Will Pima County Bond Loss Force Highly Paid County Administrator Huckelberry Out? [Poll]

As the richest county in the U.S., Loudoun County, VA., pays its county administrator a whopping $223,160 a year, while Pima County, home to the fifth poorest metropolitan area in the country, pays its county administrator Chuck Huckelberry a whopping $320,000. On Tuesday, Huckelberry led the County into the abyss, and the mega bond failed in a landslide.

(The chief administrative officer of Prince George’s County (pop. 900,000), who stepped down in 2014 to return to the private sector, was paid $193,000, according to the Washington Post.)

Now, people are asking if it is time for the overpaid administrator to go.

According to multiple sources, Huckelberry had hoped to bail out the failing County with bond monies. He convinced various special interests groups that they would get a piece of the pie, if they supported his scheme. They bought it, but the voters did not.

Because the bond failure is seen as a mandate by the voters that enough is enough and the majority of the Pima County Board of Supervisors have been nothing more than rubber stamps for Huckelberry, they have little choice but to dump him before voters dump them in 2016.

Related article: Pima County Voters Revolt Against Bond Debt & Higher Taxes (video)

Before they can make the CYA, they will have to replace him with someone who will keep the books cooked. It is not beneath supervisors Ray Carroll, Sharon Bronson, Richard Elias, and Ramon Valadez to have already planned Huckelberry’s exit strategy long before yesterday.

Hopefully voters will be smarter and choose to run independent candidates against the sups. They clearly showed that they aren’t stupid. They refused to throw good money after bad.

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