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Why Do Some Political Candidates Visit Oracle?

10/16/2022

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  I don't know for sure how to answer the question.  Oracle is small, politically close to 50-50.  Obviously not home to a tranche of votes for any candidate or either party.  Nor is it home to the rich and powerful.  So what's the attraction?
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Part of the Oracle group that met with ACC candidate Lauren Kuby
PictureLauren Kuby reacts to the group. Honest answers, no bull shit.

  Lauren Kuby, candidate for the Arizona Corporation Commission, was the third major candidate to visit Oracle,  The others were Kris Mayes and Katie Hobbes. All of the events were conversational which was the point of the invites.  A small amount of money for each was raised but chicken feed in the larger scheme of things.
  I went to all three and was impressed by the simplicity of the formats.  Direct questions, direct answers.  Absent was the bombast and catastrophe mongering that seems to characterize so much political discourse these days. I may have to eat my words down the road but so far Oracle has weathered the epidemic of what pundits/big media call "polarization" pretty well.
  That's got me thinking about the "why".  I'm trying to formulate an answer.

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    Kaz and I moved to Oracle in 1979.  The house we bought dated to the late 1940s.  With little advance knowledge of the place, we set out to build a new life together, intending to settle in and raise a family.

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