I was Tricked

Mayor Steve Otto of Payson lies like a rug as the old saying goes. Otto claimed on KKKMOG radio he was "tricked" into voting for progress on a new town pool. Anyone in Payson can go to the town website and see Otto vote for the pool. Otto had all the information and was certainly in a position to ask all the questions he wanted. Such blatant lying and the co conspiracy of KMOG is disgusting. Otto goes on the radio and distorts the cost of the bonding, and makes claims he knows are untrue. The bond was for 16 million, yet he continues to claim a cost of 40 million. 

Any resident of Payson can watch the video of the recent special town council meeting on the town’s website. During that meeting, Steve Otto clearly voted to move the new pool project forward at the Malibu site. Yet the very next day, Mayor Otto went on KMOG radio and claimed he had been "tricked" into voting for it.

This is not only disingenuous—it’s dishonest.

Mayor Otto seems to be borrowing a page from the national Republican playbook: deny, deflect, and claim ignorance. You can’t have it both ways. Voting yes on a project and then pretending you didn’t understand what you were voting on may work with the Tea Party crowd, but the rest of us aren’t buying it.

Payson deserves honest leadership, not political gamesmanship.