08 January 2018

Call-of-Duty To Religion Takes Away Another Home-Grown Leader Here In The East Valley

What's the real story here? It's hard to tell and some people just don't (or won't). one of the only public stories in print appeared over the weekend about John Lewis, shown in this opening image insert next to long-time leader Roc Arnett [left]of the East Valley Partnership, who has said he's retiring but that doesn't appear to be the case (see more below)
John Lewis has been called to serve on an LDS Mission.
AZ Big Media-Jan 4, 2018
John Lewis, president and CEO of the East Valley Partnership, has announced that he will step down in his current role as he has been called to serve as a Mission President of the LDS Church. Lewis will serve a three-year assignment in Cambodia beginning July 1, 2018, alongside his wife, LaCinda ...
 
On the same date four days ago it was almost the same word-for-word story reproduced in a sycophantic local news source calling itself MyMesaNews  with this headline and image . . . It's not your MesaZona blogger's idea of what's news here - there's no context to explain this sudden change
East Valley Partnership CEO Lewis stepping down to accept church mission call
. . . as a Mission President for 3 years in Cambodia?
Now, really, how urgent is that calling to a place so far away from his hometown turf to completely upset the succession plans to Roc Arnett?? ....or is this like that old time story so prevalent here: Get outta Dodge fast! With no one asking why.
Just "business-as-usual"? Or whatever-you-do don't get caught?
Who will be named to take over as the successor to Roc Arnett who doesn't appear to be going anywhere any time soon.
Both Arnett and Lewis have their eyes for expansion of this corner of The Kingdom farther to the East: Superstition Vistas.
According to all these "spoon-fed" reports, the East Valley Partnership’s 75-member board of directors will begin discussing plans for recruiting a replacement for Lewis in early January.
The next piece of the jig-saw puzzle was written about earlier in then summer.

Superstition Vistas: An EV vision on hold looks for new life
 
Simultaneously while Mayor of Gilbert and resigning six months before the end of his term to pass the office to another Latter-Day Saint, Lewis served as a volunteer with the Partnership for six years before being named the organization’s president in 2015. He was hand-selected to succeed Roc Arnett, the previous president of the Partnership who served the organization for 13 years. 
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Just weeks ago, Michael Cowan, another local Mormon leader who's been the Mesa Public Schools Superintendent for ten years, also received a higher calling to an undetermined location while under a cloud for some alleged shenanigans with an insurance fund. 
 

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