As good Plain Dealer reporters now attempt to unravel the widespread government, corporate and institutional corruption of the Establishment of Northeast Ohio, their Plain Dealer editors appear to be doped on opium and living in Oz, proclaiming "pay no attention to those men behind the curtain... vote for the wizardess... the PD endorses Sutherland for Cuyahoga County commissioner". Of course, the wizardess is no lady but in fact a squadron of rich old men, who have already loaded their balloons with $10s of millions in taxpayer money, given to them by the PD's cronies. Sound familiar?

Did you "Vote for Bush", as the PD editors endorsed four years ago, against the interests of all people of the world and the intelligence of their own, more enlightened staff (most of whom have probably been fired or taken retirement since then).

And will you say "Four More Years", as we may all anticipate the PD endorsement of McCain and Palin and all Republicans, regardless of poor qualification.

Will you say "more taxation without representation", as have Sutherland and the Plain Dealer Editors for the MedCon and other millionaire-entitlement programs, now costing taxpayers $10s millions a year.

Or will you say "Cuyahoga County is broke, because the PD's sacred establishment has raped us to death" as the PD has avoided confessing, while the FBI and IRS swirl around the editors' friends in high and rich places.

And will you say "cancel my subscription to the PD".

I have, and I absolutely intend to vote AGAINST the PD editors and for Peter Lawson Jones!

Please join me in driving change for our region by keeping in place the one good person who seems intelligent and honest enough to consistently vote for good government and the people, against the establishment, while certainly realizing that is against the interests of the PD's funders and so may be political suicide.

I don't know Peter Lawson Jones, personally, but I have always been impressed by his commitment to making Northeast Ohio a better community, including to eradicate lead poisoning in Northeast Ohio. He is inspirational to me, and certainly to many others here who have observed his good and intelligent efforts to better this region, so screwed-up under the watch and direction of PD Editors and sprawl leaders like Sutherland, and her supporters. Over the past few years, Lawson Jones has been against corrupt establishment projects like the untrustworthy Ameritrust scam and MedCon taxation without representation, that were endorsed by the PD editors for their funders and have taken our county into insolvency.

In this case, a vote for incumbent Lawson Jones is a vote AGAINST FOUR MORE YEARS OF CORRUPTION, as truly corrupt leaders are beginning to fall, on their way to prison, so Peter is now in a position to lead the region out of our dispicable condition of poor leadership by nearly everyone but Lawson Jones.

From the City Club website promoting a pitch by Sutherland in support of the Establishment of regionalism, realize Sutherland has one unimpressive educational achievement... "A Bay Village native, Sutherland has a B.A. in fashion merchandising from Bowling Green State University and is currently working on her Masters in Public Administration at CSU’s Levin College of Urban Affairs." Do those credentials sound familiar. From a recent Scene article on Lawson Jones we learn "In 1975, he went to Harvard to major in government. After graduating, he took a year off from school to work for the Carter-Mondale campaign, then entered Harvard Law. Juris doctorate in hand, he returned to Shaker and within a year was running for city council." While certainly many evil people go through Harvard, Lawson Jones' record leading this region has shown he is the opposite of evil, seeming almost too good to believe.

What the PD has found to report bad about Lawson Jones is he used a driver to help him perform his county commissioner duties fighting corruption. And, as the PD is on the take on the MedCon, they write "When the commissioners showed some political courage by enacting a small sales tax increase to help fund a convention center and Medical Mart, Jones voted "no."

I love that line... "a small sales tax increase". That would be the $10s millions waiting for payment to local and out-of-state millionaires to make them richer, making NEO poorer... for a Con.

That would be the same MedCon the PD co-created and now being investigated by the FBI... originally endorsed by Sutherland but now not... I believe... depending on what directions the winds of power flip-or-flop her today.

Even after reading the PD editorial supporting Sutherland, it is hard to imagine a more uninspiring endorsement... "Sutherland's campaign has been less
than impressive, and she tends to overstate Jones' failures as commissioner. Still, she is the better choice in this race and should be elected."

They proclaim all this, and endorse Sutherland, before the two debates between the candidates that may actually surface their intellectual capabilities and social agendas. That is shameful and probably the most important reason to vote against the PD, their Establishment, and their champion Sutherland.

Without public debate or honest vetting, the PD editors and the Establishment have already made up their minds who should lead your county for the next four years... anyone but an urban Democrat. It is safe to say they have not been honest about this election and will not be covering any of the truths of this election for the real people of NEO. I intend to cover the debates for REALNEO, and I hope all of you will join me.

Your first opportunity to bring honest, intelligent analysis to this absurd situation is tomorrow, at the Candidate Debate for Cuyahoga County Commissioner, September 9, 2008, 6:30 PM, at Euclid Public Library, 631 East 222nd Street, Euclid, Ohio 44123, (216) 261-5300.

I hope to see you there.