Johanna
Chandler,#2Consumer Comment
Sat, June 07, 2003
Yes, wasn't that $1 land deal for Brown & Brown Chevy's lot great? Dont' forget the new 'public' parking garage full of their vehicle stock. Oh, and don't forget the former mayor's name, Wayne BROWN. And yes, they are realted, in fact I believe good old Wayne is a brother of the owners. Certainly no conflict of interest there. I'd like to post more, and ramble on about their police 'farce' as well, but I'll probably only live another 50 years or so. Not even enough time to scratch the surface.
Jeff
Mesa For Now,#3Consumer Suggestion
Tue, June 03, 2003
Mesa has no actual property tax, and has not since about 1947. However, license fees, traffic fines, etc., etc., etc., are among the highest in the United States, and the courts are the sort of absurd and disgusting, putrid joke you would expect, basically a collection of cockroach agents for the local filth. I am entering this on a friend's computer. My stuff is all packed for a trip back to civilization and away from this ROT. These same crackpot charlatans have run the town's deficit to an outrageous level, inflated their criminal "police farce" to a ridiculous level, established their punitive "air force" at ridiculous expense, and are building several of the most moronic projects in human history. This is an ugly, idiotic place, with too many speed bumps, too many cops, and too many filthy dirtbags running it. Why most of them are not long since in prison and/or under RICO/RUCO prosecution, I have no idea. I guess it is small enough to ignore, short term. It won't be ignored forever. A good answer: boycott the place, or leave. Tonight, I do both. Stick it where the sun doesn't shine, Luster, Hutchinson, Donna, and the rest of your filthy accomplices!!!
Glenn
Mesa,#4Consumer Comment
Thu, April 17, 2003
In today's EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE, Mesa's Development Task Force (or is it "Task Farce"?) introduced a stale, hackneyed plan to do more SAME OLD, SAME OLD... In other words, screw the citizens and taxpayers, openly, to their own enrichment. How? Steal more land, develop the undevelopable, scam the citizens into more "studies" for the purpose of ripping them off even more, issue more bonds, revamp Broadway Road, and study the revitalization of Fiesta Mall, etc. They want to stop sales tax "leakage". Oh, and among everything else, the city proposes--GET THIS--"increasing the stock of luxury houses in Mesa for executives". This in a city overrun with crime, which the Police Department carefully avoids, awash in illegal immigrants and substandard housing and day workers and general filth, with too many expensive (THEY OUGHT TO BE ILLEGAL) "speed bumps" and just generally silly and stupid!!! Annex state trust land in Pinal County to protect Williams Gateway Airport from encroachment? How about Pinal County annexing the stinking airport flop project to keep these thieves from stealing EVERYTHING and encroaching on decent human beings???? Guess what this all really means? "Bleed the citizens white, so we can get RICHER"... Mesa's key problems are: (a. Its dishonest and corrupt city administration, especially the City Manager and his dolt lackies, which needs to be gotten rid of, along with every policy these morons EVER touched. (b. Massive drug manufacture and distribution, very much out in the open, and the corrupt Police department which so carefully reposes on its collection of useless butts and watches this plague eat the city's guts out, while they bilk honest citizens out of vast amounts of money to feed their ridiculous policy stupidities. (c. Very low wages, brought on by a vast supply of illegal labor and corrupt, criminal local policies and ordinances, which in turn leads to substandard housing, a vast supply of vacant residences and business properties, and instability. The city "fathers" (FODDERS?) have very quietly encouraged illegal immigration, so obvious in this town that it actually creates sanitary problems in the Main and Broadway corridors. Try solving these problems. Ooops. This motley crew of feeble-minded scumbags CAUSED this, did they not? And they LIKE it. Time to say goodbye, old guard... You are obsolete, among other corrosive factors.
Valerie
Apache Junction,#5Consumer Suggestion
Wed, April 16, 2003
My husband and I lived in Mormon Manor (aka Mesa) for 8+ years. Although we did enjoy our time there, it is so painfully evident the city is completely mismanaged. I have to drive through Mesa to get to work - the streets are in deplorable condition - yet, there is the idiot Arts Center or whatever the hell it is that the taxpayers are footing the bill for. Yeah, I enjoy the endless tearing up & re-tearing of Main Street-yet, it never seems to change for the better. Those statues that appear a couple times a year are FUGLY. I'm sure that money could be used for far better, resident serving purposes. As for Brown & Brown stomping their feet to get their $1 property, all I can say is "it figures". So glad we moved out of there, adios and good luck.
Romoso
Apache Junction,#6Consumer Suggestion
Sat, April 12, 2003
You expected shellfish? This is Mesa! It is crooked. Get used to it, or work to change it. Simple, huh?
James
Mesa,#7Author of original report
Tue, April 08, 2003
Obviously, I made an error in the last paragraph: the basic point is that Mesa is continuing to appeal all decisions from all courts against them, NO MATTER HOW WRONG THEY ARE... Financing their various obsessive and erroneous huffs and snivels and whines devolves, of course, upon the taxpayers...most of whom oppose their "Pie-IN-THE-SKY" scams, but who wind up paying at BOTH ends...and even in the middle. Mesa is a city designed for a "special" kind of convenience: THE PROFIT-MAKING CONVENIENCE of a small cadre of inbred criminal conspirators who have escaped justice by the assertion of power. The rotten-to-the-core city administration, especially, has to be broken down and replaced, most especially the City Manager's Office (which ought to be dissolved entirely) and the Police Department, whose long and ugly association as the enforcement arm of this sewage voids any implicit pact or certification they receive from the citizens. Mesa IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF A RIP OFF!!! Governments in general experience SOME corruption. But when as cozy, inbred, and dishonest as this one, and operating its confidence games right out in the open, a serious slapdown by the citizens is required. This city administration has NO OTHER PURPOSE save corruption...