In, "Tucson business leaders, boosters rally behind U of A President 'Bobby' Robbins," Mike Myers doubted that John Arnold serving as CFO is a conflict of interest.
It is a conflict, though I agree not because Arnold reports to Robbins, but because Robbins reported to Arnold (and all of ABOR). It’s a conflict because Arnold is on the ABOR that approved Robbins’s spending and strategic plans; the “trajectory” set by Robbins was overseen by ABOR. It’s a conflict because Arnold *could have* been complicit in financial mismanagement, and his CFO role would allow him to cover that up: to squelch truth-telling. I am not saying that's what happened, but as long as the *possibility* exists that one fox oversaw which hens to take from the henhouse, and is now responsible for reporting the number of missing hens, a conflict of interest exists.
I welcome Hobbs's request that Arnold step down, and to open the process to audit. Only the guilty are afraid of the truth, right?
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Keith Maggert
Midtown
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