Legislative District 29: Elections Happen

With 97 percent of the precinct votes and 4,600 early ballots counted, only 3,000 provisional ballots and roughly 10,000 late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots remain. It looks like the surprises are over for Legislative District 29.
The big surprises last night in LD29 included Patricia Puig and Eric Carbajal Bustamante practically tying for the fourth slot of this [...]

LD29 Speed-Dating: No Love at First Sight

Several of the candidates for House of Representatives in LD29 met at a bar on Thursday night to talk over their differences.
The meeting, organized by Tucson Drinking Liberally, was originally marketed on the website as an “LD29 Candidate ‘Speed Dating’ Forum” but since most of the candidates got cold feet, it was just another night [...]

Air War: TV Ads Debut in LD 29 Seven-Way Super Slam!

Two Democrats in the crowded Legislative District 29 Seven-Way Super-Slam are using their Clean Elections bucks to air TV ads.
Ephraim Cruz shows off his weightlifting skills…

…while Daniel Patterson visits a local playground.

ScrambleWatch Q&A: Democrat Ephraim Cruz on Crime

Democrat Ephraim Cruz is one of seven candidates running for two seats in the Legislative District 29 House of Representatives Democratic primary that voters will decide on Sept. 2. We asked him some questions about crime policy.
Should we increase state funding for prison construction?

I would like to see more funding in areas of prevention. And [...]

ScrambleWatch Q&A: Democrat Ephraim Cruz on Taxes

Democrat Ephraim Cruz is one of seven candidates running for two seats in the Legislative District 29 House of Representatives Democratic primary that voters will decide on Sept. 2. We asked him some questions about tax policy.
Do you support the repeal of the state property tax?
No, I do not. We cannot keep gutting the tax [...]

And in This Corner: Paton Vs. Cruz?

As if all the jockeying between candidates in the Legislative District 29 Seven-Way Super-Slam wasn’t enough, Democrat Ephraim Cruz is now trading jabs with State Rep. Jonathan Paton of Legislative District 30.
Arizona Daily Star political reporter Daniel Scarpinato reports that Cruz took a swipe at Paton in a questionnaire that the morning daily sent around [...]

Seven-Way Super-Slam: Cruz Slaps Patterson

Over in the Legislative District 29 Seven-Way Super-Slam, where seven Democrats are vying for two House seats, Ephraim Cruz has gone on the attack against Daniel Patterson over whether Patterson has properly reported a couple hundred dollars worth of Web-hosting fees to Clean Elections.
Watergate, this ain’t.
The charges against Patterson were first aired in ScrambleWatch’s Muckracker’s [...]

Six Pack: A Not Quite LiveBlog of the Legislative District 29 Debate

Voters in Southside Legislative District 29 will have choose between seven candidates for two House seats in the Sept. 2 Democratic primary. Incumbent Rep. Linda Lopez is seeking the Senate seat that Democrat Victor Soltero is giving up, while incumbent Tom Prezelski is seeking re-election.
Six of the seven candidates met last week in a Clean [...]

Legislative Candidate Ephraim Cruz: “I Have Never Shirked My Responsibilities To My Child”

State House of Representatives candidate Ephraim Cruz decided to break his silence regarding his child-support lawsuit to clarify points that ScrambleWatch reported in our previous post.
Cruz, who is one of seven Democratic candidates seeking two House seat in Legislative District 29, wants ScrambleWatch readers to know that the state-ordered paternity test referenced in the post [...]

Legislative Candidate Ephraim Cruz: No Comment on Child Support Lawsuit

State House of Representatives candidate and former Border Patrol agent Ephraim Cruz is open to talking about a federal court case in which he beat charges of illegally smuggling an illegal immigrant across the border.
But Cruz, who is one of seven Democrats seeking two House seats in southside Legislative District 29, is not as forthcoming [...]