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Corrupt County Manager David Smith abruptly resigns
February 29, 2012 by 21 Comments
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Another corrupt county employee who Sheriff Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas tried to prosecute goes down. One by one, the corrupt county officials who successfully thwarted prosecution are proving that Arpaio and Thomas were right. Judge Donahoe abruptly resigned from the bench. Kenny Harris, the chief engineer on the court tower, was fired under suspicious circumstances by Smith. Supervisor Don Stapley is not running for reelection. Supervisor Fulton Brock’s career is over now that his complicit role in hiding his wife’s affair with a minor has come out. Several county employees have been suspended or fired for accepting bribes related to the court tower. It seems like every few weeks another county employee connected to the Supervisors’ office is exposed.
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Finally! No one can stand him at the county. He’s arrogant and makes backroom deals to protect those high in power who control his overinflated salary. I guarantee he was behind the kickbacks to the court employees for the court tower. This man is as seedy as they come and will do whatever it takes to fulfill his schemes. Next the county supervisors need to all go. They allowed this man to continue his reign of destruction unfettered for too long. He has destroyed the lives and reputations of anyone who got in his way, no matter how low-level the employee. His Assistant Sandi Wilson needs to go also, she is just as slimy as he is.
The timing is certainly suspicious. You would think he would have remained through the rest of the year to ensure that the rest of cronies get large settlements from the county. Makes me more convinced that he left in a hurry because they got something big on him.
I want to know where all of Smith’s victims go to get their reputations back. He has smeared anyone who dared stand up to him. If you are an attorney he files bar complaints against you with the left wing Arizona State Bar Association, which of course wants to ding anyone who is conservative. Thanks for writing this. The Arizona Republic had nothing but fawning words about Smith and his resignation. What a bunch of propaganda.
One down. Five to go!!
David Smith is one of the most putrid of all public “servants”. However, in his case, public servant is an oxymoron in the extreme. Smith represents everything that is wrong with politics – hands out, pockets stuffed, and this guy wouldn’t even wipe our windshields for us.
All I can say is good riddance, and by the way, Alicia said one down, five to go. I guess she means the supervisors. Now getting rid of them too is one capitol idea.
Bye bye Davey boy, and don’t let the door hit you s you slither away.
In agreement. Not a word out of any of them while this circus unfolded. That reason enough to put them out. Let’s support ethical County Commissioners in office, even if it means a complete turnover. If nothing else, it will sew some pockets shut for awhile.
Hats off to you for publishing this expose. It’s about time someone told the real story that so many have lost reputations and futures to fight. This Republican plans to vote them all out for allowing it to go unchallenged from the “inside” for so long and a cost of millions to taxpayers.
Here is another example of “Good riddance to bad rubbish”. I have to assume there will be no city wide ‘going away” party for D. Smith. The only way a person of such low caliber and few (if any) desirable traits became (and stayed) the city manager is……the Board of Supervisors!! That’s right, as long as Smith would be be the hatchet man and gopher for the Board, he stayed on..and on….and on!!! As the local rag of a newspaper (you know,the one we ALL refer to as the Repugnant) supported this idiot and everything he stood for. Now, if only we could fire the executive staff at the newspaper and just start over.
But now we the people have that unique opportunity to put some honest, ethical, and liberty-minded people on the Board of Supervisors. This opportunity comes around not often enough, so make sure your voice and vote is heard.
As for D. Smith, don’t let the door hit your rear end on the way out of town!!
Good news for taxpayers and for vendication of Arpaio. Please do not confuse the effective State Prepresentative David Burnell Smith with the disgraced David Smith. County voters are being rewarded with the announcement that Don Stapley and Fulton Brock amd Smith are soon to be history and all happening and withour an election..
Excuse me, do you have any evidence that Smith is being forced out, or that he is corrupt, or that, well, that anything you write is true?
You deliberately lie when you claim that Donahue resigned abruptly. In fact, the judge had postponed his retirement for several months before finally resigning. If anything, his departure was protracted, the opposite of abrupt.
All I see from you are naked assertions unsupported by fact or reason.
This is no vindication of Arpaio or Thomas, at least not that you’ve even remotely demonstrated. The simple fact remains that their criminal and civil lawsuits against their political enemies were tossed out. They had no case, and now they are paying the price for their acts.
No, wait, actually its the taxpayer that is paying.
It is recondite how any conservative would give cover to a pair of men who so clearly represent the very worst government can offer.
In order to put the above comment in perspective, one must understand that “truconserv” wrote this:
“It is not our goal to oppose everything Marx supported.”
Need I say more?
Hey look, the County troll showed up. Anyone with a pulse know Smith was one of the major problems at the County. Good riddance to him and his ego. Lots of heads are going to roll once the BOS elections are over and the new BOS seated. Truconserv will probably be one is my guess. January will be clean out the trash month.
Yes, of course, I ask for proof so I must not only be a troll, but one employed by the BoS?
I’m not saying Smith isn’t a jerk, or that it’s good that he’s gone, just that his departure doesn’t prove
1) That he is corrupt
2) That Arpaio and Thomas are somehow vindicated for having used their respective offices to go after their political rivals.
SA readers need to understand where “TruConserv” is coming from. It wrote this:
“It is not our goal to oppose everything Marx supported.”
He’s speaking about Karl Marx, the author of the “Manifesto of the Communist Party”.
Well, there we have it!
Yup, there we have it.
You can’t give a substantive response so you retreat to giving quotes out of context.
Textbook wingnut, not conservative behavior. Others have asked you not to give your lame, spammy, off-topic responses. Grow-up.
Then by all means, TC, put your comment in perspective for us. You have the floor. Go for it.
Truconserv: If you need any more proof of Smith’s arrogance and corruption, you haven’t been paying attention for the past six to seven years. There is no need to go over his entire history here. It’s just a good thing that he’s going. Unfortunately, he will retire with a nice pension paid for by our tax dollars.
Arrogance – sure.
Corruption – I hear and read a lot of allegations. Never see any proof. It strikes me as wrong to make accusations that can’t be sustained.
Well this isn’t an accusation, TC. This is a statement of fact. You wrote this:
“It is not our goal to oppose everything Marx supported.”
Marx, of course, being Karl Marx, author of the “Manifesto of the Communist Party”.
Certainly explains TC’s positions, doesn’t it!
Rob Haney doesn’t have the stones to put his name on this article, but we know he is behind the “American Post Gazette,” and that he is blindly loyal to Arpaio and Thomas, who are both corrupt.
Another troublemaker gone, finally.