OPINION - After failing to get support for renaming the Fountain Hills Community Center as tribute to Charlie Kirk, Allen Skillicorn successfully moved to get the construction of a statue of Kirk on a future agenda. Hannah Larrabee seconded the motion, followed by Gayle Earle giving the required third vote.
I have polled the community in three different Fountain Hills Facebook groups and I can tell you that there is immediate astonishment, disgust, anger and refusal in response to the idea of a Charlie Kirk statue, and this without any discussion of who pays for the “tribute.”
Councilmember Skillicorn argued for the Community Center renaming in the Fountain Hills Times Independent by saying “we owe it to Charlie.” Who is this “we” Mr. Skillicorn is using to bolster his agenda? That is, in my humble opinion, the question.
