Complaint Review: City Of Mesa Arizona & City Manager Charles K. Luster - Mesa Arizona

As I prepare to leave Mesa over an episode
similar to but smaller than yours, I have
decided to share some information anyone
can discover.

First, Mesa's City Charter is inherently
wrong, and institutionalizes corruption. If
one reads it literally, and fathoms how
the real city grew, the elected and truly
public officials of this community effectively
work for the "civil service" types, and
the "civil service" itself, at the upper
levels, especially, is much more
permanent and entrenched and generally
protected than in cities with a more
straightforward governmental structure.
Effectively, the mayor and the city council
work FOR the city manager and the police
department...which in this town makes
for some of the sickest and most demented
arrangements I have ever encountered.
Makes Philadelphia look squeaky clean. This
is why people like Luster and his hand-selected
successor, Hutchinson, can assert power
in places where most "city managers" dare
not even look.

The rot on Main and Broadway here, which
it is "politically incorrect" to openly
discuss, has been largely causes by
the many graft-dispensing projects
to "revive" the downtown area
promulgated by the sad collection of
morons this town calls its "leadership"...
I used to LOVE downtown Mesa and its quaint
shops and the traditional office supply
stores, boot shops, and so on. They're
pretty much gone now, died from their
traffic being cut off for months at a
time for what amounts to "white list"
makework projects, or moved on to other
areas. Meantime, the drug dealers
pretty much own the place. The various
"revivals", up to and including the
"Fart Center", killed the area for me.

Whether the "white list" of contractors
included many of the MGOBN (Mormon Good
Old Boy Network), I do not know. I do
know that eminent domain has been used
unlawfully here for decades, and only
once in a rare while is that unconstitutional
behavior rammed down the veritable throats
of the corrupt city apparatus. And you can
be SURE, as with everything else touched
by this town's administrative minions, there
was much prosperity enjoyed by the favored
families because of this great choking.

Thing is, this city's problems seem totally
baffling to the local voters and political
parties. The voters don't show up in numbers
sufficient to change anything, and the
political parties don't realize that a
change to a more ordinary city charter
could benefit them both. As it is,
the entrenched "chosen ones" control
patronage of all sorts, in their closed
club manner, and there is never any real
turnover.

Excell Agent Services, the business whose
favor was being curried when you were
essentially evicted, was another oligarchic
and demented business, whose list of employees
included many of the local "preferred"
family's members, and which has now
passed on for another slightly shady firm
called "Aftermarket". I, too, recall
the sewing shop, small markets, and sporting
goods store which inhabited those premises
even earlier. When the local depression--the
one sages call the "Keating Collapse"--hit
about 1988-91, a lot of landlords in Mesa
were frantic to find tenants, including
"dummy" companies set up to launder money
for drug dealers. These little local,
independent businesses failed or moved on,
and there were many empty business fronts.
The relaxed "codes" in Mesa, such as they
were (and still are), allowed a lot of
shady things to happen. What frightened
me, at the time, was that so many
fly-by-night "businesses" popped up,
obviously illegitimate, then disappeared,
and the city seemed to just shrug and look
for more.

The under-the-table shennanigans of this
town are legendary. Particularly frightening
to me is the local, totally illegal
non-application of the codes in general,
and IN PARTICULAR of any and all laws
having to do with landlord/tenant relationships.
Most local attorneys, for example, will
not even consider taking a tenant's case,
even if there is substantial money available,
and tons of evidence on the occupant's
behalf. Reason: because tenants cannot win.
Again, the reason: the local courts are
viciously stacked against tenants in general,
especially at the justice of the peace level,
to the point where I have seen cases
where the landlord "defendant" did not even
show up, filed no response, and still the
"ruling" was AGAINST the tenant. By law,
this is a default; not in Mesa! That law
DOESN'T APPLY here.

There is an area of the "elite" here to
which one becomes privy ONLY by birth,
and even wealth cannot buy access. But
those who lack vast income are TRULY screwed,
for they cannot even express themselves here
without encountering great danger, even in
the physical sense.

The root of all of this is two-fold:
the city charter, and the citizen's
apathy. Both must change.

As I prepare to leave Mesa over an episode
similar to but smaller than yours, I have
decided to share some information anyone
can discover.

First, Mesa's City Charter is inherently
wrong, and institutionalizes corruption. If
one reads it literally, and fathoms how
the real city grew, the elected and truly
public officials of this community effectively
work for the "civil service" types, and
the "civil service" itself, at the upper
levels, especially, is much more
permanent and entrenched and generally
protected than in cities with a more
straightforward governmental structure.
Effectively, the mayor and the city council
work FOR the city manager and the police
department...which in this town makes
for some of the sickest and most demented
arrangements I have ever encountered.
Makes Philadelphia look squeaky clean. This
is why people like Luster and his hand-selected
successor, Hutchinson, can assert power
in places where most "city managers" dare
not even look.

The rot on Main and Broadway here, which
it is "politically incorrect" to openly
discuss, has been largely causes by
the many graft-dispensing projects
to "revive" the downtown area
promulgated by the sad collection of
morons this town calls its "leadership"...
I used to LOVE downtown Mesa and its quaint
shops and the traditional office supply
stores, boot shops, and so on. They're
pretty much gone now, died from their
traffic being cut off for months at a
time for what amounts to "white list"
makework projects, or moved on to other
areas. Meantime, the drug dealers
pretty much own the place. The various
"revivals", up to and including the
"Fart Center", killed the area for me.

Whether the "white list" of contractors
included many of the MGOBN (Mormon Good
Old Boy Network), I do not know. I do
know that eminent domain has been used
unlawfully here for decades, and only
once in a rare while is that unconstitutional
behavior rammed down the veritable throats
of the corrupt city apparatus. And you can
be SURE, as with everything else touched
by this town's administrative minions, there
was much prosperity enjoyed by the favored
families because of this great choking.

Thing is, this city's problems seem totally
baffling to the local voters and political
parties. The voters don't show up in numbers
sufficient to change anything, and the
political parties don't realize that a
change to a more ordinary city charter
could benefit them both. As it is,
the entrenched "chosen ones" control
patronage of all sorts, in their closed
club manner, and there is never any real
turnover.

Excell Agent Services, the business whose
favor was being curried when you were
essentially evicted, was another oligarchic
and demented business, whose list of employees
included many of the local "preferred"
family's members, and which has now
passed on for another slightly shady firm
called "Aftermarket". I, too, recall
the sewing shop, small markets, and sporting
goods store which inhabited those premises
even earlier. When the local depression--the
one sages call the "Keating Collapse"--hit
about 1988-91, a lot of landlords in Mesa
were frantic to find tenants, including
"dummy" companies set up to launder money
for drug dealers. These little local,
independent businesses failed or moved on,
and there were many empty business fronts.
The relaxed "codes" in Mesa, such as they
were (and still are), allowed a lot of
shady things to happen. What frightened
me, at the time, was that so many
fly-by-night "businesses" popped up,
obviously illegitimate, then disappeared,
and the city seemed to just shrug and look
for more.

The under-the-table shennanigans of this
town are legendary. Particularly frightening
to me is the local, totally illegal
non-application of the codes in general,
and IN PARTICULAR of any and all laws
having to do with landlord/tenant relationships.
Most local attorneys, for example, will
not even consider taking a tenant's case,
even if there is substantial money available,
and tons of evidence on the occupant's
behalf. Reason: because tenants cannot win.
Again, the reason: the local courts are
viciously stacked against tenants in general,
especially at the justice of the peace level,
to the point where I have seen cases
where the landlord "defendant" did not even
show up, filed no response, and still the
"ruling" was AGAINST the tenant. By law,
this is a default; not in Mesa! That law
DOESN'T APPLY here.

There is an area of the "elite" here to
which one becomes privy ONLY by birth,
and even wealth cannot buy access. But
those who lack vast income are TRULY screwed,
for they cannot even express themselves here
without encountering great danger, even in
the physical sense.

The root of all of this is two-fold:
the city charter, and the citizen's
apathy. Both must change.

As I prepare to leave Mesa over an episode
similar to but smaller than yours, I have
decided to share some information anyone
can discover.

First, Mesa's City Charter is inherently
wrong, and institutionalizes corruption. If
one reads it literally, and fathoms how
the real city grew, the elected and truly
public officials of this community effectively
work for the "civil service" types, and
the "civil service" itself, at the upper
levels, especially, is much more
permanent and entrenched and generally
protected than in cities with a more
straightforward governmental structure.
Effectively, the mayor and the city council
work FOR the city manager and the police
department...which in this town makes
for some of the sickest and most demented
arrangements I have ever encountered.
Makes Philadelphia look squeaky clean. This
is why people like Luster and his hand-selected
successor, Hutchinson, can assert power
in places where most "city managers" dare
not even look.

The rot on Main and Broadway here, which
it is "politically incorrect" to openly
discuss, has been largely causes by
the many graft-dispensing projects
to "revive" the downtown area
promulgated by the sad collection of
morons this town calls its "leadership"...
I used to LOVE downtown Mesa and its quaint
shops and the traditional office supply
stores, boot shops, and so on. They're
pretty much gone now, died from their
traffic being cut off for months at a
time for what amounts to "white list"
makework projects, or moved on to other
areas. Meantime, the drug dealers
pretty much own the place. The various
"revivals", up to and including the
"Fart Center", killed the area for me.

Whether the "white list" of contractors
included many of the MGOBN (Mormon Good
Old Boy Network), I do not know. I do
know that eminent domain has been used
unlawfully here for decades, and only
once in a rare while is that unconstitutional
behavior rammed down the veritable throats
of the corrupt city apparatus. And you can
be SURE, as with everything else touched
by this town's administrative minions, there
was much prosperity enjoyed by the favored
families because of this great choking.

Thing is, this city's problems seem totally
baffling to the local voters and political
parties. The voters don't show up in numbers
sufficient to change anything, and the
political parties don't realize that a
change to a more ordinary city charter
could benefit them both. As it is,
the entrenched "chosen ones" control
patronage of all sorts, in their closed
club manner, and there is never any real
turnover.

Excell Agent Services, the business whose
favor was being curried when you were
essentially evicted, was another oligarchic
and demented business, whose list of employees
included many of the local "preferred"
family's members, and which has now
passed on for another slightly shady firm
called "Aftermarket". I, too, recall
the sewing shop, small markets, and sporting
goods store which inhabited those premises
even earlier. When the local depression--the
one sages call the "Keating Collapse"--hit
about 1988-91, a lot of landlords in Mesa
were frantic to find tenants, including
"dummy" companies set up to launder money
for drug dealers. These little local,
independent businesses failed or moved on,
and there were many empty business fronts.
The relaxed "codes" in Mesa, such as they
were (and still are), allowed a lot of
shady things to happen. What frightened
me, at the time, was that so many
fly-by-night "businesses" popped up,
obviously illegitimate, then disappeared,
and the city seemed to just shrug and look
for more.

The under-the-table shennanigans of this
town are legendary. Particularly frightening
to me is the local, totally illegal
non-application of the codes in general,
and IN PARTICULAR of any and all laws
having to do with landlord/tenant relationships.
Most local attorneys, for example, will
not even consider taking a tenant's case,
even if there is substantial money available,
and tons of evidence on the occupant's
behalf. Reason: because tenants cannot win.
Again, the reason: the local courts are
viciously stacked against tenants in general,
especially at the justice of the peace level,
to the point where I have seen cases
where the landlord "defendant" did not even
show up, filed no response, and still the
"ruling" was AGAINST the tenant. By law,
this is a default; not in Mesa! That law
DOESN'T APPLY here.

There is an area of the "elite" here to
which one becomes privy ONLY by birth,
and even wealth cannot buy access. But
those who lack vast income are TRULY screwed,
for they cannot even express themselves here
without encountering great danger, even in
the physical sense.

The root of all of this is two-fold:
the city charter, and the citizen's
apathy. Both must change.

As I prepare to leave Mesa over an episode
similar to but smaller than yours, I have
decided to share some information anyone
can discover.

First, Mesa's City Charter is inherently
wrong, and institutionalizes corruption. If
one reads it literally, and fathoms how
the real city grew, the elected and truly
public officials of this community effectively
work for the "civil service" types, and
the "civil service" itself, at the upper
levels, especially, is much more
permanent and entrenched and generally
protected than in cities with a more
straightforward governmental structure.
Effectively, the mayor and the city council
work FOR the city manager and the police
department...which in this town makes
for some of the sickest and most demented
arrangements I have ever encountered.
Makes Philadelphia look squeaky clean. This
is why people like Luster and his hand-selected
successor, Hutchinson, can assert power
in places where most "city managers" dare
not even look.

The rot on Main and Broadway here, which
it is "politically incorrect" to openly
discuss, has been largely causes by
the many graft-dispensing projects
to "revive" the downtown area
promulgated by the sad collection of
morons this town calls its "leadership"...
I used to LOVE downtown Mesa and its quaint
shops and the traditional office supply
stores, boot shops, and so on. They're
pretty much gone now, died from their
traffic being cut off for months at a
time for what amounts to "white list"
makework projects, or moved on to other
areas. Meantime, the drug dealers
pretty much own the place. The various
"revivals", up to and including the
"Fart Center", killed the area for me.

Whether the "white list" of contractors
included many of the MGOBN (Mormon Good
Old Boy Network), I do not know. I do
know that eminent domain has been used
unlawfully here for decades, and only
once in a rare while is that unconstitutional
behavior rammed down the veritable throats
of the corrupt city apparatus. And you can
be SURE, as with everything else touched
by this town's administrative minions, there
was much prosperity enjoyed by the favored
families because of this great choking.

Thing is, this city's problems seem totally
baffling to the local voters and political
parties. The voters don't show up in numbers
sufficient to change anything, and the
political parties don't realize that a
change to a more ordinary city charter
could benefit them both. As it is,
the entrenched "chosen ones" control
patronage of all sorts, in their closed
club manner, and there is never any real
turnover.

Excell Agent Services, the business whose
favor was being curried when you were
essentially evicted, was another oligarchic
and demented business, whose list of employees
included many of the local "preferred"
family's members, and which has now
passed on for another slightly shady firm
called "Aftermarket". I, too, recall
the sewing shop, small markets, and sporting
goods store which inhabited those premises
even earlier. When the local depression--the
one sages call the "Keating Collapse"--hit
about 1988-91, a lot of landlords in Mesa
were frantic to find tenants, including
"dummy" companies set up to launder money
for drug dealers. These little local,
independent businesses failed or moved on,
and there were many empty business fronts.
The relaxed "codes" in Mesa, such as they
were (and still are), allowed a lot of
shady things to happen. What frightened
me, at the time, was that so many
fly-by-night "businesses" popped up,
obviously illegitimate, then disappeared,
and the city seemed to just shrug and look
for more.

The under-the-table shennanigans of this
town are legendary. Particularly frightening
to me is the local, totally illegal
non-application of the codes in general,
and IN PARTICULAR of any and all laws
having to do with landlord/tenant relationships.
Most local attorneys, for example, will
not even consider taking a tenant's case,
even if there is substantial money available,
and tons of evidence on the occupant's
behalf. Reason: because tenants cannot win.
Again, the reason: the local courts are
viciously stacked against tenants in general,
especially at the justice of the peace level,
to the point where I have seen cases
where the landlord "defendant" did not even
show up, filed no response, and still the
"ruling" was AGAINST the tenant. By law,
this is a default; not in Mesa! That law
DOESN'T APPLY here.

There is an area of the "elite" here to
which one becomes privy ONLY by birth,
and even wealth cannot buy access. But
those who lack vast income are TRULY screwed,
for they cannot even express themselves here
without encountering great danger, even in
the physical sense.

The root of all of this is two-fold:
the city charter, and the citizen's
apathy. Both must change.

I worked for Excell Agent Services,
myself.

Kind of like the folks who run the
esteemed City of Mesa: demented,
insane scumbags, with a dollar agenda
and full of religious prejudice.

One had to "apply" to use the rest room.

It was a "drug-free environment"...
I have been drug-free all my life, I
was tested 11 times. The man who sat
behind me was a methamphetamine user
who smoked and injected on the premises,
from a local family well-connected with
THE TEMPLE. He was never tested until
he died from an overdose, and I guess
nobody tested him then, either.

I was "fired" by my supervisors, after
a review in which I gave six correct
transfers to communities those stupid
weasels never even heard of, in Ohio
and New York. It was a pumphouse
of ignorance, but like everything else
in this town, apparently the correct
palms were greased. I did get the
satisfaction, before I left, of
making sure my "supervisors" knew
I was aware of their lies, and later
going to an unemployment hearing and
exposing their ignorance or predestination.
And I got ever DIME of a 26-week claim.


But it is this kind of business Mesa
wants: totalitarian, willing to pay off
the correct collection of stooges, and
completely without ethics. In other
words, people just like the local
"government" of good old boys and
rats.

Ever see their "Art Center"? I have
another name for it, which involves
flatulence...

Interestingly, ever since my brief
confrontation, I have had weird
experiences with the city's flunkies
in various departments, and the
s---heads they call the local police.

Suppose that is an accident?

I told my kids, in no uncertain terms:
"Watch these people, and learn from
them. They are filth, and everything
they do is WRONG."

That's Mesa.

Excell Agent Services, the long-distance information supplier who occupied the building where your former business was located, has moved out and apparently disappeared. Like many businesses in Mesa, they had no intention of "enriching the community" or even staying around very long. They were here to exploit a low-priced labor market, rip off as many workers as they could, and move on, into obscurity.

The building is currently inhabited by a business named "Aftermarket", whose exact nature no one in the neighborhood has yet examined much. However, since they are there with the good graces and offices of the city of Mesa, it may safely be presumed they are involved in something UNETHICAL or DISHONEST, otherwise, why would this city manager even tolerate them? That may sound cynical, but in a city where even eminent domain rights are used to benefit the cesspool clique by seizing private property and then reselling it to a new PRIVATE owner, one always HAS to presume the worst.

For those who haven't been in this area lately, it has deteriorated still further, due to the insane policies of the esteemed municipality. The decent, moderately-priced housing nearby has become a breeding ground for crime, especially drug manufacture and sales. Illegal aliens are about the only pedestrians ever even seen. City government seems to be encouraging this decay, for reasons of their own.

This is a city with no rental residence codes. If 200 people live in a one-bedroom apartment, that is just fine with the city of mesa and its cement-headed administration. And that is more-or-less what is happening. Cheap labor is part of what this is all about. The rest appears to be part of some kickback scheme, in this most dishonest and criminal city in America.

This town is killing itself.

By sucking the life out of small businesses, legitimate ones, they are scaring away bigger,
more innovantive ones. And they are assuring
that the primary businesses in this town--crack cocaine and methamphetamine--continue to prosper,
simply because they refuse to admit these criminal ventures even exist here.

My view is that they THINK they perform some kind of insider function for the LDS members in town, but long term, they can't even do that.

I left. I try not even to go to this town any
more.

Watching the constant decay is frightening and
depressing.

I have lived in Mesa, quite close to where this all took place, for some 16+ years, and saw this episode go down.

In fact, I was questioned by the police going in and out at least once, which I thought strange.
They asked one night when I was next door getting pizza if I had seen shipments "late at night" entering the building. It may have been my rather sharp response to that particular Mesa P.D. moron scumbag which started their whole vendetta against me, which is still ongoing. But let's face it: they do RAILROADS for a living, doing actual law enforcement might involve some risk.

I later worked there for the long distance agency housed at that address, which was a Byzantine, corrupt house of the weirdest sort, peopled by some of the STUPIDEST supervisors I have ever even seen. Excell Agent Services was the name, I think. I figured, from the onset, I might last six months; I think I made eight or nine.

The company was very like the City of Mesa... everything under-the-table, supervisory
bonuses for managers which made it advantageous to chop the best people at key times, conflicting time and performance criteria no one was ever intended to comply with, set up merely so anyone could be fired at any time, on the basis of made-up crap and bogus lies.

I, in fact, was "written up" for transferring a caller to Manhattan, who wanted Yankee Stadium, to the Bronx area code; the critiquing supervisor said "Everyone knows the Yankees play in Manhattan!" This was not the same genius who told me Mayo Clinic is in Rochester New York, not Minnesota... I was written up for that, too.

The property stands empty now. Excell never had any intention of staying around for the long term. They were just a money pump.

The corrupt criminals who run Mesa are the reason the city can experience vast population growth, but never attract any major business or manufacturing.

Who, in his right mind, would put a high technology think tank HERE???? It is, truly, the city of wide streets and narrow minds, and will never be anything else until these parasites are gone.

I have lived in Los Angeles and Chicago, and I know what corruption looks like. Here, it is right out in the open. Only the money exchanges take place "under-the-table". "NBM" tickets are everywhere (that's a violation: "Not Being Mormon", and it is WHY right-wing political correctness drives this town).

Illegal drugs are easier to get here than fresh air. The police force is useless, mainly the "Thought Police" enforcement arm of corruption, carefully maneuvering to avoid anything that even looks like real crime.

Only state or federal action is going to change anything. The LDS population of Mesa is down to 10-16%, depending upon whose statistics
one accepts. But they cling tenaciously to key power positions, and move money, especially in real estate, and especially via the corrupt use of the inspectors, police department, and eminent domain, so they profit from EVERYTHING.

Bogus sign ordinance enforcement, condemnation of properties in fine condition, tolerance and even encouragement of rentals which are, in fact, dangerous and crime-filled, active participation in the movement and exploitation of illegal Mexican labor, and selective, punitive attacks by the police on honest citizens--these are crimes of which this city's establishment is EVERY DAY guilty, and which could be proven prima facie IF such cases could ever get to court.

Hopefully, the discrimination suits brought by former and current city employees, the Brown and Markley cases, among many others, will bleed enough money out of the system that even sane Mormons will look around and realize how much this
crooked administration costs them, and what a LAUGHING STOCK this silly-assed town has become.

But don't bet on it.

Best bet: find a way to expose them nationally, big time, and let the sunlight scatter the cockroaches.