In-The-News Spotlight: Hizzoner John Giles "A Rational Republican" RINO or What??

It's anyone's guess and fair play to figure out what Giles has in mind for a make-over starting off his last term in-office that expires in 2024. By now the former trackstar has a public track-record in "non-partisan" local politics for an entrenched generations-old political machine.  

Over the weekend Giles got some national media attention . . .Read into that what you want

Here's one story > 12news.com | 3/21/2021 10:09:30 PM

LDS Church leader, Sinema call for LGBTQ equality as Mesa faces challenge to non-discrimination law

Interfaith letter is addressed to 'Arizona residents.' But it comes as a campaign seeks to put Mesa's new civil rights ordinance to a citywide vote

Within days of Mesa City Council voting 6-2 in favor of the ordinance protecting LGBTQ civil rights, Arizona's leading opponent of those rights, Cathi Herrod of the Center for Arizona Policy, called on residents to sign petitions for a citywide vote to kill the ordinance. 

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Mesa, AZ Mayor Giles: ‘I’ve Been Impressed So Far’ with Biden Administration on Border Surge

Pam Key21 Mar 2021652

Breitbart |

Mesa, AZ Mayor John Giles (R) said Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that he had been “impressed so far” by the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis.

Giles said, “You know, I’ve been the mayor for six years here in Mesa, so I am a veteran of the last border surge.  And so we are very nervous about the surge that we see in refugees that are crossing the border. I’ve been impressed so far with this administration.  I had an opportunity to talk with Secretary Mayorkas about a week ago. I told him the experience that we had a couple of years ago, and he was very aware of it. So we’ve had boots on the ground from the administration here in Phoenix and in Mesa.”

He continued, “We’ve explained to them that there are a lot of compassionate people in our community, faith groups, and NGOs that are willing to partner with the federal government to respond to this. But the cupboards are bare because, over the last two years, they’ve been asked to shoulder this problem as the federal government really wasn’t capable of doing it without assistance.”

He added, So far, we’re getting good answers to the questions we’re asking. So far, it looks like FEMA and other resources are being brought to help communities like mine that are close to the border.”

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