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I submitted this to the PD last Friday.? They have decided not to print it.? Which is funny, given that I’m the only candidate for either county council or county executive with any credibility on the issue, or who is actually talking about it.? Oh well….it gets printed here at Plunderbund!
Coup d?etats in the former soviet republics are not subtle.? They have, however, become more sophisticated.
The list of best practices includes giving the opposition just enough seats at the table for window dressing, every step of the way, packing legitimate committees of government with an overwhelming majority who [...]
Full Story... →The PD’s Gomez is all over this.
According to?recently posted minutes, the public engagement committee met from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Thompson Hine law firm in downtown Cleveland.
And of course, guess what was the major topic of discussion – doling out a contract.
Attendees discussed a pending?request for proposals (follow link to see the request) from communications consultants. Zanotti?confirmed this monththat the transition team wanted to hire someone for the job. The public engagement committee plans to score the proposals received by Thursday’s deadline.
I’m having a hard time understanding why [...]
Full Story... →Gomez quotes the head of the public engagement committee, which has been meeting in PRIVATE, who himself runs a company in MEDINA COUNTY.
Though the public was not invited to two meetings McShepard said his panel held before Thursday, he said members always favored openness.
What took so long to communicate that to McCafferty and Zanotti?
“I think it was a matter of it being so early in the process that we hadn’t been able to have that discussion,” McShepard said. “It was just a matter of getting our ducks in a row.”
Sadly, no. ?Not according to what [...]
Full Story... →Hard to argue with this.
Finally, the FBI needs to tie up their loose ends. If they can indict more officials on lesser charges of bribery or fraud or illegally reading emails of court officials, for example, just throwing that one out there, then those indictments should come with the others. Get it all out. With Issue 6, the goal at this point should just be to get them out of office so we can start fresh with a new slate of elected officials in the Fall.
That?s our timetable. Respect it.
We don?t want to hear about deals. [...]
Full Story... →This is how dictators act.
“Honestly, I don’t think it did” make a difference, he said of the ACLU’s threat of a lawsuit if officials did not open all meetings to the public. “They may have jumped the gun a bit.”
The PD’s Henry Gomez, who has been all over this since the laughable WCPN appearance which started it, notes yet another perfection of irony.
But feedback from the transition group’s public engagement committee, which has been meeting in private, ultimately convinced leaders to open the meetings, Zanotti said.
Who is Martin Zanotti, unelected by anyone, to decide how, [...]
Full Story... →After the disastrous WCPN appearance of unelected co-czars of Cuyahoga County, Martin Zanotti and Jim McCafferty on Tuesday, Ken Lanci jumped into the fray. ?Lanci claims to be an independent candidate for Cuyahoga County executive, but gave $10,000 to McCain-Palin in the last week of the 2008 election, which makes him a Republican. ?Lanci demanded to be included in the transition process.
“It is a waste of time and resouces to develop a plan that has had no input from the candidates.?In order for the recommendation of the executive committee’s plan to have any chance, there needs to be [...]
Full Story... →Good.
The ambiguity is enough for the ACLU to seek clarifications from a judge if transition leaders do not voluntarily open up, said Link, who added that a lawsuit is possible. She warned that legal action would bring the transition process to a halt.
“It will take forever,” Link said. “We hope public officials get on the right track and further action won’t be necessary.”
There is plenty in this new charter that can be litigated and challenged in court. ?Plenty. ?As a candidate for the new county council, I would support any lawsuit or other effort that [...]
Full Story... →One example stands out in stark relief. County Prosecutor Bill Mason wrote his own office into the new charter as the sole remaining elected county office. It?s a rare post-soviet dictator who is so shameless as to write his own office into perpetuity. That the PD uttered not one peep of protest at this blatantly undemocratic power grab is simply stunning.
Mason, perhaps the single most driving force behind Issue 6 other than the PD, is so compromised he is now widely rumored to be resigning in laughable flight from a government he claimed he had just ?reformed? [...]
Full Story... →Holy bleeping bleep.
OhioDaily has confirmed that the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party will not be taking up the issue of Fisher v. Brunner when they meet this Saturday morning to endorse candidates for state and countywide office for the May primary. According to a spokesperson for the county party, there will not be action taken on an endorsement unless the Ohio Democratic Party chooses to endorse on their own.
ODP ain’t moving on this before Saturday if Lee’s home county ain’t pushing it. ?So this means Lee will not get the endorsement of his home county party for this [...]
Full Story... →Bill Mason now appears to be reaching into already published articles in the Plain Dealer, and somehow getting unfavorable allegations removed from the online version of the stories after they’ve been published. ?Here’s a timeline.
The Independent printed a story December 18 about patronage in Bill Mason’s office, noting that it had been in the Plain Dealer’s possession for some time, and spiked because…
A version of this article was slated to be published by the Plain Dealer, but was pulled, in no small part, by the behind-the-scenes machinations of metro editor Chris Quinn, close friend to Mason?s top [...]
Full Story... →This post has been screaming at me since the day Issue 6 passed, and even louder since the day I started looking real hard at running for one of the county council seats Issue 6 created.
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