The Weekly’s reporting on Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller’s decision to push transportation projects into her own neighborhood has had some unexpected consequences.
For example, as the Arizona Daily Star has reported, Miller called 911 because she said our reporting put her in fear for her life—and she asked the 911 operator if he could see about having the Weekly’s story taken down from our website. You can listen to the call yourself here. It was bizarre enough that Fark.com picked it up and more than 100 readers weighed in on it.
- Arizona Daily Independent
In related news, Miller herself set out to investigate the Oasis Road situation with the help of the Arizona Daily Independent, which published a curious screed that included the detail that Miller tumbled into the street while looking at potholes. A photo of Miller sprawled in the street was removed from the ADI website, but we’ve got it here.
Perhaps the most amusing part of ADI’s coverage of our coverage is the claim that Pima County was retaliating against Miller supporters who live along Oasis Road by not paving the section directly in front of their homes—when in fact the section of road that remains unpaved is actually in Marana. We’d say that was an important detail that ADI glossed over.
BTW, Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry was so concerned about Miller’s fall that he wrote a letter to Marana Town Manager Gilbert Davidson.
“The attached Arizona Daily Independent article discusses Supervisor Ally Miller falling in a pothole in Oasis Road and includes a photograph of the incident,” Huckelberry wrote. “Since the Arizona Daily Independent is an online publication with limited exposure, I thought I should bring this matter to your attention so you could consider making the appropriate repairs, as well as provide this information to your Risk Manager, given the article’s implications regarding liability.”
This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2014.
Nice reporting. Good job.
ADI, getting it wrong one rant at a time.
I think you mean that Chuck is the Pima COunty Administrator, not a supervisor.
Ally ALWAYS ceases to amaze!
CamelHerder, you are correct. Fixed.
Falling-down drunk?
This whole story makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Either that, or it’s the Junior Johnson’s Moonshine I’m drinking. Either way, woohoohoo!!
Who elected this freak?
That girl ain’t right.
Finally, a politician who has found a way to fill in a pothole! (face first)
Chipped tooth seal?
I wonder if she knows her address, phone, and email address can be found on the Pima County Elections website under her campaign finance filings. It took me literally minutes of searching to find that.
“Vote for Ally Miller. She’ll bust her ass for District 1 taxpayers!”
To Dls: The “Tea Party” voters in District 1 are responsible for bringing us Ally Miller as the Pima County Supervisor for that district. Her opponent was Nancy Young Wright, a very bright woman with a solid record both as the Amphitheater School District President and a state representative. https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/…
Unfortunately, the troglodytes in District 1 preferred an idiot for their supervisor. Go figure…
@JCC – and the same crowd kept electing Ed Moore!
When you can’t cross the street without falling on your ass you’re gubernatorial material in AZ. Is Tucson becoming as wacky as Phoenix?
IT’S TIMEFOR ALL TO LOOK AT THE REALIY OF COMMENTS INSTEAD OF COMING OUT IN FAVOR OF RIDICULOUS ISSUES.