Robert Schoenewald got a grand total of 25% in the election. But that hasn’t stopped him and his latest crusade. Banging the drums for a petition outlawing the city from creating a garbage collection fee. No fee has been proposed, but Schoenewald his buddies Bob Frey and Mike Fortner are launching a preemptive strike against one.
Really, what this is about is this group doesn’t have any real issues to pursue against the city. The city is ending this year with $2.5 million in reserves, about a million more than they expected. Our credit rating is also above average. So, the sore losers have to invent an issue.
Speaking of sore losers, Joe Liptow has been keeping quiet since the election. Maybe his way of protesting a garbage fee is to put his blue recycling bag on his front walk four days before trash day. But at least Liptow recycles!
If YOU want to keep the city’s costs for trash collection down, don’t fall for phony petition drives. Recycle your aluminum, glass, and paper. The city makes $50/ton for recyclables, against paying $42/ton for landfill use. Recycling is good citizenship and it’s good for your wallet.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Dr. Miller is pissed and he has a right to be.
More griping from the sore loser's gallery. Bystander75 aka Garry Kanter is foaming at the mouth again. Read the article and come back here, I’ll wait for you:
http://blog.cleveland.com/sunmessenger/2011/11/south_euclid_council_president.html
OK. Welcome back. Let’s call bullshit on Garry’s post about "unfounded" allegations of racism. No one in went into a public forum and said the N-word. Even the anti-Oakwood people aren’t that stupid. But anyone who thinks there wasn’t a racist element to the anti-Oakwood group is blind, delusional, or in denial.
Click on this picture and read Rich Sones’ highlighted section here. It originally appeared on the Heights Observer blog but has been deleted. Cover-up, anyone?
When you have a candidate for city council office going to an anti-Oakwood meeting and saying he’s against Oakwood Commons because it will bring the “wrong element” to South Euclid, you don’t have to read between many lines to understand what he means. Especially when that same candidate has made it a personal hobby to be a pain in Dr. Miller’s ass. More so when that same candidate spat on a city worker after a shouting match. Even more so when his cronies at South Euclid Oversight post vandalized photos of Dr. Miller and Mayor Welo.
When you have anti-Oakwood people most of them not even from South Euclid, harassing yes on 96 people and telling them to go back to East Cleveland, that’s racism.
Just how many African-Americans in South Euclid or even Cleveland Heights opposed Issue 96? The only one I saw was in one of their silly videos.
You don’t have to spout the N-word to be a racist. There are people who will say “some of my best friends are black.” But they’ll lash out when their black “friends” get too “uppity.” And that’s exactly what happened with the anti-Oakwood crowd.
Miller may have a thin skin, and his language was rough. But his animosity for these peeps was justified.
http://blog.cleveland.com/sunmessenger/2011/11/south_euclid_council_president.html
OK. Welcome back. Let’s call bullshit on Garry’s post about "unfounded" allegations of racism. No one in went into a public forum and said the N-word. Even the anti-Oakwood people aren’t that stupid. But anyone who thinks there wasn’t a racist element to the anti-Oakwood group is blind, delusional, or in denial.
Click on this picture and read Rich Sones’ highlighted section here. It originally appeared on the Heights Observer blog but has been deleted. Cover-up, anyone?
When you have a candidate for city council office going to an anti-Oakwood meeting and saying he’s against Oakwood Commons because it will bring the “wrong element” to South Euclid, you don’t have to read between many lines to understand what he means. Especially when that same candidate has made it a personal hobby to be a pain in Dr. Miller’s ass. More so when that same candidate spat on a city worker after a shouting match. Even more so when his cronies at South Euclid Oversight post vandalized photos of Dr. Miller and Mayor Welo.
When you have anti-Oakwood people most of them not even from South Euclid, harassing yes on 96 people and telling them to go back to East Cleveland, that’s racism.
Just how many African-Americans in South Euclid or even Cleveland Heights opposed Issue 96? The only one I saw was in one of their silly videos.
You don’t have to spout the N-word to be a racist. There are people who will say “some of my best friends are black.” But they’ll lash out when their black “friends” get too “uppity.” And that’s exactly what happened with the anti-Oakwood crowd.
Miller may have a thin skin, and his language was rough. But his animosity for these peeps was justified.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Election Wrap-up
Well the election is over. In all my years in South Euclid I’ve never seen anything like it. And I’ve been here a loooooooong time.
Mayor Welo was reelected and it wasn’t even close. What’s amazing is she hardly even ran a campaign! She didn’t go to the candidate forum at Brush, just sent out a few mailers and knocked on some doors.
Miller and Fiorelli are back on council and Marty Gelfand is replacing Tony Caroscio. Hothead Joe Liptow and child abuser George Martin were at the end of the pack. I call Martin child abuser not “alleged” or “wrongly convicted” because court documents confirmed he at least beat his adopted son and an adopted daughter. South Euclid voters were wise to reject these two. Anyone who had these two losers’ signs on their lawn must be embarrassed as hell.
Oakwood Commons is coming and the speeding camera is going. Heightsters heads are exploding and leadfoots are rejoicing.I will continue to report on the speed camera location until it is officially retired.
I won’t even go into the statewide elections except to say that with the defeat of Issue 2 the Tea Party in Ohio has been shown the door.
Mayor Welo was reelected and it wasn’t even close. What’s amazing is she hardly even ran a campaign! She didn’t go to the candidate forum at Brush, just sent out a few mailers and knocked on some doors.
Miller and Fiorelli are back on council and Marty Gelfand is replacing Tony Caroscio. Hothead Joe Liptow and child abuser George Martin were at the end of the pack. I call Martin child abuser not “alleged” or “wrongly convicted” because court documents confirmed he at least beat his adopted son and an adopted daughter. South Euclid voters were wise to reject these two. Anyone who had these two losers’ signs on their lawn must be embarrassed as hell.
Oakwood Commons is coming and the speeding camera is going. Heightsters heads are exploding and leadfoots are rejoicing.
I won’t even go into the statewide elections except to say that with the defeat of Issue 2 the Tea Party in Ohio has been shown the door.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Speeding Camera update: 11/8 - 11-14
Tuesday – Wednesday: Maywood Rd
Thursday – Friday: Campus Rd
Friday – Tuesday: Wrenford Rd
Friday – Tuesday: Wrenford Rd
Monday, November 7, 2011
Anti-Oakwood Heightsters hold flash Mob
Anti-Oakwood RACISM exposed
The stain of racism has once again raised its ugly head among the anti-Oakwood creeps. Anti-Oakwood activist Bruce Knarr posted on the Yes 96 facebook page making allusions to people from East Cleveland, stating that we don't want THEM shopping here! This is part of a continuing pattern going back months. How many African-Americans are there among the anti-Oakwood set? The only one I've seen canvassing is an old woman with a Saturn station wagon.
Read my original post from March here: http://iheartsoutheuclid.blogspot.com/2011/03/heightsters-hidden-agenda-racism.html
Follow up: Rich Sones, the original anti-Oakwood racist, lives at the anti-Oakwood handquarters on Bainbridge in Cleveland Heights.
Read my original post from March here: http://iheartsoutheuclid.blogspot.com/2011/03/heightsters-hidden-agenda-racism.html
Follow up: Rich Sones, the original anti-Oakwood racist, lives at the anti-Oakwood handquarters on Bainbridge in Cleveland Heights.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Follow the money: a detailed look at No on 96 funding
I've sharpened my pencil and here are the numbers behind the No on 96 campaign.
No on 96 campaign contributions as of 10/27/2011:
$ 2,995.00 - Total contributions from Cleveland Heights residents
$ 1,495 – Total contributions from outside Cleveland Heights (broken down below)
$ 8,260.44 Total contributions from Severance SPE LeaseCO LLC (owner of Severance Town Center)
$ 25,000 Total contributions from Donald McTigue, Columbus based attorney for No on 96 and treasurer for Ohio Fact Check – a demonstrably phony front organization created by No on 96 campaign, and in no way related to the prestigious FactCheck.org run by the Annenberg Foundation.
Follow the money. This isn’t people power; this is the owner of Severance Center. Rather than making his own mall a safe and desirable place to shop, he’s trying to shoot down a developer with a better track record.
You can review scans No on 96's actual documents here:
http://iheartsoutheuclid.blogspot.com/2011/10/follow-money-documents-reveal-no-on-96.html
$ 1,495 – Total contributions from outside Cleveland Heights (broken down below)
- $ 695.00 - Total contributions from South Euclid residents ($500 of that from one person)
- $ 225.00 - Total contributions from Cleveland residents
- $ 250.00 - Total contributions from Shaker Heights residents
- $ 100.00 - Total contributions from Seven Hill residents
- $ 200.00 - from one Avon resident under Sierra Club name
- $ 25.00 - from one Euclid resident
Big money donations:
$ 25,000 Total contributions from Donald McTigue, Columbus based attorney for No on 96 and treasurer for Ohio Fact Check – a demonstrably phony front organization created by No on 96 campaign, and in no way related to the prestigious FactCheck.org run by the Annenberg Foundation.
http://iheartsoutheuclid.blogspot.com/2011/10/follow-money-documents-reveal-no-on-96.html
Speeding camera update: 11/1 -11/7
Tuesday - Thursday: Liberty Rd
Thursday - Friday: Plainfield Rd
Friday - Monday: Princeton Blvd
This will be the last speeding camera update until the election. Issue 97 is on the ballot which will determine the fate of speeding cameras in South Euclid. A No vote will retain the camera, a Yes vote will remove it. We take no position on this issue other than that you should vote your conscience.
Thursday - Friday: Plainfield Rd
Friday - Monday: Princeton Blvd
This will be the last speeding camera update until the election. Issue 97 is on the ballot which will determine the fate of speeding cameras in South Euclid. A No vote will retain the camera, a Yes vote will remove it. We take no position on this issue other than that you should vote your conscience.
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