The public comments section of Scottsdale City Council meetings normally is a one-way avenue for citizens to sound off.

But over the course of multiple meetings, Councilman Barry Graham and Steve Sutton have been having an edgy back-and-forth.

Best known for successfully gathering signatures to put up new signs on a dog park, Sutton has a bone to pick with the councilman.

The tiff stems from what seemed to be an innocuous Graham June 17 Nextdoor post about Fashion Square being a fun place for families.

Sutton commented that he spoke to several businesses that left the mall “due to ridiculous increases in leases.”

“Some things need to be preserved as they are,” Sutton wrote, “or people get angry at having the places in their happy memories destroyed or degraded.

“Angry people often cr

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