By Joycelyn Cabrera | InMaricopa
Christian Price goes beyond balancing his personal and political life – he melds the two together.
Maricopa’s incumbent mayor began to pursue politics out of college and continued on the path for the next 20 years. While most full-time workers can put on two different faces for work and for home, many Maricopa residents say Price presents himself the same way both in and out of the office.He is currently running unopposed for a fourth term.
“I can come in bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in 2012, but you’re not going to get to make the overpass happen and see completion in one year or two years or sometimes in four years. It takes a long time to make these long-term processes happen,” Price said. “The other side to that is, developers like continuity.”
Price has been a Maricopa resident since 2004. He was involved in community-planning for his subdivision of Maricopa Meadows as president of the homeowners association board of directors for six years beginning in 2005. Meanwhile, he climbed positions in the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, landing as treasurer in 2016 and president of the executive committee in 2018.
Price first ran for mayor in 2012 and has been reelected for each term since then.
