While Sen-elect Paton is at it, I think he should also dump the weak mayor system and make the mayor’s job more powerful than that of the bureaucrat, the city manager, and thus more responsive to the electorate. As a merit badge counselor for the Boy Scouts, I always tell them the mayor’s job is mainly cutting ribbons at grand openings and little else. That always seems to shock them, due to the press the mayor gets, but he has no actual power, since he cannot even vote except to break tie votes.

Currently the elections are citywide.

A shame Veritas is so ignorant!

One yes raises eyebrows while three indicates a very poor selection for a private economic investment.

Tucson’s transportation grid and lously downtown area are monuments to having a ward election system.

A shame too, the place has such potential in spite of itself.

Jonathan Paton is the first politician with the backbone, smarts, and clout to start taking down the mafioso system in Tucson.

Oh, and I’m a resident of the City of Tucson who has worked in campaigns for city council.

The fact remains. Republicans like to say the government that works best is the government that’s closest to the people – unless you’re the Legislature, and you don’t like something Tucson is doing.

Would you be OK letting NM, UT, CA, NY, etc. vote on who you nominate to Congress or the US Senate?

In other words, DSW, you couldn’t muster enough political support, so it died.

And in true Republican fashion, when it suits your partisan needs you’ll happily use your legislative majority to force something down the throats of Tucson that it doesn’t want.

Let’s hope you don’t succeed.