Ed Morrison · Priceless

August 6th, 2009

Developer David Sadd:

“Citizen participation is automatic everywhere else in the country. We’re surprised we didn’t see that in this Cuyahoga process.”

Jay Ross, the county’s director of central services:

“We need to sit behind closed doors and make decisions to benefit taxpayers.”

(Like buying a $40 million building, useless to the County? I wonder if Mr. Ross is aware that he sounds like an goofball.)

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  1. Douglas Craver Says:
    August 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Only in the CLE. Unreal that no public or private leaders in Cleveland have spoken out against this corruption and mismanagement. What a bunch of spineless wimps!

  2. John Polk Says:
    August 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Surely he was taken out of context…The FULL context is, “See, we’ve learned from years of experience that if the public is permitted to participate in any way, they tend not to do what we want them to. So we do our business in secret, because it enables us to do what we know we must in order to serve them best. Because those foolish, foolish voters just really don’t know what’s good for them. And, hey…See what a great job we’ve been doing?…There’s….ummm…yeah, a lot of cool stuff we’re doing, but really, do you want to bother your pretty little head?…”

  3. Ed Morrison Says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 7:48 am

    The commissioners, by retreating so frequently to executive session, have undercut their own authority.

    In the process, They have converted the County into a no cost financing arm for real estate developers. The commentary of Mr. Ross underscores how distorted the County world view has become.

    My posting from China underscores that the political corruption in Lantian County in the Peoples Republic of China, a government controlled by the Communist Party, is not all that much different than the political corruption in Cuyahoga County, a government controlled by the Democratic Party. Both local governments use excessive secrecy to hide their collusion with powerful real estate interests.

    The Commissioners have converted Cuyahoga County into the Peoples Republic of Absurdistan.

  4. oengus Says:
    August 10th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    If you are evaluating land acquisitions it is really not in your best interest to publicize it. That’s really a matter of people getting in front of you and then holding the site. Damn if you do and damned if you do not, then it all evolved into everybody jumping into bed together.

    It was a very expensive site to choose, they choose it within a closed network, mutual back scratching and then got totally called on it, in a multiplicity of ways.

    Now what?

    It’s matter of getting things done that need to be done, not really easy is it? You may think you want their jobs until you have to fend off the relentless assaults.

    Now it’s a matter of the devil you know and then the devils you do not.

    The choice of selection now should be one of cost containment, but those on the other side will always disagree. Networking then to a point it becomes actually corruption, they did not think what they were doing was wrong? They saw it all as a win win within and never saw a loss to the public after all those types of losses are theoretical.

    Now the FBI is on a totally witch hunt, should all the newbie’s be investigated first? How many degrees of separation are there in this town? Everybody is complicit, its the voters fault.