"sham election"
All those troubles with election machines etc. for years here in my county...and finally they admit "sham elections." This is the largest democrat county in the state. It swings Ohio...
All that craziness in 2008...it stunk to high heaven. And now they mention "sham elections" as a passing phase...
They tampered with elections!
Ping!
I think Cleveland has been doing stuff like this for a lot longer than 2008. How else do you explain the election and re-election of such shining lights as Dennis Kucinich and the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones?
All were Democrats....gee go figure. What filthy rotten smelly pigs they all are and that is being disrespectful to filthy rotten smelly pigs.
I hope everyone from the guy who turned a deaf ear or eye on illegal dealings right on up to Russo go to jail....that right there will eliminate about 33% of the Dem voters in Cuyahoga County.
Guess the party!
The article is very long yet never mentions the party involved.
"That is a huge function," said David Abbott, executive director of the George Gund Foundation and a one-time Cuyahoga County administrator. "That affects pretty much everyone. If that is not an honest and fair process, that strikes at the very heart of our democracy."
No Mr. Abbott, you are wrong! What "...strikes at the very heart of our democracy" is the corruption of the electoral process...not only in your county, but across this nation.
Here's an idea - MANDATORY, with no bargains - He gets no pension, no chance for parole, and he has to spend the rest of his life paying back the funds he stole by doing minial services! Garbage collection, scrubbing bathrooms, sewage holes, and clean up in the worst parts of the city. Every day for the rest of his life!
And the difference between this democr...er...sleezebag (synonyms), Chicago, and the White (er sluege) House is??
This guy put his picture on a sticker and made all cash registers in the county (and other weights and measures devices) display his picture. He put a huge picture of himself right outside of his office, after being elected. Neither of those things had ever been done.
Has a couple of dozen charges against him, he denied them for years. The Cleveland Plain Dealer (CPD) wouldn’t even mention him or his associates by name for YEARS.
He is an open homosexual, extremely corrupt (took more than 1million in bribes, rigged elections, people turning up missing around him.. i.e. dead, attorney he was involved with).
FINALLY in mid 2008, FBI raided his house and office at same time, and put together a case. Filed with the court this past week, and at the same time, he FINALLY resigned. He’s nothing more than a POS, along with Dimora (county commissioner, who’s just as bad, but says he’s innocent). They are all democrats.
There. Fixed.
Even now they have difficulty naming the party affiliation of these crooks.
Let’s do Chicago next. Would the feds have the integrity and courage to do that?
Journalists should make an effort to learn how to use the English language. It is their trade.
It should take fewer people to get things done
Fewer people is the correct usage unless the writer is comparing the quantity of people by volume or by mass i.e. "less weight."
Less humanity, perhaps, but fewer people.
You do realize, of course, that when the C.S.I. or Law & Order episode comes out about this, the “Evil-doers” will be portrayed as REPUBLICANS, right?
That's total BS. He was scheming LONG before the first day on the job. That's why he wanted the job since he knew he could get away with just about anything. Well, at least he was right for a while.