In the weeks since unprecedented sanctions were levied against him, Fountain Hills Councilmember Allen Skillicorn repeated his patently false claim that the sanctions he was assessed by a Town Council majority were the result of a partisan, political smear campaign orchestrated by a liberal mayor. (See bodycam video involving Skillicorn, a Fountain Hills code enforcement officer, and a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy.)
If living in an alternate reality in which fallacy is consumed as fact, you are the perfect Skillicorn disciple. But reality and facts still matter, and the law enforcement bodycam video we have included further supports the facts.
In one interview, political action committee Reclaim Our Town (best and most appropriately known as ROT), which endorsed Skillicorn for a seat on the Fountain Hills Town Council, claimed that the ethics charges (which Mayor Dickey did not file) represented retribution “because I defeated her.” In other interviews and in his press release Skillicorn asserted that the ethics charges were motivated by a desire to “silence me.”
Skillicorn has consistently accused his “political enemies” of weaponizing the ethics procedure against him and repeatedly referred to the “phony ethics sanctions.” As to Skillicorn’s illegal pursuit of a Town Code Enforcement Officer (and a former police officer), Skillicorn has claimed that his political signs were stolen and that he had a First Amendment right to pursue the employee with his horn honking and his bright lights flashing. Skillicorn stated that “You guys are really skating on thin ice,” then denies that he acted aggressively in his pursuit of the employee. Skillicorn has also claimed that the rules that apply to setbacks were “secretly changed.”
Viewers should take the opportunity to review this bodycam video and judge for themselves if Skillicorn had been truthful or if, as the Sheriff’s Deputy concluded, he has been lying.
