Send In The Clowns > 17 Days Until Early Voting Starts Here In Mesa

Like they say Politics is a Fool's Game where some people can get fooled some of the time, and some times with unintended results.
Take for instance in the Primary Election where Jennifer Duff might want to send a Thank-You note to one of her challengers Robert Scantlebury, shown in the opening image, for siphoning off some votes gained on his Public Safety campaign platform away from Jake Brown that might have gotten Brown a no-contest victory just above 50% to gain a seat on the Mesa City Council occupied by his 2nd-cousin Chris Glover. It will be a close call for District 4in  the Nov 6 General Election, with early votes starting October 10.
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There's no election for mayor this year but there's a carry-over piece of baggage left over from the General Election two years ago: ASU in downtown or not
Is Mesa Mayor John Giles still as goofy as he looked two years ago when he asks
"Why would we ask again when the voters said, no I’m not interested in raising my sales tax?" 
WHY WOULD THEY ASK AGAIN?

This time around they're betting on playing all residents for fools to finance the private-wealth creation for conservative Mesa Mormon Republican millionaires forming limited-liability corporations and  investing in wait-and-see holding companies that gamble in rampant real estate speculation here in Downtown.

They have supposedly thrown $20M into the honey-pot to wait-and-see if voters agree to $200M in more debt service.
In other words, they want to leverage 10% into a pay-off for their own profits.      

Hey! They've had two years to 'set-the-stage', scrub-the-numbers, do behind-the-scenes deals, fake-the-studies and projections [all done by ASU), and clean-up-their-act for another chance to hit up all Mesa residents to finance their ill-begotten ASU schemes with a new Grab-Bag of Goodies in smaller doses.
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Here's some pieces of the puzzle and a  story (Lily Altavena May 15 2018 click here) 

The taxpayer cost to build a proposed Arizona State University development in downtown Mesa is estimated to start at $70 million. That is about $100 million less than a similar proposal Mesa voters shot down in 2016, according to the city. 

The deal is not expected to go to voters this time. BUT IT IS in six different neatly-packaged Ballot Questions . 

 

That's because city leaders would identify other revenue to pay for the project instead of the sales-tax hike voters rejected. 

City Manager Christopher Brady told council members May 10 that while the city is only committing to one, $70 million phase of development, he envisions eventually committing to the full 2016 proposal.

It's unclear how costs would stack up. . .

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Council debate has been fierce over whether the university should come downtown at all.Council members also clashed over where money would come from to pay for an ASU development. Brady said the money is slated to come from the enterprise fund, which is funded mostly by utility revenues, but that council can decide annually where to take money to pay for the construction debt. 

The mayor and other council members said the investment would bring increased economic activity, including big-name developments that hinge on the university's presence.  

"It would just be later on than what we originally anticipated,"

Brady said. 

Jeff McVay, Mesa's manager for downtown transformation, said that ASU programming planned for the building has driven its design. 

The university plans to grow its film and media programs in Mesa and might create a new major focused on experience design, which focuses on how consumers interact with a product through technology. 

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