It’s one thing for a mayor of a wildly popular tourist town to be proud of his little slice of paradise. It’s another thing entirely for him to be capitalizing off it by running his own clandestine tourism app.
In Solvang, both residents and members of the City Council have expressed concern that Mayor David Brown’s side hustle, an app promoting Solvang tourism, is both a conflict of interest and a breach in ethics.
The app, called the Solvang Passport, is geared toward the million visitors who come to the Danish village annually. It ostensibly gives tourists an inside look at what’s happening around town…