Democrats winning Tucson city council seats, public safety initiative failing and most school measures failing in election tabulations

By Inside Tucson Business
Published on Tuesday, November 03, 2009

In their races for re-election to second terms on the Tucson City Council, Karin Uhlich held a 7-point margin and Nina Trasoff held a 4-point margin over their closest challenger with about half the votes tabulated. In the one council race not featuring an incumbent, Richard Fimbres held a 13-point margin. All three are Democrats, which would mean the six-member Tucson City Council would remain made up entirely of Democrats, with Mayor Bob Walkup as the only Republican.

Proposition 200, the controversial Public Safety First initiative, was being soundly defeated with more than 70 percent of the votes.  

Among school districts asking voters to approve additional spending measures, only Catalina Foothills and Indian Oasis-Baboquivari were getting their measures passed, though with about one-third of the precincts reporting Vail voters seemed to be divided, favoring passage of a bond package but not not approving of an override of the district's operations budget. Most of the results from school districts were limited.

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But with more than one-third of precincts reporting voters in Tucson Unified School District seemed to have rejected the district's third attempt in as many elections trying to get approval for budget overrides.

These are unofficial election results for the Nov. 3 general election for the city of Tucson and school districts in Pima County.  These results were as of 10:07 p.m. Nov. 3 and include tabulations from early voting and a percentage of precincts in each jurisdiction. In the city of Tucson 52 of the 89 precincts (58%) have been counted.  

Results are posted as they become available from Pima County. 

City Council – Ward 3

Ben Buehler-Garcia (Rep.)    22,570       43.3%

Mary DeCamp (Green)              3,277          6.3%

Karin Uhlich (Dem.)                 26,204        50.3%

City Council – Ward 5

Richard Fimbres (Dem.)      29,215      56.7%

Shaun McClusky (Rep.)        22,192       43.1%

City Council – Ward 6

Steve Kozachik (Rep.)      24,646       47.7%

Nina Trasoff (Dem.)         26,888        52.0%

Proposition 200 – Public Safety First Initiative

Yes              15,438       29.0%

No                33,800        71.0%

Proposition 400 -  Home Rule spending

Yes              26,633        51.2%

No                25,352        48.8%

Tucson Unified School District

60% of precincts reporting

Proposition 401  – M&O budget override

Yes                22,238       41.9%

No                30,866        58.2%

Proposition 402 – Capital budget override

Yes                21,021       39.5%

No                32,130        60.5%

Amphitheater Public Schools 

16% of precincts reporting

Proposition 403 – Renewal of M&O budget override

Yes                6,707        47.8%

No                7,340        52.2%

Proposition 404 – Capital budget override

Yes                6,589       46.8%

No                7,493        53.2%

Tanque Verde School District  

Early voting only 

Proposition 405 – Renewal of M&O budget override

Yes                703        43.5%

No                915        56.5%

Proposition 406 – $14 million bond election

Yes                775        47.8%

No                847        52.2%

Catalina Foothills School District

8% of precincts reporting  

Proposition 407 – $22.8 million bond election

Yes                2,747        64.1%

No                1,538        35.9%

Vail Unified School District 

33% of precincts reporting 

Proposition 408 – $15 million bond election

Yes                2,678        54.0%

No                2,281        46.0%

Proposition 409 – Renewal of M&O budget override

Yes                2,260        45.5%

No                2,707        54.5%

Sahuarita Unified School District

12% of precincts reporting 

Proposition 410 – Renewal of M&O budget override

Yes                611        40.9%

No                881        59.1%

Proposition 411 – $27 million bond election

Yes                753        50.4%

No                740        49.6%

Proposition 412 – Investment earnings for bond projects

Yes                741        49.8%

No                747        50.2%

Indian Oasis-Baboquivari School District

Early voting only 

Proposition 413 – Renewal of M&O budget override

Yes                61        84.7%

No               11        15.3%

Proposition 414 – Renewal of K-3 budget override

Yes                61        84.7%

No                11        15.3%
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Comments

RyeR wrote on Nov 12, 2009 10:56 AM:

" Hey Bobster - Still waiting for the Trasoff resurrection? How about that. The Tea Party candidate buried a crooked lib. You shouldn't be surprised but I know you are. Almost lost Uhlich too. She'd better be very aftraid next time. Board of Supervisors are next as well as the Mayor. "

Robert Rowley wrote on Nov 4, 2009 12:14 PM:

" So where is this supposed mandate that the Teabaggers were bragging about? 15,000 ballots still to be counted...don't write Trasoff off yet, Krapochick and his 'baggers are nothing to be worried about. "

Cisco wrote on Nov 4, 2009 10:40 AM:

" For Gary M.

I'm sorry sir but Uhlich didn't fight crime in those neighborhoods, the police did. It is the police that have to do the job and the lousy politican Uhlich takes the credit? If she was for public saftey; as well as the rest of the garbage on the City council, then Prop 200 would have never seen the light of day. It is because she and the others refuse to fund the police and fire department approperately that prop 200 was introduced.

It seems as though we may have at least 1 new council member now and hopefully he will be the catalyst to get things moving in the right direction.

But please sir, do not take uhlich's inaction and poor judgement and turn it around to say that she did what the police accomplished. She had nothing to do with it and our City Budget shows it. "

Gary Maskarinec wrote on Nov 4, 2009 12:29 AM:

" I read in the Daily Star last week a letter from a man in the vicinity of Woods Library who extolled the success of Karen Ulich's influence in attacking the crime in his neighborhood. The only odd thing about reading that was that I thought our neighborhood (Paul Bunyan's, at Glenn & Stone, one of the top 3 most crime-ridden square miles in the country) was the only one where she succeeded in getting rid of the bad guys. Now I have learned that she has been the driving force in reducing crime in the 5 most dangerous neighborhoods in Tucson. This was a big thing, as far as I'm concerned. In my 20 years of living in one of Tucson's poorest neighborhoods, I can say that Ms. Ulich has been the only council member who ever made a difference, and secondly that she made a great big difference. Not just words, this woman makes this city much better. Anybody who opposes her re-election is ignorant. Sincerely, Gary Maskarinec "

Kyle wrote on Nov 3, 2009 11:25 PM:

" Bill, it will be even more costly when some meth user goes dumpster diving to steal your IDs and financial infomation. You won't have any police to catch the dumpster diver because they're out on call maybe at one of the 70+ homicides that we've had like last year. Do you any idea how many theft/larceny cases there are in this city annually? Its astronomical. The chances of you having your vehicle stolen are increasing.
The bill may have passed if they would have left off the fire dept section of it; that is where the real problem with it was. But I can tell you as a resident of a condo community near Wilmot/Pima, we definitely need the Police at at least a slightly higher presence. "

Cisco wrote on Nov 3, 2009 9:48 PM:

" I hope that the new guys that were running for City counsil can pull it off at the end. I can't believe that after all the failures Uhlich and Trasoff have accomplished over these past years with Rio Nuevo, Spring training, sweetheart deals for friends to get no to low rent leases, the death of downtown business and the upcoming loss of the gem show; idoitic people still voted for them because they are "Deomcrats".

Well Tucson, if you vote these morons back in, you get what you deserve. "

bill wrote on Nov 3, 2009 9:31 PM:

" Well from what I see the election pretty much went the way I figure I am glad the people of tucson did not vote for prop 200 Has I see it has a costly measure to not only the people but the city of Tucson. "

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