Loy Mauch

David Loy Mauch (born April 7, 1952) is a Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 26, based primarily in Hot Spring County in central Arkansas. At the time of his election in 2010, he was a resident of Bismarck.[1] Mauch is a former bullrider and cable splicer for Southwestern Bell and AT&T.[2]

Loy Mauch
Arkansas State Representative for
District 26 (Hot Spring and Garland counties)
In office
January 10, 2011 – January 10, 2013
Preceded byMike Burris
Succeeded byDavid Kizzia
Personal details
Born
David Loy Mauch

(1952-04-07) April 7, 1952
Arkansas, USA
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Lisa, Cassie Hardy, Brenda Hosey
Residence(s)Bismarck, Hot Spring County
Arkansas

Mauch was elected in the 2010 Arkansas elections, having received 53.5 percent of the 7,531 ballots cast. He succeeded Democrat Mike Burris, who did not run again due to term limits.[1] Mauch was defeated by Democrat David Kizzia in the November 6, 2012 general election.[3]

On January 28, 2014, Mauch testified at a hearing at a committee meeting regarding a law that would separate the joint holiday honoring civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Mauch spoke in support of Lee, saying Lee had "committed no crimes, broke no laws, and violated no part of the Constitution...the historically uneducated continue to denigrate him with their false accusations." The law did not pass.[4]

Political views

Mauch, a neo-Confederate, is a member of the League of the South and was an unit commander for the Sons of Confederate Veterans until 2009.[5]

Mauch believes, among other things, that Abraham Lincoln should not be honored in Arkansas and that the Confederate flag is a symbol of Jesus Christ and biblical government. Mauch is a supporter of the Tea Party movement.[1] Mauch is a prolific writer of letters to the editor to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In these letters he compared Abraham Lincoln and Northern generals to Nazis, war criminals and communists and wrote that slavery couldn't have been that bad because "Jesus and Paul never condemned it".[6]

References
  1. Koon, David (November 11, 2010). "The South shall rise again". Arkansas Times.
  2. Brumett, John. "Loy Mauch: insurgency's outer limit". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  3. "Arkansas State General Election November 6, 2012". Little Rock, Arkansas: Secretary of State of Arkansas. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  4. Brantley, Max (2015-01-28). "The charge of the Lee brigade on change in Lee/King holiday law; bill defeated". Arkansas Times. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  5. "Electoral Extremism: 23 Candidates On The Radical Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. February 23, 2011. Archived from the original on September 9, 2023.
  6. "Loy Mauch update: The Republican rep is on record on slavery, too". Arkansas Blog. Arkansas Times. October 6, 2012.
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