That's why Pastor currently represents a big slice of Maricopa County. Theoretically Pima could get one entire district minus the heavily minority portions, which would stay with similar demographics elsewhere in Southern Arizona. But there would still need to be a connection to the minority portions of Maricopa County or else they would find their voting strength diluted, something in violation of federal guidelines. That means Pima County and Southern Arizona will be in two House Districts, one Anglo and leaning GOP, the other heavily Hispanic and safely Democrat. Sorta like now, with two guys named Pastor and Kolbe, neither of whom appears to be going anywhere.
Pastor currently has no place else to run.
That's something we expect will greatly reduce the number of actual candidates from all those currently jabbering about it. The proposal now being considered by the City Council to include funds from the Rio Nuevo project for expansion and new construction at the Tucson Convention Center smacks of bureaucratic manipulation. So seven years later, city staff members have seized upon the idea of using money from the Rio Nuevo pot to pay for changes at the complex. This is just the latest episode in a long history of the city government ignoring the will of the voters while continuing to dump taxpayer money into the TCC, which has lost millions of dollars. City officials whined for years that the complex would make money if only it were larger.