By Adam Gaub | Maricopa Monitor
Shortly after being fired by Pinal County Supervisor Cheryl Chase, former
administrative assistant Manuel Vega fired back with a letter to the full board.
Despite intimations he may run for constable this fall in the Apache Junction and San Tan Valley area, Vega wasn’t afraid to blast Chase, who he says fired him without giving any sort of a reason. Chase lives in San Tan Valley.
Vega wrote in his letter to the board that Chase’s expectations for her administrative assistant were unreasonable. She wanted him to be available on nights and weekends to drive her to events, on top of putting in his normal 40 hours during the week, he wrote. He said Chase’s desire for that position was to have someone akin to a “personal chauffeur.”
Chase voted last week with board Chairman Anthony Smith of Maricopa and Vice Chairman Todd House of Apache Junction to reclassify their assistants positions to a pay grade with a salary bump of more than $12,000 a year. She said the move was necessary given the workload expected of the people in those positions.
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