Our guest today is Mike Pineda. Mike is a 2024 Candidate for Mayor of Avondale, AZ. Mike currently serves as Vice Mayor, and seeks to continue using his personal and professional experience to Serve this small city, just west of Phoenix with huge impact.

1) Politics, even in small cities and towns, can be a rough arena. And serving as an elected official is a team sport that involves your entire family. What are the driving issues that caused you to run for Mayor of Avondale?

-My three tenets are Community, Education, and Small Business.

2) The race you are in is non-partisan, yet we find ourselves in a time in history when political party ideologies are deeply ingrained in the decisions that elected officials make. How do you navigate these issues?

-Leadership matters, and decision-making as a Mayor requires experience, skill and collaborative relationships. Through my many years of serving on City Council and as Vice Mayor, particularly in the West Valley area where several small cities work closely together on important issues have given me multitudes of opportunities and examples (both good and bad) of how decisions impact the community.

3) Your professional experience as a College Professor and Business Program Director, as well as having owned a REO Foreclosure Properties Real Estate firm gives you a unique perspective on how to grow and develop the city. Tell us about how these areas of experience will benefit your constituents.

4) Who has endorsed you and why?

5) Why should people who value Individual Liberties vote for you?

6) What makes you uniquely qualified to serve as the Mayor of Avondale, AZ?