Dear Editor,
As a Healthcare Professional, I was trained to respond to emergencies with discipline and clarity. When someone is bleeding out, you don’t argue about long-term rehabilitation plans. You stop the bleeding first.
Kingman is bleeding.
Residents are alarmed: declining trust of the voters who must live with, and pay for, the consequences. This didn’t happen overnight. It reached a critical point in 2025, when a voter-approved safeguard of tax increases was repealed by the mayor and the City Council, despite having passed by 62% of the voters. That moment was a rupture.
When elected officials undo what voters approved, it betrays confidence in the system itself. In medicine, we call that loss of perfusion, the system is no longer delivering what it should.
Residents feel it everywhere with a growing sense that City Hall does not listen.
This is about results. And the outcome we see is many residents feel disconnected from their own government.
In an emergency room, when multiple systems are failing, you triage. You identify what threatens life first. In Kingman’s case, it is loss of trust. That is why I am running for Mayor, to stop the bleeding.
I have a complete “Solution Plan” to fix the problems. Kingman needs new leadership willing to repair the injury. You cannot recover while still bleeding.
Hemostasis, is the body’s response to bleeding. First, blood vessels constrict to slow loss. Platelets form a plug. Then, a cascade of biochemical signals stabilizes the clot, sealing the wound. If any part fails, the bleeding continues risking systemic collapse.
A city governed by a mayor–council system, like Kingman, functions similarly. The mayor acts as the central coordinator, City Council, departments, and agencies are the tissues. Effective governance requires competent action: identifying problems, mobilizing resources, and stabilizing outcomes.
When leadership fails, delayed decisions, misallocation of resources, or poor coordination, the city cannot “clot” its problems, and the patient will bleed out. Financial deficits grow, services degrade, and public trust erodes. This is like a wound that never seals: the system keeps losing vital resources.
In both cases, patchwork fixes are insufficient if the core regulatory mechanism is failing. Just as severe bleeding may require medical intervention to restore proper clotting, a city suffering from chronic mismanagement requires leadership change. Replacing ineffective management becomes the most direct way to “stop the bleeding” and restore systemic stability. The first step in saving Kingman is admitting we are in an emergency, and acting accordingly, and that is to remove the cause of the problem: Poor Management.
We have to Stop The Bleeding.
Mark “Doc” Berry
Candidate for Mayor
