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Flake in Ahwatukee: No vote for Trump yet By Paul Maryniak AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS MANAGING EDITOR
U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake told a group of Republicans at an Ahwatukee breakfast Tuesday that he won’t vote for Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Then, minutes later, the Republican senator from Arizona told the Ahwatukee Foothills News that he’s not yet prepared to vote for his party’s nominee either. “I want to vote for Donald Trump, but I just can’t now – until he changes some of his positions,” he said in a brief interview after his address at the Ahwatukee Republican Women’s breakfast. Those positions, Flake told the larger group, could haunt Republicans for a long time. Trump’s campaign statements, he added, “will have ramifications for our party for years to come if our candidate Desert Vista High head football Coach Dan Hinds, left, and Mountain Pointe High’s head football Coach does not run a different campaign Norris Vaughan have been having their teams working hard in their respective practice sessions as than he is doing now.” the 2016 season begins Friday. For a complete report on the prospects of the Thunder and the Pride, “I’m not happy with our see page 51. To learn about upcoming season coverage from AFN, see page 30. Republican nominee,” he told the group. “I think we can do better.” “Some of us in elected office need to push back,” he said, adding that Republicans had nearly a duty to let the public “know that not all SPECIAL REPORT By Paul Maryniak operating the golf course at the contractually Republicans hold his views.” Though he did not comment on AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS EDITOR required level equal to or exceeding other upscale the internal division Trump has A second Ahwatukee golf community has become public courses.” embroiled in a lawsuit over conditions of its course, But some homeowners are unhappy with caused in his party, some evidence generating a three-way fight involving its owner, the HOA lawsuit and have formed a nonprofit may have existed in the turnout: the homeowners association, and hundreds of organization called Save Club West. Leaders of Only about 40 people, mostly residents. that movement say the lawsuit offers no long-term women, attended the breakfast at The Club West HOA in July filed a lawsuit in state solution for the problem that all the parties agree the Four Points by Sheraton South Mountain Hotel. In his talk, Flake Superior Court against four companies connected exists at the community. with owner Wilson Gee, accusing them of “not >> See GOLF COMMUNITY on page 14 >> See FLAKE on page 4 (Cheryl Haselhorst/AFN Staff Photographer)
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