Justin Johnson

Johnson, Justin (Democrat)

Phone: (602) 722-9690

Email: justin@johnson4arizona.com

Website: www.johnson4arizona.com

3049 W. Corrine Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85029

(Mail: 5125 N. 16th St., Ste B226, Phoenix, AZ 85016)

Age: 29 (1/16/81, Phoenix, AZ).

Arizona since: Birth.

Occupation: Small business owner, Old World Communities, since 2005.

Marital: Married (Lauren Booth, sales).

Children: 1.

Religious preference: Christian.

Education: B.A., economics, Occidental College, 2004.

Memberships have included: North Mountain Village, Phoenix Parks Foundation, Valley Leadership, ASU Downtown Board of Advisors.

Interests: Basketball, my family.

Issues:

Political influence: My father, Paul Johnson. I admired that while he was in one of the most overwhelming positions, running for office, he always put aside time for his family.

Budget recommendations: Voter approved bonding for public structures, including school structures, consolidation of school districts and entitlement reform.

Other concerns: I have three: creating jobs, bettering our public education system, and creating a non-partisan legislature.

Fiscal philosophy: We will not fix our state budget unless we adjust the broader state economy. Today, we are not competitive in attracting and/or expanding export industries.

Background & experience: I run and manage my own business, work on several local government committees, and have been directly and indirectly involved politically since I was a boy and my dad was in office.

Prop. 100 sales tax: The Legislature had many choices and only gave us one. While I voted for Prop. 100, which was predicated on the threat that the Legislature would decimate our public education system, I would have worked internally to utilize the tax to diversify our economy, reform government, and implement some entitlement reforms. I also think the leaders of Arizona should have had the courage to make this decision internally instead of pushing this burden onto voters.

Pro-life/pro-choice: I am pro-choice, but I believe in some limitations such as late-term abortions and parental notification.

One last thing: Our partisan primary system and separation in the Legislature has promoted extremism and division and punished people for being moderate and working together regardless of party affiliation. This system has driven people to lose faith in the system, and the most important change we can make to fix this would be to adopt a non-partisan election system and a non-partisan Legislature.

Campaign Finance: private.