Mesa Senator Rich Crandall Beat Your Wife In Your Home

City of Mesa's Senator Rich Crandall last week told Senator Bungaard that if he is going to beat his wife, he should do it in his own home. How stupid can you be?

These are the words coming from a man or should I say a weasel, and sits on the boards of New Leaf, and Arizona Brain Food. New Leaf is an organization that helps those with domestic violence. If I was one of the other board members at New Leaf, I would be asking for him to step down.

Senator Crandall also sits on a board called Arizona Brain Food, which is run by women and provides food to school kids on the weekends. I would ask this board, is this really the kind of a man representing them before the public and children? What kind of example is he to the young people of this community?

These kinds of comments are totally unbecoming of an elected official as were the actions of Senator Bungaard. This is comparable to what Anthony Wiener did with his photo on Twitter and which was his demise as an elected official.

If I was Senator Crandall's wife and kids I would be totally embarrassed by these actions. If this is the kind of thing he says in public, what does he say about people in private?

I would ask you to call Senator Crandall's office and ask him to resign from the legislature. He can be reached at: (602) 926-3020

Principle of Freedom #15

The Highest Level of Prosperity Occurs when there is Free-market Economy and a Minimum of Government Regulation. - 15th Principle of Freedom

There is some politicking going in Downtown Mesa, that is being supported by the Downtown Mesa Association and councilman Chris Glover to remove competition in the market place.

Sam Clark who opened Lo Fi Coffee in downtown Mesa this year is complaining that he doesn't like a certain kind of completion, street vendors. So instead of bucking up and making his store more attractive and desirable he is going after what he calls his competition, the guy selling hot dogs on the corner.

The part that make this political is that he is using the city government to wipe out his competition.

There are four laws to economic freedom:

1. The Freedom to try.
2. The Freedom to buy.
3. The Freedom to sell.
4. The Freedom to fail.

It seems that David Short of the Downtown Mesa Association, Councilman Chris Glover and Sam Clark don't understand this four laws because they are pushing ahead to have street vendors banded from the downtown except when invited.

The City of Mesa role in this economic battle should be as the Founding Fathers viewed it. The greatest threat to economic prosperity is the arbitrary intervention of the government into the economic affairs of private business and the buying public.

There are four areas that are legitimate responsibility for the City of Mesa to be involved in:

1. Illegal force
2. Fraud
3. Monopoly
4. Debauchery

Historically the City of Mesa has done a really poor job of supporting the four laws of Economic Freedom. Now the have have a chance to do the right thing and stay out of the economic battle.
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Can Mesa Police Handle A Gun?

Can the president of one of Mesa's police unions handle a gun?

The answer is obviously yes, expect when it comes to talking with and about the residents of Mesa or the City.

Ryan Russell who is the president of one Mesa's two police unions, shouldn't be allowed to speak on behalf of the City of Mesa's police or at least he shouldn't be given a gun to carry on their behalf. Ryan's comments to the Mesa Tribune may just have cost him a couple of toes and the toes of a few other officers. Well maybe not literally.

Ryan, in his comments to the Meas Tribune, said that he was surprised that Mesa was ranked 7th as one of the safest cities to live in.  He said that he is seeing just the opposite and that Mesa residents should be concerned with the direction the city's crimes are going.

West Mesa CDC - What Is It Doing?

One of the organizations established by Dave Richins, a sitting City of Mesa council member, is the West Mesa Community Development Corporation (WMCDC). The WMCDC is an offshoot of Mesa Grande Community Alliance which is made up of neighbors in far Northwest corner of Mesa Arizona.

The Mesa Grande Community Alliance was originally established to create a collaborative visions which would go beyond what one party could do in dealing with issues in West Mesa. The organization had no funding and the City of Mesa would not just hand over funds to them. They created along with Dave Richins a community development corporation which could apply for tax payer funds to promote and do projects in West Mesa. Dave Richins was the first executive director for WMCDC and was compensated nicely to the tune $85,000 during his last year as director, that was before he ran and won a seat on the Mesa City Council.

Dave Richins for the most part did a great job running the CDC and when he left, it was in good shape. It was renting space from Banner Hospital for a $1.00 and then re-renting space it didn't need to others and covering it's operating cost. However the new executive director, the board of the CDC brought in, Jo Ellen McNamara, ran the organization into the ground. She didn't file timely reports, ran off the tenants, and almost cost the organization funding, besides turning off residents. The board of directors realized what was going on but did nothing to fix the problems.

It's OK To Be Racist In West Mesa Now!

Mesa Junior High is closing at the end of the school years and it seems the only ones who care are West Mesa residents. Not because their students go their, but because of what it will do to test scores and the quality of education.

Didn't this group of people just out Russell Pearce because he was to harsh on illegal immigration and the Hispanic people?

Some of Russell Pearce's biggest critics the Montague family and the Wright family are now the ones saying wait a minute, we don't want to dump these students into Kino Junior High and Carson Junior High, they will bring down the test scores and the neighborhoods

Here is a portion of an email from a Montague family member sent the neighbors and school board members.

Parents/Neighbors,

As many of you are aware, Mesa Public Schools is currently in the process of making changes to the boundaries to all of the junior highs that boarder Mesa and Brimhall due to their closure at the end of the school year. (To see the current proposal click here.) According to the numbers that are being provided, the AIMS scores for Kino will drop by roughly 4%. (Click here to see attendance numbers and AIMS percentages.) Like many of you, my wife and I chose to purchase our home where we did based on the neighborhood and the schools to which my kids will be attending now and in the future. This is because the neighborhood school is a direct reflection on the neighborhood itself.......

On Tuesday night December 6th, Stephanie Wright had this to say:

If a school is performing and doing well, the neighborhood is vibrant. It has a detrimental effect if you take the strength of one school and start piecemealing it out.

Ms. Wright also suggested that the district look at other option  which wouldn't hurt the other West Mesa students.

This very racist, especially from people who just weeks ago called for a kinder, gentler approach to dealing with the Hispanic people when they voted Jerry Lewis to be their new Senator

I guess it's OK to be racist in West Mesa NOW!

The Mesa Compact - Is it Coming

Is there a Mesa Compact on the horizon in Mesa's the near future? Maybe so given the Mesa's Council meeting last night. I appears that there are four votes needed to pass such a measure on the council, they are: Dave Richins, Alex Finter, Dina Higgins and Dennis Kavanaugh.

Last night at the Mesa City Council meeting Randy Parraz fresh off his victory over Russell Pearce presented in-conjunction with East Valley Patriots for American Values (play on words) presented a new proposed revised Mesa Compact. The faith based group as they claim want to change the tone of discussion on the issue of immigration.

They want to make it more friendly and less harsh of a discussion. This sounds vaguely familiar to Randy Parraz and his cohort Jerry Lewis in the recall election. As we remember it was this very same discussion that ripped through Mesa during the heated debate between the Jerry Lewis (1964 Alabama) supporters and  Russell Pearce (American Patriot) supporters. One group wanting the enforcement of laws and the other the turning of cheek, like Christ did.

It was also during this debate that Randy Parraz and his supporters went out of their way to to defame anybody who supported Russell Pearce or who even wanted to run in the election. It was Randy Parraz, Michael Wright and Tom Rayn basically who sought to take away people first amendment right of free speech by filing bogus lawsuits.

So as this debate goes forward and people come forward in support of or opposition to a Mesa Compact if Randy Parraz will bully any council member who doesn't support the compact.

If you want to express your opinions to the council members you can do so at these emails:

Mayor Scott Smith
mayor.smith@Mesaaz.gov

Dave Richens**
District1@mesaaz.gov

Alex Finter**
councilmember.finter@Mesaaz.gov

Dennis Kavanaugh**
District3@mesaaz.gov

Christopher Glover
councilmember.glover@Mesaaz.gov

Dina Higgins**
councilmember.higgins@Mesaaz.gov

Vice Mayor - Scott Somers
councilmember.somers@Mesaaz.gov

Federalist Papers 1

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force