Simply put, the people of NEO has to take responsibility for allowing the Democratic Machine to flourish and to have a stranglehold on our region. For far to long the people of NEO have turned a blindeye to those who say they are representing us but, are really using us to get back into office so they can continue with the status quo. The status quo in terms of having a greater allegiance to the party rather than to us and grooming others to come in to take their place once they move on.
The problem isn't in the fact that we make these mistakes but, in the fact that we keep making them and putting the same people in office FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS!!! I'll give you an example. The district 7 race for County Council had two very qualified Lawyers running one being a Democrat and the other being a Republican. James Levin was the Democrat and Phyllis Lucia Crespo was the Republican. Both worked hard on their campaigns, however, Yvonne Conwell happened to be in the race as well. Yvonne Conwell worked in the Recorders office with the big double dipping boss Vivian Greene, in addition has no education, had no campaign or yard signs, had no website, never attended a debate or forum but, yet she defeated both more qualified candidates by a 3-1 margin. Yvonne Conwell's only claim is that she is the wife of Cleveland City Councilman Kevin Conwell!!
In going to council meetings and listening to Yvonne Conwell speak it is thoroughly embarrassing. She can barely put two sentences together and seems very much out of place. If you were a company and you were thinking about relocating to this region and you spoke with Yvonne Conwell, would you think twice about relocating to this region ?? I would !!!
I can cite several examples of this type of behavior from our County Executive Ed Fitzgerald onto some of the people at Cleveland City Council. The key question is what are WE going to do about these individuals ?? Are we going to keep voting these people in so they can keep misrepresenting our region or become more astute and educate ourselves to the point where we know who and what issues to vote for?? I thought we were on the right tract with the passage off issue six, however, I was extremely disappointed in the fact that we allowed the same people who put us in this mess to get right back into office.
Ed Fitzgerald represents this unfortunate type of continuous behavior by the people of NEO. Ed Fitzgerald was the city councilman of Lakewood before running for and becoming Mayor. During his tenure of Mayor Ed Fitzgerald immediately campaigned among the Democratic party to try to oust Frank Russo from his position of Auditor. Soon, the issue of issue 5 vs. issue 6 was on the table and Ed keeping up with his allegiance to the Democratic Machine campaigned vigorously against issue six. Ed's reasoning was that the position didn't have the controls necessary for him to support it and therefore, he would vote against it.
Notice that Ed Fitzgerald didn't say I will support issue six but, I feel that it will be enhanced even more if we had more controls to be able to oversee even the executive. This is where research comes into play. Ed didn't support issue six because he wanted to be incoherence with the rest of the Democratic Machine and union people so they can continue to rape the area with their selfishness!!!! Ed not only campaigned against the passage of issue six but, turned around a month later and ran for the exact office he dared to not want.
During the campaign Ed promoted his FBI background(all 1.5 years) . Remember, the County Executive main charge is to bring jobs and economic development to the region. So, the question is why would you elect a person who has NEVER created any jobs ?? More importantly, who in their right mind would vote for a person who not only doesn't have a background in creating jobs but, doesn't even a have a plan get any either ??? This was no surprise because all throughout the campaign Ed avoided the job procurement of the position like the plague.
Sure enough the answer to these questions that I presented is in the African American community. African African(blacks) feel that no matter what they have to vote for whomever, the Democrat is because of what Dem's say they are going to do for them and Republicans have an unfair reputation of taking away from blacks. That being said, it seemed as though the blacks rely on SO-CALLED leaders of the black community to tell them whom to vote for. These individuals don't have black people's best interest at heart, they have are in the hip pockets of the party bosses of the Democratic party and Unions to go out and get you to vote form them. In return they are given monetary gifts and other things. The name of the game is to keep you ignorant and keep the status quo !!!
Back to Ed Fitzgerald though. He didn't say anything about bringing in much needed jobs because he didn't have a plan and is incapable of developing one but, he knew that those black so called leaders like George Forbes and Marcia Fudge were going to get you to vote for him(Keeping you ignorant and keeping the status quo is the name of the game). In doing so, you voted in a guy that clearly seems overwhelmed to the job that he was elected to do. Here are some examples on how he is overwhelmed and hence failed in his position.
Ed Fitzgerald was suppose to come in and have an five year economic development plan within the first six months of taken office.In this plan it was suppose to be specific on what companies he was going to bring, expand to bring much needed jobs. In his May 30th five year economic development plan it says nothing specific on how and/or where he will create jobs, it states our obvious assets and doesn't set a proper course on growing the local economy. Remember this was the number one charge of the County Executive!!!
Ed within his first six months was suppose to right size the County government to the point where it represented the population of NEO. One of Ed's opponents mentioned that close to 2000 employees needed to be terminated so even more saving could be created to put towards economic development. Since Ed, Fitzgerald has taken office about 150 people have been terminated. That is 7.5% of the 2000 employees that need to go. It will take Ed many terms to be able to achieve this number and this is not the change that we wanted or expected.
Ed has yet to put up assets like the AmeriTrust towers for sale so the public can recoup some of the money that was squandered by the County Commissioners. More importantly the it will allow someone to develope the land to make it viable for the rest of the county. Other pieces of property as well that can be put up for sale and the land bank could be used to see what properties we have moving forward to use or to sale. Ed has yet to fill this promise as well.
I say these things because if we had paid attention to what these individuals were saying we would clearly understand and see that these individuals don't and can't do the jobs they are seeking but, want the jobs to continue allign themselves with the unions and the Democatic party to continue the status quo and the culture of Corruption. In doing so we shoot ourselves in the foot because our jobs situation hasn't improved and won't improve with the likes of Yvonne Conwell and Ed Fitzgerald because these individuals are incompetent in the jobs they have. In order to break this cycle we must get in the habit of not doing what the likes of George Forbes, Marcia Fudge, Dennis Kucinich and others want us to do but, seek out information so we can vote astutely and separate those who simply want the job for selfish reasons !!!
Our Mantra should be : DESTROY AND TERMINATE THE LOCAL DEMOCRATIC MACHINE !!!
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