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12 February 2019

On-Stage @ Mesa ConCenter Last Week: Take-A-Deep-Breath > Exhale

Jivin' John Giles and High-Salaried ASU President Michael Crow teamed-up last week for another over-the-top hoopla of hype where Crow got the best blurb about the much debated and controversial ASU campus that emerged as the Mesa City centerpiece, with ASU President Michael Crow sharing center stage with Mesa Mayor Giles. Crow said after his remarks on-stage that "research and innovation in Mesa will be consistent with other innovation districts in Singapore, Sydney, Australia and New York. . . "
"We are very excited about this facility," Crow said.*
Those lines were published in an article by the East Valley Tribune's staff writer Jim Walsh on February 10, 2019, five days after the annual State-Of-The-City Speech on February 5.

Did you see how the hands moved?

Walsh wasn't just beat-out by a late write-up/recap, but it looks like he tried to understate the hype from Crow:
"If you travel around the world, there are a few significant digital innovation centers that exist - Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, New York City. We're building one for the Western United States here in Mesa"
That's taken from an earlier article in ASU Now that got published the same day as the SOTC2019 Speech on February 5, 2019.
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*Blogger Note: Michael Crow should be more than really very excited for at least two reasons:
1. Mesa Mayor John Giles appears to have been told to clean up his clown-act posing with Sparky, the ASU mascot, to kick-off a $500,000 privately-financed public relations screw-up that blew up in their faces when Mesa taxpayers rejected a $200-Million Debt Obligation Bond proposal two years ago.
However, they did succeed in 2018 to trick taxpayers into debt-service financing a $198-million "Grab-Bag-of-Goodies-For-Everybody" that included about $75-million or more to build facilities for ASU around City Hall Plaza. If ASU wanted a campus downtown they could have financed it.
2. So far, interest and scrutiny of the land-and-financing deals made with city officials for ASU downtown has not attracted the attention of the Arizona State Attorney General, unlike a current lawsuit over land-deals and conflicts-of-interest by the Arizona Board of Regents at the main campus in Tempe.

3. Readers of this blog - and anyone who's really interested - might want to note ASU hired revolving-door influencer peddler and U.S. Congressman Matt Salmon as a lobbyist earning a $250,000/year just before he decided to resign from public office. He's seen appearing in this image >
with AZ State Senator Bob Worsley in February of last year, who admitted publicly that he had been gambling in downtown real estate speculation while holding elected office. . . Conflict of interest
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Here for your viewing pleasure - 53 minutes of #SOTC2019
After listing all business achievements, Giles sounded a bit like a high school football coach.
“We will need your energy to get where want to be a community,”
“Let’s get to work.’’
"I consistently hear the words 'AUGMENTED REALITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND 3-D DESIGN . . . Mesa is very excited about what is now the reality of ASU coming to our downtown innovation district."

>> Thanks to Mesa Taxpayers for falling for the PR Trick! < <

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