Anastasia Pantsios - Out of curiosity, are you a card-carrying member of Socialist Democrats Of America, like Comrade Kucinich? (True Dat: Look it up...)
If so, what motivates a US citizen to become a Socialist? Why do you hate freedom and love gubmint??
Is it an inability to earn a living wage? Simple class envy?? Or a failure of the education system (e.g. people such as yourself have no understanding of the US Constitution and what should be the LIMITED powers of the centralized federal gubmint)???
At any rate, watch what happens to Dennis! at the polls next November. He's not weaseling out of this one. Seems as if you're going to be even more shocked than Kucinich.
I'm guessing we'll be treated to many more pro-Dennis! articles over the next eight months. Whistling in the graveyard is fun.
Yeah, Frank Lewis, this Drew Carey fella is a douchebag royale.
New ideas? Market-driven solutions? Personal responsibility?
Forget that crap. Democrats, Democrats, Democrats.
It's the forward thinking of Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora and Peter Jones and every other hack Democrat failure elected to county offices that will make this county and city great again. Just as soon as they're finished burning it to the freakin' ground, that is.
Pity your intelligence was stunted in grade school. Otherwise the concept of LIMITED GOVERNMENT might have trumped your allegiance to the Nanny State.
So Drew Carey is a jackhole for suggesting Libertarian solutions to the utter failure of Big Government and Trickle-Down Bureaucracy in Cuyahoga County.
But the Socialist Dennis! Kucinich is a hero because he espouses statism.
And had Sean Penn had espoused Bolshevism in the name of Obama and for saving Cleveland he'd be a lauded genius, too, right?
Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are damned to implode upon the profound stupidity and intellectual dishonesty of Dennis! Kucinich and his followers like Frank Lewis. Please sweep up a little after you've finally ground this region into dust, okay?
You forgot to mention Barney Frank (D-Mass), who along with Prez Clinton pushed a "fair-housing" agenda...which MANDATED "ninja" loans for politically correct reasons of "diversity."
Clinton's administration BRAGGED about the all-time high percentage of minority owned homes. Wonderful bragging rights indeed, the machinations of which laid the foundation of the mortgage crisis.
Although Bush 43 was truly an inept president, his administration's attempts at addressing what amounted to federally mandated mortgage quoata's were met by threats of filibuster by Frank and the Democrats, who by that time held the voting majority.
The ultimate irony is how Barney Frank is *AGAIN* laying groundwork for another mortgage meltdown by maneuvering regulations making it easier for people who can't shoulder mortgages (for whatever reason) to obtain loans.
Not only has Frank refused to learn from the very recent past, but he denies the ramifications of the devastating policies he's championed all in the name of voting blocs sympathetic to his political party.
Social stratification in Cuyhahoga County? You bet.
Which segment of population boasts the highest illegitimate birth rate along with the fewest two-parent households? HINT: This segment is disproportionately represented as defendants in the US criminal-justice system...and for the above-listed reasons.
That being said, there are legitimate socio-economic reasons for apparent racial inequities in criminal convictions.
SENTENCING inequities between the races? That's a different situation altogether, but again there are complications. One of the problems with Paynter's Pee Dee in-depth piece had to do with first-time offenders.
Seems as if the percentage of whites arrested on drug-related crimes as first-time offenders was quite high in relation to the number of blacks arrested as repeat offenders. First-time offenders (regardless of race?) generally are treated preferentially by common pleas courtrooms. Paynter's piece might not have carefully qualified these data distinctions between black and white defendants.
Regardless, I'd put Paynter's Pullitzer up against Mason's lateral lisp any day. Mason is a self-serving politician first, county prosecutor second...a far second.
So back in October '08 Mason gave lip service regarding an investigation into apparent disparities along racial lines in his prosecutor's office. Hmmm. Back in November '08 Mason faced reelection. This past November Mason's Issue 6, effectively vanquishing Jimmy Dimora's Ontario Street Gang and placing Mason's Dems 2000 (aka Parma Mob) as the county political machine.
Mason is going to be way, way too busy setting up his shiny new political machne to worry about inequality in drug sentences. Plus there's all that showboating next year when Cleveland's Imperial Avenue serial killer goes on trial. First chair, just like for Sam Shepherd's re-re-trial, right Billy?
The Pee Dee refuses to ask Persecutor Mason scores of “difficult” questions that demand answers. Why doesn’t Scene take the point on this already? Let’s be intellectually honest – Mason is now, officially, the new Cuyahoga political boss. Right? So ask him tough questions already for god’s sake.
Why did Mason hire mob lawyer John Climaco to intimidate citizens who requested public info from Frank Russo’s auditor office? Wasn’t Climaco caught on videotape directing traffic when the feds pulled into Russo’s driveway back in July ‘08? Seeing Climaco on television in that situation suggested he was Russo’s private attorney, right? And the prosecutor’s office paid Climaco $75,000 to intimidate lawful citizens why? (Did Frankie maybe get on the horn with you and make some threats? Huh huh?)
Let’s also find out why former Cuyahoga County Recorder Patrick O'Malley (Persecutor Mason's KSU roommate!) never was prosecuted for bribery…even though O’Malley was caught on tape offering that former North Royalton mayor a no-show job for not running a campaign against O’Malley. Come to think of it, O'Malley's infamous and shady billboard escapades never made it before a common pleas jury, either. Hmmm.
Then there's Kevin O'Malley, Perv-O Patrick's brother whom Carl Monday busted ON VIDEO for punching in and out at the County Archives but leaving the site all day and not working. We county residents/suckers pay Kev $65,000 not to work. Hey Mason, if I change my surname to O’Malley can I get away with anything, too? This O’Malley wasn’t charged with theft of county time why, exactly?
As if this isn't sordid and incestuous enough, Perv-O Patrick and Kevin No-Show are both brothers of attorney Michael O'Malley, one of Persecutor Mason's assistant prosecutors! What’s that about?
But it gets better. This the same County Persecutor Bill Mason who co-owns with Bedford Clerk of Courts Thomas Day Jr a political "consulting" company called Victory Communications, an "ethical" side business that "consults" political wannabes and doesn't pedal Mason's political influence. Heh. Who all are your clients, Billy? Who who? Hmmm, how many of the upcoming county council candidates will be Victory Communications’ clients? How many of the county exec candidates? Hmmmmm. Ethical. Right.
Is this the same County Persecutor Bill Mason from whom the Ohio Ethics Commission in September subpoenaed records concerning $90,000 in no-bid printing work that Mason's office gave to Qwestcom Graphics Inc, a company co-owned by one of Mason's business partners, namely Bedford Clerk of Courts Thomas Day Jr? Yup. How’s that going, Billy?
Then there’s how Persecutor Mason’s wife, Carol, was paid $1,500 per month last year from Municipal Solutions… a company owned by federal corruption probe target John Frola! Yay! How about a real explanation for that one, Billy?
And how about explaining exactly how you stood by either stupidly, idly or complicitly for a decade while a bevy of local elected officials stole millions of dollars from the county, Billy? I’d love to hear your version on that one.
Also, Scene, feel free to use this Official Persecutor Mason Arrogance Checklist:
-Mason showboating during the Sam Shepherd re-re-trial...and stealing first chair from Steve Dever.
-Mason scolding former assistant prosecutor Dean Boland about writing a book on the Shepherd retrial...and then Mason released his own book!
-Mason not thanking anyone else during "his" victory lap after the Shepherd retrial.
-Mason holding his yearly golf outing "fundraiser," which is just like McFaul's annual "clambake" (i.e. plenty of clam$, baby).
-Mason not pursuing charges against Judge Brigit McCafferty, who ILLEGALLY solicited campaign funds on official county stationary.
-Mason packing his own hand-picked judges on the county bench.
-Mason tilting at windmills. Literally.
-Mason fighting AGAINST open disclosure and our rights under the US Constitution.
-Mason filing fraudulent claims against Judge Synenberg and going to extreme measures to remove her from an embarrassing (to the persecutor's office) retrial.
There’s so many unanswered questions regarding Cuyahoogie’s new Big Boss. Howzabout starting to find us some answers, Scene? Pee Dee refuses so will you guys finally step up or what?
Okay, let me get this straight -- Connie Schultz is allowed to title a book "...And His Lovely Wife" because of the inherent irony or intentional cliche or whatever transcends the sexist or discriminatory overtones.
John H. Tidyman is *NOT* allowed to do the same and title a book "Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart..." because he's not Connie Schultz.
Connie, you're a middling writer at best. And your hubby's a one-termer who's way, way over his head. Give it a freaking rest.
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If so, what motivates a US citizen to become a Socialist? Why do you hate freedom and love gubmint??
Is it an inability to earn a living wage? Simple class envy?? Or a failure of the education system (e.g. people such as yourself have no understanding of the US Constitution and what should be the LIMITED powers of the centralized federal gubmint)???
At any rate, watch what happens to Dennis! at the polls next November. He's not weaseling out of this one. Seems as if you're going to be even more shocked than Kucinich.
I'm guessing we'll be treated to many more pro-Dennis! articles over the next eight months. Whistling in the graveyard is fun.
New ideas? Market-driven solutions? Personal responsibility?
Forget that crap. Democrats, Democrats, Democrats.
It's the forward thinking of Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora and Peter Jones and every other hack Democrat failure elected to county offices that will make this county and city great again. Just as soon as they're finished burning it to the freakin' ground, that is.
Pity your intelligence was stunted in grade school. Otherwise the concept of LIMITED GOVERNMENT might have trumped your allegiance to the Nanny State.
So Drew Carey is a jackhole for suggesting Libertarian solutions to the utter failure of Big Government and Trickle-Down Bureaucracy in Cuyahoga County.
But the Socialist Dennis! Kucinich is a hero because he espouses statism.
And had Sean Penn had espoused Bolshevism in the name of Obama and for saving Cleveland he'd be a lauded genius, too, right?
Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are damned to implode upon the profound stupidity and intellectual dishonesty of Dennis! Kucinich and his followers like Frank Lewis. Please sweep up a little after you've finally ground this region into dust, okay?
Clinton's administration BRAGGED about the all-time high percentage of minority owned homes. Wonderful bragging rights indeed, the machinations of which laid the foundation of the mortgage crisis.
Although Bush 43 was truly an inept president, his administration's attempts at addressing what amounted to federally mandated mortgage quoata's were met by threats of filibuster by Frank and the Democrats, who by that time held the voting majority.
The ultimate irony is how Barney Frank is *AGAIN* laying groundwork for another mortgage meltdown by maneuvering regulations making it easier for people who can't shoulder mortgages (for whatever reason) to obtain loans.
Not only has Frank refused to learn from the very recent past, but he denies the ramifications of the devastating policies he's championed all in the name of voting blocs sympathetic to his political party.
Which segment of population boasts the highest illegitimate birth rate along with the fewest two-parent households? HINT: This segment is disproportionately represented as defendants in the US criminal-justice system...and for the above-listed reasons.
That being said, there are legitimate socio-economic reasons for apparent racial inequities in criminal convictions.
SENTENCING inequities between the races? That's a different situation altogether, but again there are complications. One of the problems with Paynter's Pee Dee in-depth piece had to do with first-time offenders.
Seems as if the percentage of whites arrested on drug-related crimes as first-time offenders was quite high in relation to the number of blacks arrested as repeat offenders. First-time offenders (regardless of race?) generally are treated preferentially by common pleas courtrooms. Paynter's piece might not have carefully qualified these data distinctions between black and white defendants.
Regardless, I'd put Paynter's Pullitzer up against Mason's lateral lisp any day. Mason is a self-serving politician first, county prosecutor second...a far second.
So back in October '08 Mason gave lip service regarding an investigation into apparent disparities along racial lines in his prosecutor's office. Hmmm. Back in November '08 Mason faced reelection. This past November Mason's Issue 6, effectively vanquishing Jimmy Dimora's Ontario Street Gang and placing Mason's Dems 2000 (aka Parma Mob) as the county political machine.
Mason is going to be way, way too busy setting up his shiny new political machne to worry about inequality in drug sentences. Plus there's all that showboating next year when Cleveland's Imperial Avenue serial killer goes on trial. First chair, just like for Sam Shepherd's re-re-trial, right Billy?
The Pee Dee refuses to ask Persecutor Mason scores of “difficult” questions that demand answers. Why doesn’t Scene take the point on this already? Let’s be intellectually honest – Mason is now, officially, the new Cuyahoga political boss. Right? So ask him tough questions already for god’s sake.
Why did Mason hire mob lawyer John Climaco to intimidate citizens who requested public info from Frank Russo’s auditor office? Wasn’t Climaco caught on videotape directing traffic when the feds pulled into Russo’s driveway back in July ‘08? Seeing Climaco on television in that situation suggested he was Russo’s private attorney, right? And the prosecutor’s office paid Climaco $75,000 to intimidate lawful citizens why? (Did Frankie maybe get on the horn with you and make some threats? Huh huh?)
Let’s also find out why former Cuyahoga County Recorder Patrick O'Malley (Persecutor Mason's KSU roommate!) never was prosecuted for bribery…even though O’Malley was caught on tape offering that former North Royalton mayor a no-show job for not running a campaign against O’Malley. Come to think of it, O'Malley's infamous and shady billboard escapades never made it before a common pleas jury, either. Hmmm.
Then there's Kevin O'Malley, Perv-O Patrick's brother whom Carl Monday busted ON VIDEO for punching in and out at the County Archives but leaving the site all day and not working. We county residents/suckers pay Kev $65,000 not to work. Hey Mason, if I change my surname to O’Malley can I get away with anything, too? This O’Malley wasn’t charged with theft of county time why, exactly?
As if this isn't sordid and incestuous enough, Perv-O Patrick and Kevin No-Show are both brothers of attorney Michael O'Malley, one of Persecutor Mason's assistant prosecutors! What’s that about?
But it gets better. This the same County Persecutor Bill Mason who co-owns with Bedford Clerk of Courts Thomas Day Jr a political "consulting" company called Victory Communications, an "ethical" side business that "consults" political wannabes and doesn't pedal Mason's political influence. Heh. Who all are your clients, Billy? Who who? Hmmm, how many of the upcoming county council candidates will be Victory Communications’ clients? How many of the county exec candidates? Hmmmmm. Ethical. Right.
Is this the same County Persecutor Bill Mason from whom the Ohio Ethics Commission in September subpoenaed records concerning $90,000 in no-bid printing work that Mason's office gave to Qwestcom Graphics Inc, a company co-owned by one of Mason's business partners, namely Bedford Clerk of Courts Thomas Day Jr? Yup. How’s that going, Billy?
Then there’s how Persecutor Mason’s wife, Carol, was paid $1,500 per month last year from Municipal Solutions… a company owned by federal corruption probe target John Frola! Yay! How about a real explanation for that one, Billy?
And how about explaining exactly how you stood by either stupidly, idly or complicitly for a decade while a bevy of local elected officials stole millions of dollars from the county, Billy? I’d love to hear your version on that one.
Also, Scene, feel free to use this Official Persecutor Mason Arrogance Checklist:
-Mason showboating during the Sam Shepherd re-re-trial...and stealing first chair from Steve Dever.
-Mason scolding former assistant prosecutor Dean Boland about writing a book on the Shepherd retrial...and then Mason released his own book!
-Mason not thanking anyone else during "his" victory lap after the Shepherd retrial.
-Mason holding his yearly golf outing "fundraiser," which is just like McFaul's annual "clambake" (i.e. plenty of clam$, baby).
-Mason not pursuing charges against Judge Brigit McCafferty, who ILLEGALLY solicited campaign funds on official county stationary.
-Mason packing his own hand-picked judges on the county bench.
-Mason tilting at windmills. Literally.
-Mason fighting AGAINST open disclosure and our rights under the US Constitution.
-Mason filing fraudulent claims against Judge Synenberg and going to extreme measures to remove her from an embarrassing (to the persecutor's office) retrial.
There’s so many unanswered questions regarding Cuyahoogie’s new Big Boss. Howzabout starting to find us some answers, Scene? Pee Dee refuses so will you guys finally step up or what?
Why not change the title of this rag from "Scene" to "Crap Michael Gallucci Likes" ??
Seriously, dozens upon dozens of column inches are wasted by Gallucci's self-serving "reviews" and, honestly, who gives a crap what this guy thinks?
What is it with you, Gallucci? Pathological urge to prove you're hippest guy in the room? You're a failed musician? Tiny dinky?
Less Gallucci-an pontificating would be a wonderful thing for "Scene."
John H. Tidyman is *NOT* allowed to do the same and title a book "Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart..." because he's not Connie Schultz.
Connie, you're a middling writer at best. And your hubby's a one-termer who's way, way over his head. Give it a freaking rest.