Less than two weeks ago, I asked Jack Camper, the boisterous executive director the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, when he was planning on retiring.
As you can see in the above clip, Camper said he’d let us know when he was ready.
Well, that didn’t take long. Today, Camper announced he would be stepping down next March and launching a consulting firm.
“I’m going under my own steam,” he told me today.
Camper, who has headed up the chamber for more than three decades, has been under fire from some folks in the local business community.
The chamber plans to do a national search to find Camper’s replacement.
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2010.
A “national search?” Wow. There is a strategy sure to find an individual who will understand and respect this town enough to be able to work with this community. I guess we can expect more pointless partisanship and bomb-throwing from the Chamber in the coming years.