Don Quixote was a man who lost his mind on a quest to become a knight and who fought multiple imaginary enemies. However, to all those around him, there were no enemies to fight, nor damsels to save.

Allen Skillicorn has been jousting with imaginary issues since he landed on our Town Council. First, he saw evil in the council’s moment of silence and replaced that with prayers. Then, he saw problems in the sign ordinance (that had been discussed for two years and passed unanimously). The P&Z committee and Town Council had to spend more time on it, yet again. The town Lobbyist and town manager must have looked like windmills to Allen.

He apparently saw it as an extravagance for the town to be able to loan wheelchairs and other medical equipment to people in need, voting against aiding this town service. In fact, he doesn’t seem to think the Community Center should be the responsibility of the town at all and wants it privatized. Allen sees hordes of homeless people living here where the real number is just a handful. 

His political grandstanding includes voting against encouraging residents to walk and bike more; opposing Prop. 400, which supplies millions of dollars to our street maintenance; publicly maligning the Maricopa Association of Governments, an organization that shares funding and grant money with us; insisting on removing the word “Democracy” from the Code of Ethics Resolution; initiating a resolution to ban the town’s ability to keep the public safe in the future. And the latest was saving us from “dangerous” books at the elementary school, ones written by our former First Lady and by a Supreme Court Justice.

In the end, Don Quixote renounced his previous ambitions and apologized for the harm that he caused.