Openly influencing an election as an elected official or part of the City of Tucson’s management team is illegal. I wonder if the Goldwater Institute would look upon our Mayor’s latest quote and find cause to be concerned. If you remember they challenged Walkup and the Council on open meeting law violations – HERE and HERE.

From today’s Star:

Mayor Bob Walkup told the Star’s Rhonda Bodfield last week that officials erred in focusing so heavily on educating the public on the impact of Proposition 200, the very polarizing public-safety initiative that would have forced the city to spend some $156 million over the next five years on additional fire and police personnel.

Walkup told Bodfield that officials did too little to make sure that voters understood the impact of Proposition 400. Obviously.

The city’s management team cannot, by law, take a position favoring or opposing such propositions. Letcher did provide materials describing how Propositions 200 and 400 would play out if they passed or if they failed.