Reveles: Pinal County supervisor electioneered from the chairman’s seat

Roberto Reveles

Roberto Reveles

The following was to be read at the Oct. 30 meeting of the Pinal County Board of Supervisors:

Chairman and members of the board:

Not surprisingly, today’s agenda reflects the board’s continuing entanglement in costly allegations of election fraud. Allegations currently centered on one board member.

However, today’s costly mess exists because several county officials openly promoted the three-years-long MAGA Big Lie, without the board challenging their colleagues’ untruthful Big Lie. Thus, Pinal County continues struggling with today’s self-imposed swamp of distrust that our election system is rigged to deny victory to Donald Trump and his supporters.

Tolerance for the Big Lie is what’s led to today’s trust crisis. A crisis that’s costly beyond taxpayers’ dollars – the cost of an incalculable loss of public trust in the board’s impartial judgment and moral values.

Flawed board management was on full display Oct. 2 when, despite legal counsel’s intervention, you Chairman Goodman, angrily and inaccurately described my Call-to-the-Public words as a personal attack against you and your church.

No, my remarks were a respectful and prayerful plea that principled Republican members of the LDS community should join former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake and former State Sen. Rusty Bowers in voting for Kamala Harris.

In response, you clearly electioneered from the chairman’s seat, proclaiming you were reflecting the majority views of Latter-Day Saints on the abortion election issue. You culminated your rant with the partisan and incongruent words, “I am a supporter of Donald Trump.”

You voiced alignment with a racist, an adjudged sexual predator, a convicted criminal, a promoter of the Jan. 6 violent attack to overturn the Constitution’s peaceful transfer of presidential authority.

You oversee our county’s employment process that rejects applications from convicted criminals for an entry-level county job, but you clearly abused your chairman’s impartial authority to publicly support employing convicted criminal Donald Trump, not for an entry job, but for the highest job in our nation.

Your choice between our two presidential candidates, one a convicted criminal who calls for termination of our Constitution; the other, a successful prosecutor of criminals and a proven defender of the Constitution – represents the height of bigoted hypocrisy.

What a galling display of false equivalency and disrespect for taxpayers who dare speak truthful facts in defense of the rule of law and our Constitution.

How absurd that racism, sex abuse, criminal conduct are promoted by you, Mr. Goodman, as shared LDS-Trump values.

I suggest you read and comply with Arizona Revised Statutes, which prohibits use of county resources to influence elections.

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