Tt post aug 4, 2017

http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/213180/02Aug2017/Sarantou_Out

http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2017/08/04/Errors-cost-Toledo-chance-at-1-1M-grant-for-job-training-Administrator-demoted-to-water-department.html

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That's amazing. We joke about it, but unfortunately, it's not a joke in Toledo. I don't believe anything that the mayor said for this story. Sounds like lies to me. Who agrees to a drastic pay cut because the person is needed in another department?

Toledo’s onetime grant writer was demoted to the city’s water department with a substantial pay cut after a snafu that cost the city and the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority any chance of landing a $1.1 million grant to start a jobs training program.

... a former University of Toledo employee who was fired twice by the school ...

Her transfer to the Department of Public Utilities followed a series of blunders ...

Mayor Hicks-Hudson said Ms. Spurlock was moved because of “the need for stronger grant-writing skills” in the water department.

Spurlock was hired by Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson in January, 2016, as the city’s grants administrator for $67,000 a year. Officials could not reveal the salary for her water department job Thursday. It will be $30,286 to $40,381, according to the city’s salary schedule.

The mayor said the loss of the $1.1 million grant had nothing to do with the transfer and salary cut.

[Last year] Mayor Hicks-Hudson asked ex-Toledo Neighborhoods Director Tom Kroma to resign for his role in the loss of a different grant that was half of that amount.

[The mayor] would not comment on Mr. Kroma’s forced resignation compared with Ms. Spurlock’s transfer and demotion.

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second comment in same thread:

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"... I think she truly believes we're idiots ..."

In my opinion, all local politicians believe that they are the experts on every known subject, and the rest of us are morons.

Once again, refer to the guiding principles of government:

• First rule: Assume the citizenry are stupid.
• Second rule: Pass legislation to protect the citizenry from themselves.
• Third rule: Assume all citizens are criminals.
• Fourth rule: Create schemes to take money from the citizens.
• Fifth rule: Create lies to justify the actions.