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Pinal County boom triggers political shift

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Since moving to Pinal County two years ago, SaddleBrooke resident Fred MacKenzie has been unimpressed with the elected officials in the area between Tucson and Phoenix.

"They're not in step with the new residents," he says. They're are also not as conservative as he'd like, particularly on tax policies.

If MacKenzie, a Republican, were one of a kind, his recent move to SaddleBrooke would be of little consequence. But MacKenzie's views matter, because the 68-year-old retired salesman from Southern California is one in a wave of new, right-leaning Pinal County residents who are doing more than buying new tract homes —they're dramatically changing the political landscape of what was once a Democratic stronghold.

Posted by Editor at July 16, 2007 07:37 AM

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