The Pima County Board of Supervisors picked Matt Kopec to replace state Rep. Victoria Steele, who stepped down last week to focus on her congressional run.
Kopec captured the seat with a 4-1 vote with little discussion. Republican Supervisor Ally Miller voted against him.
Kopec, who has worked on many local campaigns and as an aide to Tucson City Councilwoman Karin Uhlich, beat out fellow Democrats Pamela Powers Hannley and Ted Prezelski.
Hannley is already running for a seat in LD9, which includes the north side of Tucson, the Catalina Foothills and Casas Adobes.
The second seat in LD9 is held by Democrat Randy Friese, an emergency-room doctor.
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2016.
Once again, as always, Ray Carroll, Raul Grijalva’s hand picked tool, is a consistent vote for all things left and liberal.
Feel free to move if you don’t like it here. Lord knows there is enough politically to dismay me (but I’d be talking about conservative shills – not liberal), but this is my city and I’ll fight/vote to make it better.
5th poorest city in the country under liberal rule for decades, and damn proud of it.
I guess we can expect more of the same…or worse. And I’m not moving because they’re liberals. I will fight to expand jobs to expand the tax base.
“5th poorest city in the country under liberal rule for decades, and damn proud of it.”
Erm, Tucson is in a Republican state that has been red for a long time, and Arizona’s not doing well generally. It’s just a little bit too convenient to be selective about this. Tucson’s been put down by decades of conservative policies. It’s gotten to a point where there are barely any other major employers in Arizona than government and government contractors. Ironic, isn’t it?
Mark – been out of Tucson the last 10 years? Because there’s tons of jobs and private employers in the Phoenix valley.
These headlines are sickening:
Poverty worsens in Tucson
Where is our leadership?
In fact 8 out of 10 richest cities in the country are in Democratic states (USA Today). No 9 is Denver and No 10, oh yes, Austin, TX. Enough said.
The whiners in Tucson are what make me want to leave, not the politics. So much fucking whining.
Tucson obviously isn’t going to change just because you complained enough on the internet.
There was a time in Tucson’s history where the welcome mat was out for all.
Now that the liberals have taken over, it’s “like it or get the hell out”.
Cities should not be wealthy, citizens should be wealthy. Conservative approaches are inherently immoral because they focus on finance and profitability at the expense of the people being served.
IOW, complaining “the city is poor” is ridiculous, especially to anyone who has been to places like Chicago or Detroit and seen the blocks of empty homes and businesses.
Tucson, its voters, and even its representatives, are constantly under attack by the right wing in this state. Great example: a bill to appropriate a half million dollars to expand an already successful and valuable mental health “first aid” program in the state was proposed, then an amendment to lower it to 250K was accepted. Of course that isn’t enough for the neocons in this state, and so now the bill sits essentially dead because Shooter (a neocon from Yuma) literally proposed “strike everything beyond the introduction and add this” – which was 1000 words or more on cities building sewers. Not one word of the proposed legislation has anything at all to do with mental health, and so the bill sits in stalemate.
The cuts that have been made in this state to the mental health care system since Cenpatico took over Tucson Oct 2015, are substantial and impacting every single person who receives public health care. That means more mentally ill people walking the streets without treatment or medication in a state now infamous for an attempted assassination on one of its representatives. I guess so long as it’s liberal representatives who get shot in the head, the conservatives of this state are ok with that.