Highlights this week. Interviews may be abbreviated. For the date and hour podcast to hear more, see the note
00:48 Pima County Democratic Party promotes and echoes the name of an event called "F--- the 4th" held in Tucson at a City Park on Independence Day. (July 5, Hour 1)
6:15 Dan Shearer, Editor Green Valley News, responds to the Pima County Democratic Party promoting and supporting an event called "F--- the 4th" on Independence Day (July 6, Hour 1)
13:08 Pima County Board of Supervisors puts hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funding for Sun Corridor on the Consent Agenda, to be approved with no discussion and no progress report from Sun Corridor. Chris discusses with Jo Ann di Filippo (July 5, Hour 2)
21:04 Bill Beard, Election Integrity subject matter expert, discusses his experience at second Pima County mock election that was necessitated by failures at the first mock election. Excerpt of full discussion. (July 5, Hour 3)
29:45 Pima County Attorney Laura Conover's Chief Deputy Tamara Mulembo left the County Attorney's office. Explosive complaints against Conover made public in a Daily Star article. (July 6, Hour 1)
37:54 Shelley Kais, Pima County GOP Chair, discusses actions taken to place volunteer observers at all Pima polling locations to help ensure election integrity (excerpt of full discussion). (July 6, Hour 2)
45:09 Excerpt of Jo Ann di Filippo and Chris's discussion of the July 5 Pima Board of Supervisors meeting including admission of a conflict of interest by Supervisor Matt Heinz...and low compliance with "mandatory" COVID vaccine in the Elections Dept and Recorder's office staff. (July 6, Hour 3)
56:50 After UCLA and USC left the Pacific Athletic Conference, what does that bode for the remaining teams and what are the implications for college athletics? An excerpt of the full discussion between Chris and Wake Up Tucson Sports Intern Ryan Larson (July 7, Hour 1)
1:06:29 Former Ambassador and Congressman Francis Rooney on the current state of the war in Ukraine. An excerpt of the full interview. (July 7, Hour 3)
1:12:50 Chris's endorsements for Arizona state-wide offices. All of Chris's endorsements including federal, AZ state-wide, legislative, and municipal ballots are also on a single podcast. (July 8, Hours 1, 2)