Arizona: Karin Uhlich

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The updated numbers are now in for the City of Tucson election. As of 13:43:36 on November 4, 2009. with 100% of precincts reporting, here are the unofficial results:

City Council Ward 3

Karin Uhlich (D)            30,350  47.22%

Ben Buehler-Garcia (R)  29,906  46.53%

Mary DeCamp (G)            3,928   6.11%

City Council Ward 5

Richard Fimbres (D)     33,847  53.25%

Shaun McClusky (R)      29,560  46.51%

City Council Ward 6

Nina Trasoff (D)           31,116  48.78%

Steve Kozachik (R)       32,448  50.87%

Prop. 200 Public Safety First Initiative

Yes                             19,510  29.72%

No                              46,139  70.28%

Prop. 400 Home Rule Budget Override

Yes                             31,671  49.42%

No                              32,416  50.58%

Prop. 401 TUSD Operations Budget Override

Yes                             26,206  40.96%

No                              37,778  59.04%

Prop. 402 TUSD Technology Budget Override

Yes                             24,821  38.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Shaun McClusky is a political neophyte. Hell, he admits that he wasn't politically active and didn't even bother to vote in city elections before he was recruited by the GOP to run for city council. So I know the latest actions are being directed by the GOP "brain trust" of Bill Arnold, Bruce Ash and Jim Click. This has their brand of Roger Ailes/Lee Atwater/Karl Rove "politics of personal destruction" fingerprints all over it. The kid doesn't like it.

I received a large glossy flier from the McClusky campaign with big, bold headlines screaming that money destined for the Tucson Police Department has "disappeared" and is "missing," and that Richard Fimbres won't say what happened to it.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I thought Sen. Jesse Helms, the unreconstructed Southern ultra-conservative culture warrior and unapologetic redneck racist from North Carolina, died in 2003? Apparently his spirit is alive and well in Tucson.

"Senator No" was a culture warrior who excelled at wedge issue politics. One of Helm's favorite targets was federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

I read in today's Arizona Daily Star that Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art is defending itself in a preemptive press release against an attack ad apparently set to run soon against council members Nina Trasoff and Karin Uhlich. The attack ad focuses on an art exhibit that ran three years ago that allegedly featured "phallic imagery that some might consider pornographic.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

A Republican campaign worker dropped off walk pieces for the GOP Tucson Council Council candidates at my door today. (I understand that Republicans have $1 million to drop on this city council race and have the money to piss away on Democratic voters). Well, I'll make you pay for littering my doorstep with your trash.

Time for a Fact Check, since the practically useless Arizona Daily Starsure as hell won't do it. Too much advertising money is being spent by GOP money-man Jim Click lately on full page color ads. If you believe advertising revenue does not affect news content, I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.