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From the desk of Robert Rappaport on Tuesday, June 24th 2008 at 7:27

A HOT WEEK FOR POLITICS

The sweltering month of June usually is a very slow time for politics in Tucson, but not this time around. A couple of new developments this week have the local politicos talking.

Mike Hein
_City Manager Mike Hein_

The big news this week came from an email sent from Tucson City Councilman Steve Leal to Tucson City Manager Mike Hein, asking Hein to resign. If he doesn't, Leal promises to devote a council meeting to try to get him fired. I guess email these days is the preferred method for saying "you're doing a bad job." What if the letter got lost in a pile of spam about male pharmacies, Nigerian letters, and other things? Maybe Hein can pretend he simply didn't see the email and ignore the whole thing.

The Arizona Daily Star reports Leal actually meant to send the email Friday before Hein's vacation, but the mail wasn't sent until yesterday, so no comment from Hein has been made yet. Even though some other council members have been critical of Hein, Leal sent the letter on his own behalf. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

In other government news, the much talked about joint Tucson/Pima County courthouse $155 million construction proposal has been "suspended," with the county saying it doesn't have enough money to build it. Times are tough for everybody these days.

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