 While Mason carried four of the district's five counties, he could not overcome a 17,100-vote deficit in the district's share of Maricopa County, which had more people than the rest of the district combined.He was easily re-elected four times, each time with more than 60 percent of the vote, and in 1984, he was completely unopposed.Rudd was a fiscal conservative, an orthodox Catholic, and a member of the important Appropriations Committee for five years; he opposed the expenditure of federal taxpayer dollars for abortions.