Mayor of South Tucson ousted in recall election

SOUTH TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Voters in South Tucson have ousted the southern Arizona city’s mayor in a recall election.

Aerospace worker Robert Larribas defeated incumbent Paul Diaz by 59 votes out of a total of 342 cast in a recall election Tuesday.

The Arizona Daily Star (https://goo.gl/iJYo0p ) reports that Dias was targeted by opponents who accused him of supporting a proposal to open a residential drug-treatment facility across the street from an elementary school.

Dias had said that the city didn’t have legal authority to get involved in a private business transaction.

He was elected to the City Council in 2011. He became mayor in 2013 after former Mayor Jennifer Eckstrom resigned.