On Arizona Public Media’s Political Roundtable this week: Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik, Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries, Pima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers and Republican strategist Sam Stone talked about some of the lessons of the 2012 election and kicked around ideas about how the GOP should be address its growing problem with Latino voters. And in a bonus segment, state lawmakers Steve Farley, Bruce Wheeler and Victoria Steele joined Arizona Capitol Times reporter Hank Stephenson to talk about the upcoming legislative session and how the state will go about implementing the Affordable Care Act.

This article appears in Nov 22-28, 2012.

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5 replies on “Political Roundtable: Latino Politics, Lessons from the Election and a Legislative Preview”

  1. Mr. Nintzel. Why is it the Roundtable has THREE Republicans and ONE Democrat? Given that the Tucson city council has a Democratic majority, as does the Pima County board, and our three members of congress are similarly Democrats, and (thank god) Mr. Antinori has turned his seat over to a Democrat, it would seem that there are enough Democrats around to be able to have a more balanced Roundtable. Indeed it is thought appropriate to have fringe representation on the program, how about having a Green, a representative of a real, recognized, legitimate political party take the place of the tea party representative.

  2. Well this is roughly the same panel they’ve run with for months. One whack-job (Trent), one delusional old fool (Sam), two sane people and moderator Jim. If Trent can’t make it, Sam becomes both delusional and a whack-job. Steve is a voice of reason and Jeff usually sits there wondering why he keeps agreeing to be on the show and lets the crazy fall out of Sam’s or Trent’s mouth. It works pretty well. If you put a Green on there, then Trent would become a whack-job Super Nova and the ensuing explosion could take out Jeff and Steve.

  3. I could see substituting a Green for Sam. Then it would be Tea Party-Green-Democrat-Republican. Make for a lively slugfest.

  4. This simply means we need to get all races involved with voting nothing more, we cannot let one race try and dictate what our country needs.

  5. So why wasn’t Mari Herreras who works for, uh the Weekly or for that matter, Ernesto Portillo, still working for the Star, invited to be a part of this panel or Michael Chihak?

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