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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. Mauch resides in Bismarck in Hot Spring County.
His district included a corner of Garland County, the seat of which is Hot Springs.
The district contains the city of Malvern. He succeeded the term-limited Democrat Mike Burris.
Bracy said that he was unaware of Mauch"s Confederate sympathies at the time of their campaign. 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".
Mauch was defeated by Democrat David Kizzia in the November 6, 2012 general election. On January 28, 2014, Mauch testified at a hearing at a committee meeting to decide to proceed with a law that would separate the holidays honoring Martin Luther King, Junior., and Robert East. Lee. Mauch stated that Lee had committed no crimes, violated no laws and violated no part of the Constitution.
Thereafter saying: "the historically uneducated continue to denigrate (Lee) with their false accusations."
Mauch is a former bullrider and cable splicer for Southwestern Bell and American Telephone & Telegraph Company.
