By Wes Grunden | Sonoran News
As the Mayoral Candidates wound up their part of the debate at Cave Creek Town Hall on July 10, debate promoter, Councilwoman Mary Elrod, who is not running for re-election, played a video from a Town Council work session on the General Plan. In the video Eileen Wright made a statement saying she wasn’t a lawyer. Ernie Bunch quipped, “No, but you stayed with one last night. Wright’s husband is the Town Attorney for Carefree. Wright said she didn’t get advice from him. Elrod, in the video, addressed Mayor Bunch saying she thought his comment was inappropriate.
Comments from the audience called the playing of the video, “a set-up,” and “a political ad for a captive audience.” Several requested that Bunch be allowed to speak to give his side. Moderator Larry Scaringelli would not allow any more video to be played. He spoke to Sonoran News after the meeting, saying that had he known about the video, he would never have permitted it to be played.
