Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

I was going to be totally anal retentive and try to give you a precinct by precinct breakdown of the race. Since this is available elsewhere, I won’t bore you with that.
I found some telling statistics. I never saw the final tally for early ballots, but the Democrats had a lead of about 3500 acording […]

So, after I left, Mayor Bob Walkup showed up…and they let him speak. Geez, Paul Eckerstrom was in a magnaminous mood last night. I guess that’s what victory does to him.
I guess I should have offered to speak over at the Manning House. I don’t think anyone would have stopped me.

Ray Carroll showed up at the Democratic Party’s event. What was up with that?
I didn’t see Carol West there, anyone know if she went to the Republican event?

One of the news stations flashed over to the Republican “celebration” at the Manning House. The place looks like its been neutron bombed.
You know, I am kind of disappointed. Why didn’t Dunbar ever sue me? I mean, I’ve been talking smack about her for a long time. Can’t a guy get any […]

Trasoff 63%
Ronstadt 37%
Uhlich 58%
Dunbar 42%

When I voted this morning, there was a Kathleen Dunbar sign at the polling place, but no Fred Ronstadt sign. Later, I gave a neighbor a ride to the polls and there was a Ronstadt sign. A nice one too, with stars and everything.
Now we know where that campaign money has been going.
Jim […]

A crew of Democratic volunteers who were doing a “visibility” event encountered one (that’s one, you know, x to the zero power) Kathleen Dunbar “volunteer” holding up a sign. The woman said that she was not only being paid, but was suprised at how many people don’t seem to like Dunbar.
Wow, grassroots in action.
More reports […]

Okay…24 hours to go, well, 22 really, but 22 is just doesn’t have the same implications.
The papers have a “news blackout” on the city council races this soon before an election. Which leads me to wonder what their excuse has been for the last week or so. Heaven forbid that they give voters more information […]

Al Capone never did anything wrong except tax evasion. I mean, otherwise, prosecutors would have found something else to indict him for, right?

I checked the Arizona Daily Star this morning and spotted only two articles about the city council races. One was a piece reiterating the endorsements that the various candidates have recieved. If I may quote Truman Capote, that’s not writing, that’s typing.
The other was an editorial reiterating their previous endorsements of Kathleen Dunbar […]

The Tucson Citzen ran a “plague on both your houses” editorial that has unfortunately become all to common in our media. They neglected to mention the most important aspect of the spat between Kathleen Dunbar and Karin Uhlich.
Too often, the media would rather observe an argument between two politicians and dismiss it as a “he […]

A piece of mail appeared this afternoon in Tucson mailboxes:

Our current City Council
- including Steve Leal, Fred Ronstadt
and Kathleen Dunbar - helped clean
up filthy camps full of bums, panhandlers
in medians and overly aggressive beggars.
Kathleen Dunbar’s challenger would
like to bring them back.
This attack is based on the fact that Karin Uhlich has worked for a […]

Kathleen Dunbar and her attorney are now claiming a specific amount of damage that political free speech has done to her. Yesterday, her attorney sent letters threatening lawsuits against the Amphitheater School District and the Pima County Democratic Party for $1,000,000 each.
I know that I adopt a snarky, sardonic tone on this blog. But, […]

As I expected, Mary Peters announced that she is not running for governor next year.
The announcement follows former Senator John Greene’s questioning of Peters’s eligibility to run. Peters claims that she was eligible to run, but she thought the questions would make her campaigning difficult. Well, they may have, but not nearly as […]

I have been writing a great deal about Kathleen Dunbar’s actions during this campaign and how they demonstrate a lack of respect for opinions and views other than her own. She seems to think that large segments of the community should just be ignored, and if they are still going to express themselves, that they […]

Judi White, Chairwoman of the Pima County Republican Party, is leveling all sorts of allegations at her Democratic counterpart. Up until Tuesday, these were confined to e-mails sent to Republican activists and supporters. Now, its out in public and she says that Paul Eckerstrom is “vocal and obnoxious.”
Well, yeah. That’s what we pay […]

The Arizona Daily Star reported this morning that the Democrats are ahead on returned early ballots. Those aren’t requests, but returns.
The thing that is worth noting here is that most of our losing council candidates of the last decade or so have won on election day, but already lost because of the heavy lead that […]

I never posted anything about the withdrawl of Harriet Miers. I was too busy being snarky about our city council race. I know, that was a huge disappointment to all of you.
I wanted to write a piece of hyperbole like this:
This is the greatest capitulation of a president to the right wing of his own […]

I was happy to see this morning that C. J. Karamargin wrote an article about the threats that Kathleen Dunbar’s attorney, Steven Gonzales, has been making toward people for the horrible crime of speaking out about Dunbar’s record.
Gonzales seems to be a bit confused about the way political campaigns work:
“This is a well-timed smear,” Gonzalez […]