P.T. Barnum often receives credit for saying “there’s a sucker born every minute”. He may not have uttered the phrase, and now it turns out the phrase may not be accurate. Just as soon as Pima County and its crack communications team snapped up a willing and eager barker from that stalwart of the local legacy media, the Daily Star, that publication replenished its ranks, proving that a new shill is born every minute: Murphy Woodhouse jumped right onto the party line immediately after the election, attacking Ally Miller—and the constituency that supported her—while giggling giddily over his beloved Bronson.
First off, the reality: Ally leads in District 1 by seven points. Bronson leads District 3 by four points.
Now, Woodhouse’s world: His exuberant headline lauds “Sharon Bronson’s victory” as the text of his column pooh-poohs Miller’s “close race”. He tries to throw a barb at Miller, saying that the margin of victory in her August primary was much wider. Perhaps poor Woodhouse does not understand how a primary election works (perhaps, judging by his backward assessment of the two races, arithmetic fails him). Remember that Ally defeated her whinging opponent Winchester with votes only from her own party. Winchester did a fine job of digging his own hole in that race. In fact, he provided one radio interview that gave this author far more than enough fodder for two lengthy columns about what a terrible candidate he was. In the general election this week, a relatively quiet challenger competed with Ally for the nod from all voters of all parties in the district. Comparing the margins of the primary to the margins of the general is not unlike comparing the margins of a pre-schooler’s wide-lined paper to the margins of a receding gum line. In fact, there is no comparison at all.
Look, we took Steller to task in June for his raging bias. Woodhouse all but popped the corks on a case of $1,000-per-bottle champagne to celebrate the continued Democrat majority on the Board of Supervisors. Perhaps if you have to hire, it is best to hire somebody who doesn’t need to go through corporate indoc. The new employee can hit the ground running… and attack the one check-and-balance on Huckelberry’s interminable reign of terror.
If you missed my diatribe about Steller and the legacy media, or if you didn’t believe it, you could refer to his sob story about how little sleep he’s received since returns began to come in on Tuesday night. I’ve met three-year-olds who exhibit more grace and maturity–and less whininess.
Bronson dumped ungodly amounts of money into her campaign, thanks to the beneficence of a land developer who stands to make a fortune and a half off of the disgracefully unnecessary I-11 route through Avra Valley (and who needs Chuck Huckelberry and his minions to make that roadway possible). Bronson, in spite of that incredible spend, squeaked by in a tight race. That leaves us, those of us who want something better for this county, with two problems:
Obviously, the disastrous local establishment remains, Huckelberry continues to abuse this community and rob the taxpayer of almost half a million dollars a year in salary alone, and new District 4 Rubber-Stamp Supervisor Steve Christy has absolutely zero incentive to work against the two officials from whom he begged a place in Pima County malfeasance (that is, Bronson and Huckelberry, in emails the ADI has obtained from the county). More insidiously, however, the problem is that the gross, unconscionable bias of the legacy media is now on full display, and the legacy media is beginning to feel it superfluous to conceal its true feelings.
Objectivity be damned, the Stellers and Woodhouses of the world have made the legacy media their safe space, and they will not be content until they subsume every potential voter into their wailing, teeth-gnashing, anti-conservatism, self-pity party.