Written by Last night’s Tucson City Council meeting was very well attended. The room filled up quickly and many people were standing in the hallway and lobby listening over speakers. Most people were opposed to new taxes but several people did speak in favor of continued taxpayer funding for their pet projects. Here is a photo essay of the Tuesday night.
Lots of free food
The media was there in force
Buses arriving with renters
A sea of red
The Tucson Chamber was well represented
Tea anyone?
Wake up Tucson interviewing a city resident
Wake up Tucson interviewing Ward 2 councilman
Ward 2 was actually againts the tax
Lots of candidates
Councilman Leal
More media
Mr. Justice
Trying to get in the hearing room
The room was full
The cloth was well represented
Great sign
The Tucson City Council
Nina Trasoff reading with eyes closed
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Watched on TV. The funniest were the Clothy-people who actually had the chutzpah to stand up in front of the council and 600-1000 people and say with a straight face that they needed MORE money from the city. That’s balls.
Some of the rent speakers were very good, some were obvious crackpots.
One guy stood up and said “you’re taxing me on something I DON’T have”, meaning presumably a house to own, which was an interesting way of looking at it.
Another guy stood up and reminded Mayor Walkup how they were both at a hearing to save DM 18 years ago and reminded Walkup, now on the other side of the public comments mic how he felt 18 years ago asking a governing body to consider the public inputs on a decision.
Still another guy, a city worker, stood up and railed against monumental waste by the city of Tucson. Even said that just at Water, presumably where he works, he sees millions wasted down the drain. Then he said his testimony wouldn’t be very helpful for his prospects for continued employment or carreer advancement at the city.
Then one guy got up, said he’d just watched Obama that morning speaking, and from that deduced that the city should cut nothing, not increase taxes, and just borrow the $80M because Obama said interest costs are ridiculouly low…hey, they couldn’t all be eloquent or even in the realm of sanity.
What’s Nina wearing? A hoody? Great photo of her.
“Swine Snell” actually looks like a pig.
Did you notice that the Cloth speakers didn’t speak extemporaneously and all their comments came straight out of a PR shop?
I am the person holding the sign Handouts for Artists = Pain for Renters. My wife and I are renters, and we did this on our own. I’m honored that it was put up on this site. A big shout out to my wife Pat for the actual writing – I thought up the slogan, but neatness counts!