In case you’re still trying to figure out who you want to vote for in the mayoral race: Last week’s great Walkup-Croteau debate is up at KUAT’s Web page.
An warning to Ross: There’s no Hispanic candidate in the race, although Croteau does claim some Native American heritage, so that may help you decide which candidate you like.
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2007.
An question: Why are the Democrats sitting this one out, in a predominately Democrat city? (it seems that neither of the two major parties gets energetically interested mayoral election until the incumbent chooses not to run for reelection) What is their plan, if any?
Last time a Democrat ran (I forget his name but I can see his face), some big local Republican businesses which I no longer buy from ran a smear campaign. It was ugly although maybe someone with a better memory can remember more details.
Probably with the Green candidate, they feel there’s no threat. Personally, I rather vote Green than Republican any day. Maybe every Democrat should do that too. Wouldn’t that be a major upset?
The Democratic candidate would be Tom Volgy attempting re-election, innit?
In roughly the past 20 years it was Walkup – Miller – Volgy, right?
Indeed, here’s info on George Miller’s papers:
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/swja/findingaids/sja007.htm
Strangely (morbidly), I thought he had died? I guess not – he is around the age of 85 now.
Yes, interviews/Q&A with old warhorses Volgy and Miller would be interesting (even if on Friday Night Roundtable)and possibly informative. Mostly Red Star thinks Democrats are sitting this one out, awaiting the retirement churn because that’s the pattern around here (and municipal politics is heavily “patterned”)…where that leaves the city in the meantime seems to be of little interest. In a sense a Green vote might be a move to break that pattern, if nothing else.
That was an very interesting blog post. There are an lot of good blog posts here. Every day I like to take an few minutes to check in to the Tucson Weekly and have an relaxing time reading an good posting or two. Sometimes I even leave an comment.
Technically, there’s a Hispanic candidate you can vote for — Guillermo Ortiz, who is one of the two qualified write-in candidates for the mayoral race.
Ortiz is probably best known for, um, getting attacked by his own would-be campaign staffers while meeting them at 1:30 a.m. They were apparently recently from prison, and he claims they gay-bashed him.
So, yeah, technically there’s a Latino in the race. Barely.