The Cholla Jumps

by Jim Kelley on May.13, 2010, under Politics

Boycott Grijalva, Not Arizona…

That is the message being taken into the very center of Congressional District 7 by supporters of Ruth McClung, Republican candidate for the district. Today and tomorrow, McClung supporters will be fanning out in Tucson from the Randolph Park Sports complex. I caught up with her and her supporters this afternoon and met Dan and Anna Pond. Dan is a truck driver and after viewing all the candidates websites and checking out the Facebook social media, he has thrown in his support and his shoe leather to get Ruth elected. Ann is a legal immigrant from Russia; she has been married to Dan for about 2 years and they have an eighteen month old son. “She is our best opportunity at beating Raul Grijalva. Quite frankly she is the better candidate for the party, the other three guys don’t measure up,â€