Remember when C. Ellen Connally, newly elected president of the Cuyahoga County Council, responded to critics’ complaints about the “secret” meeting of council members by saying, “Leadership is not the public’s business”?
Yeah, we loved that quote, and it made us uncontrollably giddy thinking about a new year full of solid-gold soundbites from the latest batch of PR-ignorant leaders in control of the county. There were bound to be avalanches of comparable nuggets cascading from the mouths of Connally and Miller and company, and boy, they haven’t disappointed.
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2011.
Actually, they are right and the Plain Dealer is wrong. Given how the Plain Dealer has completely distorted their actions and made a huge case out of, basically, nothing, I would stop talking to them completely. The Plain Dealer has an agenda and it isn’t good government for the people of Cuyahoga County. Seen anything in the PD about the secrecy of the Republicans taking over state government, which is on an infinitely worse level? No, you haven’t.