Article in The Tucson Citizen, March 7, 2008

Brenner files for supervisor post vs. Bronson
by Gary Duffy

Republican Barney Brenner came within a few percentage points of defeating incumbent Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson in District 3 in the 2000 election.
Brenner said Thursday he will take another shot at Bronson in November.
"I think the county is financially mismanaged," Brenner said after filing candidacy paperwork with the Pima County Elections Division. "The budget is 250 percent of what it was when the current seatholder got into office."
Brenner, a retired business owner, has never held public office.
Brenner fell short in his bid for the District 3 seat in 2000 by less than 3 percentage points.
But the district was geographically - and politically - different than it is now.
In 2001, the three-member Democratic majority on the board supported redistricting that the two board Republicans bitterly complained was a classic example of gerrymandering - shifting voters around to favor Democrats in future elections.
Bronson shed Republican voters to Republican Ann Day's District 1 and picked up Democrats from then-Supervisor Raúl Grijalva's District 5.
She faced token opposition from Libertarian Bennett Kalafut in the 2004 general election.
But Bronson is being challenged in her own party this time. Former Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Donna Branch-Gilby will run against Bronson in the September party primary.
Bronson angered local party officials with her opposition to the release of elections databases in a lawsuit filed by the Pima County Democratic Party last year.