tt post fri mar 18 2016

in thread:
http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/200781/Molsonator_Supports_25_percent_Toledo_Income_Tax

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Maybe Burris and his good friend EconCat88 held their "coffee summit":http://www.toledoblade.com/Keith-Burris/2013/11/26/EconCat88-come-in-out-from-the-cold.html after all. This is some negative-ass stuff, spewed by Burris. I wish Burris would be less realistic and more phony-positive, even though that would mean sacrificing intelligence.

Burris:

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The mayor’s slogan — that she wants Toledo to be “a city of the 21st century” — is just that: a slogan. *And a lame one at that.*

... the announcement of the *seven monitors* who would guard the incoming new tax money for streets (had it been approved) *was a doozy.* The seven seemed to be selected on the basis that they would either not have the time or not have the inclination to ask any tough question. 

Seven seers? *Seven blind mice, more like it.* Nice folks, all of them, but with no clear mission or legal authority. *This was a bad joke intended as a slick maneuver.* --[preach it, brother]-- 

*Insulting to the citizens,* city council, and, actually, the mayor and her staff. THEY are supposed to be the junkyard dogs guarding our tax dollars.

... hire a managerial consultant, with experience in other cities — one from outside of this city. His job would be to work for the next two years with the mayor on reorganizing city government, *eliminating cronyism* and featherbedding, and, generally, to *tell the mayor the truth,* not what she wants to hear. 

*I don’t think the public is going to give the city any more money until there is evidence of change* — some sort of reform and some attempt to set policy goals and actually manage city government.

*And I don’t think it should.*
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Great day in the morning. If Burris keeps writing like that, he will lose his top ranking for "Best Print Journalist in Toledo":http://www.toledocitypaper.com/Best-of-Toledo-2015/Toledo-Life/#BestOF to last year's runner-up  Jeremy B.

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