I grew-up in Mesa, where the guy who owned Long Wong's restaurant was the mayor. (I loved walking into Long Wong's and ordering a hot dog, which we kids always called a foot long Wong.) When he ran for mayor in '94, his only competition was the divorced Mormon mother of 5 who ran the barber shop where women in their undies would cut men's hair.
AZ is really one of the weirder places on the planet.
@TriedandTrue: I have the leopard print weekender. Even while recently checking into the hotel at a sales meeting in a shitty Chicago suburb, I felt bad ass. Probably didn't hurt that I had a ton of booze packed in it though...