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Mayor Scott Jablow won’t run in 20261 min read

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Christopher Fox Graham
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Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow confirmed to the Sedona Red Rock News on Friday, Sept. 12, that he will not run for reelection in 2026.

The Sedona City Council formally and publicly censured Jablow for his behavior, reading seven major complaints, and called for his resignation on Wednesday, Sept. 10, with a 5-2 vote.

Councilman Derek Pfaff and Jablow voted against the resolution. Two previous private reprimands were delivered by council in previous executive sessions.

Jablow declined to resign at the meeting.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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