Wednesday, November 30th, 2005...7:11 am
Obligatory and Overblown Self-Congratulation
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Tucson Weekly reporter Jim Nintzel mentioned R-Cubed’s Jim Kolbe scoop on a special edition of Reporter’s Roundtable on last Wednesday’s Arizona Illustrated. I so rock.
Follow this link to see the video.
Of course, Jim mentioned my name, but not the URL. Hey, help a guy out, Jim.
9 Comments
November 30th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Tom Volgy should run – he has impeccable progressive credentials and he would be the smartest candidate running from either party. He may be boring but he and McNulty were the only two who ever gave Kolbe a run for his money….
November 30th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
True. However, we cannot afford to just give the Republican “a run for his money”…We need a smart, principled, progressive/moderate Democrat who can win–a candidate who has the best chance of inspiring the Democratic base, independents, and even disgruntled Republicans to vote for him/her. CD8’s present voter registration is
152,000 Republicans;
133,000 Democrats;
97,000 Others/Independents; and
3,000 Libertarians. [AZ Sec. of State website]
Also, we need a candidate who will respond STRONGLY when the locally- and nationally-funded Republican 527s and Club for Growth try to break our candidate’s kneecaps [so to speak].
December 1st, 2005 at 12:16 am
I agree with you, after Volgy’s last campaign, who would want to go through that again. But it sounded like you just described Richard Elias – he should run – the Republicans are going to send so many candidates against each other in the primary that Randy Graf is bound to survive and if that happens whoever emerges from our side is going to have a much better chance at winning over those 97,000 than he, so let’s elect the smartest, most principled person in town who is not already in Congress.
December 1st, 2005 at 10:30 am
With all due respect to Professor and former Mayor Volgy, he has name recognition, but could not beat Mayor Walkup in a city with dominant democrat registration numbers. Would he be an excellent U.S Congressman…YES…can he win…I doubt it.
December 1st, 2005 at 3:11 pm
I agree with the person before Kralmajales that Richard Elias should run. He would be an excellenct US Congressman and he could win. A general election between Elias and Graf would be a joy to watch.
December 1st, 2005 at 3:18 pm
Interesting point about Richard Elias. Name recognition and a great deal of support backing him as well.
Would Supervisor Elias be considered more or less liberal than Gabrielle Giffords though? Again, I worry about whether he is electable.
Against Graf, I have no worries about either of them. However, against a Ray Carroll…in a moderate to slightly learning Republican district?
On the fifth hand, any worry of a strong Republican could be trumped if Republicans continue to stay home and lick their wounds while Democrats crawl over broken glass to the polls.
December 1st, 2005 at 10:54 pm
You know, I hadn’t thought about R. Elias, but he is one to show up everywhere and has done more than most supvs now. I hope it doesn’t come out to be a Giffords-Elias decision, because my vote would go for Elias.
December 2nd, 2005 at 8:04 am
Guys (or gals, hard to tell when you are anonymous)…Richard ain’t running. Cool your jets.
December 2nd, 2005 at 4:07 pm
Speaking of jets – I bet Richard would actually have a better chance than Gabrielle of actually getting DMAFB to actually do something about all of the increased jet noise over our neighborhoods. She seems to be in bed with them – between the pictures in the flightsuits and the boyfriend….