Runners up:
2. Mayor Bob Walkup, www.ci.tucson.az.us/mayor.html
3. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, giffords.house.gov
Best Public Servant
Rep. Raúl Grijalva
Raúl Grijalva is bent on drawing attention to the needs of the people in Congressional District 7. It's been a long road since he started out on the Tucson Unified School District board in the 1970s; Grijalva worked as an assistant dean at the UA and spent years on the Pima County Board of Supervisors before he got a seat in Congress in 2003. The son of a migrant worker, he's always been vocal about immigration issues; he recently spoke out against Proposition 200 and the Secure Fence Act. Lately, he co-sponsored the Darfur for Peace and Accountability Act and is currently working to preserve land in the Tumacacori Mountains near Nogales. Call him a bleeding heart if you must, but Grijalva aggressively brings the concerns of Southern Arizona to the floor of Congress.
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