Lopez and Tea Partiers Tear Down Tucson; Uhlich and Romero Tend to the Business of the City

This Saturday, while the tea partiers are busy tearing Tucson apart with a frivolous recall campaign, Pima County Democrats will be cleaning up the community and working to create more jobs.

Tucson City Council Member Karin Uhlich will be helping the Rillito Basin Coalition in cleaning up Tucson. She will then join Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for a small business workshop to find ways to improve the local economy.

Council Member Regina Romero and her staff are working with multiple groups on Saturday. Romero and staff will be at Reid Park for the Senior Olympics and then at the westside Silvercroft Neighborhood pocket park groundbreaking celebration. Her staff will then be hosting a water conservation working group at the Ward 1 Council office.

Meanwhile, the sour-grapes crowd will be busy trying to enable a wealthy developer's do-over and force voters back to the polls to re-affirm three-month-old election results. The developer in question, real estate tycoon Humberto Lopez, is even telling his renters to sign the recall petition. Sadly, if he can buy or strong-arm enough signatures, he can force an astro-turf recall.

“City leaders are busy working through a budget crisis brought on largely by real estate speculators like Lopez,” said Pima County Democratic Party Chair Jeff Rogers. "The Tucson City Council is confronting the same extraordinary budget circumstances every other city, state and county in the country."

"Lopez is right about one thing. It didn't happen by accident. It happened largely because of speculation, bad real estate investments, and predatory lending practices. That he suggests the global financial crisis could have been averted by Tucson’s municipal government is just plain crazy. He can thank his industry for the greatest economic meltdown since the Great Depression."

If you’d like to join the Romero and Uhlich Offices to make Tucson a better place this Saturday, please come to:

Rillito Cleanup
7:45 AM at Children’s Memorial Park (4800 N. Tuttle Ave.)
For more information please call 888-1280

Congresswoman Giffords’ Small Business Informational Workshop
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM at the Eller College, University of Arizona (1130 E. Helen St.)
To R.S.V.P or for more information please call 881-3588.

Senior Olympics
12:00 PM DeMeester Bandshell at Reid Park

Silvercroft Neighborhood Pocket Park Groundbreaking
1:00 PM at the corner of Lester and Chiracahua, off Silverbell North of Speedway

Water Policy Working Group
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM at the Ward 1 Council Office, (940 W. Alameda)

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