And both of ‘em are counter-intuitive (but they’ll work); and they are simple; just not easy.
The American Left hates “simple”; in their world everything is complex & complicated. They conflate simple with easy. Leonardo reminded us, “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
In the meanwhile… the mundane, Woke class of Tucson’s “high-IQ stupid people” have once again, foisted another urban fantasy on Arizona’s #1 victimized, City-of-the-Suffering.
Coming up November 4th, is a vote on Prop 417. It’s a grab bag of the latest fashionable planning nostrums, from the City’s sinecured bureaucrats & handsomely compensated councilors, who stage-managed the review process. These people couldn’t run a C-store, they live in an increasingly thin bubble, but have been allowed to govern by an equally craven, detached, (and clueless) crowd of elitists, taking their last effete shots at relevance, before heading on out of town to trophy-house #3 or 4.
Seriously Tucson, if you pass Prop 417, all is lost.
HOWEVER, after defeating Prop 417 is accomplished, the following 2 courses of action will act to save the City. From that rapidly deteriorating urban context many of you profess to care about; (Or have been consigned to live in and basically cannot escape.) The 2 items below are simple, they’re just not easy; they will work, albeit counter-intuitively.
#1. Ward-Only Voting: Since March 26, 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression, when Tucson City voters, numbering less than 15,000 vs. more than ~300,000+ today, approved a city charter change to their original 1877 incorporation, allowing a hybridized version of “At-Large” elected seats on the City Council. “At-Large” configurations are a death-knell to any broad, consensus-based governance in our fast-changing modern age; they can be so easily gamed by a single political party and its entrenched, paid bureaucracy of parasites. In 2022, I penned a longer explanatory piece on this, regarding Oro Valley’s struggles with At-Large voting. And the account of how Tucson’s then Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, pulled out all the legal stops in 2015 to maintain Tucson’s ‘At-Large’ election abomination. Rothschild easily understood how this empowers the very nasty, noxious weed-root of Dimshevik dominance of Tucson (and its crap city government).
#2. Amend Arizona’s Onerous Anti-Annexation Law for Large Cities: Legal scholars and planning experts will tell you Arizona has America’s most stringent, anti-annexation law for larger cities, a product of the state’s paranoid Rural Caucus, and passed by the Legislature in the 1990’s. If this law is repealed or amended, then Tucson will be free to annex that 40-45% of its Metro still in Pima County. Yes, and that’s the whole point. The imminent threat of annexation is the very reason today the Metro has 2 well-run cities like Marana and Oro Valley; both of whom incorporated to avoid being just another appendage of Shitty Tucson. Hey, fear of the obvious works; especially when dealing with the quality of the people now running the ‘Dirty-T’.
Getting back to the implied title question, how exactly does this ‘save’ Tucson?
Well for starters, item #1 is an active effect, it directly alters an existing, and deeply dysfunctional process that has deprived the City [for decades!] of any kind of dissenting opinions. And it opens up a new body of managerial expertise and creative thought, heretofore conspiratorially suppressed.
The second item is more indirect, it allows for a Metro population to escape the parasitic clutches of a corrupt & insular Pima County, using the genuine fear of being annexed by the City of Tucson. Looking longer-term here, I am far more optimistic about the extended potential of Tucson when its central city core is surrounded by competing and relevant new cities. This dynamic cannot help but force improvement on everyone.
Of course none of this matters if Prop 417 is passed on Nov. 4th. Its aftermath will produce a myriad of new City problems and conditions that will render an already overburdened Tucson impotent for decades to come.
Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (TR) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization.
Post “election:”
NY and NJ went commie because republicans have left the state and the only ones left were democraps, despite whatever other excuses are made (populace fed up with broken promises, etc.)
What about Tucson? Obviously repubs haven’t fled so that just means the populace is generally stupid. Prove me wrong.
Yes this has been published (in other forms) here many times, but the real issue is a lack of education by the supposed educators in the school system. Indoctrination is their holy cow, the result is that the kids DO NOT KNOW anything and the parents are even dumber. They vote for the D behind the name, having no idea WHO they are voting for, the the greedihalfas and the various out of touch mayors the city has suffered under, then add in the dumb clowncil members like illiars who was more than worthless. They are AFRAID OF WARD ONLY VOTING BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT IT WOULD BE THE END OF THEIR EMPIRE. When we returned home from the army in 94 we encountered the school bored and my daughter had been in HONORS courses at her last school, but her grades were not accepted and good old molly ensured that intelligent kids were kept down. Got this from another bored member when I asked why and he indicated it was molly and friends. So yes you can rant and rave but we need to find someone who can push back and get something done for the PEOPLE.