For some time now, there’s been this ongoing drama surrounding who provides electric power to the [Peoples’ Republic] City of Tucson. Since 2013, the successor ownership company to Tucson’s star-crossed, city-franchise electric provider, TEP (i.e. Tucson Electric Power), has been Fortis, a giant multi-national utility company HQ’d in the Canadian maritime province of Newfoundland-Labrador.
Fortis has to renew this TEP city-franchise, electric-power agreement in 2026, and has been timidly playing all kinds of nutty & fruitless, consultant-inspired strategies with the increasingly angry legions of Hard-leftists that have come to inhabit Tucson city government. Controlling virtually every seat on the City Council (At-Large elected) and the PimaCo Board of Sups, save for one (former auto dealer Steve Christy), they’ve made no secret of their intention to use TEP as the basis for a new, muni-owned electric company.
On Palm Sunday (3/29) the Left’s newsrag-o-record, the Arizona Daily [Red]Star, published a major op-ed entitled, “TEP is an Existential Threat to Tucson”. Seriously, does this sound like something the Phoenix paper would opine about the (Salt River Project), or APS (Arizona Public Service)? But it’s S.O.P. for the Tucson local perspective.
And the more the embattled Fortis/TEP bends over backward to be nice-guy, Canadian soyboy & soygirl types, the more emboldened the Tucson Hard-Left sees it as weakness and conniving greed. Recently, all this has finally gained the attention of Wall Street utility industry analysts, who are starting to run the spreadsheet numbers on the very real possibility that Tucson could force Fortis out of the SE Arizona desert, and takeover what remains.
I’ve written 2 previous pieces on this ongoing, ever-typical-Tucson/TEP-dumpster-fire, you can read the first here, and the second one linked as well.
In my mind, the very thought of such a “legal” municipal confiscation prompts 2 important conclusions:
- Number One: The regressive, Hard-Left universe of today’s Tucson is the direct result of a past, impotent civic leadership that allowed a Marxist-Socialist cancer to grow and spread, beginning with the late-Cold War, Mayorship of Tamas Jan Volgy (1987-91), a Hungarian-born ‘fellow traveler’, and of course, a University of Arizona Professor of Political Science.
- Number Two: Were the incredibly lightweight people currently installed by the Griftjalva Gang’s gynocrat mafia to actually succeed, takeover, and run TEP, it would spell the end of any attractiveness Tucson still clings to for purposes of economic development. Kiss that goodbye, along with a litany of other economic & tech assets here, totally taken for granted by these demented CoT ideologues.
My advice all along to TEP’s own blinkered management has consistently been: Go On the Offensive.
You need to remind Tucson, in the most brutal way possible, what happens if option #2 above, comes to pass. Why ‘brutal’, you may ask? Very simple: stop thinking you’re trying to persuade a population of erudite people like yourselves… you’re not, not in the least. Fortis doesn’t have that fanciful luxury anymore. Tucson is a banana-peel away from the demographic doom loop I’ve been writing about; that totally comes to pass if #2 occurs.
Think basic, and tell these people the basic reality of what happens in the hardships of their oft-struggling lives when a bunch of loopy college-Marxists start trying to make and sell power. It’ll be the same thing they’ve done with public safety, roads & streets, urban planning, and public education.
It’s not a pretty picture.
Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (Teddy) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization
Satan owns the minds of the Left.
One would think that the uninterrupted failures of gov’t-run services and nationalized businesses would be enough to deter people from letting leaches do that to them, but alas we have generations who can’t be bothered to put down TikTok to safely cross a street, let alone realize WTH is going on around them at a macro level.
“Atlas Shrugged” (Rand, A., Penguin Random House, 1957) needs to be mandatory sophomore-level reading, with juniors doing literary analysis, and seniors need to do contemporary political comparisons. Make Education Great Again (MEGA schools sounds like good PR).
The only things they read now come complete with pictures as they dont really know how to read anything. Even if they could they would not understand what the meaning was. My grandson is a ‘helper’ he is in 5th grade and helps other kids learn to read. He said the kid he helps does not understand the words or what they mean after he reads them! Did you learn phonics in grade school? They dont even teach that anymore.
Have you noticed that in a lot of “news” stories, the pictures don’t EVEN match the written text? Basically pictures for pictures sake. The hell with accuracy.
if we could end party only primaries
were the left gets farthest lefty on ballot and right gets most conservative
with 2/1 margin democrats to so-so GOP – there is no hope anymore
and fascist Regina Romero is worst of worst
well except for new Grijalva girl
more taxes, more takers and soon after Trump – massive illegals
If you want to vote in any primary, register as an independent. But you can only choose one party primary to get involved with, otherwise it defeats the purpose of having a primary.
We wouldn’t have an oman whose district in SE Tucson ne party government in Tucson if we still had ward only elections. When someone from NW Tucson casts a vote for a clowncil whose ward is in SE Tucson then those who overwhelmingly voted for the opposite party lose their choice because someone from another ward canceled out their vote and the leftist wins.