Tonight on Arizona Illustrated's Political Roundtable: We'll talk about the upcoming Arizona presidential primary, Rick Santorum's rise in Arizona polls, Mayor Jonathon Rothschild's State of the City speech, and the latest action at the Arizona Legislature: Bills to ban potty language in the classroom, fund a border militia and bust up those public-sector unions. Join Democratic strategist Rodd McLeod, Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries, Arizona Public Media's Christopher Conover and your host, Jim Nintzel, at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 6.

It's not listed on the Arizona Beer Week calendar, but Noble Hops Gastropub is holding a couple of event next week. The people who handle public relations for the restaurant sent an e-mail yesterday after reading my effusive complaining regarding Tucson's lack of participation in the event.

Noble Hops has a beer-paired appetizer sampling on Wednesday, Feb. 22, featuring brews from Ska Brewing Company and Great Divide Brewing. Company reps will also be on hand to answer questions about their wares. $40 and reservations are recommended.

Noble Hops also has a tasting next week featuring beers from Deschutes Brewery. That takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; it's free; and it sounds like they'll be handing out some beer schwag, too.

Rasmussen confirms a Santorum surge in Arizona:

The Arizona Republican Primary race has tightened dramatically over the past two weeks, but former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney remains in first place with Rick Santorum close behind. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Arizona Republican Primary Voters finds Romney with 39% support to Santorum’s 31%. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a distant third with 15% of the vote, followed by Texas Congressman Ron Paul at seven percent (7%). Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

• Steve Wilson rides the Book Bike to an event on Sunday.

Bikes warranted a mention in Mayor Jonathan Rothschild State of the City address this week. Find out what he had to say about bicycling in the Old Pueblo.

It's easier than ever to get your bike repaired now that Eric Gonnason opened Guido’s Guerrilla Bikes, a mobile bike reapir service. Learn more about him and how to contact him.

Tucson is getting another bike shop, but this one has a few twists. Check out what Tucson's Loop Bicycle Shop has up its sleeve.

Tucson is friendly to bicycles and teams who train here in the winter, but one team learns the hard way that you can't block traffic. Check out why a team support car was issued a citation.

• Zachary Vito

Republican Jesse Kelly has a commanding lead in the GOP primary of the Congressional District 8 special election, according to a poll commissioned by Citizens United.

After winning a crowded GOP primary in 2010, Kelly came within a few thousand votes of defeating Gabrielle Giffords, who stepped down last month to focus on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 8, 2011.

The survey of 700 GOP voters, taken on Feb. 15-16, shows that Kelly has the support of 43 percent of the voters, while state Sen. Frank Antenori is in second place with 18 percent. Sportscaster and businessman Dave Sitton had just 10 percent in the poll, while former Air Force fighter pilot Martha McSally had 8 percent and John Lervold had 1 percent.

The GOP primary will be decided on April 17, with early voting starting in mid-March. The winner of the GOP primary will likely face Democrat Ron Barber, the only Democrat to announce plans to run in the June 12 special general election.

Here's the press release from Citizens United, which has endorsed Kelly:

Wenzel Strategies conducted a telephone survey of likely Republican special primary election voters in Arizona’s currently existing 8th Congressional District regarding the selection of a nominee to fill a vacant congressional seat. The survey was conducted Feb. 15-16, 2012, and included 700 respondents. The margin of error for the poll is +/- 3.68 percentage points.

The survey of voters in AZ CD8 shows that Jesse Kelly is far and away the leader for the Republican nomination for Congress, winning 43% support in a five-way contest. He is far better known than any of the other candidates in the race, and leads by wide margins in almost every demographic category in the survey.

Teachers who drop the F-bomb or otherwise use obscene, indecent or profane language in class would be suspended or fired under a proposal by state lawmakers.

Sen. Lori Klein, R-Anthem, who sponsored the measure, said teachers need to be held accountable for their words and need to set a high standard for the students.

Klein drafted the legislation after hearing from a constituent, Floyd Brown, that in his daughter’s classroom in a public high school, the teacher encouraged the students to stand up and shout obscenities at each other.

“I think that you will find that this is a greater problem than you think,” Brown told the Senate Government Reform Committee Wednesday.

“We have a problem,” Brown said. “We try to have a civil society, we try to have civil discussion but profanity and abusive language is absolutely crippling our school. And this is just one small step to try to bring that under control.”

The measure, Senate Bill 1205, passed the Senate Government Reform Committee Wednesday on party line vote and will now go to a vote by the full Senate.

Under the legislation, the first time a teacher says something that would be bleeped on TV or radio, the school would be allowed to fire the teacher, and required to at least issue a warning. For a third offense, the teacher would be suspended one week without pay, and by the fifth offense, the teacher would be fired.

The language would be tied to what the Federal Communications Commission considers obscene, indecent or profane.

• Art box and photo Ryn Gargulinski
• Front bottom of Gretel, a new TW art box

But who needs Times Square billboards when we got the Tucson Weekly Art Box Project.

Now in its second go-around, the Tucson Weekly Art Box Project consists of transforming the plain red, metal newspaper boxes into veritable works of art. Artists are allowed to use any medium they wish to create any design they wish, although we were duly warned that boxes that end up with nudity or profanity will get stuck in a “less desirable” location.

“Is that a Tucson Weekly newspaper box in those weeds behind the saguaro?”

Former Tucson Weekly intern/current freelancer/great photographer/nice guy Josh Morgan wants to go to Africa to film a documentary about the Caracal cat and the issues facing its survival in Namibia and he has a Kickstarter running to help him get the resources together to do so. Now I know next to nothing about animals, but Josh is such a talented guy and he's working with legit people on this thing, so it seems to be the project is at least worth your consideration. The deadline is March 12th and there are some cool bonuses for people who make a pledge.

A new American Research Group poll has Santorum surging in Arizona, although Romney still leads the GOP pack:

Mitt Romney leads in the Arizona Republican presidential primary with 38%. Romney is followed by Rick Santorum with 31%, Newt Gingrich with 15%, and Ron Paul with 11%.

In a similar survey conducted January 25-26, 2012, Romney was tied with Gingrich at 32% each, followed by Paul with 12% and Santorum with 10%. Santorum has increased support among men from 9% in the January survey to 37% in the latest survey and Santorum has increased support among women from 11% in the January survey to 24% in the latest survey.

Romney leads Santorum 37% to 32% among likely Republican primary voters saying they will definitely or probably vote in the February 28 primary. Romney leads Gingrich 61% to 17% among the 4% of Republican primary voters saying they have already voted.

Romney leads with 41% among likely Republican primary voters saying they are supporters of the Tea Party, followed by Santorum with 34%, Gingrich with 10%, and Paul with 7%. Among likely primary voters saying they are not supporters of the Tea Party or are undecided about the Tea Party, Romney leads with 35%, followed by Santorum with 28%, Gingrich with 20%, and Paul with 15%.

Santorum leads Romney 37% to 30% among men, followed by Gingrich with 17% and Paul with 13%. Romney leads Santorum 47% to 24% among women, followed by Gingrich with 13% and Paul with 9%.

The annual attempt to break the world record for the largest simultaneous toast takes place tomorrow and Tucsonans will be gathering at the Hut to do their part. The Dusty Buskers and the Keltic Kowboys are providing music, and there will be Irish stew.

The actual toast takes place at 10 p.m., but doors open at 7 p.m.. the cover charge is $10 with proceeds benefiting the annual St. Patrick's Day parade.