South Tucson's El Independiente, 1979-04-06

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By KIM HESS
StaB Writer
Seven candidates are running in South
Tucson's city council primary election, to
be held April 10,
Six Democrats and one Republican
write-in are vying for the right to run in
the general election May 15, Each party
may run up to four candidates in the
general election,
The Democrats running are John
Garcia, Frank A. Lopez, Alfonsa S.
McKenna, Felix C. Robles, Rita I. San
ta Cruz, and Pedro Tadeo Jr., Stuart
Irwin is the Republican write-in, said
South Tucson City Clerk William Ponder,
To be eligible for candidacy, the person
must be 18 years old, a qualified elector
and a resident of the city for at least one
year, said Ponder,
After these qualifications are met, the
candidates must have turned in a
nomination paper and affidavit, a
nomination petition consisting of at least
38 names and no more than 75, a financial
agent report and a financial disclosure
statement by Feb. 12, Ponder said.
He said a campaign committee expense
statement and a candidate expense
statement were due March 30.
The date to register to vote in the
primary election was Feb. 20, said
Ponder, and the registration date for the
general election was March 27.
Voting will take place in the fire
department from 6 am, to 7 p.m.
Tuesday.
The candidates all expressed concerns
toward the improvement of the city and
South Sixth Avenue.
John Garcia. who has been on the
council since 1973, said he would like to
see the continuation of programs in
community and economic development.
Garcia said in regards to the economic
development, he wants "to see businesses
brought into the community that wifi
provide permanent employment."
He said that besides creating a master
plan for home improvements, he also
wants the clean up efforts of South Sixth
Avenue to continue.
Stuart Irwin, who has lived in South
Tucson for six years, said that he has been
involved with the city through the clean
up action and last year's city council recall
election.
Irwin said he wants the city to improve,
and so far has "made 26 suggestions for
improvement which were given to the
mayor and ignored by him which were
praised by the citizens. The suggestions
have since been given to other city of-ficiais
and the police department."
Irwin, the only Republican running,
said he wants "to maintain the two party
system because the Republicans won't be
swept under the rug forever."
Frank A. Lopez has been on the council
for two years and said he wants to retain
his seat because he believes they are
making progress with the development of
the community.
"It will take some doing to keep South
', Sixth Avenue clean, and I think we are
making some progress in this area by
attracting new businesses from which the
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whole community will benefit," said
Lopez.
Alfonsa S. McKenna, a member of the
council since August, 1978, said she wants
to continue helping the people of the
community and is especially concerned
with the problems of the elderly.
Besides improving the senior citizens'
homes, she said that she wants South
Sixth Avenue to stay cleaned up.
"If the places are kept up, the people
will not suffer like they did this time. We
must be careful because I would hate to
see this happen again," McKenna said.
Felix C. Robles, a member of the
council for four years, said he believes he
owes it to the people of South Tucson to
stay on the council.
Robles said he ,wants to continue im-proving
the city through improvements of
the sidewalks and lighting besides con-tinuing
the clean up of South Sixth
Avenue and better police protection
around that area.
Housing rehabilitation has been Robles'
main concern, he said, over the past four
years and wants to continue gaining
revenue for this problem.
Rital. Santa Cruz,who has lived all her
life in South Tucson, said she can offer
more representation of the people and do
what they want done.
She said that the police department
needs to be improved along with the
streets which need to be paved.
TI elected, Santa Cruz said, she will be
a third generation to be on the council.
Pedro Tadeo, Jr., who was on the city
council from 1975-1978, said the people
have very little representation and have
come to him with their problems.
He wants to continue to better the city
by "improving the police and fire
protection, sidewalks and lighting," said
Tadeo.
He said he also wants to cut down on
the many vehicles that the city officials
have because "the city pays for the gas
and that is too expensive for the people.
"The officials are abusing the use of the
cars by driving home and to work in
them," said Tadeo.
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Vol. Iii, No. 9 Published By The Journalism Department 01. The University Of Arizona Friday, April 6, 1979
JOHN GARCIA STUART IRWIN
FRANK A. LOPEZ ALFONSA S. McKENNA
FELIX C. ROBLES RITA I. SANTA CRUZ PEDRO TADEO Jr.
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