A response from Stephen Reed disagrees with my view on taxes and continues his conversation which he hopes you buy as fact…or perhaps he just didn’t do his homework, which I suspect. Reed gets an F for failing to present a true picture.Allow me to list the errors in his comments.I am no longer serving on the City of Mesa Human Relations Advisory Board.As a volunteer on the board, I (or anyone else) NEVER approached the topic of money and has no authority to spend a penny.The Day Labor Sub-Committee is actually a seperate committee comprised of a Regional Human Relations Advisory group which consists of other neighboring city participation. Like Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, and Mesa. We usually met in the Tempe Library Board Room.The first Day Labor Public Forum, hosted by Chandler in the Chandler Public Library Conference Room was hosted by Chandler. Media was there, I saw nothing that suggested money spent. This was a free public meeting that had been a continuous topic for many cities. There was an attempt to educate, view the perspectives of many diffent people, to bring about an understanding of a need…not only in the SE Valley but in AZ and elsewhere. There was a follow-up meeting to determine how to best go about bringing resolution.The Day Labor Subcommittee discussed hosting an education forum that would focus on two Federal immigration bills. There were no costs to Mesa representatives in these meeting in Tempe. The 2 Federal Immigration Bills were two formulated by Senators J.D. Hayworth, John McCain.The subcommittee for marketing and outreach were from a volunteer committee to think of ways to get the word out.Who is asking for police, fire, ranger salary cuts you say…it will happen and is happening because we are understaffed in our police department. I just heard from two motorcycle officers who said there are 17 in Mesa. The City of Fresno who has the same demographics, population, etc. has 87. I also was priveleged to listen to an expect in this field who said no company ever moved to a city because of their tax rate. Ask yourself, why are so many big businesses going to our neighboring cities? Perhaps they know Mesa has folks in it that don’t care to invest in our economy.Are you saying Scott Somers does not have a better understanding of public safety issues than the average person who is not a firefighter? Doesn’t make sense.As you can see, Mr. Reed’s commentary under "Somers is Smokin’ " has no truth in his statements, just sound bites to get someone to listen.
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