It’s been so much fun talking about the Prop 200 debate on Arizona Illustrated that I thought I’d mention that tonight, Democrat Rodney Glassman will be facing off against Republican Lori Oien. They’re running for the Ward 2 seat, but everyone in the city gets to vote.

Arizona Illustrated host Bill Buckmaster has invited me to join him in moderating the debate. It airs at 6:30 p.m. and midnight on Channel 6.

This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2007.

Getting hassled by The Man Mild-mannered reporter

10 replies on “Glassman vs. Oien”

  1. You should show up in a Halloween costume. You should have a water spigot coming out of your head, with some gooey stuff (solid, but made to look like waste material) coming out of it, and then covering your body with more gooey, shiny brown stuff.

    That would be AWESOME!

  2. If only it were Halloween! Maybe Kimble will do that when he co-hosts the debate between Regina Romero and Beryl Baker on Wednesday.

  4. Unfortunately, neither candidate looked like a gutshot deer in the middle of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Although Oien seemed less adept at the wonderful modern trick of “instead of answering your question, I am going to answer a different question, one for which I have a prepared answer…”
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    Say… what was the name of the reporter who did the excellent piece on the water issue just prior to the interview segment? It was a very good piece, and I didn’t catch the reporters name… Was it Nigel Whitington? Lord Pendleton Throckmorton of the Derbyshire Throckmortons? Chad Whitman? Was it Whitey Oldman? Oh no, wait I get those guys all mixed up. It was someone else…

  5. Sprawn: It was certainly less interesting than Friday’s show. But I thought it was interesting that Glassman said he thought Tucson Water should return to direct delivery of CAP water. And that Oien thought we should not, unless Tucson Water said we should, in which case she would support it.

  6. Two first time candidates for City Council… Who knows where they will wind up on any issue once they get elected? They can say practically anything now and that’s a good thing.
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    Oien’s lack of imagination was very offputting… Putting lights in a playground is a “pie in the sky” unattainable dream? That’s the extent of your vision, Oien? Putting lights in a playground is beyond the ability of the City? And a dark, abandoned stretch of playground is somehow “safer” than putting lights in there? At least Glassman (Rodney “Smooth As” Glassman) expressed at least one idea. Oien’s position seems to me to be, “Elect me, so I can sit there with a pinched mean look on my face and say ‘No’ to everything.” Great Lady, you’ve kept the strip club out of your neighborhood… What else can you say ‘No’ to?
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    It’s very easy to “just say No” to anything. It’s also very useless.
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    Candidates (and people considering them) often act like the Governements they intend to join are somehow a single person, albeit a big one. And that this “person” can only do one (big) thing at a time. We can ONLY build parks or we can ONLY concentrate on the water problem or we can ONLY fight crime. Guess what? It’s a BIG government with a lot of people and they can do ALL of these things at the same time. There’s not some magical Governmental Juju that is diminished by doing one thing and not another.
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    All I am saying is I don’t want to live in Oien’s (apparent) vision of a city where all resources go into “fighting crime” and keeping the children safe (the children won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children!). Meanwhile there’s a Walgreen’s (or Walmart) on every corner. People drive to work in their SUVs, drive home to their walled 5,000 square foot stick frame mini-mansions in gated “communities” (where they don’t even know their neighbor’s names). They flick on their TVs and veg out and pass out. Meanwhile their kids are bored out of their skulls, sneak out to smoke pot in the Wash and get pregnant to start the cycle anew.

  7. ==Say… what was the name of the reporter who did the excellent piece on the water issue just prior to the interview segment?==

    You mean the one who was told to narrate the tape of the graying Anglos at the Tucson Regional Town Hall Establishment?

  8. So, you’re saying Tony Peniagua is a mouthpiece and errand boy then? Wow. I’d like to see you say it to his face!
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    Okay… so… let’s establish your position with certainty. There aren’t any Latin@s on the airwaves, except that there are… but that doesn’t disprove your point because the only Latin@s on the air are lap-dog, stuffed-shirt mouth-pieces of the establishment. Is that right?

  10. JN – One of these candidates certainly seems to have had advance access to your story in this week’s T’Weekly. Oien’s comments on CAP water seemed uninformed and frankly unconcerned. She seemed to have been briefed five minutes before going on air, “Family. Crime. Police. Family. Crime. More Police. Police. Fire. Go!”
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    These campaigns always amuse me to tears. You’d think if we don’t vote republican, we will all be burned to death in fires the next day. Are people really so scared of fire?

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