Scottsdale City Council election 2024: What to know as 2 factions battle for control

[RandySF]

Scottsdale voters will decide who holds the City Council majority this upcoming election, a critical choice that will either largely preserve the status quo or empower a new majority faction that’s likely to either halt or reverse course on many existing city’ initiatives.

Scottsdale’s July ticket is crowded, with nine candidates vying for three seats. By and large, they’re mostly all conservative to some degree and can’t be easily grouped into blocks based on divisions around a single policy issue.

But there is an underlying ideological and rhetorical split between two loosely defined candidate groups, which indicates the outcome of this election will have major ramifications for how the city functions going forward.

The opposition slate consists of four particularly conservative candidates who tend to be more critical of Scottsdale's leadership over alleged fiscal irresponsibility and overdevelopment. They often speak about reducing what they believe is wasteful city spending.




https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2024/07/08/scottsdale-city-council-election-2024/74275038007/

[ChazII]

1. Who to vote for mayor is my question.

David Oretga will not be getting my vote so I need to decide which of the two women. I want to see the southern section of Scottsdale get attention and not be overun by new luxury apartments which have gone up in my neighborhood.