Arizona Progress Gazette
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are posted for discussion purposes only.)
Some time ago Bob and Karen Hobbs bought the former home of favorite Arizona son Barry Goldwater. Located on a hilltop in the heart of Paradise Valley their preservation and updating of the home was and is spectacular.
From time to time they do events there, mainly political ones favoring the Grand Old Party. But not a once have they sought to commercialize the property with such things as weddings, concerts and wine bars. They’d get laughed and run out of town by neighbors and town officials if they thought about, let alone submitted plans to actually do it.
