r/TucsonPolitics

With the political signage popping up around town, I thought I’d ask what we’re doing about Juan Ciscomani.

We could talk about the fact we’re in a critical time nationally, and how he actively supports fascism, but what about for us?

He pursues zero meaningful policy to support the community, and it’s well known he’s held no town hall this entire term. It’s basically a free seat because our community is disengaged.

After researching it looks like his Democratic opponent is currently Joanna Mendoza who appears to have at the moment pulled in more funding than him, and to say she’s not meeting this moment is an understatement.

She doesn’t support Medicare For All, which for who don’t know sits in congress right now in limbo, even though the majority of Americans and Democrats do.

There’s no issues page on her website, which is insulting honestly, just a “Meet Jo” section with nothing substantive. Her list of establishment endorsements and questionable PACs is literally longer.

Barely any specific mentions of local issues, or those that affect us like the mega corporations that are building resource intensive data centers in smaller cities like Tucson all over the country (Project Blue is IN her district I believe).

You’d think she’s running for city council and not congress from her website, honestly (no offense to the city council).

Don’t forget as Democrats are her prospective voters, Joanna’s support of Israel is a death blow to an already underwhelming campaign. Not only do polls show the majority of Dems stand against funding and support for Israel (importantly over half of independents too), but Tucson is more directly involved as well.

We’re home to a large Raytheon hub, as well as manufacturing for various types of weapons like Tomahawk missiles. I’m not trying to speak for all Tucsonans here, but knowing war crimes are being committed with our “exports” doesn’t feel very nice.

I say all this to ask, is this who we really want to support? Can we boost another candidate willing to fight and actually stand up for us? Orrr conversely do we support her anyway? Trying to research other candidates is maddening because they barely exist seemingly.

Been a Tucson resident almost my whole life, and in the past 10 years specifically, it seems that too many progressives, or liberal people, have come to Arizona from blue state, and they intend to ruin not just Tucson, but also Arizona, like they did their former states, such as California. Please, somebody tell me this is not the case. Thank you

So with Virginia losing its ability to redistrict to help with the House in November...every district really matters. JoAnna Mendoza is the only hope to flip a Republican seat back to Democratic in Arizona. Is JoAnna really doing enough here 6 month away from election?

I'm still very disappointed in her website. No policy points at all. As an independent how am I supposed to know what she stands for? I don't like Juan but there are policy points that I stand behind.

This all feels very weak marketing from the candidate, AZ Democratic Party and Pima County Dem Party.