Noran Ruden
Noran Ruden (Republican Party) (also known as Eric) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on August 4, 2020.
Ruden completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020
Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 4 Republican primary)
Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Arizona District 2
Incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick defeated Brandon Martin, Iman-Utopia Layjou Bah, and Brandon Schlass in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ann Kirkpatrick (D) | 55.1 | 209,945 |
 | Brandon Martin (R) | 44.9 | 170,975 | |
 | Iman-Utopia Layjou Bah (Independent) (Write-in)  | 0.0 | 99 | |
 | Brandon Schlass (Common Sense Moderate) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 35 | |
| Total votes: 381,054 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2
Incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick defeated Peter Quilter in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ann Kirkpatrick | 76.3 | 77,517 |
 | Peter Quilter | 23.7 | 24,035 | |
| Total votes: 101,552 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Nevin Kohler (D)
- Andres Portela (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2
Brandon Martin defeated Noran Ruden, Joseph Morgan, and Jordan Flayer in the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 2 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brandon Martin | 42.5 | 31,730 |
 | Noran Ruden | 33.6 | 25,049 | |
 | Joseph Morgan | 23.9 | 17,802 | |
| Jordan Flayer (Write-in) | 0.1 | 52 | |
| Total votes: 74,633 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mike Boyd (R)
- Justine Wadsack (R)
- Mike Ligon (R)
- Shay Stautz (R)
- Jason Bacon (R)
- James Schmidt (R)
Candidate profile
Party: Republican Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "I am a third-generation Tucsonan and love Southern Arizona: the weather, the culture, and most of all the people. I own two successful businesses including a Pest Control firm and an Indoor Sports Facility. For 10 years I volunteered as a coach helping high school kids reach their collegiate dreams. My education includes a Bachelor's degree in Business Management. Like most Southern Arizonans, my family was hardworking but far from wealthy. I started from the bottom. My big break was a job for $6.00 an hour in the pest control industry. With a strong work ethic, I advanced rapidly and became Vice President of a local company managing more than 100 people. Eventually, I leveraged that success into buying my own company. The challenges were numerous: rising health care, surviving a deep recession, burdensome government regulations, and providing for my employees. I believe my experiences as a struggling young person, business owner, coach, and volunteer have prepared me to serve. I bring a variety of skills to the table: a strong work ethic, problem-solving, mentoring, negotiating, and advocating for hard-working people. Most of all, I can understand complex problems, simplify them, and come up with practical common-sense solutions."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Arizona District 2 in 2020.
Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Noran Ruden completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ruden's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a third-generation Tucsonan and love Southern Arizona: the weather, the culture, and most of all the people. I own two successful businesses including a Pest Control firm and an Indoor Sports Facility. For 10 years I volunteered as a coach helping high school kids reach their collegiate dreams. My education includes a Bachelor's degree in Business Management.
Like most Southern Arizonans, my family was hardworking but far from wealthy. I started from the bottom. My big break was a job for $6.00 an hour in the pest control industry. With a strong work ethic, I advanced rapidly and became Vice President of a local company managing more than 100 people.
Eventually, I leveraged that success into buying my own company. The challenges were numerous: rising health care, surviving a deep recession, burdensome government regulations, and providing for my employees.
I believe my experiences as a struggling young person, business owner, coach, and volunteer have prepared me to serve. I bring a variety of skills to the table: a strong work ethic, problem-solving, mentoring, negotiating, and advocating for hard-working people. Most of all, I can understand complex problems, simplify them, and come up with practical common-sense solutions.
Restore our Economy - Jobs and businesses need to rebound to support our Private & Public Sectors.
Fix Social Security & Medicare for Future Generations
Prioritize Southern Arizona's economy - Trade with Mexico, sustainable jobs, and workforce development.
Budgets and Fiscal Planning. All government actions require funding and some form of monetary transaction. Strong fiscal planning is critical to making good policy. With a proven business background and strong work ethic, I can responsibly represent Southern Arizona.
To work hard on behalf of the constituents. To be present at all votes, be informed on the subject matter, and to vigorously participate in negotiations to pass good legislation. Representatives need to be accountable to the community. Meet with stakeholders regularly and understand the needs of the public. Being accessible, responsive, and compassionate are critical to being able to represent our community.
I bring a variety of skills to the table. I have a strong work ethic, problem-solver, strong negotiator, and will advocate for hard-working people.
Core responsibilities include being accountable, accessible, and active. Engaging in debate, present at votes, meeting with constituents, and most importantly working hard every day on behalf of Southern Arizona.
To serve my constituents with integrity. Knowing that every day I have served them to the best of my ability and be remembered as a community first guy.
I started working at the age of 14. On weekends I would clean abandon houses for the Veterans Administration. Tasks included restoring overgrow yards, cleaning abandoned waste and materials from inside, and dipping out water and sludge from abandoned pools. Not a glamourous job, but paid well. Helped establish a strong work ethic, no matter the difficulty of the task.
Animal Farm - A simple read, but a powerful message. Good intentions of better governance can be trampled by power and greed. It serves as a reminder to uphold my core values against outside temptations.
I started in life with nothing. Experienced the struggles of everyday American's, realizing life can be inherently unfair. I have worked my way up from the bottom to being a successful entrepreneur. I know what life is like across the economic spectrum and will use those experiences to create good policy that helps hard-working people.
The House of Representatives should represent the voice of the people. Compassionate understanding of our constituents and creating good policy that helps the majority of Americans. It is imperative to set aside our personal agendas for the betterment of the public good.
A political career is not a prerequisite to serve in the House of Representatives. House members should represent the community. To live, work, and be a part of the community. To understand the public needs and work hard for the residents we serve. I have served my home town as a businessman, volunteer, activist, and coach. I lived in Southern Arizona my entire life and understand the needs of my community.
Our biggest problem in the short term will be getting the economy moving forward after the impact of covid-19. Long term our government is going to experience a budget crisis. Social Security & Medicare trust funds face insolvency, we have been incapable of passing a budget or even agreeing upon the most basic of issues that should be non-partisan.
I want to help reform and improve our fiscal spending and promote sound budgetary principles that help our government work effectively. I believe I can make a difference serving on the Appropriations Committee or the Budget Committee.
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See also
2020 Elections
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