Free mental health trainings for the community

Coming up free for businesses/groups in February are Mental Health Safe Space trainings. Info from the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding created by now-CD 2 Congressman Ron Barber after he was shot on January 8, 2011:

◦Mental Health Safe Space Trainings are 90 minutes and are provided to businesses, government employees and residents in downtown Tucson for FREE.
•This project is a collaborative campaign focused on educating the our community about mental illness to eliminate fear and invoke compassion and understanding.
•Our hope is that participants will leave the training with a better knowledge of mental illness, ways to identify a mental health crisis and resources for support in various situations.
•The goal is to create a “Stigma Free Zone” and build a more educated and compassionate community to prevent discrimination and misunderstanding, and to improve public safety.

To sign up your organization members (minimum needed of 15 people, maximum 30 people), click here. The training area is limited right now to the downtown area, with hopes to expand into the city in the future.

And if you’re interested in individual mental health first aid training for yourself or others, contact Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, which has been offering free trainings since the 1/8/11 mass shooting:

Following the tragedy of January 8, 2011, CPSA partnered with the Arizona Department of Health Services/Division of Behavioral Health Services and the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare to expand and launch statewide a training campaign called Mental Health First Aid. CPSA debuted the training in southern Arizona in 2010.

Mental Health First Aid is an evidence-based public education program that teaches average people a five-step process to recognize and help when a person is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.

The training equips people to identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness and provide initial help until appropriate professional, peer or family support can be engaged. Participants also learn about risk factors and warning signs of specific illnesses such as anxiety, depression, psychosis and addiction.

More info about CPSA’s trainings at: http://www.cpsaarizona.org/training/Pages/Mental-Health-First-Aid.aspx
I enrolled in the 2 day training (half days in the weekday afternoons) at the CPSA Training Center, located at 2502 N. Dodge Blvd. (north of Grant Road), in Tucson last fall. There were about 50 participants, and we learned how to recognize when a person may be exhibiting signs of mental illness and the phone # to call for assistance, the Crisis Response Network, 520-622-6000. Check their website for upcoming classes, including one entitled Youth Mental Health First Aid on January 30 and 31. You must pre-register before taking this class.

Contact CPSA Training
Training@CPSAArizona.org
(520) 318-6950, Ext. 3000

Concert for Civility on January 19 at Hotel Congress

Tickets $15, children 12 years and under free.

UPDATE: Calexico (Congresswoman Gabby Giffords’ favorite band) will be performing, from previous poster which stated that Joey Burns of Calexico would be on stage.

Check out this great family-friendly concert and support the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, www.fundforcivility.org. This is the fund which was established by Ron Barber (now Congressman in CD 2) as a result of his being shot twice on January 8, 2011 during that Tucson Tragedy.

“Living for 32” film & panel about gun violence at the Loft

“Living for 32” documentary (40 minutes)

Tuesday, January 7 at 6:30pm at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway

Free Admission, doors open at 6 p.m.

Official Selection / 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Join us on January 7th for a screening of Living for 32, with a panel discussion to follow. On April 16th, 2007, 32 students were gunned down in a senseless shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. Colin Goddard was in the room, and survived multiple gun shot wounds. On the 7th, Colin will join the Tucson Chief of Police, Pima County Sheriff, representatives of the Mental Health service provider community, Mayor Rothschild and City Council member Steve Kozachik to discuss local initiatives related to mental health issues, background checks and other related topics. This forum is presented by The Loft Cinema, with support from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Organizing for Action and the Tucson Coalition against Gun Violence. (Dir. by Kevin Breslin, 2011, USA,
40 mins., Not Rated) Digital

Panel discussion to follow the film showing, with panelists:

Jim Nintzel, Master of Ceremonies (investigative reporter, Tucson Weekly)
Colin Goddard
Mayor Jonathan Rothschild
Steve Kozachik, Councilman, Ward 6
Clarke Romans, NAMI
Jeannette Mare, MH First Aid Training
Roberto Villasenor, Chief of Tucson Police Department
Clarence Dupnik, Pima County Sheriff
Lisa Kiser, RN

Per Councilman Steve K, who organized this event:

The documentary gives focus to the importance of mental health assessments and also to background check legislation. We’ll talk about both. As a special addition to the evening Stephen Brigham, UAHN & One-Eight Memorial Foundation Board Member will give an update on where that committee is with respect to location and ‘look’ of the community memorial.

This event is scheduled to coincide with the 3rd anniversary of that January 8, 2011 Tucson Tragedy shooting, in which 6 people died and 13 others were wounded, including former CD 8 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and current CD 2 Congressman Ron Barber.

Dedication of new Tucson WWII Memorial (photos)

WWII memorial before unveiling

Perhaps the most solemn, touching moment yesterday at the dedication of the Tucson WWII Memorial was when “Taps” was played at a moment of silence before an empty chair “representing all those no longer with us” as proclaimed by Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild. About 500 people were at this unveiling of the monument at Armory Park (221 S. 6th Avenue) designed by artists Laura Slenning and Rebecca Thompson.

Photos above & below of the dedication by former Tucson birthday free lance photographer Jon Scanlon.

Memorial with Ft. Huachuca Select Honor Color Guard

The creation of this memorial was the hard work by a lot of people most notably Councilmembers Steve Leal and Richard Fimbres of Ward 5, their staff members esp. Melinda Jacobs, the families of the late Gilbert Quintanilla, a U.S. Marine, and Connie Lujan Harris, who had first approached Councilman Leal about erecting such a memorial in Tucson in 2005. More history in my previous post (click here).

Speaking at the dedication were:
– Ward 5 Councilman Fimbres, who spoke of the 8 ½ years it took to build the memorial to “thank & honor those who served & died in WWII.”
– Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, who read the City of Tucson’s proclamation, with “the highest respect and admiration for those who served in WWII”, who showed “indomitable spirit and fortitude”. His lawyer father is a WWII Veteran.
– CD 2 Congressman Ron Barber, who said their “WWII service will never be forgotten”, as the son of a WWII U.S. Army Air Corps veteran. He spoke of the impact of losing 400 Tucsonans whose names are on the memorial, from a much smaller Tucson community of only 40,000 at the end of WWII.
– D 2 Supervisor Ramon Valadez, who read Pima County Board of Supervisors’ proclamation.
– City Manager Richard Miranda, the son/son-in-law of WWII Veterans, who spoke of keeping their “sacrifice and commitment in our hearts”.
– former Ward 5 Councilmember Steve Leal, who reiterated Gilbert & Connie’s dream and perseverance, that the “soul of Tucson harnesses itself to what needs to be done” in the building of this memorial. His father and uncles served in WWII.
– former House Rep. Phil Lopes, who explained how he fought to get $100,000 from the State budget.
– former Mayor George Miller, a U.S. Marine in WWII, now age 91 who jokingly spoke of when he was younger about how they laughed of the old “guys left from the Civil War”, and that now he was one of the old guys left from WWII.Mayor Miller spoke of “3 important wars – the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and WWII, which “ended facism in Europe and the Pacific.” He also reminisced about a friend of his (nearly blind in one eye) who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in WWII and died in battle.

Former Mayor George Miller, US Marine Corps WWII veteran

– D 5 Supervisor Richard Elias, spoke of “honoring all who served”, and whose cousin Henry A. Elias is one of the names on the memorial.
– Matthew Sample and Kellianne Candelaria, grandson and daughter respectively of Gilbert and Connie, who both thanked everyone present for making their family’s dream a reality in such a collaborative effort.

Connie Lujan Harris’ daughter Kellianne Candelaria and Gilbert Quintanilla’s grandson Matthew Sample (L-R)

Diocese of Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas spoke of the “blessings of peace, and eternal peace for those who died” in WWII, after the unveiling of the memorial. Jerry Carlyle, Vice Chair of San Xavier District of Tohono O’odham Nation also solemnly performed a Native American blessing.

WWII memorial unveiled with names of over 400 Tucsonans who died in battle

Memorial unveiled with some WWII veterans who assisted with the unveiling

Many other politicians/officials were present today: State Senators David Bradley, Steve Farley, Olivia Cajero Bedford; State Reps. Ethan Orr, Andrea Dalessandro, Macario Saldate, Bruce Wheeler; Tucson Councilmembers Shirley Scott, Regina Romero, and Karin Uhlich, representatives from Councilman Paul Cunningham’s and CD 3 Congressman Raul Grijalva’s offices;former State Senator Victor Soltero, former House Rep. Ted Vogt, now State Director of Veteran Services; Don Jorgensen, Chair of the Pima County Democratic Party, and CD 2 House candidate Col. Martha McSally.

The compass design on the memorial’s east side represents “that Tucsonans left home to fight in every corner of the world” according to Councilman Fimbres (see photo below). The actual wording is “The compass at the heart of this Memorial is a reminder that this war was fought from every direction across the globe”.

compass on the WWII memorial’s east side

farewell to fallen comrades

WWII memorial with most of the WWII veterans in attendance at the dedication on November 1, 2013

Local officials join with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense today

National Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense today in Tucson

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 9 women are shot & killed each week by their abusers.

City, State and Federal politicians/officials joined a national advocacy group Moms Demand Action at a press conference today to highlight national domestic gun violence awareness – for stronger policies surrounding gun ownership & domestic violence (D.V.). This event was held at organizer Councilmember Steve Kozachik’s Ward 6 office, 3202 E. 1st St.

Arizona ranked #5 in worst homicide rate among female victims murdered by males, 56 % of those related to D.V, and 65 % killed by guns. This was from a report issued 9/25/13 by the Violence Policy Center, listing the 10 top states w/ highest rates of women murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2011.

Moderater Ward 6 Councilmember Steve Kozachik started off by saying that there is a need for background checks at gun shows.

Jocelyn Strauss, Regional Mgr. of Moms Against Demand Action, who spoke first of this “devastating problem, the overlap of D.V. and guns”, being herself a seven year victim of an abusive relationship, both psychological & physical. She (a mother of two) said that “any incident of D.V. is intolerable.”

CD 2 Congressman Ron Barber, a father of two daughters and three granddaughters, said we “need to raise awareness about domestic violence”, and that the next step in federal legislation is universal background checks for gun owners. He is concerned that convicted D.V. abusers can still get guns online and at gun shows. Barber is himself a mass gun shooting survivor of January 8, 2011 at the Tucson Tragedy.

Mayor Jonathan Rothschild said that a gun in the household multiples the risk factor by 5 for violence. He said that “46 women will be murdered this month of October by their current or former partners”, that D.V. was “a crime of silence and control”.

LD 10 House Rep. Bruce Wheeler said that “common sense is missing” re: background checks, & that he was pushing to introduce Genna’s Law this year, and will continue again for this legislation next year (which would require breathalizer tests for accidental shooting cases). Genna Ayup was a 27 year old Tucson woman allegedly shot accidentally by her drunk boyfriend in 2012.

Ward 3 Councilmember Karin Uhlich said we need to “prevent violence against women, having worked in this field for 30 years”, and being a mother of several children.

City Manager Richard Miranda, the former Tucson Police Chief, said that back in the 1970’s D.V. was in the shadows, but that advocacy was abundant now to raise awareness against D.V.

Asst. Police Chief Brett Klein (head of investigative services bureau) related that in one year, TPD gets 9,000 calls on domestic violence, 5000 of those being physical assaults, 600 aggravated assaults where serious injury and/or a weapon was involved, 70 domestic violence aggravated assaults that involved the use of a firearm. Now there are D.V. Courts, trained prosecutors, victim services.

Also in attendance today were 1/8/11 Tucson Tragedy shooting victims Suzi Hileman and Pam Simon, as well as Mark Kimble (present on that day, but not shot). About 25 people were there, some from women’s advocacy groups such as the Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission and League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson. Councilmember Kozachik’s wife Ann was also in the audience.

Red number 9’s were passed out, symbolizing the “nine women who are shot & killed each week by their abusers”.

More Info: www.momsdemandaction.org, email at momsdemanaction.tucson@gmail.com.

My previous post about National Violence Awareness Month, and Paint Pima Purple (click here).

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Walks in Tucson on April 6

Saturday April 6, 2013
Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium
Check in 7 a.m.
Walk starts 9 a.m.

Every journey begins with that first step! As NAMIWalks celebrates our 10th Anniversary in 2012, we are proud to be the largest and most successful mental illness awareness event in America! Through NAMIWalks’ public, active display of support for people affected by mental illness, we are changing our American communities and ensuring that help and hope are available for those in need.

I proudly walked last year after hearing then-CD 8 Congressional candidate Ron Barber (who was shot twice on January 8, 2011 by a mentally ill man) speak compassionately about supporting mental health issues and programs. He said he held no hatred against the mass shooter. Odaiko Sonora taiko drumming group then helped start off the walk around the Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium area, across Ajo Road to the Sam Lena Park and the nearby detention basin ponds, and back to the stadium. About 4,000 people joined in this walk, many with team tshirts.

Go to http://www.namisa.org/, or call 520-622-5582 to register. There are two walks, a 3K and a 5K walk.

Nami programs: family education & support, peer education & support, anti-stigma & advocacy, and support groups

Being as today is April Fool’s Day, I need to emphasize that mental illness is not a joke. We in Tucson know how important mental health services are, especially after that fatal mass shooting on January 8, 2011 by Jared Lee Loughner. He needed intervention and counseling (and hospitalization), and the recent reports released by the Pima County Sheriff reveal the extent of his mental condition prior to the shooting, and what his parents Randy and Amy Loughner knew of his mental illness.

Please support this NAMI walk to raise awareness about mental illness and that help is there for those who need it.

Tucson Science in the City

On February 16, 2013 downtown Tucson will be the place to be for the 2nd Annual Tucson Science In The City festival, a Signature event of the statewide Arizona SCITECH festival.

Experience Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) events and activities for everyone.

10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Get engaged in the Science In The City Family SCIFest with hands-on activities for children of all ages.

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Checkout the Tech in Tucson Showcase and and the Technology and Innovation Forum for adults, high school, and college students. You will learn about Tucson’s technology industries and their contribution to the Tucson economy, technology development at the University of Arizona, STEM careers and education opportunities, and lots more.

Mark your calendar today. You won’t want to miss these engaging and educational events!

The 2nd Annual
Science In The City Family SCIFest

10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Children’s Museum Tucson in downtownTucson (200 S. 6th Ave.)
Free Admission

Pre-K12 children will see fascinating demonstrations and experience exciting hands-on STEM activities that will stimulate interest in science and math. Families will discover some of Tucson’s many innovative K-12 STEM student projects and school and community programs. The Pima County Joint Technical Education District and many Tucson Schools will be there along with the University of Arizona, the Children’s Museum Tucson, the Mathematics Road Show, the Southern Arizona Rocketry Association, and many more.

Arizona Technology Council
Tech In Tucson
Showcase and Innovation Forum

Tucson scientists and innovators in industry and the University Of Arizona are at the cutting edge of global Science and Technology. They are growing the Tucson economy and creating exciting and high paying jobs.

These amazing industry professionals, engineers, educators, scientists, and even college students are engaged in the development of some of the greatest advancements in science and technology such as new space exploration missions; creating new energy sources; developing new food supplies to feed the hungry; inventing new fuel efficient cars; engineering tiny nano technologies used in electronics, medical devices, and even stain resistant clothing; designing video games or the next generation Internet; developing new technologies to protect the environment; working to prevent and treat disease and more.

Careers in these industries require significant skills in math and science. Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) education provides students with critical thinking and problem-solving skills to prepare them for science and technology careers.

Tech in Tucson Showcase

1:00 – 4:00 pm
Tucson Electric Power Headquarters in downtown Tucson (88 E. Broadway)

The Showcase will feature exhibitors representing industry, education and community organizations. They will showcase their research, technology innovations, or education programs and resources. Adults, high school and college students will meet amazing Tucson scientists, educators, engineers, and other professionals from industry and the University of Arizona working at the at the cutting edge of science, technology and industry. You will see some of the latest and greatest innovations in Optics, Information Technology, Biosciences, Aerospace and Defense, Electronics and Semiconductors, Environmental Technology/Alternative Energy, and more being developed in Tucson.

You will also learn about science and technology careers and meet representatives from education and community organizations showcasing STEM education programs and resources and talking with you about what STEM education is and why it is important for our children and the Tucson economy.

As they say on TV, wait, there is more. You will also get connected to technology industry organizations such as the Arizona Optics Industry Association, the Arizona Technology Council, the Bio Industry Organization of Southern Arizona, the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster, and the Arizona SCITECH Festival.

Forum – Technology Innovation and
Economic Development In Southern Arizona

2:00 – 3:00 pm
At the Tech in Tucson Showcase

Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Congressman Ron Barber will headline this Forum on technology innovation and economic development in Southern Arizona. They will be joined by CEO’s from innovative Tucson companies and a representative from the University of Arizona to share with you how science, technology and innovation creates high paying jobs and drives economic development in southern Arizona.

More Info: http://azscitechfest.org/events/tucson-science-city. My previous post announcing this state-wide SCITECH festival and events in Pima County through March 16 at various locations, click here.

Remembering January 8, 2011

Yes, it’s been two years since that fateful day when Jared Lee Loughner chose to go to that Safeway at the SE corner of Oracle/Ina, and attempted to assassinate CD 8 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. He ended up shooting 19 people, 6 fatally. And he wounded and injured a then-39 year old Congresswoman, who had to resign the job that she loved after a year of recovery. She now walks with a limp, uses an arm brace on her right arm, has become left handed, and is partially blind in her right eye.

Clearly, Jared Loughner was mentally ill, and pled guilty to these crimes. He is being treated in a mental hospital where he will serve the remainder of his days, as his life sentences have no possibility of parole.

What have we as a community learned from this horrendous mass shooting, right here in our midst? Almost all of us knew someone in that shooting. I was personally acquainted with Gabby, having worked on her campaigns. I knew her Outreach Director Gabe Zimmerman, who was struck down on that sidewalk. I knew aide Pam Simon, who was also shot but recovered. I know now Ron Barber who was shot twice that day, and who as her District Director stepped up to the plate and ran for Congress in CD 8 and CD 2 upon Gabby’s endorsement and request. My professor husband knew Gabby as well, and had taught Suzi Hileman who was shot and injured that day. She was the neighbor who had taken nine-year old Christina Taylor-Green to that Congress on your Corner event, and Christina died that day.

Clearly Loughner was ill, but why didn’t people notice enough? Pima Community College had expelled him due to mental problems but he didn’t get counseling help which he clearly needed. He was living with his parents, Randy and Amy Loughner, but they couldn’t or didn’t get help for him as he was over 18 years old. And where did he (an unemployed 22 year old) get the hundreds of dollars to pay for the Glock 9 gun and the two magazine clips he was captured with? I had worked as a board member for 3 years with Amy who manages Agua Caliente Park out east in Pima County. And I have also worked for a year with Gabe’s mother Emily Nottingham on the Casitas on Broadway board. Two mothers, two shattered lives.

Yes, we as a community have grieved over the past 2 years — a huge outpouring of sympathy and support at all the memorials — at Gabby’s former Swan/Pima office, at that Safeway on Oracle (where a permanent stone memorial was erected by the store), and at University Medical Center where most of the injured were taken to. Generous donations were made for the victims to help them recover, and to various foundations to help children & students in the names of the deceased.

Cactus garden by Wright Elem. School students at memorial outside of Congresswoman Giffords’ former district office at Pima/Swan, taken by Carolyn Classen

Now there are Beyond Tucson annual events to commemorate, heal, and move beyond the pain & horror of that day. Now people ring bells at 10:10 a.m.on January 8th when the shooting occurred, and now the politicians talk about gun control especially for firearms with a capacity to be used for mass killing. Also now there are multi-faith services in Tucson bringing together people of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Baha’i faiths.

Since then there have been attempts at more civility in public discourse, and two foundations created expressly for that purpose. We all remember January 8, 2011 and hopefully we will remember to watch out for danger signals in isolated, depressed young men, to lobby for better mental health services, and more effective gun control to prevent criminals and mentally sick from obtaining firearms.

Hopefully we have become better people after this mass shooting of January 8, 2011. And if you have any creative ideas about what type of permanent memorial should be erected, click here for my previous post about the January 8th Memorial Foundation.

Voluntary Firearm Buy-Back Event on January 8, 2013

Press Release from Republican Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik, who organized this event:

Voluntary Firearm Buy-Back Event

On Tuesday, January 8th, beginning at 9am, Tucson Police will be accepting firearms, .22 caliber or larger where the weapon is designed to fire a projectile that is propelled using expanding gas, that are voluntarily turned in by members of the general public. In exchange, a $50 Safeway Food Store gift card will be provided. The event will take place at the Tucson Police Department Hardesty Sub-Station located on Alvernon Way, just north of 22nd. There is a limited number of Gift Cards, so the event will end when they’ve all been given out.

Tucson Police will ensure the disposal of all firearms that are voluntarily turned in during this event will be handled in compliance with all relevant Arizona Revised Statutes. Serial numbers will be tracked through appropriate databases to identify weapons reported as lost or stolen, or that may be implicated in any criminal activity.

This event is made possible by the generous donations from private individuals who join me in wanting to offer this opportunity to City residents to properly dispose of unwanted firearms. As has occurred in many other cities, we hope this will allow people who wish to participate, a greater sense of safety in their own homes for having taken part.

This event is coincidentally being held on the 2nd anniversary of the Tucson Tragedy shooting of January 8, 2011 when 19 people were shot at the NW Safeway at Ina/Oracle including then-CD 8 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, three members of her staff (including now-CD 2 Congressman Ron Barber), Federal District Judge John Roll, and several others. Six people died that day and the shooter Jared Lee Loughner was thereafter sentenced to several life sentences (with no possibility of parole).

Further info about the buy-back event, contact the Council 6 Ward office at 520-791-4601 or email ward6@tucsonaz.gov.

And the AZ Daily Star reported on Saturday Jan. 5 that former LD 30 State Senator Frank Antenori has offered “cold cash” for guns starting at $100, for his own private collection at the same police station on 1/8/13. Click here for that article.

Councilman Kozachik’s Nonpartisan Town Hall/Roast tonight

Reminder: Town Hall/Roast tonight with Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik (“Steve K”) and host David Fitzsimmons (“Fitz”), cartoonist of the AZ Daily Star, at the Loft, 7 p.m. From Steve K’s newsletter:

There has been an excellent response to the January 7th event – please continue to rsvp us @ 791.4601 or 795.0844. Also, if there are particular areas of interest you’d like to hear addressed (Federal, State, County, or local) send us an email @ ward6@tucsonaz.gov / something such as “what will you do to address the following…?”

The event is scheduled for 7pm – 9pm / 3233 E. Speedway / Loft Cinema.

Lisa Horner from Access Tucson has offered to tape the event to be re-run after the fact in order for those who can’t make it to give it a look. It’ll air on Saturdays at 11am and Sundays at 7pm starting Jan. 13th. Cox Channel 20/Comcast 74. There are technical reasons why they can’t air it live, but let’s hope this is the start of some community conversations that, through cooperation between all of our media partners we can book follow up meetings and get these things out over the air in real time in the days ahead.

Here’s the unofficial list of politicians who will be attending or sending a representative (if they don’t dare show up to be “roasted”):

Congressman Raul Grijalva (CD 3)
Congressman Ron Barber (CD 2)
State Senator Olivia Cajero Bedford (LD 3)
State Senator David Bradley (LD 10)
State Senator Steve Farley (LD 9)
State Representative Sally Ann Gonzales (LD 3)
State Representative Macario Saldate (LD 3)
State Representative Stefanie Mach (LD 10)
State Representative Bruce Wheeler (LD 10)
State Representative Ethan Orr (LD 9)
State Representative Victoria Steele (LD 9)
County Supervisor Richard Elias (D 5)
County Supervisor Sharon Bronson (D 3)
City – Mayor Jonathan Rothschild

My previous blog post announcing this event, with updates (click here). The list of politicians was created as those who have an impact on the issues of Ward 6 in the City of Tucson.

Due to threats of disruption about this event the Az Daily Star has reported (click here) that there will be no live microphone, no guns allowed, and bags will be checked. Doors open at 6 p.m. Questions can be submitted in writing at the community town hall.