The career politicians have to go.
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8/9/2008
I am orginally from this area and left and came back. The same old people who were in the political circuit 20 years ago, are the SAME people who are in it today. But they are NOT doing anything to improve the area. They are only using their political positions for personal gain (i.e., hiring their girlfriends brother when there is a freeze on city hiring because the city is in a financial crisis, we have a councilman trying to buy up the land where the extension of a state bike trail is going in, we have an inspector in the housing and health depts. who fail inspections on houses just to turn around and buy the property themselves, etc.) How many times does a political official have to be involved in a "purchasing scandal", caught hiring their "mother" for a P.I.C. job (the jobs they give economically disadvantaged teen agers), stopped by police for drunk driving, stopped by police in the middle of a drug buy at 3:45 in the morning, or abusing the city's towing service by having their car towed home at night because they're too drunk to drive? Not to mention, domestic violence against their wife that only the police chief is allowed to answer those calls and a city auditor who created a position for himself before he resigned so that he oversees a revolving loan program that should be under the community dev block grant dept. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The crazy thing about all this is WE the citizens sit back and complain, but do NOTHING about it. And if a resident speaks out or takes a stand, the city tries to "demonize them" and start defaming their character. Most citizens give in to any type of political pressure. I say Warren isn't that big and these officials don't have that much power. There are offices at the state and federal level we can report them to. But no one does. The residents just sit around and complain and do nothing. They don't even remember the offenses they committed while in office long enough to vote them out the next term. OR we have no one who will run against them because of "political deals" that are made behind closed doors. The Democratic party has ruled this area for 200 years and have not accomplished anything. But if you mention another party or reginalization or charter gov't, they act like children because they don't want their little illegal plans disturbed. It's time for change, and not just the type that a presidential candidate is stating. IT'S TIME FOR REAL CHANGE! Warren residents need to start reviewing the process of a charter so the residents can impeach, or do a resend vote if the bums don't do what they're suppose to do in office. We need a stronger political force in this city. People need to mass together and support a candidate and vote these "career politicans" out of office. Our mayor is only looking for a job so he can get his full pension because he's been a "momma's boy" all his life and his mother helped him get his first job at JJC. Since then, he's been nothing but a "political whore" and just made one empty promise after another and has NO vision for improving this area and that has been since he was a councilman, a commissioner and now mayor. So why are we still voting him back into any political office in this area? What's wrong with the democratic process in this area. It works for the rest of the country, why not Warren, Ohio? WAKE UP WARREN!
Bp | Warren, OH