Choose John Backer for your Pima County Supervisor - John will be your full-time county supervisor!
The current Pima County Supervisor for District 2, Matt Heinz, has been missing - missing meetings and missing roll calls at the board of supervisor meetings. In 2024, he has only been present and on time an amazing 17% of the time, but you do have a choice in the upcoming election - Back Backer!
Click the image below to see Supervisor Heinz attendance scorecard.
John Backer was born and raised in a small town in Tennessee and is a lifelong Republican. The Air Force brought him to Tucson on July 4, 1984 to serve as an Aircraft Electrician on the A-10 at Davis-Monthan – later working on F-16s and A-7s at the Arizona National Guard in Tucson. John has spent most of his adult life in the Tucson area. He is married and the father of a blended family of 4 adult daughters and an adult son – John is also a grandfather of 6 ranging in age from 3 months to 13 years.
John has earned four college degrees including a Masters in Information Systems, Bachelors in Business, and two Associates degrees.
John is currently serving our community as:
Elected PC – LD19
Previously, John served our community as:
The Chairman of the Town of Sahuarita Planning and Zoning Commission - completed 8 years of service in June 2024
An Arizona Republican Party State Committeeman representing LD2 – 2018-2020, and 2020-2022
A Pima County Board of Adjustment commissioner for Pima County District 4
LD2 3rd vice chair
LD2 1st vice chair (for a short time prior to running for County Supervisor)
Served on the Town of Sahuarita visioning committee for the Sahuarita Square project
Served on the Pima GOP nominations committee in 2018
Additional Community Involvement:
Cub Master for pack 328 for 4 years
Assistant Cub Master for 1 year
Recreation league sports coach for soccer, basketball, and volleyball
Junior Achievement – taught elementary students the JA curriculum
Habitat for Humanity – volunteered to help build homes
Neighborhood Watch Co-Coordinator for 3 years – Madera Highlands
HOA advisory committee member for 1 year – Madera Highlands
In addition to running for public office himself twice, he has helped several Republican candidates including his daughter Brianna Hamilton who won a seat on the Flowing Wells School Board. John helped by:
conducting data analysis for the campaign
participating in flag waves
walking neighborhoods
leveraging social media
participating in events
texting voters
Experience
John has 30 years of technology experience – including 10 years working at IBM on a World-Wide Visual Analytics Team which helped clients:
Fight terrorism
Find fraud, waste, and abuse
Make sense out of large amounts of data
My customers for the past 15 years have been all levels of law enforcement and intelligence analysts.
For 4.5+ years, I have worked for a Tucson based software company as their Director of Business Development and Client Success. We served law enforcement customers at all levels. John attended law enforcement conferences for years and had many conversations with our heroes in law enforcement at all levels.
Here is a partial list of several conferences I've attended - many of them several times...most as recently as last year.
Currently, I work for a company which serves law enforcement and government customers as their Director of Product Innovation. The company tagline is "Helping good guys catch more bad guys"...
I was first licensed as a Realtor in 1992 and lead The Backer Team consisting of real estate agents from Nogales to Tucson and reaching into Phoenix.
"Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something."
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