Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 15

yjT'pv Obftuaries2C HXULA Public records2C SECTION a LAWSUIT DISMISSED: A judge dismisses a lawsuit contending the county illegally donated money to help build desert water stations Page 6C PARK EXPANSION: Tumacacori National Historical Park gets OK to grow Page 6C TUESDAY August 6 2002 CITY EDITOR WILLIAM CLEMENS 573-4561 TUCSON CITIZEN Police hope theyl get a bp in a sex assault case when someone sees these shoes Page Keene gets raise as Ibarra fails to oust him Leal also votes not to renew the contract Keene will make about $180K By ADAM B0R0WITZ borowitztucsoncitizencom Councilman Jose Ibarra failed in his effort to cancel City Manager James employment contract with the city in a heated City Council meeting yesterday Ibarra 1 FHANUSU) MbUNAlucson Citizen havoc with traffic flow throughout the metropolitan area yesterday afternoon BELOW: At East Silverlake Road and South Euclid Avenue Ernesto Jacquez 10 empties water from his boot ABOVE: This unidentified driver crawls out the window of his car which is stranded in floodwaters near Broadway and Chantilly Drive near Park Place mall A woman remained in the vehicle while the man went for help Heavy rain and high winds played got a 5-2 vote of confidence from the council which approved his contract with an annual raise of about $16800 Councilman Steve Leal cast the other vote against Keene think a lot of the comments stem from the fact that we are starting to CITY continuedPage 2C Storm floods roads tangles traffic knocks out electricity Hundreds of calls lead to arrest A man is indicted on charges he stalked the sheriff among others' By DAVID TBBEL dteibeltucsoncrtizencom By LA MONICA EVERETT-HAYNES lehaynestucsoncihzencom expected to rain hard in Tucson again this afternoon weather forecasters say but monsoon showers may not top in rainfall or fury Thousands lost electricity during the storm and Tucson firefighters fielded 420 calls for help between 5 and 8 pm and completed 25 water-related rescues said Battalion Chief Randy Ogden ITT) spokesman Before firefighters arrived two young men rescued a woman and her 2-year-old son after the car became caught in rushing water around 6 pm Laura Condor was driving on Ogden said Both were taken to Tucson Medical Center Conder was released last night The child was expected to be released today No one else rescued by firefighters needed medical care he said The storm dropped nearly 2 inches of rain in most parts of Tucson in an hour yesterday More thunderstorms are expected in the lute afternoon today weather forecasters said Heavy rain fell near Wilmot and Speedway with 19 inches recorded said David Bright a National Weather Service meteorologist in Tucsoa Bright said about 072 of an inch POWERFUL contPage 5C received 420 calls between 5 pm and 8 pm and did 25 water-related rescues Battalion Chief Randy Ogden TFD spokesman East Speedway Boulevard at North Wilmot Road when her car got caught in water at least 4 feet deep Ogden said He said the water carried the car nearly two blocks before it came to rest against a tree and began filling with water Conder) said the baby had been under water for 30 seconds and mom was real A Federal judge rules open primaries are unconstitutional charges he stalked the sheriff one of his secretaries a detective sergeant and a detective made hundreds of often-obseene calls to Tucson police but never threatened anyone authorities said mentally ill hen he takes his medication he cause any prob-1 Sheriff Clarence it violated the right of free association The open primary was approved by voters in 1998 as Proposition Id It allowed a registered voter who was not affiliated with the Republican Democratic or Libertarian parties to participate in one of those primaries Libertarian Party Chairman Peter Schmerl sued to The Associated Press PHOENIX Independent voters and members of small parties wall not be allowed to participate in Arizona's primary elections under a court ruling handed down yesterday District Court Judge Raner Collins struck down open primary as unconstitutionaL ruling that stop the law from being used He argued allowing people who do not belong to one of the parties to vote interferes with the right to choose their leadership because the parties must select them precinct committeemen during the primary Collins agreed Arizona's open primary system fails to pro tect the associations! interests of parties with continuing ballot status by allowing nonmembers to participate in the selection of internal leadership Proposition 103 and its implementing legislation AILS 16-167 are Collins wrote in his ruling Schmerl was pleased with the outcome believe it the right of each political party to decide ho votes in its he said not right for the state to force us to allow independents to elect our party officers and nominate our candidates That should be up to The decision creates a problem for elections officials ho must oversee early voting starting Thursday There are a lot of people who registered to vote as independents with the understanding that they could state Elections Director Jessica Funkhouser said The Secretary of State's Office which runs and oversees state elections and primaries plans to ask the court to stay its ruling so the secretary of state may appeal the decision she said but no sparks fly Dupnik said of William Bone Tremethu 44 who as indicted Friday common at the Sheriffs Department and police work in Dupnik said like this call They have unagi-nary problems you can't solve and then they get angry with you" Dupnik said he hopes the arrest and prosecution will result in treatment fir Trvnictlh Tremethu a rumte-rarce worker nine to the By GARRY DUFFY gduffytiics3ncftzeacom It was a polite discussion marked by only subtle differences on the issues Richard Elias and Frank Felix squared off before the party faithful yesterday in the first debate between contenders for the District 5 seat on the Board of SupT-visors Boundan-s of District 5 ran from alnt unlain Avenue in the cart to Picture Rocks Ln the -4 and from Ina to pp ru Is Elias called him- II the better candidate to protect the environment telling the Democrats of Greater Tucson that he supports meaningful version of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Fehx said he boo ouid love to see a Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan implemented" but addl'd thit he has concerns about its cost and the import of a p-irk ti growth policy rejected sttggs-t: that he wuld represent speciil interests such as Lin ners and A el- p-ers ILs six year tenure in the Legislature in the 1970s was marked by batik's with special interests he said was I ho led the reform against land fraud" Fehx sail Both candidates also agreed that Kino Community Hupital cannot be cljsed or pm atized Idas railed for a return of as a full service community hospital Felix St nd short of that but said ne prgrams closed in recent years should be ecus lend rex opening L'-cua-e there are no Repullman canldat-s for supervisor in the heavily Democratic district the party primary Sept 10 will determine the winner Elias 45 is the incumbent having been appointed earlier this year to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Raul Grijalva to run for a new congressional seat in southern Arizona fore that he headed up the minty's ighNrhorxi reinvestment Ethx 55 is a former state senator and is a consultant for educatnn programming in the Tucson area alter turn cf Cupt Kevin i hew the This -e eh- of staff it vir whin Max hew was charge of the tr patrol district Trctrethkk r-u p- I ink Feu JUST JLW Richard Elas SUSPECT i i.