The D4 race gets more interesting, and surprisingly, this one is not about Michael Mazzocco. The documents referenced and posted in the Arizona Agenda article about Michael Mazzocco were sent by me to three D4 campaigns. How a candidate treats their own staff is the only unmediated thing you'll see about them and people have a right to know. One of those three (and I have a pretty good idea who) either passed my documents to a third party or directly to the Arizona Agenda. If you read the article, TJ L'Heureux and Curt Prendergast wrote that I sent this to every campaign in the race (not their fault). Only the email to Harder's campaign said that and It was a mistake on my end that I realized after I sent it. A Blog for Arizona blogger has reached out to me (via LinkedIn) twice: once after my first X post on 9/14, and again after they got my documents. Their words: the documents came from "someone from one of the addresses you sent." They asked me for contact info for the people in those meetings. I told them, NO! I find two of the articles this blogger wrote this year and Harder's relationship with the blog as interesting...

That same blogger has written two (in my opinion, favorable) pieces on Ashley Harder this year, quoting no other candidate, and nothing on anyone else in D4. She even wrote for Blog for Arizona herself on Sept. 14. To the leaker: my move was not about helping another D4 candidate. If helping a specific candidate was the intention, I don't think this will help them as much as you think. Disclaimer: I am going at this ALONE! Nobody is paying me, I am not coordinating with anyone, all me, lone wolf 🐺. I have nothing to gain from this. The people of Phoenix and D4 deserve better!

"To everyone who has stood beside me." 🎻 Well...I stood beside you, "unc." - I wrote your campaign, comms, data, field, finance, and your fundraising plans. - I built you a nice website, got you a SQL database, and put together your call time system. - I cut your turfs, knocked doors for you, ran your phone banks, and ran your email and text program, nights and weekends outside of my day job. Heck, I offered to take a pay cut so you could hire more staff! But... you told me you felt like punching me in the (expletive) face during a meeting where I still prepared you for the RUMBO Maryvale event, which you did well in. On my birthday, you screamed "I'm your boss, and I pay you" at me over the phone, among other things, during a menial disagreement. When I resigned, you told one of your big donors I left for "work" reasons. You admitted in writing you "didn't know what to say," and I called you out because it wasn't true. Then you tried to make my final pay conditional! You told the Arizona Agenda there are things you'd "phrase differently." So, Michael Mazzocco, how do you rephrase "I held off on work for a few days because I was upset and felt like punching you in the (expletive) face"? The transcripts weren't candid phone chats, dawg; they were campaign meetings, where I had my note-taker on so that I could make sure I had everything needed to get things done on your campaign. That's who is asking for your trust, Phoenix City Council District 4.