On tonight’s Political Roundtable: Michael Farley of Arizonans for a Brighter Future and Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry discuss the future of the Kolb-Valencia intersection, which has ignited Farley’s interest in changing the political leadership on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Then Farley joins Republican National Committeeman Bruce Ash, Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Jeff Rogers and Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik to talk about campaign efforts of Arizonans for a Brighter Future, whether it can help unseat Supervisor Sharon Bronson, the campaign-finance complaint filed by Bronson against the group and GOP candidate Tanner Bell, and whether the public should know who is funding the committee.
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2012.
How about putting the names of the participants in the post? That way it would look like you’re promoting it as equally as other exchanges.
This slimy developer Farley is all ticked off over a road he wants for a Walmart, something to the tune of 16 to 24M$ from Pima taxpayers. Walmarts do not bring jobs to an area, they take away better jobs, suck money from a community, and hurt small local businesses. Farley and all his dark money friends(aka contributors) can move to NJ where his political shell is organized, and then Arizona would be indeed brighter. Bruce Ash can go along, too.
Not to belittle the un-enployment & poverty rate. No one mentioned, that Pima’s un-employment rate is influenced by the considerable sized reservations which have rates approaching 50%. Yes, they are part of our greater community and need solutions. However, for a true national level comparison, we need an adjusted value for a more apple to apple comparison to evaluate how Pima in general is doing.
In general, Arizona’s national image sucks, much propagated by our governor. It is viewed as a very violent state, last in public school funding, near highest spending on prisons, etc… Just as this image has hurt the tourism industry even harder in these economic times, these attributes do not inspire confidence for the financial money centers to invest, develop, and move their employees to Arizona. We have to change our state’s image. It is going to take a fair amount of time and energy to reverse this image.
As “Koz” points out there are some positive thinga happening, and we need to build on these successes.
An excellent suggestion, Rip. I’ve edited the post to include a few more details about the show. I would have done it when I originally posted the video, but here’s a behind-the-scenes secret: I posted it while at dinner last night via my iPhone and it’s pretty darn hard to type a lot of words on that itty-bitty keyboard!
That was pretty unsatisfying. A set up piece on the intersection would have helped. Then Farley didn’t really want to talk about it anyway, but Mumbles didn’t engage Farley on the underlying issues either. The roundtable was a free for all. I thought Nintz had left the building. Thank God for Koz, always a voice of reason. PIMA and Tucson are in a downward spiral and the band plays on.
Working while taking a meal is almost invariably a no-win, regardless of iPhone…
If a developer wants a road built to a certain configuration for his specific benefit, he should pony up the money up front. Nudge Nudge Wink Wink and handshakes only go so far and that kind of “understanding” only goes so far, especially when the actual needs at the intersection are being ignored for the convenience of a “developer”. But I guess it’s easier to spend money on negative ads and lies than actually doing something constructive about it.
Davis-Monthan and AMARC need to figure out how they can jointly allow access at the Irvington and South Wilmot gates.
Why is AMARC not ordered to allow active AF to transit their facility from Kolb and Irvington to the main side?
Also, why is the South Wilmot gate not functioning as a traffic ingress and egress for DM. At least during the peak traffic hours?
Does it not make sense that that could alleviate some of the traffic pressure on the Kolb and Valencia intersection?.
Arizona and Florida have a lot in common, a powerful “Growth Lobby” and “Election Fraud”. These short investigative video clips will help one understand what we’re up against:
****CBS Miami Series 1 of 6 10/02/12 Video CBS Miami – For many voters Ion Sancho’s words hold weight. He was the first elections supervisor in America to dare a “look under the hood” of a voting machine, to see if the machines were recording votes properly and if they could be hacked. ” I sanctioned the first investigation of a voting system without the vendor’s authorization,” Sancho recalls. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/02/cbs4-…
****CBS Series 2 of 6 10/09/12 – Does Your Vote Count? Flips are real! “As a result, the wrong winners and losers were called.” Same machines Maricopa Election uses. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/cbs4-…
****CBS Series 3 of 6 10/16/12 – That’s called an overvote, and your vote may be thrown out. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/16/cbs4-…
****CBS Miami Series 4 of 6 10/23/12 – Investigates: Does Your Vote Count? The Recount Test: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/10/23/cbs4-…
****Pima County had purchased the same hacking tool used to program the memory card before voting so that it would print the results they wanted as opposed to the actual votes showed in the CBS Miami series on “Does your Vote Count? Here is a copy of the invoice http://electiondefensealliance.org/files/c…
****This video clip of Attorney Bill Risner Explaining in court How Election Fraud Works in Pima County.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE0kOvFjn_0…
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