Ann Kirkpatrick is in the lead for Congressional District 2, beating out six other candidates. She took the stage at the Pima County Democrats election event to say she’s ready for the general.
“We won this campaign because we were out there talking to people about a Washington D.C. that has completely gone off the rails.”
She said she credits her hundreds of volunteers and great team for her pending win.
“We had energy from so many groups, especially women who met monthly, marched and made phone calls,” she said. “We also had 35 young student volunteers. Two of them couldn’t even vote.”
Tucson Weekly intern Daniel Young-Miller contributed to this post.
This article appears in Aug 23-29, 2018.
If she wins in Nov she will immediately start campaigning for John McCain’s seat which is open in 2020. She does not care about Tucson (doesn’t even live here), ran a very dirty campaign funded by out of state money and only cares about her career as a politician. It’s too bad the local Democrats couldn’t back a local candidate with the experience and record to represent us well, like Mary Matiella. I guess we are stuck with this carpetbagger for two years. Let’s hope Mary runs a better campaign in 2020 and beats Heinz who will surely run again.