Well, there's perennial candidate Carolyn Killeen , the former nun who bicycles across the country campaigning for hemp legalization. She's run for governor here a few times and took a shot at the White House in the New Hampshire primary in 1992. So not all Democrats have blown off the primary. Just the normal ones. Land speculators make out.
Developers make out.
Some builders and salesman and construction workers make some bucks. The rest of us pay more taxes and watch our desert get plowed. That's been the story from the beginning. But it's an election year, so expect a Band-Aid approach to the problem, with some Mickey Mouse impact fee structure and a big tax hike coming right behind to cover the real costs. The Board of Supes actually turned down a recent request by a developer to plow over more saguaros than zoning law permitted.