Heath: Kathy Littlefield to vote on ethics complaint involving her husband

Ask yourself. Should Kathy Littlefield be voting on the Phillips matter given her husband’s involvement?”

Larry Heath, Scottsdale resident

I recently shared my opinion that Bob and Kathy Littlefield should not be on the Scottsdale City Council together.

Kathy is on the council. Her husband, Bob, really wants to be mayor, and he is hoping the second time running for it is the charm.

In my op-ed I pointed to a piece “Two Littlfelds Too Much” in the “Arizona Progress and Gazette”, that reported that 71% of respondents polled felt that the Littlefields should not serve on the council together, because of the legal issues and conflict of interest violations that could occur.

I wrote my editorial before I realized that Bob Littlefield was implicated in an ongoing ethics scandal involving Councilman Guy Phillips, who is running for reelection.

According to the allegations, in late 2019, a resident by the name of Susan Wood set up a GoFundMe account to collect donations for Phillips, supposedly to help him because he had been injured in a work-related accident.

In an affidavit dated Feb. 16, 2020, Wood said that she, herself, set up the account and that she decided to make all gifts to the GoFundMe account anonymous. It turns out that was not true.

In a subsequent sworn statement by Wood dated March 31, 2020, she stated that she received instructions from Bob Littlefield on how to set up the account --- and that “he also told me that it should be anonymous so I changed it (the account) within the first few days.”

Is it just me, or do you feel like we need an organizational chart to figure this out?

We have a want-to-be mayor (Bob Littlefield), who is married to a council member (Kathy Littlefield) involved in an ethics investigation into the actions of another council member (Guy Phillips) who says that he doesn’t need to report the names of the 18 people who contributed to him (via Susan Wood) because he doesn’t know who they are.

The Littlefields are not yet on the council together, and the City of Scottsdale is already embroiled in a soap opera.

The matter is now before a special panel that will report to the mayor and City Council in May; at which time the mayor and City Council must either accept or reject the report.

Ask yourself. Should Kathy Littlefield be voting on the Phillips matter given her husband’s involvement?

More importantly, is Bob Littlefield the type of person you want to be responsible for the dollars of Scottsdale taxpayers?

According to his Candidate Statement, that is precisely what he is running on.

There’s no way this man should be Mayor.

Editor’s Note: Larry Heath is a Scottsdale resident.