Sedona AZ (August 26, 2014) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
As the former editor of a multi-community Midwest newspaper and with a Masters Degree in Journalism, I find it a bit disconcerting that negative ads are creeping into the Red Rock News. People come from all over the world to see the beauty here, true. They also come to our little city because there is something very special here. We are not just another city. We are Sedona, and that intangible special quality sets us apart and yes, above the petty negative politics we sadly see all around us. Sedona is better than that.
Even after rightfully decrying negative politics in recent editorials, however, now the Red Rock News seems to feel free to accept negative political advertising money. That saddens me. Attack ads against political opponents do not speak well for Sedona, nor for any of the candidates and their supporters who are stooping to such tactics.
Sedona has had many qualified and dedicated women and men who have served our community exceptionally well without resorting to negative attack ads during the times they ran for office.
My word to all candidates and their supporters? Please remember you are seeking office in a very special community. We are all part of the Sedona Soul, and I ask you to remember this as you seek to represent this city we all cherish and love so well.
Barbara Mayer Sedona
Appreciates this article!
Bravo Barbara Mayer, thanks! I didn’t comment after reading about digging up dirt on our friends, neighbors and fellow city-ites and that gross man’s proposal to dig up dirt or be a guerrilla with big negative campaign let me describe it as DISGUSTING. I’ll never send visitors to El Portal while the ownership remains the same. There’s something tainting our beautiful breezes of our Sedona. Thanks to Barbara Mayer and those someones who stood up and said no way to Sandy and her groupies and no to it here.