A tribute to former County Manager Chuck Huckelberry
In the ruins of the Tucson Presidio a humorous “Get Well” card was found by saloon keeper George Pennington Tang in 1888. On the front is a goofy conquistador with many arrows in his helmet captioned with the sentiment, “Get well soon!”
The only Generals I knew who could use a “Get Well” card were Russian Generals entering Ukraine. For them I thought a “Not Sorry for Your Loss” card would do. Humorous Get Well cards are not humorous. No one ever popped a stitch over knee-slappers like this sentiment for the hospitalized: “Now be a good little patient or ‘nursie’ will have to bring out the catheter.” This is not laughter-is-the-best-medicine hilarity. A prostate exam given by a saguaro is funnier.I prefer to send flowers that will bloom in about 70 years, giving pinkie-sized saguaro seedlings. Because that’s how optimistic I am about your recovery.
I enjoyed introducing you at banquets with lines like, “Please welcome the Power-hungry Baron of the Bureaucrats, the King of Pima County …” or “Let us kneel before our Mayor Daley of the Desert Marigolds …” or my favorite, “I give you our cross between Jimmy Neutron and Teddy Roosevelt, our county mangler, the nerd who skillfully engineered the Sonoran Desert Protection Plan into life …” referring to your magnificent enduring legacy of setting aside public lands in this county in the spirit of...
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