This being said, a friend points out to me that I was wrong in my initial assessment. Mike Hellon over in District 1 also gets it, but the fact that we have not heard too much about him tells us what we need to know about the state of the Republican Party in Pima County.

“The true test on the issue of illegal immigration is SB 1070, which I support and, which I believe the courts will uphold, as nothing more than allowing a state to implement existing federal law. After controlling the border we can then decide on how to implement LEGAL immigration.”

“Ray has voted against every bloated budget placed before him by the Democrat majority on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. For that and more, the Arizona GOP named Ray “Republican of the Year” in 2009.”

“For three years, the elected Democrat County Assessor has over valued the Tucson Airport Raytheon property. For three years Raytheon has appealed and won before the State Board of Equalization. Our Democrat Assessor wants to continue harassing them, so he wanted us to support his lawsuit. Raytheon’s attorneys believe that the Assessor will lose in Court and, more importantly, set a precedent in their favor for future assessments. I would suggest that if my opponent really wanted to assist Raytheon, and the rest of the business community, he would have run for Pima County Assessor. We have no Republican in that race.”

“As a Roman Catholic, I also believe all life is sacred from conception to natural death.”

In some future election, we are going to have to deal with Ray Carroll as the standard-bearer for the Republican Party. His record on the Board of Supervisors has not been one of achievement, or stature. His record is instead characterized by positions and attitudes that speak to the furtherance of his own political interests. Carroll is very slick and the consummate politcal operator, but we ought not to think that he has bi-partisan tendencies, nor that he has anything but his own self-interest at heart. When he runs for some other office, watch how quickly he tries to assure everyone in the GOP of his conservative credentials.

He ran for the House as a moderate (while blatantly stealing not just positions, but actual quotes from one of his Democratic foes), but voted like a right-winger. He is now trying to both walk back some of his votes and shore up his support on the right by trotting out transparent crap like this absurd mailer.

He engaged in an unseemly war of words with his fellow ideologue and mental midget, Al Melvin, in the pages of the Northwest Explorer, somehow managing to make Melvin look GOOD.

When a group of educators prevailed on Williams to demonstrate the commitment to public schools that he crowed about in his campaign, he lamely said he had to worry about remaining “viable” in the GOP caucus.

Anyone who lives in this area of the county could cite more examples of Williams and his self-serving ways. The one trait that both Democrats and conservative Republicans share when it comes to Williams is scorn for his hypocrisy and cleazy tactics. He will likely get his ass soundly kicked on August 28th and that will hopefully send him on his way out of local politics.