In a new publication called “The Connection” promoting the new Fountain Hills Business Alliance, included in the Jan 18. edition of The Times, we find an interview with both mayoral candidates, Linda Kavanagh and Dwight Johnson.

Unfortunately for Fountain Hills, after publication we find that Dwight Johnson has already stepped aside to allow Kavanagh to run for mayor unopposed. The interview is very revealing about the remaining candidate Kavanagh, who claimed that the reason our downtown looks like a “moonscape” for the past decades is due to the present Town Council and their “micromanaging of local businesses with unreasonable regulations enforced in an arbitrary and capricious manner.”

Kavanagh didn’t provide examples of such an unfounded claim, but has by this interview set herself up as an adversary to the very group she wishes to lead – the elected members of the Town Council who represent the citizens.

As a 20-year employee of a major worldwide corporation, I can tell you that anyone coming into or seeking a leadership position in any business would be summarily dismissed or discounted for such negative and combative statements about the team she would lead before even starting the job. Prized above all qualities in the business world, of which Kavanagh has apparently no knowledge but presumes to represent, is the ability to work as a team with one’s co-workers for the good of the business and its endeavors.

Government is the family business for the Kavanaghs, and already we can see the negative atmosphere that will surround the Town Council under another Kavanagh governance. How sad that Fountain Hills will not have the chance to vote for Dwight Johnson, a veteran of a major worldwide corporation, one who would know the value of teamwork, and whose positive outlook and demeanor shone through his interview.

Kavanagh doesn’t get my vote.