Mayor Jonathan Rothschild released a progress report today on his 180 day work plan. He’s touting accomplishments like appointing a small business advocate and streamlining regulatory and permitting processes. In case you are wondering what is going on with Rothschild’s opponent from the last election, he just got booted from the Rio Nuevo board. The [...]
He hasn’t yet filed his paperwork, but lobbyist Rick Grinnell, fresh off his double digit trouncing in last years mayoral race, has told folks that he’s looking at running for senate in the new LD 9. This would mean he’s running against Democrat Steve Farley Dustin Cox Steve Farley. One may remember Grinnell ran for mayor [...]
Monday, November 14, 2011
Three things I need to write about: – From our Sour Grapes desk, Rick Grinnell made an ominous threat to Tucson’s share of state shared revenues after he lost his race for mayor. There has been talk from city staff that the actions of the Rio Nuevo board may be to lay the groundwork for [...]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
I haven’t yet seen Jennifer Rawson’s tissue-of-lies ads against Paul Cunningham, but given recent poll results, I imagine that they look and sound an awful lot like desperation. In case you are curious: these ads, along with ones for Rick Grinnell and Tyler Vogt, were put together by Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm, the folks [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
In case you are worried that Republicans will stop complaining about the horrible crime against Ben Quayle, this is from an e-mail, entitled “Fairness,” that Pima County Chair Carolyn Cox sent yesterday: I’ve learned many words in the English language have more than one definition in a democrat dictionary. For example, from the AZ Redistricting [...]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
You may remember that last week, Republican council member Steve Kozachik sent out a scathing criticism of the Rio Nuevo board. One of his more potent arguments revolved around the $935,400 that the committee has shelled out for “administration,” ie – law firms and consultants. Money blown on consultants and law firms? It sounds a [...]
Local Democrats have made hay of the $47 million dollar lawsuit that the state-appointed Rio Nuevo board has against the city. The question they are asking is simple: what programs will Republican Mayoral candidate Rick Grinnell, who is on the board, cut to pay for a possible judgement? Good question, but here is mine: What [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
I don’t see the political upside to Rick Grinnell’s proposal for garbage pick ups every ten days. It’s hard even to see how any upside from savings isn’t outweighed by environmental and health impacts. He’s gotten some serious blow back on it (check the normally anti-government comments at the Star), but he seems to be [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
A bit of history, for those who want to know such things: Total primary turn out in city elections, all parties: 1999 – 33,446 2001 – 5,678 2003 – 18,176 2005 – 8,529 2007 – 31,828 2009 – 12,196 2011 – 39,056 Note that 1999 featured a hotly contested mayoral primary on the Democratic side, [...]
Not in much of a mood to post. I was going to leave the posting up to Samantha, but I decided not to. So, primary predictions? Um. For those wondering, Rick Grinnell will get himself nominated. There have been plenty of Republican primary ballots returned (anyone note the irony here given how Republicans were talking [...]
