Tucson First is planning it’s first public protest tomorrow. The location is in front of Maynards from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm, 400 N. Toole Avenue. We do not have exact details of the program but we are guessing it has something to do with unlawful [...]
Tom Carlson, an officer in the Army Reserves, has been called to active duty. He sent out an e-mail that stated he will end his campaign because of his pending military service. Here is part of the message that he sent out.
As for the campaign, [...]
On Tuesday we reported on an insurgent effort to change the leadership and direction of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber. It looks like the entrenched interests are digging in their heals and not planning on going anywhere. Today the Arizona Daily Star has a story about the effort to [...]
The Jesse Kelly for Congress campaign sent out a press release yesterday. Later that afternoon the left leaning Rum Romanism and Rebellion criticized the Kelly campaign for the statement, using the word “Alarmism.” The press release pointed out the staggeringly high debt that will result from the [...]
We just reported on API (a Goldwater Institute style group) starting up in Tucson. Now, a group called Tucson First has sprung up seeking to change the moribund culture of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, according to today’s guest on the Wake [...]
Last week the Tucson based Arizona Policy Institute (API) held their coming out party at the University Marriott. API will be Tucson’s answer to the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation. They will focus on bringing lawsuits against government infrigement of private property [...]
There has been a lot of speculation recently about another candidate entering the CD 8 Republican Primary, now that people are realizing how vulnerable current Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be in 2010. Several people have written that State Senator Jonathan Paton is being urged by others [...]
The video of Rep. Ray Barnes has clearly gone viral on Arizona political web sites. He does diverge from his main point with his comment about bi-sexual teachers. Lost in the conversation about his speech is the simple question, Is Barnes correct? He was saying the schools are top [...]
Gov. Jan Brewer in Tucson
Back in July, Greg at Espresso Pundit speculated that Governor Brewer would not run for another term based on how “lobbyists and consultants” were behaving. It turns out she is running and based on how she was treated yesterday in Tucson, [...]
November it turning out to be a big month for changes to talk radio in Tucson. Wake Up Tucson on KVOI 1030 AM added an extra hour, and now goes from 6:00 am to 8:00 am. Cogratulations to Chris and Joe for their continued success.
Jim Parisi has moved [...]
The Rum blog is trying to stir the pot among LD 26 Republicans but from what we hear it is not going to work. Tedski wrote that current State Representative Vic Williams was thinking of challenging the current State Senator Al Melvin. A simple call to Rep. Williams [...]
Here is a video from yesterday’s Tea Party protest at Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s office. Thanks for Mike at ShortforOrdinary.com for the news report.
Update: Here is another video from the November 10th protest.
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Update: From what we understand, there are over 3,000 ballots left to count, 700 duplicate ballots and 2,625 provisionals.
Pima County Elections just posted new numbers. The Tucson Ward 3 election has narrowed to just 240 votes. Karin Uhlich is still ahead of Ben Buehler-Garcia but her margin is fading [...]
Pima County is counting ballots right now.
You can watch live at this link.
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The dust from yesterday’s Tucson City Council election is very slowly settling. It looks as if Steve Kozachik has won against incumbent Nina Trasoff (Ward 6, midtown.) Kozachik leads in both early ballots and election day votes and has maintained his lead in the Wednesday afternoon updated numbers.
The Ward 3 [...]
Here is the latest ad in favor of Prop 200. Does Tucson have a crime problem? It sure sounds like it did the day of this call at least. Here are the crime stats in other cities that a liberal told us to compare with Tucson.
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The ads in the Tucson City Council election are really heating up. Taking a page from the Trasoff 2005 campaign, challenger Steve Kozachik is attacking the incumbent. Just like Nina Trasoff did to Fred Ronstadt when she ran in ‘05. I wonder how Nina likes being on [...]
Seems the truth is too scary for some in Tucson so they deny that crime rates are high in Tucson. One of these people named Kenny was upset that we did a bar graph comparing Tucson to two other Southwest cities of similar size. According to Kenny, the [...]
The Arizona Daily Star has a profile of the Ward 6 candidates, Steve Kozachik and Nina Trasoff, in Sunday’s paper. The story focuses a lot on Downtown Tucson. A more interesting read is an October 20th story by Jim Nintzel of the [...]
Arizona Illustrated, Southern Arizona’s news magazine, has an opinion round table every Friday. They usually have the same crew of left leaning editors from the Arizona Daily Star or Jim Nintzel of the Weekly. They used to have Mark Kimble of the Tucson Citizen [...]
One famous definition of Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. The Arizona Daily Star is clearly insane by that standard. The Star endorsed both Karin Uhlich and Nina Trasoff after years of mismanagement and lost opportunities during their time in office. Ben Buehler-Gracia and Steve [...]
There has been a lot of discussion in Tucson about Proposition 200, a voter initiative to insure a certain level of funding for police and fire. Current city council members are claiming they support the police and are spending enough on public safety. Prop 200 supporters argue the police [...]
Judge Andrew Napolitano was the main speaker at Saturday’s Tucson Tea Party even at Tucson Electric Park. Here are the videos of the speech.
[...]Jesse Kelly was on the Mark Levin Radio Show on Friday. In case you missed the interview, you can listen to Jesse and Mark at this link (mp3 file.)
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The Tucson Tea Party is having a blowout event this Saturday, October 10th. The festivities start at 8:00 am at TEP Ballpark in Tucson with a tailgate party. Gate open at 9:00 am and the speakers start at 10:00 am. Details at Tucson’s Last Stand.
“Radical [...]
Gabrielle Giffords is not the only environmental fraud in the Democratic Party. The NRCC has a video of David Wu (OR 1) driving around D.C. in a huge SUV (looks like the only occupant) but he lectures everyone else about “going green.”
[...]Tucson City Manager has backed off of his comment about closing the Zoo if Prop 200 passes but the threats and fear mongering have not stopped.
The friendly AFSCME union enforcer is now saying that you won’t have water if Prop 200 passes. Question: Will the city still fund TREO [...]
A group has formed in Pima County to hold a recall election for County Supervisor Sharon Bronson. It is a daunting task, about 16,000 signatures are needed just get the election on the ballot. About 1 in 5 voters in Pima Supervisor District 3 will need to [...]
Vice President Joe Biden hosted a fundraiser for Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Delaware on Monday. He was his usually partisan self, claiming the Republicans are “moribund in terms of ideas.” The Real Clear Politics story quotes the VP as stating winning seats like Giffords’ in the midterms is [...]
There has been a lot of chatter about independent committees getting involved in the Tucson City Council elections this November. It looks like one of the ads has been released by a group calling itself Lots of Fed-up Tucsonans. We do not know if it is being shown on the [...]
Tedski at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion attacks Ben Buehler-Garcia for some details on his web site. I am not sure if Ted just missed it or if the campaign added the disclosure, but it looks pretty clear at the bottom of the page who paid for the web [...]
The City of Tucson has been funding a plethora of small pet projects for some time now. Sometimes the money wasted has been much larger than necessary, $820,000 for a 15-minute video is a prime example. This reckless budgeting has drained needed funds from police services. Tucson finds itself [...]
We have embedded video from KVOA Channel 4. For some reason it does not show up until you click on the title of this post, “Tucson reacts … “
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Once again Short for Ordinary has an excellent video from a recent town hall. This is from Rep. Giffords’ Health Care town hall on September 1st at Saguaro High School in Tucson.
The Big Shmoog also has raw video of most of the event. Here is just a sample below. See [...]
Here is KGUN Channel 9 coverage of the Giffords’ town hall on health care.
[...]Very early results from Tucson Ward 5 Republican Primary have Shuan McClusky at 371 to Judith Gomez at 221.
[...]There are lots of things happening in the Old Pueblo today. Rep. Giffords will have two town halls today, one in Green Valley this morning and one on the east side of Tucson tonight.
The Tucson Tea Party is sponsoring an informational forum on Social Security on the NE Side. [...]
Update: Here is some video of the protester elbowing one of the people in attendance at the event.
Tune in to Tucson KGUN 9 and KOLD 13 TV tonight for coverage of the Tucson Tea Party Health Care Town Hall at Rincon High School. Here are pictures from the event.
Two new underpasses in 1 month! Can you feel the excitement. Government will be celebrating another milestone in the history of man with a party at the soon to open (it was quite closed on Wednesday afternoon) I-10 Cushing Street underpass. The festivities begin at 8:00 am this Thursday [...]
Rep. Giffords has several people confused with the rules for attending her upcoming health care town halls. Her office was recommending an RSVP but it turns out the Tuesday evening event is first-come, first-served. Here is a copy of the e-mail that she is sending to people who have [...]
It turns out Tedski at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion has not forgotten District 8. He has a story about one of the candidates running for the chance to take on Giffords. Jesse Kelly, Andy Goss, Brian Miller, and Tom Carlson are out in public campaigning [...]
Our story about the Breakfast and Rally on Friday, August 21st received quite a few comments. You can watch video of the event below. Some readers objected to our portrayal of the event.
Here are the facts. A flyer was distributed the day before that listed MoveOn, SEIU, ACORN as [...]
On Friday, August 7th U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (AZ 8) appeared on Arizona Illustrated. You can view the video here. The Tucson Tea Party organized a protest at her Tucson office on Friday, August 21st, 2009. The video below contrasts the behavior of District 8 voters with Giffords’ words.
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Here is another great video from the latest “mob” activity. This work further debunks the myth that those protesting nationalized health care are recruited by someone else. In fact it turns out the left are the ones using preprinted signs supplied by the likes of ACORN, SEIU, Move-On, and Organizing for [...]
KOLD Channel 13 broke the news that Rep. Giffords has finally given into pressure from voters and will hold 3 town halls. Read the details on the KOLD web site.
Speaking of pressure, here is news footage of the two events today that were held in front of Rep. Gifford’s [...]
A reader commented in the story below regarding the photo of Trent Humphries “…we are still free to attend any type of rally or protest we want. I don’t see him holding a single payer sign.”
Well, an undercover operative at this morning’s “Single Payer” rally just sent this photo to [...]
State Representative Kyrsten Sinema (LD 15) help a tightly scripted health care lecture on Thursday, August 20th in Heritage Highlands (Dove Mountain) in Marana, AZ. Rep. Sinema spoke non-stop for about 45 minutes. Then she addressed the questions that Representatives Fleming (LD 25) and Young Wright (LD 26) selected from [...]
Ben Buehler-Garcia is running for the Ward 3 seat against incumbent Karin Uhlich. Today Ben turned in his qualifying contributions, the first challenger to do so by our records. This is an important step toward qualifying for matching funds from the city. Uhlich turned in her qualifying donations a [...]
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