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DUI is detour but not dead end for Mesa’s Winkle that the cloud can blow over for Winkle if he deals with this self-imposed crisis in the right yan Winkle seemed like a way, owning up to a mistake, man on top of the world taking concrete steps to address when he was sworn into a potential problem in his life office only a few months ago as a and spending the rest of his term Mesa City Council member, his proving his worth to Mesa. wife at his side with his newborn Most of all, Winkle cannot baby, his family and friends stumble in a similar manner giving him a rousing ovation at again, especially not in a (Special to the Tribune) the Mesa Arts Center. Ryan Winkle replaced conservative, family-oriented But after a misstep a week ago, Dennis Kavanaugh as the city like Mesa. And especially when he was arrested in Tempe representative of District 3, not when voters already forgave on suspicion of driving under the which includes southwest him for a past indiscretion in Mesa, on the Mesa City influence, Winkle found himself Council earlier this year. 2008, when he was convicted in under a cloud, making the wrong Scottsdale of an extreme DUI. kind of headlines, with his political future “He stumbled out of the block, but he still seemingly in doubt. has the majority of his term left,” said Mike The good news, according to three political Noble, a political consultant. “This should consultants interviewed independently, is be a wake-up call.” BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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Noble used a baseball analogy for Winkle’s predicament, saying, “I can get away with two strikes, but three strikes, you’re out.” Bill Scheel, a Phoenix political consultant who usually works on progressive causes, agreed with Noble and fellow political consultant Jason Rose that Winkle has an opportunity to redeem himself. “He’s got 3½ years to prove himself. It will be under additional scrutiny. He needs to be on his best behavior,” said Scheel, of Javelina, a public relations firm. “I think there is a lot less tolerance for these things than years ago. I think it’s something Ryan can recover from,” Scheel said. “If there is any sense there is a pattern, voters are not going to be very forgiving.” Scheel added that he does not consider two DUIs eight years apart a pattern. See
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Parents’ deaths from cancer led Chandler mom from despair to hope SPORTS ......................19 Basha’s Gage Workman leaving his college options open
EVENTS ..................... 22 Arizona Restaurant Week promises something for every taste
BUSINESS........................16 OPINION.........................18 SPORTS............................19 FAITH................................21 CLASSIFIED.................... 27
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here is a segment of Chandler author Lynne Hartke’s new book where she writes about her mother’s final weeks in terms of a relay race. “Mom’s job will be to place the baton in my outstretched fingers,” the Chandler author writes. “In that moment, her race will be done.” “Mom has been preparing me for this moment my entire life – to run my race with God’s strength, choosing family and faith as my feet hit the ground in practiced rhythm.” Hartke, the wife of Chandler pastor and Vice Mayor Kevin Hartke for 35 years, never counted on cancer playing such a huge role in the “race.” As a daughter, the disease deeply affected her relationship with her parents – both of whom were fighting cancer at the same time. But it had a particularly profound impact on her during her mother’s final years. And as a mother, the disease has affected Hartke’s relationship with her four children,
especially her two daughters, because she herself had just finished her own battle with breast cancer when her parents were diagnosed. Hence, “Mother’s Day is complicated.” “It’s still hard to walk past the Mother’s Day cards in the supermarket,” said Hartke, whose mother died three years ago at age 78 – roughly two years after her father succumbed to the disease. She aches for her daughters in the wake of (KImberly Carrillo/Tribune Photographer) her own bout with cancer. Author Lynne Hartke holds a gift made by her daughter – a digital portrait of “They can no longer Hartke applying lipstick near a portrait of her mom doing the same. check ‘no’ at the doctor’s office” when a form asks if there’s a history of disease in her family. Hartke’s book focuses on cancer’s cancer in her family, she said. “I’m concerned for their future,” added devastating impact on her as a daughter. Hartke, noting that until she developed See MOM on page 8 cancer, there had been no history of the