Last nights debate featured all nine candidates running for office this year, according to News 4s Lupita Murillo, the moderator.
  • JOHN DE DIOS
  • Last nights debate featured all nine candidates running for office this year, according to News 4’s Lupita Murillo, the moderator.

Last night’s debate for mayoral and city council seats featured all nine candidates running for office this year. Lupita Murillo, a News 4 reporter, served as a moderator and kept audience questions flowing throughout the evening.

Audience members submit questions for the candidates via write in.
  • JOHN DE DIOS
  • Audience members submit questions for the candidates via write in.
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Paul Cunningham carries a chair to the table after almost coming in late to the debate.
  • JOHN DE DIOS
  • Paul Cunningham carries a chair to the table after almost coming in late to the debate.
Fred Boice, former Arizona Board of Regents president, is among the audience during the debate.
  • JOHN DE DIOS
  • Fred Boice, former Arizona Board of Regents president, is among the audience during the debate.
League of Women Voters Sue DeArmand and Dr. Joyce Ceen Boyl, from the Pima County Womens Commission, sort through the submitted questions throughout the evening.
  • JOHN DE DIOS
  • League of Women Voters’ Sue DeArmand and Dr. Joyce Ceen Boyl, from the Pima County Women’s Commission, sort through the submitted questions throughout the evening.
Paula Wilk, from the League of Womens Voters, is among the volunteers who handed out index cards.
  • JOHN DE DIOS
  • Paula Wilk, from the League of Women’s Voters, is among the volunteers who handed out index cards.

This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.

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One reply on “Last Night’s “Debate””

  1. I went to this debate with the intention of asking a question, but we had to submit our questions in writing to these two women who decided which ones were going to be asked of the candidates. The moderator mentioned something at the beginning about controversial or extreme issues not making the cut (I’m not sure what her exact term was).

    The gatekeepers apparently decided that my question was either too prosaic, irrelevant, insignificant or extreme to be presented to the candidates. I can understand that, after all, it’s an issue that NEVER gets addressed by candidates or the media during these election debates. I’m getting a little more pissed off every time. What’s it going to take to get these people to do something about this? Is it going to take extreme action on someone’s part? If that’s what it’s going to take, I can do it, but I’d rather not have to, of course.

    My question was, “can you fill us in on the details of your plan to stop the killing going on at Pima Animal Control, since most of the victims come from within the City limits?”

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