Larry Bodine 
Steve Farley, one of three Democrats running in a primary for Mayor of Tucson, conceded defeat at 8:18 pm on Tuesday night, trailing Democrat Regina Romero by 5,300 votes. With all 135 precincts counted, there were 44,941 votes cast for mayor: DORMAN, RANDI . . . . . . . . . 5,606 FARLEY, STEVE … Read more
A sleazy flyer from a dirty money group arrived at Tucson voters’ homes last week, distorting candidate Steve Farley’s record, and boosting his primary opponent Regina Romero. Democrats at a meeting I attended were disgusted as they passed around cell-phone pictures of the flyer. The appalling element is that it benefited Romero, who campaigns as … Read more
“Too many Moms are dying from pregnancy-related causes. Too many babies are dying. Too many babies are born prematurely or with low birth weight. Too many babies are born with birth defects. Too many Moms don’t get adequate prenatal care,” said Tucson State Representative Pamela Powers Hannley. She spoke at a recent meeting of the … Read more
It is unlikely that Congress will do anything about gun safety until after the 2020 elections, when the pro-gun legislators should be voted out of office. The past is prologue and within two weeks social media, cable news, and print newspapers will jump on something besides the gun massacres in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy. … Read more
The Outlaw Dirty Monday campaign has opened 11 Tucson “depot” locations where volunteers and petition circulators can get petitions and information kits to put the initiative on the state ballot. The group, a non-partisan PAC to eliminate secret funders of political campaigns in Arizona elections, has collected 30,000 of the 357,000 required signatures. “Why is … Read more