There’s a mystery afoot on the 11th Floor!

Last week, a Sheriff’s Department detective was dispatched to the offices of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, high atop downtown’s County Administration Building.

He was there to solve the case of the missing memo.

This mystery began to unfold when Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier sent a memo to all five Pima County supervisors via the Clerk of the Board to update them on issues surrounding immigration enforcement and the Operation Stonegarden grant.

But District 1 Supervisor Ally Miller didn’t get her copy—and now she wants to know why. While Miller did not return a phone call from The Weekly, it appears she reached out to Napier when her staff told her the memo was nowhere to be found in her mail. While most public officials would have simply asked for another copy of the memo, Miller demanded an investigation into mail theft from her office.

And so last Wednesday, Oct. 24, staff members of the various supervisors were interviewed about whether they had anything to do with stealing Miller’s mail.

This may seem overly paranoid to most readers, but you have to keep in mind that Miller is also the supervisor who is convinced that Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry has bugged her office and who called 911 on Skinny scribe Jim Nintzel because she was unhappy with a story that he wrote. And do we even have to bring up the FBI report she filed in relation to the whole Arizona Daily Herald affair? We’d explain that nutty episode again, but we’ve run out space. Huckelberry called the entire mail-theft investigation “kind of bizarre.”

“I would not have wasted taxpayer dollars on this,” said Huckelberry, who added that there are no security cameras on the 11th floor that might have recorded this dastardly crime.

No word yet on whether postal inspectors will be on the scene next.

The televised edition of Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel airs 6:30 p.m. Fridays on the Creative Tucson network, Cox Channel 20 and Comcast Channel 74. The TV show repeats Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. The radio edition of Zona Politics airs at 5 p.m. Sundays on community radio KXCI, 91.3 FM.

This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2018.

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8 replies on “The Skinny”

  2. Once again the Tucson Weakly’s editor carries out his mission to attack Supervisor Miller and divert attention from Charles Huckelberry’s clear insubordination. First, the county administrator is a hired employee who is legally responsible to the Board of Supervisors. Miller is an elected member of that Board, and therefore, one of Huckelberry’s bosses. Second, the public has a right to know the cost of things, and one of the jobs of the BOS is to ferret out that information for the public. Third, since the BOS is elected and Huckelberry is not, he works for us, all of us. But he forgets that regularly.

    Supervisor Miller has asked a simple question relating to fiscal integrity: How much money has been spent on public art for the Huckelberry bicycle loop? Our employee is refusing to provide that information — which is insubordination. But that is not the story in the Weakly, whose editor continues his Trump-like attacks on Miller. Please, dear readers, look at what Supervisor Miller has said and make up your own minds:

    I am a duly elected representative of the residents of District 1 of Pima County, said Supervisor Miller on Wednesday. As such, I believe it is my duty and within the scope of my authority to request information to assist in carrying out my duties. Huckleberrys response is clearly an act of insubordination. It is my opinion that County Administrator Huckleberry is violating the civil rights of the residents who elected me to this position.

  3. E gads. This is the largest mole hill to hit Tucson since the great parking space scandle of 1980. Citizens rights are being violated as we speak! Its time to make a citizens arrest and show Huckleberry that not sending a memo to everybody is an absolute slap in the face to outraged citizens everywhere who elected supervisors precisely to read those memos. Or not.

  4. Holy diversion, Batman!
    The flying monkeys appear, as if on cue.
    The wicked one must be most pleased.

  7. Hmm…it turns out that Supervisor Richard Elias got his copy two days late. Incompetence in the delivery system, or is someone playing games? In either case, Huckelberry played the Weakly’s editor by not mentioning Elias when he sought another hit piece on Miller. Could Charles be the source of the game-playing? Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after us! And by the way — how many taxpayer dollars WERE spent on public art for the Huckelberry Loop?

  8. Hmm… Who reported a crime to PCSD and wasted taxpayer dollars on an investigation of the theft?
    Lying Ally

    Thats the point.

    Shoo, flying monkey.

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