Tucson City Councilman Who Held Gun Buyback Leaving Republican Party

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. Yes ...

much to the despair of the Pima County Tea-partiers and "libertarians." But I wouldn't term them centrist "democrats" ... they just appear that way because the Pima County gop has swung so far to the right. I just refer to them as sane republicans.

Just this past weekend, I was at a social engagement with several "high profile" Pima County (non-politician) republicans. The common thread, through my many conversations, was "We (the non-politician gop) needs to communicate to our base and our elected officials that we are willing to put partisanship in its place ... far behind what is good and necessary for Pima County." I suppose that is as close as they will ever come to acknowledging that much of their base and elected representatives are too far out there; but the business community is planning(?) to draw them back to the center.