Yesterday morning on The Jon Justice Show, Huckelberry-blessed establishment candidate for County Supervisor John Winchester gave a revealing interview. What follows is a fact-check and a tear-down on his comments.
Winchester: “[I] started campaigning…in high school… I’ve always thought I would run for office. I like the policy side of government, creating solutions that really impact peoples’ lives.”
Retort: Doesn’t that sound just like a big government, tax-and-spend, establishment bureaucrat? What kind of sick narcissist has always wanted to run for office? This was either bad prep, or a prescription for psychotherapy. And he yearns to do things that “really impact peoples’ lives”? Please, for the love of all things holy, no! This is America: The point of this country is unobtrusive, unburdening governance that does what little is in its scope and gets out of the way. Winchester proved himself the wrong man for any elected office!
Winchester: “Everybody knows what the problems are here locally… We just don’t have solutions coming, and you just get tired of that.”
Retort: Oh, boy, do we get tired of that! And an electorate awake enough to shoot down the #BrokePimaBonds of last year knows who to blame for stifling solutions. So why would Winchester accept the backing of the very people responsible for holding back the solutions, the very people who are the problem, the very people who comprise the establishment?
Winchester: “I’ve got a family, I intend to stay here.”
Retort: That’s a tough pill to swallow. Winchester did not reside in District 1–a requirement of office–so he picked up his family and moved them just to run for this office. When he filled out his candidacy paperwork, he didn’t even get his address right. How long before he uproots the family for greener (political) pastures and heads elsewhere, not unlike former Vice-Mayor Rodney Glassman did as he flipped parties back and forth?
Winchester: “You look at people who get in political office and they just, they just hold the seat and they never really, never really do their jobs.”
Retort: No, Winchester, no they don’t. He’s absolutely right. Instead of doing their jobs, they go looking for sycophants like him to put up as phony candidates to use to squelch the voices calling for responsible government. It is the selfsame jokers who support him that blockade the one good leader our county has elected. (And we know bloody well he isn’t the only ringer in this year’s election, by the by.)
Winchester: “You know, I have a long history of collaboration and working with people.”
Retort: We cannot speak to that, but we can see that Winchester’s collaboration with Chuck Huckelberry clearly started before his candidacy, courtesy the emails between lobbyist Racy and Huckelberry. Worse, his collaboration with Huckelberry and the incredibly despicable Ray Carroll continues. Thus we can only expect that Winchester’s “history of collaboration” would lead him to continue to collaborate–and cozily–with the problem people in county government.
Winchester: “We’re in [an] environment in politics where ideology and platform are used to destroy political opponents, as opposed to focusing on the responsibilities that people have as elected officials.”
Retort: Get back on your script, Winchester. With that statement, he directly indicted his backers in the county, the legacy media, and the moneyed cabal that likes to keep this county inefficient and full of graft. Nobody believes this describes his primary opponent. Nobody. No matter how many conversations he claims to have had to the contrary.
Winchester: “I think that [focus on responsibilities is] primarily missing, especially in District 1.”
Retort: District 1 is presently the only district with a Supervisor trying to break the vicious cycle, Ally Miller. What Winchester proposes is only to continue the status quo, and responsibilities won’t matter to him. Perhaps Huckelberry would reinforce a Winchester win by releasing a few dollars to patch a token few potholes on day one, but establishment business as usual would resume on day two.
Winchester: “I’ll give you an example of that: In 2012, uh, the current supervisor for District 1 railed on Ann Day for not fixing roads. And here we are, four years later, roads are worse, not fixed, what’s the excuse?”
Retort: There is no excuse for Carroll and Bronson stealing road funds from District 1, and that is in the public record. Remember, it was Winchester’s backer who stuck it to his new district. He should ask his buddy Ray what excuse there was for robbing another district, and he should tell us the next time he gives an interview. We’re desperate to know! As he laid false blame at the feet of his primary opponent, isn’t it interesting that Winchester delayed so long in speaking Ally Miller’s name? Perhaps it is easier to lie about someone’s record when you imagine some fantasy evil gargoyle instead of saying the real individual’s name.
Winchester: “Why is it that we just want to keep electing people who don’t, you know, who don’t fix problems, don’t address problems, they spend their time trying to attack [their] political opponents and, uh…create political capital for themselves? Um, I don’t see that as leadership, and it’s certainly not creating, uh, producing solutions or creating results.”
Retort: Once more, the electorate agrees! And that’s why Winchester made matters much worse for his cronies. The blockade against solutions comes from Huckelberry, Carroll, Bronson, Valadez, and Elias; these County apparatchiks are Winchester’s backers. The attackers of whom he spoke, working with the complicit local legacy media, are Huckelberry, Carroll, and Bronson, continuing to create political capital for themselves. He’s absolutely right, they aren’t solving anything. And, if you play back the podcast of this interview, you’ll notice the way Winchester’s words fail him. It sounds like he bungled some of the phrases he was coached to use. Playing politics isn’t as easy as you’d thought, is it, Winchester?
Winchester: “I think that right there by shifting back to looking at what the problems are and trying to create partnerships and working with people to create solutions, I think that right there is a shift in the right direction.”
Retort: With whom would Winchester partner? He’s already good friends with the establishment. Looks like he expects Humberto “No Town too Small, No City too Large to Swindle in a Real Estate Deal” Lopez to stump for him at Ray Carroll’s Skyline Country Club event tonight. Is that a partnership you want to create, Winchester? That is no different than the garbage that comes from the Board already, and exactly why we do not need John Winchester as a Supervisor.
We’ve exposed so many flaws in what he’s said already, and he’s only a few minutes into the interview. We’ll continue tomorrow with this dissection, because there’s too much wrong with it for just one day. For today, have a listen to the podcast at http://www.1041kqth.com/ if you get the chance. Notice that, at one point, it became obvious that Winchester had failed to prepare for enough of the questions he should have expected to have been asked, evidenced by his sudden and staggering inability to complete sentences without stammering or reverting to stall words.
To Chuck Huckelberry, Ray Carroll, and the establishment handlers who are promoting Winchester: Next time, do a better job of prepping your amateur. We all know that he is your puppet, we all know that he would simply rubber stamp the malfeasance of the Board under Bronson’s gavel and Huckelberry’s control, but all he did yesterday was to make you look even worse than you already do. John Winchester is a damned joke, just like the damned Pima County establishment that props him up.