We Agree: Vote For The Best Three Candidates

---
The Editor of the Explorer, Thelma Grives, posted and editorial today entitled: "It’s not a package deal – Consider OV candidates independently". Click here to read it. Thelma refers to the interviews she did with each of the six candidates, an interview she published last week.   Click here to read that.

In the editorial Thelma writes: "We have heard the rhetoric on both sides, we know who the candidates are, we’ve put out our own questionnaire. Interestingly enough, there was a quick complaint about those questions from a specific group who thought they were too hard. Remember, if you can’t answer hard questions now without telling on The Explorer to your allies, public office is going to be a long-hard road for you to travel. A newspaper’s questions during an election are nothing compared to what a mob of angry residents are going to ask or say when you are looking to raise taxes, or cut programs."(Paragraph 7)

We know for a fact that Bill Garner, Mike Zinkin and Brendan Burns were not the candidates who complained about the "hard" questions.  Read the article that Thelma posted last week. You will see that these three don't back away from the tough stuff!

That said, the three candidates we support in this primary, Burns, Garner and Zinkin, are the best three individuals to deal with the hard decisions---annexation, budgeting, our next general plan, zoning and general plan amendment requests--- that lie ahead.  They will do their homework. They will provide a balance so desperately needed on Council.

Brendan, Bill and Mike will serve only the interest of the people. The will serve as three intelligent, independent Council Members.  They are the best three candidates.
---

It's No Mystery: The Order Of The Candidates On The Ballot

---
There has been some question on the part of our bloggers regarding the order of the names of the candidates on the ballot.  The order of the names is alphabetical but the list may start with a different candidate, then proceed alphabetically.  The list rotates.

We asked Town Clerk Julie Bower about this. We wanted to remove the "mystery."  The following is Julie's response.
---
Candidate names are rotated pursuant to state law.  Specifically:

A.R.S. 16-464. Rotation of names on ballots
A. When there are two or more candidates for a nomination, except in the case of precinct committeemen, the names of all candidates for the nomination shall be so alternated upon the ballots used in each election precinct that the name of each candidate shall appear substantially an equal number of times at the top, at the bottom and in each intermediate place of the list or group of candidates in which they belong. When there are fewer than or the same number of candidates seeking office as the number to be elected, rotation of names is not required and the names shall be placed in alphabetical order.

The rotation has no impact on the counting of the ballots.  The ballot readers are set up to read and tally the different ballot types.

Thanks, Julie

Julie K. Bower, MMC
Town Clerk
11000 N. La Canada Dr.
Oro Valley, AZ 85737
520-229-4740
jbower@orovalleyaz.gov
---