Tuesday, November 29th, 2005...11:40 am
Eva Bacal
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Well, the first candidate to take the plunge since the exit of Jim Kolbe has offered up her name. 2004 Democratic Nominee Eva Bacal is on the verge of announcing that she is running. Bacal was a long time member of the Tucson Unified School District Board (serving at roughly the same time as Raúl Grijalva) and is the wife of Martin Bacal, former Democratic National Committeeman.
Many of the other possible candidates will probably not announce until mid-January, when they will no longer be forced out of office under the “resign to run” law.
12 Comments
November 29th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
This time she won’t be the “Only Woman Running”!
Britt
Giffords 06′
November 29th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Be careful, Madame Farbo, some anonymous person will call you a sycophant…
November 29th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
I just hope that the Democrats down there learn that a free-for-all primary may not be a good thing. We had that up here when the new district was created in 2002, got a deeply flawed candidate who won by plurality, and have since been stuck with a first class jerk from Virginia, Rick Renzi.
TEAM, GUYS, TEAM!
November 29th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
No kidding …. But it will be a crowded election next September! Anyways, this will take the sails off other candidates around the state - and on both sides!
This could only help Jim Pederson
November 29th, 2005 at 11:46 pm
TO: anonymous
re: this could only help Jim Pederson.
Can you explain how since he is running for the U.S. Senate, not the House in CD-8?
And, you welcome re: the resign to run law.
November 30th, 2005 at 8:48 am
Well it is nice that the so-called progressives are lining up behind the most conservative Democrat in the State Legislature - maybe this way we’ll confuse the Republicans into who to vote for in the general - perfect plan… The more candidates the better, that way maybe someone who will actually vote with Speaker Pelosi will get the job instead of the annointed tire queen.
November 30th, 2005 at 9:20 am
The “most conservative Democrat in the state legislature”?
Have you met Marsha Arzberger? Jack Brown?
I only point to those two to show that anyone who says that Gabby is the “most conservative” hasn’t been paying much attention.
Despite her reputation and ties to the business community, she has built quite a progressive record. If you don’t want to believe me, check out what Kevin Spidel has to say about her on his blog. I think Spidel’s progressive cred is unimpeachable, don’t you?
November 30th, 2005 at 11:28 am
She was not the only woman running last time either.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:31 am
Again to anonymous: How does this help Jim Pedersen?
Also, in re: to the anointed “tire queen,” can you explain how she is a conservative?
In re: to CD-8, it will be a contested primary for both the Democrats AND the Republicans. Do you have a preference for both races?
November 30th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
Well I’m glad she’s good on the death penalty, but I’m curious where she stands on other issues like choice. Her conservatism is on economic bread and butter issues and that’s distressing, but maybe that’s the best anyone can hope for coming from the Republican side of town. As for the other anonym’s comment about this helping Jim Pederson, I don’t have a clue what she was talking about….
November 30th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
For TUCSONMARK–
NOTE: The “Anonymous” in this thread is not the one who asked you about the citation for the “resign to run”. I [a different "Anonymous"] asked you re the citation in the “An Apology” thread and thanked you under that thread. Again, I really appreciate your help on this.
I also would like to know how the free-for-all in CD 8 will help Pedersen.
More important though for “Anonymous November 30 12:16″, what has Giffords done or said that makes you think that she is the most conservative Democrat in the state legislature?
Obviously we can’t present our most-left-of-center Democrat in November 2006 and expect to win CD8–not unless the Dems can register another 50,000+ [100,000+] Dems who will actually vote in November…. or 1 [or 2] of our upstanding Arizona Republican congressional delegation gets indicted in September 2006 for something quite bad.
December 12th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
Is Bacal a communist or what? Why is she considered so far left that we don’t want to run her again?