{"id":627878,"date":"2026-03-02T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/627878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:26:09","slug":"scottsdale-mayors-chief-of-staff-placed-on-10-more-days-of-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/627878\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale Mayor\u2019s Chief of Staff placed on 10 more days of leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 31 working days since Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky\u2019s Chief of Staff Lamar Whitmer was escorted from city hall by armed police officers and placed on non-disciplinary administrative leave for possible policy violations<\/p>\n<p>That means Whitmer has been sitting at home (the terms of the leave require Whitmer remain in his house during work hours with no city-owned electronics), collecting his $135,013 annual salary for over a month, and that will be the reality for at least a little while longer.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer signed an agreement to a 10 calendar day extension of his leave Friday, Feb. 27, according to a city spokeswoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been 31 working days since Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky\u2019s Chief of Staff Lamar Whitmer was escorted from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":627879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,230916,1535,138901,1589,7600,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-627878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-lamar-whitmer","tag-leave","tag-lisa-borowsky","tag-phoenix","tag-scottsdale","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116162172647242350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}