All Done: Record-Breaking City of Mesa Budget FY2019/2020 Approved In-A-Flash

04 June 2019

All Done: Record-Breaking City of Mesa Budget FY2019/2020 Approved In-A-Flash

Hold on! Not so fast there .... if the Mesa City Council truly believes that a government cannot be effective without the active engagement and participation in our elected government by the citizens who live here, you can easily see for once again the results.
Note the scheduling of probably the most important item on the schedule for yesterday's three public meetings - the PUBLIC HEARING is the last to be heard. Only one person speaks up: Verl Farnsworth.

The City Administration can fool most of the people all of the time - except in 2016 when taxpayers overwhelmingly REJECTED a $200-Million Proposition in the General Election. Last year 'the sales pitch" to transform Downtown Mesa into a satellite campus for ASU worked, although 84,000 people voted against the Shake-Down to go into more debt service obligations. ASU could have financed it with more than a $1.3B treasury. Rampant real estate speculation and private wealth-creation for a "the Chosen Few" who just happen to be closely-connected cohorts of the mayor, some who are hired high-paid lobbyists for ASU [including a revolving-door former U.S. Congressman] and a former Arizona State Senator who gambled on high returns for himself at the same time he held public office.
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But never mind all that - the public show must go on . . . and on-and-on until someone or something dips deeper into the pervasive corruption of a group of "friends-and-family"

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