1. Bankrupting mesa  by the creation of a good old boy network consistently and collectively has and still is exploiting/extorting and otherwise burglarizing  the people of mesa for decades.  
2. Constructed an entertainment center two decades ago after voters rejected it twice. They "found the money"  and built it in a residential neighborhood. Because of the noise law rock bands could not be booked. The center has been a constant loser that has cost taxpayers from $1,000,000.00 to $2,000,000.00 each and every year since it was built.  
3. Violated the fair bidding process in choosing builders of a downtown hotel by awarding a contract to one man of whom they had a political relationship with to build it. The hotel was built abutting the entertainment center. The construction cost of this sweetheart deal was $20,000,000.00,  was built with no sound proofing and it went bankrupt  a few years later. it later sold for only $7,000,000.00, the best price they could get. Mesa’s good old boys had guaranteed the man's losses with taxpayer’s money.  
4. 1968, created a specially worded city "charter" that bypasses the electorate that empowered them to hire one of their cronies as city manager "anointing" him with power over the elected mayor and council  with carte blanche control of every sector of mesa government, with total power to hire and fire all department heads including police chief's. He would be accountable to no one, not even the electorate , for his actions and inactions, except those of mesa's political machinery, the good old boys. This "charter" allowed the formation of a corporation; the (municipal development corporation) with power to do all the bonds they choose while getting around the electorate and sticking the taxpayers with the tab all in the name of economic development.  
5. The wording of this "charter" grossly violates the peoples Arizona and u s constitutional rights. it also allows uncontrolled land banking at the taxpayers expense without any constraints. Mesa taxpayers are extorted out of approx. $75,000,000.00 that they must pay annually on bonded and combined debts that totals in excess of one billion dollars, ($1,000,000,000.00) . Mesa now owns approximately 1,500 parcels of real estate and buildings and golf courses worth billions at today’s prices including land in other counties. They continue to land bank.  

1.        Allows formation of a special corporation. "municipal development corporation" that does as many bonds as the administrative sector chooses, that puts debts on citizens, while getting around the electorate , in the name of economic redevelopment.  

2.        A " charter " that allows land banking to a total so far of app. 1,500+- parcels . Many that are unneeded, investing and tying up billions of taxpayers’ hard earned tax and utility dollars while sticking citizens with yearly payments of at least $75,000,000.00 . On combined bonded and city debts of at least one billion dollars, ($1,000,000,000.00).  

3.        Since the charter mandates the unelected hired hand, the city manager, instead of the mayor and council, to hire and fire all department heads, by getting around the electorate, he has carte blanche power to hire by political relationships .

Perhaps the most dangerous  of all is in the hiring of police chief 's. with politics in police business the police chief is only accountable  for all actions and inactions, by himself and his officers, to the hired hand the city manager who is accountable to no one not even the electorate . Police chief's can hire and keep untrained officers by political relationships also.

This puts mesa citizens in harm’s way and is the direct cause of all past hanky-panky in the department. That’s why mesa is the laughing stock of not only mesa's good officers but those all over America. Following the money trail we can see this turn into the "regulating" of crime for profit .

The U.S government allocates more money to cities for fighting crime when crime is highest. When crime rate is too low they get less money. This fiscal hanky-panky will obviously continue as long as mesa's abusive/legal charter exists.  

6. Overcharging utility users in the 100's of millions of their hard earned dollars calling it profits when in reality they are overcharges that should be paid back to users on a patronage basis .  
7. Beginning in 1982 mesa's good old boys asked voters to pass " home rule ". They lied to their citizens  by using language that misrepresented the truth  about the real meaning of it to get it passed. Valley newspapers, the "mesa tribune" and the "Arizona republic" went along with them. In the 70's Arizona adopted California’s constructional mandate, proposition 13 that put a cap on local government spending. When the mandate was written by some Arizona self serving politicians, they added some optional spending choices. City leaders popular optional choice was named "home rule" which means if voters in cities "trusted" their elected and appointed officials, they could let them bypass the constitutional spending limits for four years at a time. Mesa’s uninformed voters unknowingly gave their local politicians a virtual blank check, (carte blanche spending) to set their budgets as high as they chose. They then raised all kinds of taxes, fees and utility rates and went for new sources of revenue to fill the budget. Mesa is teetering on bankruptcy  while neighboring city of Tempe , the only sizeable Arizona  city, who adhered to the constructional mandate, is wealthy . At one time they were one of the top ten cities across America with the highest bond rating, #3. Tempe had so much money left over at the end of each fiscal year that they couldn't spend. They were allowed to invest it into cd's though to save for rainy day funds. if mesa voters had have known they were getting the fiscal hoodwinking about the real meaning of "home rule," they could have saved mesa from the same fate as what happened to Miami, Florida when they went bankrupt in 1997 . A wise man once asked voters; "how many of your relatives would you be willing to give a blank check to?" the answers were all negative. "Well he said; when you voted for "home rule" you gave a blank check to politicians. "