Corruption under Dickey reaches new highs

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In an election year and headed for a Mayoral runoff against candidate and current Councilman Friedel, it appears as if town attorney Arnson has broken from his previous pattern in which any ethics complaint against the mayor or councilmember would go to an outside third party attorney for review and decision. This time he  decided to just let Dickey off himself and withheld the decision until after the primary election.  The Alternative steps into the way back machine, well, not that far back in a review of previous Arnson actions.  

• The 2022 Magazine and McMahon complaint went to  Frank Cassidy, Attorney At Law. That didn't go so well for Dickey's people as Mr. Cassidy found Magazine guilty while allowing McMahon to walk, but described her behavior as childish.  https://fountainhillsalternative.com/archives-1 "Down Goes Magazine".  

Arnson then searched out a completely inappropriate attorney from Casa Grande, Tina Vannucci.  Specialty: real estate.  Everything that followed seemed as though someone was telling Vannucci what the desired outcome should be:

• Kalivianakis "directed" town staff (violation) to remove a political sign she did not like during the bond election period.  Outcome, no violation.  Kalivianakis  "requested" that the sign be removed.  The email was  evidence that it was a direction, not a request,  but Vannucci came through for Kaliviankis.
• 1/17/24, during a discussion leading up to the Target Plaza rezone vote, Councilman Skillicorn asked if anyone had ex parte meetings with the developer, if anyone had taken any campaign contributions. He actually wanted his answer in private so he motioned to adjourn to Executive Session.  Of course, Dickey never recognized his motion (a violation).  Then Dickey and company proceeded to file ethics charges against Skillicorn claiming accusations had been made by him.  It's all on video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAmhsTxxnfw  4:09:47.  Later it was revealed through FOIA, that Kalivianakis had directed pertinent documents to her personal email at the request of the developer to keep them from the public view.   This is a lot more extensive than ex parte meetings. Vannucci comes through again for Dickey and company (Arnson), outcome: guilty.  And, nothing ever became of Kaliviankis directing pertinent town information to her personal email and witholding it from other council members all the while pursuing  sanctions against fellow Councilman Skillicorn. Vannucci delivers two for one.
• With much hatred for Councilman Skillicorn, Vannucci was used again in a complaint accusing Skillicorn of aggressive behavior towards a town employee after code enforcement removed a political sign that had a tracker on it and Skillicorn tracked the sign and the town employee who had removed it.  Of course that's all on video as well as bodycam footage from MCSO showed of the three parties involved.  Skillicorn was the least aggressive.  Clearly in the lead was the deputy, followed by the town employee with Skillicorn actually rather docile.  You guessed it, Arnson sends it to Vannucci and received the desired outcome for Dickey and company, guilty, and of course they all vote to heavily sanction him.
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Now it gets interesting.  Skillicorn sues in Federal Court,  Skillicorn v. Dickey, No. CV-24-01074-PHX-DWL.

"The complaint further alleges that Mayor Ginny Dickey, Town Council members Brenda Kalivianakis, Sharon Grzybowski, and Peggy McMahon, and private attorney Tina Vannucci (together, “Defendants”) "......https://casetext.com/case/skillicorn-v-dickey  This is currently in Federal Court.  

Since Vannucci is now a defendant, Arnson cannot send the Dickey complaint regarding using  one pastor in town to silence another pastor whose message she disagreed with to Vannucci.  Rather than use a shill real estate attorney who they canmanipulate into coming up with the findings that they wanted, Kalivianakis  innocent,  Skillicorn guilty, they have found an easier way to just make this go away.  According to Arnson, he has the right to look at it first and determine if it’s even worthy of an ethics complaint. He has decided that this isn’t worthy.  So now we have a town  attorney whose job is tied to a mayor and  council making a decision about the ethics complaint filed against the mayor, by 2 residents of the town.  It must be hard to find a shill now that Vannucci is disqualified.  

Does anyone not see that this stinks?  Joe and Hunter Biden have  Merrick Garland.  Dickey and company have Aaron Arnson bringing the stink of corruption to the doorstep of Fountain Hills.  Voters have a chance in November to clean house, local and beyond.