Dylan Smith at the Tucson Sentinel has got his hands on a whole bunch of the emails that Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller keeps insisting do not exist—and he presents a damning case of an elected official driven by paranoia and a weird rage. The central takeaways:
The hundreds of documents provided, along with those previously released by former staff, show that:
Miller has continued her longstanding practice of routinely using personal emails, Facebook and text messages to direct her staff.
Miller has directed her employees to avoid using county email accounts or computers to carry out many of their duties.
Miller scripts her radio appearances, working with a host to plot out precise language for questions and answers.
Miller’s staffers have reviewed drafts of purportedly “independent” blog posts prior to their being published.
Miller worked with the Goldwater Institute to prompt a lawsuit over the county’s World View deal, despite publicly denying doing so.
It’s easy to see why Miller did not want to turn over the emails, as they reveal Miller to be a lying looney-toon who thinks Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry has planted bugs in her walls. (Also, she evidently doesn’t like me very much, probably because I was warning voters about her bullshit back when she was running for office in 2012 and continued writing stories like this about her.)
But not turning over the emails didn’t mean they wouldn’t come out; it just meant that she now finds herself under investigation by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office for refusing to follow Arizona public-records law.
Huge kudos to Smith’s ongoing work to expose Miller for the terrible public servant that she is. (I’ve been trying to get ahold of those emails myself, but there’s a giant backlog at the County Clerk’s Office because Miller has submitted her own public records request for thousands of pages of Huckelberry’s emails in an effort to prove that he’s the one who is orchestrating this whole story. (She probably thinks he stole her strawberries, too.)
Seriously, Republicans in District 1: This woman needs help, but not at the ballot box. You really ought to consider voting for her GOP opponent, John Winchester.
This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2016.
A GOP politician that’s a paranoid whackjob? Say it isn’t so!
But, but, but, everyone loves Hillary and she did the same thing, but to an even greater extent.
Hillary did NOT do the same thing. She did one of those things (used a personal email server). But at the time that was not illegal or even unusual. Colin Powell did the same thing.
Today it’s clearly spelled out as illegal (or at least unethical, I’m not sure).
…and when questioned she lied about it. With our national security info.
Contest that with Maricopa County reading Pima County’s strategy for growth, development and transportation solutions.
Oh wait, we don’t have any.
This article proves nothing, just another way the media is campaigning against the tax payers of Pima County. The media in Pima County is working together to oust the only Supervisor that looks out for the tax payer. https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2016/0…
I can see the killary defense coming into play here.
Squirrel!
Shocking Mr. Nintzel, just shocking!
What’s next, is someone going to expose The Donald as a narcissistic know nothing that resides in fantasy land?
I can feel my sense of security crumbling around me.
Moose!
There’s a bigger story not being told for whatever reasons: The online Arizona Daily Independent, with a FOIA request, obtained a bunch of county emails that show County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry, Deputy John Bernal, planner (Dr.) John Moffatt, PCDOT Director Priscilla Cornelio, former State Transportation Board Chair Steve Christy, and others working closely with non-government private groups and individuals — Tucson-Metro Chamber of Commerce, Sun Corridor Inc., Imagine Greater Tucson and Southern Arizona Leadership Conference, lawyer Si Schorr, lobbyist Michael Racy, and more — to shape county policy contrary to express Board of Supervisors’ policies. Check out the July 25 story at https://arizonadailyindependent.com/?p=104….
I like to call the pothole picture “Chipped Tooth Seal”
Easy to see how AVL (above) has been confused by the insinuation and innuendo posted by the ADI blog lady.
What the folks listed were doing is called – wait for it – “work”.
Oh noes!
Who doesent lie today? IT’s a constitutional right.
It’s as well, the norm today. To do otherwise, would be not going along to get along and, well, we all know those kinds of folks are not welcomed in government. Things will never change until people walk a better path in life themselves. After all, just look at this dead beat city. Poor streets. Poor street lights, that only affect a few of us, as, the majority of us work during the day, including most of the disfunctional government officials in charge. Selective enforcement in Police Departments who, cannot meet their own ethical and moral values to enforce law, as, they too, are deadbeats. Criminal. (7 in prostitution ring in the city of Tucson) No, to lie is ok today. Even when caught. What’s going to happen to them? Nothing. Hillary as well conforms to this new form of “selective” enforcement and laid down the line on how much all of us can lie, to the end. Evidence to prove otherwise? When it all goes to court is when it all becomes real. Have we seen Hillary go to court? Of course we didnt. We will see this liar go to court? Hell no. It’s same ol, same ol, corrupt AZ government. (Harvard statistics 2014 places AZ number one in most corrupt state in Union. )