It all comes down to the last week, and the negative campaigning is worse than EVER!

This election all comes down to our final push in the next 7 days. To win on Election Day, I need you with me now more than ever!

The positive response to my campaign from all parts of our city has been incredible. Because of our momentum and ability to win, my opponents and their dark-money special-interest allies are spending tens of thousands of dollars attacking me. They attacked my successful campaign last fall to save Scottsdale voters a third-of-a-billion dollars in property taxes. They attacked the support for my campaign from the police and firefighters who keep Scottsdale residents safe. They attacked my commitment to be your Councilmember who not only listens to you, but advocates for you at City Hall.  And just today I found out they are sending out another hit-piece mailer falsely claiming I oppose economic growth and private property rights. They can’t win on their own merits so they have to lie to try to keep me off the City Council.
Their attacks confirm my momentum! If their polling didn't show me in a position to win then they would not be spending all this dark money to try to defeat me.

I need your help if I am to win this election. First and foremost I need your vote – if you have not already done so, please mark your early ballot for me and mail it back today.

The other thing you can do to help is to spread the word about my positive campaign to be Your Voice On Council. Please ask your friends and neighbors to vote for me. A recommendation from a trusted friend or relative is worth far more than any mailer or robocall. Email your contacts and let them know why they should vote for me. Then, post that email to your Facebook, Twitter or other social media accounts. Feel free to use any of the material on my web site or Facebook page. If they have any questions, would like more information about my campaign or would like to help, my web site is www.kathylittlefield.com and my phone # is 480-951-2549.

I am prepared to be Your Voice On Council, but I need your help to get there!
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Kathy Littlefield Candidate For Scottsdale City Council

Dear Fellow Citizens of Scottsdale:

 

I am running for Scottsdale City Council for several reasons. 

The number 1 reason is the lack of fiscal responsibility on the part of the current City Council majority. As former City Treasurer Smith often noted, for the last several years this City Council has dealt with declining revenues, not by cutting expenses, but by cutting contributions to the capital budget. He said flatly that our current level of city spending is “unbalanced and unsustainable.”  The voters of Scottsdale made in clear in the recent bond election that they will not increase their city property taxes by 31% to bail the current City Council majority out of the financial hole they have dug for themselves. We need a strong conservative watchdog to set over our money.

The second reason is the current City Council majority’s cavalier attitude toward public safety. It’s not just about how much money we spend, it’s about what we spend it on. Keeping our citizens safe is job #1 for any city. The citizens of Scottsdale certainly know this as they have made it clear many times that fully funding public safety is their number one priority.

Up to now Scottsdale has been a very safe city. But the current City Council majority’s willingness to underfund critical public safety needs in order to redirect money to less important but more politically favored activities threatens to make Scottsdale less safe. We are losing police officers to other valley cities and our busiest fire station is understaffed, yet the current City Council majority refuses to make funding these critical needs a priority. I will fight to fund critical public safety needs first and, if that means other popular but less critical items lose their funding, then so be it.

The third reason is that Scottsdale residents need to have a strong representative voice on the Council which is focused on their quality of life.  Too often, their concerns are ignored by the very Council members who owe their position to citizen voters.  Time after time residents come to Council urging caution regarding issues that affect their neighborhoods.  Time after time I’ve watched their voices being ignored.   While I do not promise to always agree with them I do promise to listen to their concerns.

Finally, I will work to restore transparency and accountability to Scottsdale City government. One of the main reasons I worked so diligently against the 2013 city bonds was that voters could not tell how their tax dollars would actually be spent.  This concerned me because I believe citizens have a right to know where and how much of their tax money would have been spent on each bond item.  The absolutely astonishing negative reaction to the bonds tells me that voters do not trust the current City Council majority to spend their tax dollars wisely.  Also, the fact the Council refused to EVEN DISCUSS these issues after the bonds were so overwhelming defeated shows just how out of touch this Council is with the voters.        

In short, I would be a voice for the citizens of Scottsdale.  I would be honored to be your choice in the upcoming City election.

Phone: (480) 951-2549 · Web: www.KathyLittlefield.com · email: kathy@kathylittlefield.com