Sunday, February 11th, 2007...3:40 pm
Where Are They Now?
Thursday’s Star had an article on Republican Sharon Collins, who made several runs for office over the last decade or so. Collins is now running a clothing boutique in Green Valley and working as an Associate Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The article notes that Collins ran for office three times and lost. She probably picked the wrong races each time: a run for mayor against the popular George Miller (who had massive Republican support that year), a run for State Representative in an overwhelmingly Democratic midtown district and a run for Seceretary of State as a relatively unknown Tucsonan in a Republican primary against Jan Brewer.
I’m a little confused about how she’s got the time to start a small business while at the same time be in a job that demands she travels all over the state. But hey, more power to her, I guess.
NB - Aside from the self-congratulatory baby boomerism in the article (they are the first generation to grow old, after all), author Bonnie Henry does something that has bugged me for years. She refers to Fife Symington leaving office as resigning “under pressure.” This makes it look like the poor guy was run out of office by political enemies. Instead he had vacated office not of his own volition, but when he was convicted for a felony. At least she didn’t buy into the cannard that so many reporters do and say that he “resigned for the good of the state.”
2 Comments
February 11th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Technically, you are wrong. Symington resigned after he was indicted, before the conviction.
I know because I lived in Arizona for a year just after the Mecham episode, then came back for a job interview just the weekend that Symington resigned. I bought the newspaper that day and I remember thinking then, ‘You sure know how to pick ‘em.’
February 12th, 2007 at 5:27 am
No…he “resigned” in a press conference the afternoon he was convicted, after weeks of hinting that he might try to stay in office. The resignation was bogus, since he was deemed to have vacated the office the moment he was convicted.
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