By Councilmember Tom Durham
Adam Kwasman has promised, if elected, to fire all of Scottsdale’s charter officers.
Can you imagine the chaos that would result?
Our charter officers have years of accumulated knowledge of how Scottsdale works—its operations, its budget, its services, its parks. Scottsdale regularly gets awards for the high quality of its services.
But all of that would be gone in a flash once Adam fires our charter officers.
His rant against “unelected bureaucrats” is inexplicable because the charter officers are, by definition, unelected.
And Adam has also lied about charter officer salaries. He claims they recently got 25% raises, which is not true. No one got a 25% raise. The raises were commensurate with the charter officers’ counterparts in the Valley.
He has no plan to replace our charter officers. (He never comes to Council meetings, so he doesn’t know what they do). What’s worse, he has proposed term limits for new charter officers and promised to pay them rock bottom salaries. What competent manager would take a job at a low salary when you are destined to lose your job at the end of Adam’s term limit? This would mean the end of Scottsdale’s high level of service.
As the Arizona Progress & Gazette has noted, Adam is “either unwilling to educate himself or is purposely lying to you.”
That’s why Adam Kwasman is the Chaos Candidate.