GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 2015

Congratulations to the Winners of yesterday's general elections!

For Election Results go HERE and HERE

STRAIGHT OUT OF A PLAYBOOK

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We were going to hold our peace; but hell, does anyone do their research? 


 Let's go back 8 years: 

Way too many homeowners began losing their homes in Maple Heights starting somewhere around 2007, and in 2008 The Mortgage Crisis hit (banks were definitely in the mix of perpetrators) and Maple as was reported, was at the epicenter of the mortgage crisis.  (We don't make this stuff up folks) 

"For sale" signs were everywhere, and correct us if we're wrong, at some point city hall made it so those signs could not be posted (bad impression of Maple ... right?).

So here we go ... people losing their homes, the population of Maple dwindling to around 24,000 (down from 26,000 and is currently somewhere around 22,000).  And by the way, Maple Heights website didn't adjust those figures to the 2010 census figures until we started complaining.  We love transparency, and way too many times we've had transparency issues with those folks down at city hall.  

Ok, ... we digress.  So the population is dwindling, but we hear going into the next administration, there was a surplus in the budget (?)  Check this out.  Now again, population dwindling, people losing their homes.  So what does city hall do?  New pool, (and according to the former finance director) new police cars, a push for (20+year) bonds (debt, debt, debt) to build (how many?- yep 5) new schools, and tax levies (that never lets up).  But in 2010, census shows we're down to around 23,000 Maple Hts folks (included in that figure around 3500 school children).  Wonder who got those lucrative contracts? also [Go HERE for Maple Heights School report card]



What's done is done; however, you really need to understand.  Even if the number of homeowners declined significantly, the homeowner would still be on the hook to make those bond interest payments.  Can you lose your home if you don't pay your property taxes?  Absolutely!!

When you have loss of population, loss of homes, high unemployment, money circulating outside the community, you need to address that vigorously.  Was that done? NO! 

Property owners lost value in their homes (that still continues).  


Property owners and other residents didn't want charity. 

 Property owners and other residents needed financial assistance, money, ownership, job training and jobs. 

What they were asked, approve tax levies.   
Specifically, ... over and over again, they asked the already overburdened homeowner for tax levies.  Don't those folks at city hall have any real ideas that don't call for overburdening homeowners? 

Where did Maple Heights taxpayer's money go?  We asked and ran into wall after wall to get answers until we started posting (the emails we sent to various inhabitants of city hall) on this blog. Then we got stone-walled again.  We especially wanted to know how many Black full time public employees there were (particularly police and fire) and how many Black contractors were hired during a certain period of time.   **Result: Stonewalled

Now ...About those speed cameras.  Anyone with any intelligence knew that this was mostly about revenue and not so much safety (city hall gave it away with those revenue comments and failed to involve residents in the decision). To make matters worse, some of those speed cameras were placed near shopping areas and /or predominantly black residents.  As to who got ticketed.  Among those ...well, people who wanted to shop at Giant Eagle, and friends and family of residents, and residents got tickets.  Got so folks didn't want to come into Maple and the folks here ... many of them felt trapped. We all knew it wouldn't stop with just those cameras.  There would be more to come (yep, just like in Cleveland).
That the speed camera amendment passed with overwhelming votes was a smack at city hall.  Folks were so mad, they were coming from Warrensville Hts to vote LOL.


We wanted to know where most of that money was going. 
City Hall will tell you they needed it for city services.  We wanted a breakdown.  Stonewalled 
How many residents have full time jobs at city hall?  Most of the people city hall does business with, and full time public workers in Maple live outside Maple. Most of that money circulates outside Maple. There are no easy answers right now; however, we've said it over and over again (as has research shown and other cities have proven); money needs to largely circulate in the community.   

This problem continues to not be addressed and we're sick of the excuses concerning state cuts (cuts that these politicians knew about in 2011 folks).  You can't keep asking for money from residents (esp. while the population continues to decline) and pumping that money outside the community.  

***Remember that money in a fund for the folks who lived down by the railroad tracks? Well, while all these non residents got paid and spent our money in their own communities, those folks (who were down by those railroad tracks due to the banks and mortgage company's institutional racist policies -Link and (2 (3)) ... well, most of their money got dumped into the general fund that [wait for it] was used to pay folks who spent our money where they lived (outside of the communities in which they served).  Talk about a slap in the face!

Wow ... Straight out of a mayor's playbook.  We know that playbook so well.  [Inside joke]

Look, if you want to elect a black female as mayor simply because it would be historic, go ahead and do so.

To be specific to The Mortgage Crisis and Maple Heights:
We don't like titles being thrown around when we know the huge role banks, mortgage companies, re-insurers, major accounting firms, etc played in one of the greatest financial meltdowns this nation has seen - - The Mortgage Crisis ... that placed Maple Heights at the epicenter.


We could go on and on and on .... but, we're just FED UP with excuses, AND bullshit!!!

Oh.. and for the folks who want to vote for Bill, simply because he's white, ... (by all means) whatever makes you feel comfortable.   


We do recommend you read the Maple Heights News for general information about candidates who are running, and Maple Heights ballot issues

While we have major differences in ideology, Brownlee has done something no other person in Maple (or outside of Maple) has done. He's put what goes on in Maple Heights meetings and council, etc out there for everyone to see.  It's called transparency folks, and ya'll (those who know our writing style and have followed us for years) know we love transparency in government.



Update 10/30/2015

****No matter who becomes mayor of Maple Heights, you can believe the Maple Heights African American Gazette (and we're sure Lynde Brownlee) will not stop telling you what goes on in city hall, and asking for public records.   


Astounding the number of people (esp who don't live here) and outside groups who have made last minute endorsements (especially last minute since this post).  God bless them. To think they never gave a "hill of beans" about Maple Heights before, but have showed up on the scene. 

Let's see how much money they contribute to this community come 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.  Let's see what happens with jobs, job training, and creating viable diverse communities.  Let's see their commitment to money circulation within the community and ownership.
 Let's see them put their money where their mouth is.  We will definitely tell you if they don't.******



Update: 11/2/2015
Finally,  If you need to pass a tax levy for a temporary fix, go ahead and pass the damn thing.

Related:

Foreclosure Epicenter: Maple Heights, OH

What Caused The Mortgage Crisis

The Role of Accounting in the Financial Crisis

Role of Auditors in Crisis Gets Look
  
Railroad money gets locked into special fund

Transparency and Open Government

From Black Wall Street to the Black Dollar Project

Maple Heights News Yahoo Page

The Case For Reparations

 Questioning Maple Heights mayoral candidates: editorial board

Your Black Education
Asians keep a dollar in their community 120 times longer than African Americans
MAPLE HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO GO



And this is a message for Richard A:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

To others who would like to link us as supporters of Mrs. Mitchell, we are admirers.  She helps folks whether you're in her ward or not or it's midnight or 6 am (that's simply what she does).  .... ; however, please understand we would be as critical of her as every other politician should she be facing that position in the General Election.  

JUST ANOTHER DAY IN MAPLE HEIGHTS POLITICS

This SMEAR CAMPAIGN against Mrs Mitchell in Maple Heights is old.  



What's disgusting is these are CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONS and it's cheap and petty.  

Others have tried it and failed.

Trust us ...It will backfire.

To Mrs. Mitchell ... 
You've heard all this garbage before during election campaigns. ... You are these politician's favorite punching bag whether you run for office or not. We won't give them the satisfaction to name them because we believe this is a publicity stunt for attention. 

Just ignore them.

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO

 Update:
10/12/2015 2pm

see our continuing comments 10/27/2015 (in italics) at the very bottom of this post


Well, if you trust the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (which sorry we don't), after Wednesday's count there will be two candidates with relatively little public service experience vying for mayor of Maple Heights in the November Election.  Bill is a 1 term councilman (who caused many of the inhabitants of Maple Heights City Hall great angst) and Annette was "Mayor appointed" to serve on Charter Review in 2011, but has never held an elected office in Maple Heights city government.  Maple, by the way, is in Fiscal Emergency.  

As we see it, you'll either have another "white male" as mayor or one that is "white male" mayor approved.   Maple Heights has an estimated 70% African American population with considerable money circulation problems.  Whether you like African Americans or not, if money continues to largely circulate outside the community (that includes paying a large number of full time city employees who for the most part live and spend their money outside the city), Maple Heights financial problems will remain. That's bad for white and black residents. Regarding these taxes asked for ... they are temporary fixes at best and will not correct the long standing multitude of financial problems facing Maple; (what will help) money circulation within the community will.

We know at least one of the candidates wants more transparency in government, the other, "who the hell knows". 


Brownlee wants to restructure Maple's government to a city manager form of government.  (2)  (3)  That certainly won't be an easy task and it may or may not help the community.
Blackwell may try to keep the same folks around who were positioned when Maple went into Fiscal Watch and then Fiscal Emergency.



Both candidates are loose canons (meaning you don't know what the hell they'll do once they get in office).  Both candidates may shy away from dealing with the Department of Justice (2) (3), though it wouldn't be a wise move.

One will most certainly be replacing the current "issues with transparency" Law Director (When? No one knows), the other we hope will but we're skeptical.  Residents are going to have to carefully watch whoever is appointed to that position, including the Assistant Law Director position.


No matter which candidate lands in the mayor's seat, (ARTICLE V, THE EXECUTIVE) they will be handing out appointments.  This is what should really concern you!!!!


Be careful of those candidates who push taxes.  Think about who is being fed with your taxes (and we're also talking about school taxes). When those schools were built, who were the contractors? Who made money in the building of those schools?  Did residents participate in the building of those schools?  We're there any local contractors used (esp. Black contractors)?   Did those who dispensed our tax money insist that there be Black contractors/Maple Hts residents or Maple Heights/Black residents who would receive on the job training?  Are there any Black contractors being used now?  Look beyond the rhetoric you hear. Look at where your money goes and to whom the money goes.  

BHF: Black children do better when they know their history and culture. (2) see also: The Rise of Homeschooling Among Black Families.
A number of  HBCUs offer African American Studies. 

 [Go HERE for Maple Heights School report card]

As to candidates who will or could possibly have a seat on council come 2016 .. well, there's Toni Jones who seems to think "a resident speaking up (in 2011) about what she feels is a sitting mayor attacking the character of a Black female candidate without cause" is "playing the race card".   Ron Jackson and Edwina Agee (as did all of the current council members, including Brownlee first go round) voted for speed cameras in Maple Heights (without voter consent).  And then there's two uncontested wild cards, Stafford Shenett (an attorney), ... and Tanglyn Madden.

This is what we said in August 2012.  Click the link: MAPLE HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO GO.   Adams, Cefaratti, Lansky and Albers will soon be gone, though whose to say who may linger in the background. 
Not sure if Jones or Trojanski will remain though our guess is they will.

Side note:  While we appreciate people's passions and comments, we've been dealing with Maple Heights city government for quite some time, and have put in the time and effort to try to understand how to create viable, diverse communities. 

And to those who comment:  Do you  know where your tax dollars go?  Do you attend council meetings?  Do you ask your council representative pertinent questions?  Have you ever asked for public records?  If not, why not?  Do you know how to create viable and diverse communities?  Have you done any research on how to create viable, diverse communities?  Do you understand the principle of money circulation and how to circulate money within a community (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)?  
If you're a politician, are you prepared to deal with the constant problems of running a government and criticisms thrown at you, and prepared to get calls late at night (or all through the night)?
As a politician, do you have the balls to criticize the police if necessary and deal with police union demands? 

We're not candidates or politicians and we don't bow down to any politician.  If you want to be in public office, get a thick skin and get used to the criticisms (and deal with them) or pack up and leave.
  

[Edited 10/04/2015]
"And to the person who left a comment in the comment section stating we promised to work together (??? WTH!!).  Since we did not attend any mayor's forum and we're not candidates or politicians who promised anything, your comment regarding what we said is misdirected.  ****We made no such comments. 


It's also very obvious that we have some commenters who have only been to the Maple Heights African American Gazette once or twice and are supporters of Ms. Blackwell (Which is fine - but that remark "Get Over It" was adolescent).  Look around.  You'll find links to not only "Codified Ordinances of Maple Heights", but also to organizations that are excellent resources.


Each commenter needs to do their own research and ask relevant questions of both candidates and go to council meetings and ask for public records.  Please do read the section "About Us".  Finally, ... Just because you're an African American doesn't mean we trust you or support you.  You have to earn our trust and support.  


We (plural) live here and we watch City Hall, this community and its leadership and community organizers and those who are considered community activists. We also speak out and ask for public records and place ourselves at grave risk for doing so in some instances."  


The Maple Heights News did video tape the mayor's forum and post on YouTube along with their other video tapes of council meetings, etc. 

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10/27/2015

You wanted an education, we're going to give it to you .... though you may not like what you read.

Click HERE






Related:
Codified Ordinances of Maple Heights

Residency Rules: The Detroit Experience

From Black Wall Street to the Black Dollar Project

A VERY ROCKY RIDE FOR MAPLE HEIGHTS

No surprises for the small turn-out at the polls.  A big surprise in the picking of what we believe is a tax your way out of a crisis, status quo as she goes, candidate (Annette Blackwell) to run against Mr. Brownlee or Mrs. Mitchell (still to close to call) in November. 

Now we know we're going to hear the words "sour grapes" spew forth out of the top pick; but just as important as the candidate are the appointments. For instance, .. Will we see the same law director or will the second in command move up? Neither one is our choice given the transparency history.  Will anyone be paying attention?

And if things couldn't get any worse, we've got (we believe) at least one rogue in the safety division.  There are forces at play that would scare the hell out of residents if known, but transparency and accountability has not been Maple Heights City Hall's strong suit for quite a while  (Mr. Brownlee's "strongly objected to by many at city hall" cameras excluded) .  

Keep your eyes open and hold on to your seats cause it's going to be a very very rocky ride for residents.


Related:
Maple Heights Leadership Needs to Go,   August 14, 2012

RICHARD T. ANDREWS: THE REAL DEAL PRESS: MAY 2015

We think you're going to like this edition (we like all his editions) as it does have an article on Maple Heights.  Please download the May edition HERE

WHOSE THE CRIMINAL? IT'S GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO TELL

From "Addicting Info" by Nathaniel Downes

Excerpt:

"Former DA: Planting Guns On Shooting Victims ‘Standard Operating Procedure’ 

AUTHOR: NATHANIEL DOWNES APRIL 10, 2015 4:06 PM

Attorney Arthur Aidala is a frequent guest on Fox News. The former Senior Assistant District Attorney for Kings County, NY had a lot of first hand experience in dealing with the troubled NYPD of the 1990’s. In a segment discussing the shooting death of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager, he may have revealed an open secret, something long claimed but difficult to prove regarding police, accountability, and their ability to get away with murder.

When I was in the DA’s office in the 80s and 90s, that was standard operating procedure. Police officers — I hate to say this — would keep a second gun that nobody knew about on their ankle, so if they ever killed someone they shouldn’t have they would take that gun out.

As a DA, knowing this, he clearly supported the policy at least indirectly. After all, nobody wants the reputation of being against the police, particularly a DA which is reliant upon them for doing their jobs. A hostile DA-police rapport would render the DA unable to fulfill his duty, so whatever the police wished to get away with, they would.

In this case, he was quite frank on Officer Slager’s situation:

There’s going to be no sympathy for this police officer, except for the fact that it’s a 33-year-old human being who is getting paid $40,000 to protect his own life and protect everyone else’s life. Nobody thinks this cop woke up that morning and said let me go kill somebody. He made split second decisions and they were wrong. Obviously he made wrong decisions. It’s going to be about, in my opinion, how much jail time does he serve."

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE 

OHIO STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BARNES JR FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS CHAIRMAN

Post by Maple Heights African American Gazette.

TUESDAY WAS A WAKE UP CALL FOR A LOT OF LOCAL POLITICIANS

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Rather than blame individuals for losses at the polls, Maple Heights City Hall should have been astute enough to smell the political and economic climate.

A Washington Times editorial:

"Voters are smarter than the politicians sometimes figure. Tuesday wasn’t a good day only for the men and women running for office under the Republican banner; it was a smashing day for lower taxes, responsible spending and government transparency as well. Ballot measures everywhere put economic policy to the ultimate test.

A stick-it-to-the-rich proposal on the ballot in Nevada would have imposed a 2 percent tax on businesses with more than $1 million in annual revenues. The money collected was to have been earmarked for public schools, but voters saw through the “for the children” ruse and realized increasing the cost of doing business by $750 million was a dumb thing to do in a stagnant economy. This big idea was thumped by a 4-to-1 margin on Tuesday.

Tennessee voters had the good judgment to amend the state constitution to forbid state and local governments from implementing an income tax. This will preserve Tennessee’s reputation as a good place to live and do business. Georgia has an income tax, so residents decided to minimize the damage politicians can do by voting 3-to-1 to cap the income-tax rate so that lawmakers will be powerless to raise it in the future.

Even blue states such as Massachusetts are warming to fiscal responsibility. Residents weary of living in a state nicknamed “Taxachusetts” repealed a law enacted last year that automatically raises the state gasoline tax every year by the inflation rate. They jettisoned a scheme to apply bottle-deposit fees to containers of water, juice, sports drinks and most other beverages.

Legislators in Maryland and Wisconsin have made raiding their state transportation funds to finance pet projects an annual rite of passage, so voters have fought back with constitutional amendments preventing a raid on fuel taxes and motor-registration fees to pad the general fund. The limitations garnered more than 80 percent of the vote.

The vote tallies were also big at the local level. In Cleveland and its suburb Maple Heights, Ohio, voters repudiated the city council’s decision to station automated highwaymen on every street corner. Ballot initiatives forbidding local officials from using revenue cameras passed by three-fourths of the vote. When the city council in St. Peters, Mo., refused to listen to constituents on the issue, the St. Charles County Council proposed a charter amendment prohibiting revenue speed cameras within the county limits — including St. Peters. It passed with 73 percent of the vote."

Until many local politicians "wake up and smell the political and economic coffee" their cities will continue to decline not just in population, but a decline in more services and more revenue.  Voters hate non-accountable, judgmental, "try to scare you to death", non transparent, bullying, money grabbing politicians; and some things are more important to voters than salary giveaways to certain government employees,  padding certain pensions, and allowing *more and more non-residents to serve as local government employees (which helps stifle local economies - there needs to be a balance).

It's time to listen to the majority of city residents and not the few!!

Voters shutter red-light cameras: Editorial cartoon

"Traffic cameras are automated speed traps that have sped over the public's right to due process.   The money they generate amounts to a traffic tax.    70% of the automated tickets were issued to drivers from outside the city.    Every street that has the cameras essentially becomes a toll road."

The courts have done an injustice to many cities in Ohio

by allowing unyielding non residency requirements and that's a shame.

* For residency requirements

• Local control/home rule • Spends local tax dollars on residents/taxpayers • Stems "middle-class" flight and provides economic stability to certain urban neighborhoods • Provides employment for residents • Provides racial and ethnic balance in public employment jobs • Benefit of certain workers living in close proximity to their work station • Benefit of staff living and working in the communities they protect and educate • Longer commute times impact employees, congestion, and transportation infrastructure • Money circulates within the city helping to stabilize the local economy Resentment by local residents is quelled.

MAYOR JEFFREY LANSKY SUES COUNCILMAN BROWNLEE FOR DEFAMATION

Post by Maple Heights African American Gazette.

WISE, ELOQUENT, INSIGHTFUL 11 YEAR OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN MARQUIS GOVAN SUMS UP FERGUSON

THE HISTORY OF VOTING

Post by Maple Heights African American Gazette.

LEGAL DEFINITIONS FOR TODAY: MISAPPROPRIATION AND/OR MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS

Question?

Can a governing body or government official take money or property given to it by another governing body that is meant for a specific purpose and use it for something else?
 

Ex: Money given to local government by state/county/fed for capital improvements - Can that money be used for something other than capital improvements?

    Related:

Ex: Money given by taxpayers of a local government for the express purpose of paying for recycling bottles/cans/etc - Can that money be used for something other than recycling?

 
These are questions a city council might be concerned with.

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Definitions, etc for guidance on questions related to misuse or misappropriation of funds/property/public funds/public property.

Misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any person with a responsibility to care for and protect another's assets (a fiduciary duty). It is a felony.

Misappropriation of public funds:

Public Funds may not be used for personal purposes. 

Misuse of public funds: 

(a) Each officer of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district of this state, and every other person charged with the receipt, safekeeping, transfer, or disbursement of public moneys, who either:

1. Without authority of law, appropriates the same, or any portion thereof, to his or her own use, or to the use of another; or,
2. Loans the same or any portion thereof; makes any profit out of, or uses the same for any purpose not authorized by law; or,
3. Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false entry or erasure in any account of or relating to the same; or,
4. Fraudulently alters, falsifies, conceals, destroys, or obliterates any account; or,
5. Willfully refuses or omits to pay over, on demand, any public moneys in his or her hands, upon the presentation of a draft, order, or warrant drawn upon these moneys by competent authority; or,
6. Willfully omits to transfer the same, when transfer is required by law; or,
7. Willfully omits or refuses to pay over to any officer or person authorized by law to receive the same, any money received by him or her under any duty imposed by law so to pay over the same
(b) As used in this section, "public moneys" includes the proceeds derived from the sale of bonds or other evidence or indebtedness authorized by the legislative body of any city, county, district, or public agency.

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Key areas that might uncover misappropriation/misuse/fraud revolve around:

•  contracts and the rewarding of contracts
•  monies used by public officials/employees to purchase items
•  the movement of money from one fund to another
•  gifts
•  travel, tips, meals
•  interest earned
•  bonuses
•  pay raises, particularly unauthorized pay raises
•  fringe benefits
•  items marked as "other"
•  hiring
•  ticket-fixing
•  areas where there are a  conflict of interest
•  expenditures of public funds in election campaigns
•  failure to record monies
•  use of public employees for private benefit
•  unauthorized/non-paid use of public property for private/campaign use [ex. billboard    leases]*
•  failures to reimburse**

 

Always be suspicious when public employees/public officials don't answer pertinent questions that they should know the answers to (and it's within their area of expertise and/or job description). If you help pay that public employee's salary, it is unacceptable to not receive an answer, and there should be legal/acceptable consequences to follow. 

Related

Public Money

Special audits and investigations

Jacksonville Audit Reveals $37,293 in Misspent Public Money

Preventing fraud and abuse of public funds: local governments need to do better 

  

 

Does the state of Ohio offer a Local Government Performance Center like Washington State?

Performance/Results Based Contracting

Innovative Budgeting

117.103 Auditor of state's system for reporting fraud

126.08 Director of budget and management - powers and duties.

 Side note:

Leadership:  A leader must shift from “having the answers” to “asking the right questions” as a means to broaden and deepen the problem solving capabilities of their teams.

BLACK HISTORY FACT: JOHN MITCHELL JR. JOURNALIST, ACTIVIST, AND POLITICIAN, BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1863

Post by Joe Madison - "The Black Eagle".

SPECIAL MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING IN MAPLE HTS, MONDAY JULY 7, 2014

Meeting Agenda:

• 2014-46: Transfer Solid Waste Fund to General Fund – 3rd Reading
• 2014-47: Retain Solid Waste Fund as is – 3rd Reading
• 2014-50: 1.3 Mill Additional Levy- Senior Center- to Electors -2nd Reading
• 2014-52: 1.3 Mill Additional Levy- Senior Center- to Electors -2nd Reading
• 2014-54: 2014 Amended Appropriations – 1st Reading
• 2014-55: Tax Budget for 2015 – 1st Reading and Public Hearing
• 2014-56: Transferring Contingency Fund (102)* to General Fund – 1st Reading

*The Contingency Fund (102) has a balance of $121,000 according to the documents passed out on June 25th.

Post by Maple Heights News.

AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP SERIES - JUNE: LOUIS STOKES

Post by Maple Heights African American Gazette.

FRANK WILLS AND THE WATERGATE SCANDAL

Post by Joe Madison - "The Black Eagle".

INFORMATIONAL MEETING ON MAPLE HEIGHTS FISCAL WATCH STATUS

INFORMATIONAL MEETING

JOIN AUDITOR OF STATE DAVE YOST AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BARNES TO DISCUSS THE CITY OF MAPLE HEIGHTS FISCAL WATCH STATUS


THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014
TIME: 7-9PM
WHERE: SAINT ANDREW'S EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH, 16029 MAPLE PARK DRIVE, MAPLE HTS, OH 44137

 

 

WHAT POLITICAL PARTY HAS THE POWER?

I have several questions to ask.

 

 

1. What political party controls the Ohio Senate, the Ohio House and the US House of Representatives?

 

 

2. What political party (in the above) has the majority to pass legislation and make cuts to programs, cities, etc?

 

 

I hope you said the Republican Party 

 

 

Here's the stats:

Ohio House

Latest voting shares:  Republicans 60.6%, Democrats 39.4%

 

Ohio Senate:

Latest voting shares: Republicans 69.7%,  Democrats 30.3%

 

US House of Representatives

Republicans 233 Democrats 199

 

 

You've got  some politicians   in Maple Hts and other individuals running around pointing fingers at Black Democrats for some of the financial woes in Maple Hts.

 

 

Look at the figures  (above) and tell me what political party has the power (the voting majority)? 

 

 

Clearly it's not Democrats [which also means it's not  Black Democrats] in the Ohio House, the Ohio Senate or the US House of Representatives.


Why aren't Maple Heights politicians and others asking for help from the politicians [Republicans] who have the power to perhaps do something?  Sounds like a good question, ... right? Maybe they did.  Don't know .. ask them.

 

 

Okay, now that we know what political party has the majority of the votes to perhaps do something to help Maple Heights financial problems, what are the real motives of Maple Heights politicians and others for pointing fingers at Black Democrats in those seats who don't have the majority voting shares?  Then you tell me how you feel about those people who pointed the fingers.

 

 

 

For clarity: Maple Heights has far more complex reasons for its financial woes than just some government cuts.

WHEN IS ENOUGH... ENOUGH IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY?

THIS [SEE PICTURE] AND WORSE HAPPENED EVERY DAY IN THE SOUTH NOT THAT LONG AGO

 

BLACKS HAD NO LEGAL RECOURSE FOR WRONGDOING (TO THEM BY OTHERS) IN THE SOUTH AND ARE STILL DEALING WITH THAT IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH TODAY

 

BLACK MEN ARE STOPPED AND FRISKED AND SUBJECTED TO EXCESSIVE FORCE EVERY DAY NOW

 

THERE'S A TRAYVON MARTIN ALMOST EVERY DAY
 

 

THERE'S A TIMOTHY RUSSELL AND MALISSA WILLIAMS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS BY POLICE STILL

 

LAWS ARE IN PLACE AND STILL BEING CRAFTED TO DENY BLACKS VOTING RIGHTS.

 

BLACKS ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN HIRING EVERY DAY

 

WHITE SUPREMACY IS EMBEDDED IN MANY POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND ELSEWHERE IN GOVERNMENT (AT ALL LEVELS)

 

 

And yet they say NO REPARATIONS!
And yet they say NO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!

Any yet they say NO TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT!
And yet they say, that in a predominantly African American community there should be NO BLACKS IN THE FIRE DEPT OR ONLY 2 BLACKS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT even though these very same people are paid by the predominantly African American community

 

 

SHAME!!! SHAME!! SHAME!!!

 

NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

 

 

 

 

Related:

 

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

The Murder of Emmett Till and the Lynching of Blacks

 

The New Jim Crow

 

Most White People Still Think Blacks are Intellectually Inferior

 

Black Wall Street

 

Exclusion of Free Blacks

 

12 Years a Slave

 

Pleasantville cop suspended, accused of racist post, December 17, 2013

 

Metropolitan police still institutionally racist, say black and Asian officers, April 21, 2013

 

 

What is white supremacy? by Elizabeth 'Betita" Martinez