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Related: About this forumBarber to hold weekend gathering at a Tucson Safeway ***Rescheduled for 1pm ***
Last edited Sat Jun 23, 2012, 10:31 AM - Edit history (1)
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/barber-to-hold-weekend-gathering-at-a-tucson-safeway/article_2cc1b910-bbdb-11e1-b3da-001a4bcf887a.htmlNewly-elected U.S. Rep. Ron Barber will host his first Congress on the Corner
event this weekend at a Tucson Safeway but not the same store where he
was nearly killed during a similar event in January 2011.
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Barbers first Congress on the Corner event will be at the Safeway at the
southeast corner of East Grant and North Craycroft roads. It runs Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Visitors can come and meet one-on-one with Barber to discuss any issue,
concern or problem regarding the federal government.
Barber plans to hold many similar events across the district.
I will not become isolated in Washington, Barber said in a news release.
My work at the Capitol will be influenced by what I hear and learn here in Arizona.
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Barber to hold weekend gathering at a Tucson Safeway ***Rescheduled for 1pm *** (Original Post)
Ptah
Jun 2012
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TouchOfGray
(82 posts)1. Barber's first move in office splits with party
Ron Barber, southern Arizona's newly elected congressman, made his first moves in office this week.
His first vote, a few hours after being sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives, broke with other Democrats on a border security bill. And on Saturday he will hold his first "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson Safeway.
Both moves are symbolic of continuing the tradition of Barber's predecessor, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who fashioned herself a "Blue Dog Democrat" tough on border security and who held numerous local constituent events.
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/azdc/164935
ChazInAz
(2,569 posts)2. Oh, boy!
That's just up the street from me, and where I usually go grocery shopping.
I'll be there.
mvccd1000
(1,534 posts)3. Sounds like a good start.
I hope he continues this way.
Ptah
(33,032 posts)4. Rescheduled for 1pm
Barber's office says his meeting Saturday with voters at a Safeway grocery
store will be held at 1 p.m. It previously was scheduled for earlier Saturday,
but was postponed by several hours because weather delayed Barber's travels from Washington.