EJ Montini

opinion columnist

State Treasurer Jeff DeWit should resign.

Or he should quit his big new job with the Donald Trump campaign.

But the citizens of Arizona shouldn't be paying DeWit's salary while he's working for Trump.

DeWit says that won't happen.

I'm not buying it. No one should be buying it.

DeWit was just named the chief operating officer for Trump's national campaign.

According the news reports, DeWit "will focus on the operational aspects of the campaign including budgetary and logistical matters ... He will create operational efficiencies as the campaign moves into the general election phase."

You don't do a full-time job part time

We're not talking about a guy running for city council. This is a ... National ... Presidential ... Campaign.

You don't run that kind of operation on a part-time basis. Or, if you do, you do a lousy job.

DeWitt told The Arizona Republic's Dan Nowicki that he'll be able to do it, and that his job with Trump is voluntary.

"My responsibilities as treasurer come first," DeWit said. "And my first job is to protect the taxpayers of Arizona. I will fully execute all of the responsibilities – the constitutional responsibilities -- as treasurer ....

"This (campaign job) is something I'm doing in my free time so truly the only part of my life that will suffer is my time with the family for the next three months."

Again, I'm not buying it.

DeWit has taken a big job with a national campaign, the kind of job that leads to a job in the federal government if his candidate wins.

I have no problem with DeWit betting his future on Trump.

I DO have a problem with Arizona taxpayers paying for his gamble.

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