Fighting for Freedom

Jonathan Paton has a rock solid record of standing up for our freedoms here in our community -- and on the battlefield. Jonathan doesn’t back down from a fight. He’s a reformer, who has fought against the forces of mediocrity, status quo and big government. Jonathan hasn’t just supported these efforts; he’s been a leader on them.

  • Jonathan wrote the nation’s first law to crack down on human smuggling -- a law that has already locked up more than 1,000 human smugglers.
  • Jonathan continuously challenged Janet Napolitano, most notably forcing her and state bureaucrats to open up secret Child Protective Services’ documents and admit they failed in protecting three Tucson children that died under the agency’s care.
  • Jonathan spearheaded the appointment of judges who will follow the constitution -- not their personal politics -- as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  • Jonathan sponsored the effort to let Arizonans vote this November on protecting our health coverage from a federal government run program.
  • Jonathan forced Tucson High School administrators to explain themselves at the Capitol and on “The O’Reilly Factor" after a union activist told students at the school that "Republicans hate Latinos."
  • Jonathan wrote the law to divest state investments from Iran after seeing first hand in Iraq the IEDs manufactured in that country to kill American soldiers.
  • Jonathan called out the Tucson city council for mismanagement of Rio Nuevo when no one else would, pushing laws to report government spending online.
  • Jonathan eliminated the state income tax for active duty military personnel, a $10 million tax cut for military families.
  • Jonathan supported both the largest tax cut in Arizona history as well as the largest cut to government spending the state has ever seen.
  • Jonathan was named a "Champion of the Taxpayer" in 2009 by the conservative group “Americans for Prosperity," a higher rating than any lawmaker in Southern Arizona.
  • Jonathan had more legislation passed into law to defend our freedoms than any other lawmaker in the state in 2009.