Manteca city hall stretches the truth with today’s ‘free community clean up’ PERSPECTIVE Then Mayor Willie Weatherford (center with red cap, brown shirt, and light gray slacks) cut the ribbon on Oct. 16, 2008 to mark the opening of the Manteca Bass Pro Shops. How on earth did the “incompetent” people running Manteca back then pull that off? If you’re like me and took a couple of plastic bags of personal documents to have shredded for “free” at the City of Manteca “community clean-up event” today then you’ve participated in a big lie. Lying — or more politely stretching the truth — is what passes these days as leadership at city hall.