According to the Yellow Sheet, “In the primary, my odds are good. In the general election, I don’t know. It’s going to be really tough.”
Wheeler told the Yellow Sheet that he checked will get an exploratory website up soon.
Wheeler raised eyebrows last year when an email was sent to hundreds of Arizonans, in which Wheeler told Tucson Unified School District Governing Board member Mark Stegeman to keep the District’s dirty laundry hidden because it was hurting his chances to win an increase in public school funding at the State’s Capitol. Wheeler was referring to news reports that the District’s superintendent has engaged in questionable procurement practices.
Stegeman and his fellow Board member Michael Hicks had honestly answered a reporter’s questions about Superintendent H. T. Sanchez’s decision to award a $92,000 consultant contract without Board approval to one of his friends. Later, the Odessa American reported that shortly after being hired, Sanchez advised his friend, who had provided a recommendation to the TUSD position, that he would be looking to hire her services.