I'm not going to get into a "point by point" discussion about the merits of Zanotti, Mason and Akers' bad reform plan because it's a bad reform plan in its entirety. Voters shouldn't even bother to sign the petition.
Zanotti, Mason and Akers can offer any anecdotal "after the fact" comments they want, atempt to drag the discussion into the mud and resort to name calling. I'm very accustomed to the name calling tactics people with miniature intellects use to try and distract the public away from the real issues. Former East Cleveland Emmanuel Onunwor used the same name calling tactics after I reported him to authorities. But a close examination of the "manifesto" Zanotti, Akers and Mason created and now have to defend will reveal that these so-called brilliant political strategists are not equally brilliant thinkers or students of government. They're political hacks who've come together to figure out how to carve up the county's jobs and contracts for their own benefit and for the benefit of their benefactors and friends. Zanotti, Mason and Akers' very bad reform plan smells like an organized crime takeover of Cuyahoga County and the schemers have now been exposed.
I won't even address Plain Dealer editorial page Editor Elizabeth Sullivan's ignorant comments about the reform plan not being finalized. The reform plan is finished and there will be no additional tweaking as she falsely claimed. The language for the completed reform plan is required by sections 3.02 to 3.24 of the Ohio Revised Code to be placed, in its entirety, on a petition. If the committee gets enough signatures the plan goes before the voters as is. There is no re-tweaking. If Sullivan had contacted the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections at 443-3200 she could have learned this information before she exposed her lack of knowledge.
It's unfortunate that the Plain Dealer promotes staff who don't do their homework and who have to later defend their own misrepresentations of fact. Sullivan had a duty to read the reform plan before the Plain Dealer's editorial writers shared their "pro reform" views with the newspaper's readers. If I were her boss she'd be issued a strong written reprimand and suspended for negligence and dereliction of "editorial" responsibility. Her misrepresentation of fact speaks to the heart of the Plain Dealer's credibility gap.
A copy of Mr. Young's letter will be faxed to 999-6366 in your name. Please do not mischaracterize anything I have written in this communication. I expect any story in which comments are attributed to me not to be misrepresented in any way.
Mayor Brewer
