Good luck if you want to try & stop big jump in your City of Manteca utility bill Before folks start boiling the tar and collecting bird feathers they might want to begrudgingly give thanks to Manteca Mayor Ben Cantu when they throw him under the proverbial bus. His decades-old Don Quixote treatment by the old guard that once inhabited city hall and city politics is now proven to have been misplaced. And even though he may not have gotten the exact causes of perennial municipal funding issues and the inability to secure amenities precisely right, he was pretty darn close.