Richard Kimball is an American politician who is the founder and president emeritus of the nonprofit voter education organization Vote Smart.
He was a staff assistant to Congressman Morris Udall and worked as a press secretary for Senators Walter Mondale and Daniel Moynihan.
[4] Governor Bruce Babbitt appointed Sharon Megdal, a member of the University of Arizona's economics faculty, to the seat.
"[9] Twenty years later, Kimball commented on the campaign to a reporter from the Arizona Daily Star: "I was enormously depressed — not because I lost.
He said that he spent the following months after the election traveling through Mexico, and then left politics to start Project Vote Smart.