Diane Roth is a candidate running for the Carefree Town Council and supported by the Our Carefree PAC. While I don’t question her efforts to be successful, I do question her temperament to be a productive council member. The only positive commitment I’ve heard from her is a commitment to “transparency.” But as a member of the Boulders HOA, I don’t remember observing transparency during her term as a director there. What I do remember is that she exhibited extreme antipathy and high dudgeon towards the Town Council and the staff employees when she made an unsuccessful attempt to keep her seat in 2022.
During her current campaign she has publicly made hyperbolic statements, for example that the Carefree staff is over paid by 30% and the deadwood needs to be removed, and she also regularly lectures and criticizes our public officials in Town Council meetings. That was very evident again this month; here is one example: “We have not failed, you have failed us. Your job was to listen to our input and conform a General Plan from what we told you we wanted.” Apparently, when she gets involved she sees no room for Council members to exercise their own judgement, show leadership, or even demonstrate competence.
However, I’m a Carefree citizen too, and I certainly do expect those things from our Town Council. But I don’t expect them from Diane Roth.
With this negative attitude how can she be expected to work collegially with the other six
Members of the town council? The last thing we need in Carefree is more rancor. Please vote for the candidates who can work together: Vince D’Aliesio, Stephen Hatcher, and Colleen Rose-Scurti.
Bill Oelman
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