The Capn in Action

While Cap’n Al Melvin hasn’t exactly been a friend of the Weekly in the past, I personally could not be more excited by his move to form an exploratory committee to run for governor.

First of all, we would have an answer to the question “After Brewer, it couldn’t really get worse, could it?”

Secondly, while Melvin would probably find a way to appoint his old buddy Russell Pearce to a state office and Arizona as we know it would likely collapse if he managed to win, as an alt-weekly editor, there’d be an endless source of editorial material. Then again, I’d probably end up living next to a nuclear waste dump and AHCCCS and public schools would be things of the past, but hey, think of all the movies that would be filmed here!

Cap’n Melvin, as a Republican voter, you have my full support.

This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2013.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

8 replies on “Al Melvin Considering a Run for Governor”

  2. Could the author be any more smart-ass? I hate the Weekly which I call often call “The Tucson Bleekly” cause they are always and uniformly negative. Check them out every week and see if I’m not right! And you guys bitch about local media of which you ARE one.

    By the way, it’s all about the Benjamins. Check out who owns major parts of downtown and what he used to do…”his” name is Douglas Biggers and he is a business man who owns the entire block of the Rialto Theater.

    Did you people also know that Wick Communications, the firm that published the notoriously anti-business Tucson Weekly also publishes “Inside Tucson Business.” See what I mean? It’s all about the Benjamins.

    Now I personally think there is nothing wrong with that. Hey, I started my small local business with Tucson Weekly classified so thanks Weekly. Just wish you would quit with the rants!

  3. Dan, if you think that Doug Biggers still owns property in downtown, you’re a woefully misinformed individual.

  4. Dan Starr: I think I’m (personally) often a very positive person. I actually really love this city, despite having some issues with how its run (and plenty of issues with the state government). Did you read what I wrote about Pizzeria Bianco coming to town? Do you read when I encourage people to go see concerts, performances, sporting events, etc? I do some ranting, I guess, but when someone as uniformly clueless as Al Melvin decides to run for governor, I think some snarkiness is completely merited.

    THE DAN GIBSON CHALLENGE: Give me one solid example of how I’m “anti-business.” GO.

  5. Elect him. Hell, then the state could be re-named The RepibliKKK of Dumbfuckistan. How did Arizona become the magnet state for the ugliest of Americans?

  6. When will these ignorant conservative politicians understand how out of touch they are with the electorate?

  7. If you look back at AZ governors from history…the impeached, the arrested, the current one…you see how Al Melvin fits. I can see how he might believe that he can do just as good a job in the position. In fact, I can see him practicing his finger-shaking in the mirror already.

  8. Bob, these goofy politicians aren’t all that out of step with the electorate. How does Jan Brewer get elected to a full term as governor? How do people like Matt Salmon, Frank Antenori and that nutty lady from Show Low, St. John’s or wherever who sponsored the bill to allow guns in bars keep themselves in office?

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