Daniel Butierez

Daniel Butierez

Republican Party

Candidate, U.S. House Arizona District 7

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Next election

September 23, 2025

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Tucson, Ariz.

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Catholic

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Contractor

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Daniel Butierez (Republican Party) is running in a special election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 7th Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the special general election on September 23, 2025. He advanced from the special Republican primary on July 15, 2025.

Biography

Daniel Butierez was born in Tucson, Arizona. His career experience includes working as a contractor and construction worker.

Elections

2025

See also: Arizona's 7th Congressional District special election, 2025

General election

Special general election for U.S. House Arizona District 7

The following candidates are running in the special general election for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on September 23, 2025.

		Candidate
		Adelita Grijalva (D)
		Daniel Butierez (R)
		Eduardo Quintana (G)
		Richard Grayson (No Labels Party)
		Cheval Lavers (D) (Write-in)
		Jeff Beasley (R) (Write-in)
	Submit photo	Avery Block (R) (Write-in)
		G. Seville Hatch (R) (Write-in)
	Submit photo	David McAllister (R) (Write-in)
	Submit photo	Nathaniel Irwin Sr. (No Labels Party) (Write-in)
		James Rose (No party preference) (Write-in)
		Daniel Wood (No party preference) (Write-in)
		Trista di Genova (No party preference) (Write-in)

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Democratic primary election

Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Adelita Grijalva defeated Deja Foxx, Daniel Hernandez Jr., Patrick Harris Sr., and Jose Malvido Jr. in the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on July 15, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Adelita Grijalva	61.5	38,679
		Deja Foxx	22.4	14,078
		Daniel Hernandez Jr.	13.6	8,541
		Patrick Harris Sr.	1.5	925
		Jose Malvido Jr.	1.1	687

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 62,910
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• David Bies (D)
• Victor Longoria (D)

Republican primary election

Special Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Daniel Butierez defeated Jorge Rivas and Jimmy Rodriguez in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on July 15, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Daniel Butierez	60.9	11,121
		Jorge Rivas	25.2	4,594
		Jimmy Rodriguez	14.0	2,549

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 18,264
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Raul Verdugo (R)

Green primary election

Special Green primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Eduardo Quintana defeated Gary Swing in the special Green primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on July 15, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Eduardo Quintana (Write-in)	95.5	42
		Gary Swing (Write-in)	4.5	2

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 44
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Libertarian primary election

Special Libertarian primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

No candidate advanced from the primary.

		Candidate	%	Votes
	Submit photo	Andy Fernandez Jr. (Write-in)	100.0	19

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 19
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No Labels Party primary election

Special No Labels Party primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Richard Grayson advanced from the special No Labels Party primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on July 15, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Richard Grayson (Write-in)	100.0	1

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To qualify for the general election, primary write-in candidates for parties with continued statewide representation had to receive enough votes to meet or exceed the number of nominating petition signatures required to file for the primary. In the 2025 special election, the Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican parties were subject to this rule. Libertarian write-in candidate Andy Fernandez Jr. did not meet the required 376 minimum write-in votes, so he did not advance to the general election.

Primary write-in candidates for recognized parties that did not have continued statewide representation did not need to meet a minimum vote count. Eduardo Quintana (G) and Richard Grayson (No Labels Party) advanced to the general election after receiving the most write-in votes in their primaries.

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2024

See also: Arizona's 7th Congressional District election, 2024

Arizona's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (July 30 Republican primary)

Arizona's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (July 30 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Incumbent Raúl Grijalva defeated Daniel Butierez in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Raúl Grijalva (D)	63.4	171,954
		Daniel Butierez (R)	36.6	99,057

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 271,011
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Incumbent Raúl Grijalva advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on July 30, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Raúl Grijalva	100.0	55,133

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7

Daniel Butierez advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 7 on July 30, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Daniel Butierez	100.0	24,425

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Walter Blackman (R)

Endorsements

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2025

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2024

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I’m a native of Tucson, Arizona, a third generation Arizonan and a man of faith. I have been through many great struggles in life and have witnessed our society decaying. From courts ignoring our Constitution and the rights of individuals, to homelessness and drugs plaguing our streets. I have walked through these things and found my path with God at my side to rise from it and succeed in life.

I today own two businesses and now want to help our community get our homeless back on their feet by guiding them down the path I walked to get to where I am. I want to bring attention to corruption in our local government. Anyone who’s been in Tucson as long as I understands the meaning of the good ole boy club and the threat that it means to our society. I was put in prison without a conviction and sentenced to 10 years. It was undeniable that there was no conviction yet it took almost 30 years before the State conceded and a judge ruled on this fact. This is just one example of the dangers of the good ole boy club.

To this day, I’m still fighting for justice and I will fight till the day I die cause men gave their lives so that this would never happen. Our community needs a voice and I will be that voice.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Native: I was born here in Tucson in 1966. My father Angel Calderon Butierez was the first Butierez and born in Pima, Arizona in 1944. My grandfather Filomeno Gutierrez a holy man was born in Solomon, Az in 1900. Arizona is mine and my family’s home. My family consist of the Butierez, Gutierrez, Benavides and Calderons Families all across Southern Arizona.
• Securing our Border: This is vital to my plans of helping our homeless get on their feet and drug users off of drugs. The program I want to get funding for to get homeless back on their feet can’t save the world. I just want to start with one building to show it’s success the expand it across America. The only risk here is, I’m not so sure people in power want the homeless off the streets. The fact they have opened our borders to the world without addressing the issues plaguing our country is very telling. As you find out more about me, you’ll find I can’t be bullied and I never back down.
• Economy and Crime: Our government has a bad habit of throwing money at a problem rather than a solution. This is a major contributing factor to unnecessary taxes causing a rise in inflation and increased interest rates. I’m a man who seeks out solutions and puts them into action.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Securing our border, is a focal point as it’s needed to implement the other policies.

Economy: I want to end tax funded methadone clinics. I’m not sure if our society comprehends the expense these create for taxpayers. We not only pay for the buildings, staff and drugs handed out but cabs are used as medical transports to get people to them which is covered by the taxpayers. There’s 150 state funded treatment facilities with a success rate of only 48%. The drug pandemic is taxpayer funded billion dollar industry I want to end by implementing a more successful less expensive program.

Crime: Crime has skyrocketed by our government supplying our homeless with drugs not to mention the $800 a month that was given to homeless drug addicts which increased their tolerance levels and then cut the funds. These addicts still need their drugs and crime is the only way they can feed their addictions.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Jesus

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Honesty and fairness. My wife thinks I go too far with my fairness. I actually count the kitty treats to make sure the each get the same. In a world where there is no fairness I try to be fair. Example, I found myself sitting in a maximum security prison over a joint and no priors serving 10 years with a cell mate doing 4 who had beat a guy to death with a 2X4.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I’d like to leave a successful program that will eventually be self run with its own profits supporting it. Idol hands are the devil’s playground. Participation in job programs require room and board expenses to be paid for by the participants not the taxpayers. See, building up one’s self esteem is the biggest part of this program being successful. A hand out doesn’t doesn’t build one’s self worth where an opportunity to succeed does.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Elvis died

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Capin’s Carwash. I was 15 and I was there for a few weeks till they discovered I wasn’t 16 and let me go.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Iron Man

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Getting thrown into prison without a conviction and being denied all my constitutional tights. This caused me to turn from God and fall into a dark spot. I lost my woman my children knowing I was innocent and that I was less than any other American being denied my Constitutional Rights of Due Process, Right to trial, my right to a competent attorney and my guaranteed protection against double jeopardy.

Once I’d served half my sentence I was released only to see my old world was gone. I began so hang out with the only people I knew anymore, the men I had met in prison. They introduced me to drugs which lead me to homelessness. I spent years in that spot till I was arrested again and taken back to prison. It was then that God reveled himself to me. It was in my memories of my grandfather. He was the holy man of our family. It was because of his wive born Ramona Calderon that my dad was named Angel Calderon Butierez.

Grandma said it was a Holy Name given to us by God. I fell to me knees and cried on prison floor cause I knew it was true. I wiped my eyes and got up and today O shrug off struggles for Christ fights my battles and always will.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

Nope. I believe previous experience is the problem. We have created a good ole boy club and they aren’t looking out for our best interest but rather each others.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Fixing the damage of these open borders caused by Grijalva and the present administration.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

I believe we need to have term limits on Congress and the Senate. Individuals like Raul Grijalva get lacked and secure. They have been there so long they become a known name. People no longer vote based on what he’s accomplished but rather cause they know the name.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Craig Johnson
Yolanda Phillips

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Campaign website

Butierez’s campaign website stated the following:

“	Issues 01. -Economy & Taxes Tucson is one of the poorest cities in the country. Wages are low and the homeless population doesn’t give an attractive invitation to tourists. Some of the most amazing views surround Tucson but Tucson itself isn’t all that attractive. 02. -Education Parents need to be in charge of what their children are learning not the government. Our schools need to get back to the basics and start educating our children again. 03. -Criminal Justice Reform The Dept. of Justice is out of control and ignoring threats facing the United States. I am uniquely qualified to put a check on federal investigators and to force them to refocus efforts on National Security, including the Mexican drug cartels flooding our streets with illicit drugs. 04. -Homelessness and Drugs I am 100% committed to ensuring that residents receive the support and resources they deserve, including access to high-quality healthcare, education, and job training programs. 05. -Second Amendment Rights Our 2nd Amendment is a right given by God. It’s the guarantee that you can defend yourself. Now people think it was for hunting which isn’t true. It was put in our Constitution so that every man woman and child would never be denied their right to defend themselves. It makes all individuals equal. 06. -Constituent Services Unlike my opponent, I will always be available to District 7 residents and will ensure the Federal government is nothing short of 100% responsive to your needs. As your Congressman, I will be of service to you and your family should the need ever arise.	”
—Daniel Butierez’s campaign website (2024)

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Daniel Butierez campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2026*	U.S. House Arizona District 7	On the Ballot general	$208,166	$148,980
2024*	U.S. House Arizona District 7	Lost general	$78,607	$78,015
Grand total			$286,772	$226,995
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Arizona's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Ruben Gallego (D)

Mark Kelly (D)

Representatives

District 1

David Schweikert (R)

District 2

Eli Crane (R)

District 3

Yassamin Ansari (D)

District 4

Greg Stanton (D)

District 5

Andy Biggs (R)

District 6

Juan Ciscomani (R)

District 7

Vacant

District 8

Abraham Hamadeh (R)

District 9

Paul Gosar (R)

Republican Party (6)

Democratic Party (4)

Vacancies (1)