Tom “Tiger” Ziegler: “I miss my work, my customers and my co-workers. I don’t want my people to get this damn disease.” June 30, 2020/Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry told Capitol Media Services that the ordinance is not an effort to pick a fight with the governor over the scope of his powers
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star
Gov. Doug Ducey isn’t going to try to block Tucson and Pima County from enforcing mandatory curfews even though it is in direct violation of his executive order, at least not now.
And that could embolden other Arizona communities to strike out on their own.
“He disagrees with the policy and he doesn’t think it’s the right approach,” said press aide C.J. Karamargin following Tuesday’s 3-2 vote by Pima County supervisors to impose a countywide 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew until the county’s COVID-19 infection rate subsides.
But for the moment, Ducey is going to simply disregard the fact that Tucson more than a week ago and now Pima County have gone their own way on a local curfew. Asked specifically whether his boss would challenge those moves, Karamargin said “we have not made a decision yet.”
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