He opposed health care reform and the cap and trade bill, believing that the way the legislation was passed was wrong. He supports a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period between when a law is introduced and when it can be voted upon.
He is against amnesty for illegal immigrants, wants to secure the border and supports Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants. He has been endorsed by Sarah Palin and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
He wants the 14th Amendment changed to stop children of illegal immigrants from automatically becoming citizens.
He also wants to see Congress pass a balanced-budget amendment.
Campaigns
Paul Gosar beat the establishment candidate, Sydney Hay, in the 2010 primary to win the Republican nomination for Arizona's 1st Congressional District. He faces incumbent Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in the November 2010 election.
This is his first run for public office. He has reached out to the tea party movement for support.
(Last updated by Bob Christie on September 14, 2010.)
