Another powerful name enters the PCC board race to replace retiring Cat Ripley

The future of Chancellor Lee Lambert's at Pima depends on this one decision to be made next week.

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Two weeks ago we wrote about the applicant list to replace the PCC Board President Cat Ripley who quit her job after Demion Clinco’s embarrassing landslide loss in his bid for re-election, wasting the tens of thousands of dollars he received in campaign support from Tucson’s leaders, from Jim Click to Humberto Lopez to Mayor Regina Romero.

Theresa Riel, who retired from teaching at PCC a few years ago, had 62% of the vote for the District 2 seat, putting her ahead of incumbent Demion Clinco, the former state lawmaker who has served on the board since 2015, by 24% of the counted votes.

Clinco raised roughly $138,000 more in campaign contributions than Riel, but that wasn’t enough to take the lead in the race.

Source: Arizona Daily Star.

We published the day before the application deadline, with quick bios of the 6 applicants, but now that list is made of 8, with one very powerful new name added: Wade McLean, the former Marana Unified School Superintendent for decades.

Wade McLean and Vivian S. Ries make up the new total of 8 with the other 6 being: Mark Hanna, Alan Willenbrock, Ethan Orr, Isaac Figueroa, Eric Schindler, and Walter Marcus. Pima School Superintendent Dustin Williams gets to make the final appointment decision and says he will do so on the week of Jan 2nd, 2023.