Vote NO on Mesa Question 1:
In 2016 Question 1 on your ballot asked if you wanted to increase your sales tax by 23% to pay for an ASU campus to be built in downtown Mesa. Overwhelming you said, “no”.
However, this year the City Council decided to use some shady chess play in order to ignore your vote.
This year Question 1 is “Home Rule”.
This is the tax increase you turned down in 2016.
The Mayor and City Council knew you would reject the ASU project if it was on the 2018 ballot.
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Approving another extension of the alternative expenditure limitation called "Home Rule" is like writing a blank check
Would you ever do that again?
An animated gif to get across the point that the mayor and some of his friends simply do not listen to what voters have REJECTED.
Most of the mayor's friends - one in particular, Mesa Mormon Mega-Millionaire Conservative Republican AZ Senator Bob Worsley is gambling in private for-his-own profits and personal wealth-creation in rampant real estate speculation here in downtown at the same time he holds the trust of the public. Tricking taxpayers to finance their schemes is simply DECEIT and a potential conflict-of-interest between public office and personal private gains.
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Approving another extension of the alternative expenditure limitation called "Home Rule" is like writing a blank check
Would you ever do that again?
An animated gif to get across the point that the mayor and some of his friends simply do not listen to what voters have REJECTED.
Most of the mayor's friends - one in particular, Mesa Mormon Mega-Millionaire Conservative Republican AZ Senator Bob Worsley is gambling in private for-his-own profits and personal wealth-creation in rampant real estate speculation here in downtown at the same time he holds the trust of the public. Tricking taxpayers to finance their schemes is simply DECEIT and a potential conflict-of-interest between public office and personal private gains.
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This means you get to tell the City Council that they must abide by article IX of Arizona’s Constitution and have a balanced budget.
Deceitfully, this form of debt and... water rate increases do not require voter approval, and because Now your utility bills will increase for the next 20 years to pay this debt.
Currently, City Council has decided not to balance the budget in order to fund this new ASU campus.
As a result, this deficit spending will deplete the city’s reserve fund.
Deficits for the next 5-years alone will add up to more than $60 million dollars. If you were to eliminate the new ASU building downtown not only would it balance the budget, we would have in excess of $40 million to be able to lower water and utility bills.
We also should be putting this money away in a rainy fund for when the economy takes a downturn. Our city leaders should have already been putting these protections in place.
It's time to not only vote NO on “Home Rule” but replace the existing City Councilmen who voted against your wishes and elect fiscally responsible leaders now and in 2020.
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WHO IS VERL FARNSWORTH?
Verl Farnsworth was a nonpartisan candidate for District 5 member of the Mesa City Council in Arizona. Farnsworth lost the primary on August 28, 2018.
Primary election for Mesa City Council District 5
Incumbent David Luna defeated Verl Farnsworth in the primary for Mesa City Council District 5 on August 28, 2018.
Total votes: 12,847 (100% precincts reporting)
| Candidate |
%
| Votes | ||
| ✔ | David Luna (Nonpartisan) |
57.9
| 7,437 | |
| Verl Farnsworth (Nonpartisan) |
41.9
| 5,382 | ||
