Camp Verde politics (real estate, budget, work)

[Laurel]

Tony or Mitch Dicknson for mayor?
They've both been mayor before, but it's a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. Neither has made any progress but personal while in office. Tony can't run a meeting, but Mitch focuses too much on using his power to get contracts for his construction company.
Also, which one will ever get rid of Bill Lee, who is a super nice guy and makes a mean pizza (try his restraunt, Salt Mine Cellars) but is unfamiliar with the fact that a town manager must follow specific laws, particularly reguarding the town budget!
Does anyone else have an opinion on the upcoming election?

[zonababe]

Laurel, most people here won't know the players in the small town of Camp Verde politics. I think Camp Verde is growing nicely. Someone had to be smart enough to develop to 260 along the freeway exit. I don't have an opinon on the upcoming election, but I can say I always find Camp Verde newspaper reports to be very entertaining. I don't know where you stand, but Camp Verde does have the potential to be a bedroom community for Phx workers, as real estate/climate is more reasonable.

[brian_2]

"Camp Verde does have the potential to be a bedroom community for Phx workers, as real estate/climate is more reasonable."

Doubtful. Fuel prices are low now, but future trends will be higher & higher. A two to two and half hour round-trip drive under the best of traffic conditions (traffic here grows every year) will deter most anyone from that nonsense.

More likely, Camp Verde will continue to grow as the Verde Valley home to people who can't afford nicer communities, with the exception being the owners of large lot homes in the outskirts where people have the means to live a real cowboy up rural existence.

The route 260 expansion (when they finally satisfy all the 'what about my slice of the pie' parties) should have Verde Valley residents and commuters pulling their hair out for quite awhile.

Camp Verde candidates? I know 'we the people' should participate in our democracy, but CV politics is anything but a democratic exercise. CV government functions through an odd blend of cronyism, nepotism, incompetence, and self-aggrandizement, and remember that if you're brave enough to throw your hat into that morass anyway - make sure you go to the 'right' church, you belong to the 'right' thinking, and you drive the 'right' pick-em up truck first.