CHRIS KENNEDY FACILITATES TOTAL COLLAPSE OF CLEVELAND AND CUYAHOGA COUNTY

Of all the possible investments that are needed here in Northeast Ohio’s Cuyahoga County and in Cleveland,  the County Commissioners have chosen – in secret meetings and without the vote of the public – to spend over $900,000,000.00 (even more for a possible 60 year contract) in a scheme whose only acknowledged public benefit is amorphous “trickle down”.   

 Mr. Chris Kennedy - head of Chicago's Merchandise Mart - (photo taken July 19, 2007 at Cleveland Public Library) , I’m sure was beat up pretty bad by Fred the Fixer Nance and Jimmy Dimora and the rest of the high powered County negotiating staff over the last few weeks of intense secret negotiations which sometimes went on all night.  And I’ll bet that because of the grueling negotiations  Mr. Kennedy looks a lot older today than he did last summer.   

The upside of this secretly negotiated deal (if it goes through) is that the County’s total economic demise will be expedited.  That’s a positive development.

 Only with the complete bankruptcy of this county – or the intervention of the federal government -  might it become possible for us to see that going the way of the Browns’ Stadium, The Gateway Deal, and now the MED CON is a dead end. 

You can try to change your government but that’s not easy here in NEO.   The machine is entrenched.   Or you can move out of Cuyahoga County.  Moving is another way to cast your vote. 

That’s what sensible people have been doing over the last decades and at an accelerated rate over the last few years.   Moving away.  The first people who moved were able to sell their houses at a decent market rate.   Now those of us who are left are actually trapped, aren’t we? 

But Mr. Hagan, Mr. Dimora, Mr. Jones, Mr. Roman, and the Dirty Dealer don’t seem to recognize that they are killing themselves as they kill the region.  Maybe the individuals will retire and leave, but what about the Dirty Dealer?  That rag is actually taking a position in issue after issue which diminishes reasonable public services and thus drives more people out of Cuyahoga.   Less circulation, lower ad revenues, and round and round.  The DD doesn't get it. 

One possible way we'll be saved from the MEDCON?  The County probably won’t be able to get the bonding for their nightmare.