Bruce Ash has been scribbling furiously on here. You may remember a few months back when he was installed as national committeeman for the Republicans, and folks thought that this guy was going to be a calm, reasonable voice for the party in contrast to the divisive Randy Pullen. This was a view shared only […]
Rumors are swirling that Ray Carroll has been looking for a candidate to run against Sharon Bronson. Bronson won an oddball three way race in 1996 after incumbent Ed Moore had left the Republican party and ran as an independent. 2000 was another close contest, but 2004 turned into a snoozer when Republican Barney Brenner […]
I’m trying to run down a few things, but I have two ideas for posts. That is pretty good, isn’t it?
Here is something to chew on in the mean time:
Bill Staples is not only the Pima County Assessor, but he is also a complete sentence. Believe It Or Not!
The latest rumblings are that Randy Graf, late of the Congressional District 8 race, is pondering a challenge to Ray Carroll. Carroll is regarded as moderate and definitely not Graf’s sort of Republican.
In the 2006 Republican congressional primary, Graf managed 43.0% in the precincts that make up Carroll’s district 4 (which is entirely in CD […]
So, the Democrats have a candidate in mind to run for the other District 26 House seat that will in all likelyhood be vacated by Pete Hershberger when he makes a bid to move up to the State Senate.
His name is Don Jorgensen.
Okay, I didn’t make a mistake there. See, actually you did. You thought […]
If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ‘em. - Yogi Bera
More silliness from our friends that post on the Star and Citizen message boards: the Tucson Sidewinders’ possible move to Reno is all Raúl Grijalva’s fault. Yep. It’s a plan he and his reconquista buddies hatched on the […]
Yesterday’s Star featured the headline “Dems Get Lion’s Share of Bond Funds” above the fold for all who pass the vending machines. The headline leaves the impression that bond money is distributed on a partisan basis, while the story itself only covers one particular set of bonds.
The story talked about neighborhood reinvestment money from the […]
The Teamsters lost a vote to organize the Red Cross yesterday after a campaign where there were charges of threats against pro-union employees on the part of management. Boy, good they didn’t have the card check so the workers would be free of intimidation from union organizers.
But, the labor movement had a big victory this […]
Tonight’s All Things Considered includes a story about Dennis Hastert’s gripe that Paul Charlton wouldn’t prosecute marijuana smuggling cases of less than 500 pounds. The host interviewed our own Barbara Lawall to find out how this affected local prosecutors.
She complained about the “triage” that she must engage in because she is forced to devote personel […]
The date has been set for the largest union election in Arizona history. Pima County employees will get to vote on April 3rd and 4th to decide whether or not they will be represented by SEIU.
Expect the SEIU to push for a big turnout in this election. They feel that a decisive victory and a […]
A fellow political history geek attended a field hearing a couple of weeks back on the mine that is planned for the Santa Rita mountains that was convened by Raúl Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. As it turns out, one of the folks that showed up to testify was Doug LaFollette.
LaFollette is the Secretary of State […]
A wise congressman once said “Arizona doesn’t have political machines, just erector sets with ambition.” Looks like Tim Bee, in preparation for a race for congress, may be working on plan no. 12 1/2.
Jim Green, who just won re-election to his seat as a Justice of the Peace in November, has stepped down. In his […]
Word is that Pima County has certified that SEIU has enough support to be on the ballot in an upcoming election for representation for county employees. No other union qualified to be on the ballot, but I’m not sure if this was because no attempt was made to file or because they simply didn’t bother. In […]
Today is the last day for unions who wish to represent Pima County employees to file to participate in a yet to be scheduled election. County employees will be asked what union they want representing them, or if they want to be represented by any union at all. Unions that wish to have their names […]
Former Pima County Supervisor Bud Walker has died. Walker also served in the state legislature in the 50’s and 60’s.
He was an old school county pol, first elected when Pima County had a fraction of the residents it does now and the then clubby three member Board of Supervisors reigned supreme. He was also very builder friendly. This […]
I’m hearing more about 2008 than I’m hearing about 2007. What is up with that?
I’m hearing a new bunch of murmurs. I don’t entirely buy this one for reasons that I’ll give you in a second. The talk is that Ann Day will run for re-election to the Board of Supervisors. She’s represented District 1, […]
Hot from SEIU and that big building downtown:
On Tuesday, January 9th, the Pima County Board of Supervisors became the first county in Arizona to allow its workers the freedom to vote to form an authorized union.
“Now we want a vigorous debate among county workers about what kind of employee organization they want,” said Dave Mitchell, […]
I haven’t written about SEIU’s organizing efforts among Pima County workers in a while.
Back in late October, Attorney General Terry Goddard issued an opinion that county workers were entitled to a vote on “meet and confer” status. Goddard’s opinion all but overruled a self-interested opinion issued by Barbara LaWall’s office (many of her own dissatisfied […]
Assistant Attorney General Paul Eckerstrom is being talked up as a candidate to run against Barbara Lawall for County Attorney. Eckerstrom had been talked about before, but the talk seems to be a bit more serious now.
Eckerstrom has worked both sides of the courtroom, as a public defender and as a prosecutor. He currently works […]
An update on the Sunnyside School Board shenanigans:
Word has come down through the transom that there are doubts about the Linda Lopez resignation letter. People have seen a draft, but there are questions about whether it has actually been delivered to the Sunnyside School Board. Folks are wondering if she just did this to mess […]
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