Mark Finchem, is a Republican party candidate and a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 11. He assumed office on January 12, 2015, and his current tenure ends on Jan 9, 2023. 

He is contesting for the Arizona Secretary of State in the 2022 US midterm elections. 

Who is Mark Finchem?

Mark Finchem is a far-right American politician who serves as District 11’s representative in the Arizona House of Representatives.

Finchem came into power and on January 9, 2023, his current term will expire. He is the Arizona Coordinator for the Coalition of the Western States, a group that supports the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and opposes the Black Lives Matter movement.

Finchem is running for office for the position of Arizona Secretary of State. Finchem, who was raised in the Midwest and was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School in 1975.

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He then received his A.A. in criminal justice from Kalamazoo Valley Community College in 1984 after completing the Southwest Michigan Regional Police Academy in 1982.  

In 2019, he earned a degree in government from Grand Canyon University with a focus on state and local policy.

After 21 years of service with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, Finchem retired in 1999. After that, he relocated to Tucson, Arizona, where he worked for a software producer, rising to senior management until turning into a real estate broker in 2008. Finchem was employed at Clean Power Technologies LLC as an energy policy analyst as of August 2019.

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He is known to be involved in a number of controversies as well including the QAnon conspiracy theory group. The group is basically the name for a series of online conspiracy theories that falsely claim that a group of paedophiles who worship Satan rule the world. 

Not only that but Finchem has always been a staunch supporter of Trump’s irrational claims of election rigging.

He identified himself as a member of the extremist organisation Oath Keepers in 2014, which was responsible for the attack on the US Capitol on January 6. Donald Trump recently posted on his Truth Social website endorsing Finchem. He posted, “Mark is tough, strong, and he loves his state”.