OPINION — After Gayle Earle’s favorite Jennifer Wright barely lasted one year under the new attorney contract, Tim La Sota is now our town attorney. Remember, La Sota has unsuccessfully twice sued the town. First, representing Councilman Allen Skillicorn against Councilmembers Grzybowski, Kalivianakis, McMahon and Mayor Dickey, for their official actions censuring him; second, on behalf of ROT’s suit against the town for ROT’s failed referendum.
That’s not all. Skillicorn was found to have harassed and potentially misled local code enforcement by saying the code enforcement officer, a former MCSO deputy, was improperly removing signs. La Sota is defending a tavern for allegedly serving underage customers, which has twice resulted in fatalities. La Sota criticized police saying, “Tempe Tavern has been forced to close after 15 years because of dramatically reduced business due to harassment by the Arizona Department of Liquor and the Tempe Police Department.”
La Sota represents reportedly fraudulent Green Party candidates, wasting time and money and unsurprisingly ending up on the wrong side of the ruling. An attorney called La Sota’s allegations of First Amendment violations “absurd.” The implication? “Great, that’s a win to the candidate who’s committed the fraud. If they pull the wool over the eyes of the secretary of state, (then) the public dollars could be expended, even though they were not lawfully obtained.”
