Mendoza❤️’s Mismanaging Tax Dollars & Elementary Schools

There’s a new story out exposing JoAnna Mendoza’s colossal failures as a school board member.

An audit by the Arizona Auditor General’s Office found that during Mendoza’s time on the Red Rock Elementary School Governing Board, the district:

  • Failed to properly oversee the superintendent’s compensation

  • Failed to properly use taxpayer-funded resources

  • Provided unauthorized and/or potentially excessive vehicle-related benefits

  • Did not follow some cash handling, travel, and critical IT requirements, putting public monies and sensitive computerized data at risk.

If she can’t manage a local school district, Mendoza definitely can’t be a steward of taxpayer dollars in Congress.

Read more below.

Audit Flags Potential Waste, Unauthorized Benefits During Joanna Mendoza’s School Board Tenure
Townhall
Amy Curtis
September 10, 2026

Joanna Mendoza is running for Congress in Arizona’s 6th District, and her troubling platform should concern the state’s voters. Mendoza has a history of supporting the defunding of the police, attacking parents who want to protect girls’ sports, pushing to legalize prostitution to benefit “trans women of color,” and she has issues with her tax record — namely, she wants to raise taxes more than 30 percent to support “trans minorities.”

Mendoza was also once a member of the Red Rock Elementary School Governing Board, and an audit by the Arizona Auditor General’s Office found that during her time on the board, the district failed to properly oversee the superintendent’s compensation and use of taxpayer-funded resources.

The Auditor General’s Office sent a letter and report to Gov. Katie Hobbs. In that report, the Auditor General noted that the district “provided its superintendent with unauthorized and/or potentially excessive vehicle-related benefits, likely resulting in gifts of public monies and waste, and failed to establish statutorily required performance-based pay.” It also said the district “did not follow some cash handling, travel, and critical IT requirements, putting public monies and sensitive computerized data at risk.”

The report’s most troubling findings include that the superintendent’s employment contracts did not contain provisions authorizing use of a district vehicle or a district credit card for fuel costs. Those were statutory requirements. The use of a vehicle and fuel card for the superintendent’s personal benefit may have violated Arizona’s constitutional gift clause, which prohibits public entities from improperly providing public resources for private benefit.

Read more here.

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