Welcome to the site’s new feature, holding politician’s accountable for double talk. And there’s no better place to launch Hypocrite Alert! than with Scottsdale’s Ultimate Politician, Bob Littlefield.
On the campaign trail he talks negatively about the proliferation of apartments in Scottsdale notwithstanding he’s the godfather of not one but the two largest apartment projects in the history of Scottsdale. But that’s not all . . . he then took away the rights of citizens opposing the project, preventing them from putting the project to a city-wide vote.
When confronted with such facts Littlefield tries to go Obi Wan-Kenobi instructing voters such matters may not be the droids they’re looking for.
He then discusses how he’s opposed numerous apartment projects in Scottsdale, except for those that contributed generously to his campaign coffers. But more on that another time.
This time Hypocrite Alert! would like to point out Littlefield cashing one of the most generous contributions of his political career: from none other than the special interest political action committee of who? The Arizona Multi-Housing Assocation. That’s right, the state’s leading defender and purveyor of apartments.
It’s hard to make this stuff up.
But at least Littlefield’s hypocrisies are good for something: laughter.