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Longtime Tucson political operator Byron Howard dead at 77 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Byron Howard, a longtime political player who worked for both Pima County and the city of Tucson, died April 29. He was 77.

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"Howard arrived in Tucson in the early 1970s from New Jersey, when he was in his early 20s. Rodriguez recalled that when she asked him why he decided to settle in Tucson, 'he just said he ran out of gas.'"

Retired
Went to the UofA
Moved from Chicago/Seattle/Canada
Ran out of gas on the way to SoCal

Those are the only ways to get here.

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