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'''Billy Dale Gossage''', known as '''Bill Gossage''' (born August 30, 1957),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/bill-gossage/bgossage3222j|title=Bill Gossage (Dale)|publisher=Myllife.com|accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref> is an educational administrator from Ozark in Franklin County in northwestern [[Arkansas]], who has been since 2013 a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for  District 82, which  encompasses parts of Franklin, Crawford, and Madison counties.<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/136717/bill-gossage#.UsrAoZV3sfQ|title=Bill Gossage's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=January 6, 2014}}</ref><ref name=gossageofozark/>

'''Billy Dale Gossage''', known as '''Bill Gossage''' (born August 30, 1957),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/bill-gossage/bgossage3222j|title=Bill Gossage (Dale)|publisher=Myllife.com|accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref> is an educational administrator from Ozark in Franklin County in northwestern [[Arkansas]], who has been since 2013 a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for  District 82, which  encompasses parts of Franklin, Crawford, and Madison counties.<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/136717/bill-gossage#.UsrAoZV3sfQ|title=Bill Gossage's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=November 23, 2020}}</ref><ref name=gossageofozark/>

==Background==

==Background==

In 2010, Post had been elected by default when the Republican candidate, Thomas Lile "Tom" Fite (born 1944), was disqualified from the ballot by a judge in Pulaski County who declared that Fite's guilty plea in 1984 to [[Medicaid]] fraud constituted an "infamous crime."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://talkbusiness.net/2011/08/charlene-fite-running-for-state-representative-district-80/|title=Charlene Fite Running for State Representative, District 80|date=August 25, 2011|publisher=talbusiness.net|accessdate=January 6, 2014}}</ref>Though Tom Fite's name remained on the ballot, his votes were not counted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2010|title=District 83|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 6, 2014}}</ref>In 2012, Fite's wife, Republican [[Charlene Fite]], an educator from Van Buren, won in the reconfigured District 80 seat encompassing parts of Crawford and Washington counties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2012|title=District 80|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref>

In 2010, Post had been elected by default when the Republican candidate, Thomas Lile "Tom" Fite (born 1944), was disqualified from the ballot by a judge in Pulaski County who declared that Fite's guilty plea in 1984 to [[Medicaid]] fraud constituted an "infamous crime."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://talkbusiness.net/2011/08/charlene-fite-running-for-state-representative-district-80/|title=Charlene Fite Running for State Representative, District 80|date=August 25, 2011|publisher=talbusiness.net|accessdate=January 6, 2014}}</ref>Though Tom Fite's name remained on the ballot, his votes were not counted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2010|title=District 83|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 6, 2014}}</ref>In 2012, Fite's wife, Republican [[Charlene Fite]], an educator from Van Buren, won in the reconfigured District 80 seat encompassing parts of Crawford and Washington counties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2012|title=District 80|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref>

Gossage serves on these House committees: (1) Advanced Communications and Information Technology, (2) Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative; material no longer on-line}}</ref>

Gossage serves on these House committees: (1) Advanced Communications and Information Technology, (2) Aging, Children and Youth

 

, Legislative; material no longer on-line}}</ref>

Representative Gossage voted to override the [[veto|vetoes]] of then Democratic [[Governor]]  [[Mike Beebe]] to enact legislation requiring photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban [[abortion]] after twenty weeks of [[gestation]]; he was a co-sponsor of both of these bills. Gossage supported other [[pro-life]] measures too: to ban abortion whenever fetal heartbeat is detected, to forbid the inclusion of abortion in the state insurance exchange, and to make the death of an unborn child a [[felony]] in certain cases. On [[Second Amendment]] matters, Gossage co-sponsored legislation to allow the concealed carry of  firearms on church and university properties and to prevent the governor from regulating firearms in an emergency.<ref name=votingrecords/>

Representative Gossage voted to override the [[veto|vetoes]] of then Democratic [[Governor]]  [[Mike Beebe]] to enact legislation requiring photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban [[abortion]] after twenty weeks of [[gestation]]; he was a co-sponsor of both of these bills. Gossage supported other [[pro-life]] measures too: to ban abortion whenever fetal heartbeat is detected, to forbid the inclusion of abortion in the state insurance exchange, and to make the death of an unborn child a [[felony]] in certain cases. On [[Second Amendment]] matters, Gossage co-sponsored legislation to allow the concealed carry of  firearms on church and university properties and to prevent the governor from regulating firearms in an emergency.<ref name=votingrecords/>