I have to say; the anger management classes have really paid off for me. I now can converse; even on Realneo, without gettin angry…life it is good.

http://realneo.us/content/alternative-statutory-form-county-government

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/06/eric_brewer_and_other_critics.html

And the pdf of the charter proposal for the reform:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/06/cuy%20co%20charter.pdf

I’m printing out the charter proposal to review, but I want to hear from some experts on this stuff – I do not consider that to have been fully explored yet and in part I think it’s because both the current system and the proposed are vulnerable to abuse.

Democrat officeholders in Cuyahoga County’s executive and legislative branches can and do take the votes of their Democrat base for granted.

If you really want to portray me this way, I can’t stop you. I can only point out that your portrayal doesn’t match up with reality.

For example, where in the world do you find the basis for this judgment, “You keep hoping for ways in which Democrats can iron out the problem internally.”

Huh?

I didn’t live here when Voinovich and Kucinich duked it out – I moved here in 1988.

Furthermore, you are fostering the partisanship but suggesting things like this which I believe has nothing to do with it – at least for me, and I can’t speak for anyone else:

“I think if Democrats never fear losing a Cuyahoga County election to Republicans, then Democrats will continue to behave like crooks, and they’ll be smarter next time to cover their tracks better so the FBI won’t sniff them out.”

I guess however that this was the argument that made the Dems so successful in 2006?

I didn’t see it that way but that’s just me.

So, yes, a scathing indictment of Cuyahoga County voters is in order. You wonder at my uber-partisan take on Cuyahoga County government, but I don’t think it’s uber-partisan at all. I think if Democrats never fear losing a Cuyahoga County election to Republicans, then Democrats will continue to behave like crooks, and they’ll be smarter next time to cover their tracks better so the FBI won’t sniff them out. The Dem officeholders that have an absolute lock on county government might fear having to answer to the FBI and the Federal District Court, but they never have to fear having to answer to the voters, and that’s what’s wrong.

My view is much less partisan than yours on this point. I have voted for Democrats in order to oust corrupt Republicans from office. You keep hoping for ways in which Democrats can iron out the problem internally. The problem in Cuyahoga County is so profoundly entrenched, however, that Democrats, alone, cannot purge the corruption. Like back in the day when George Voinovich replaced Dennis Kucinich as mayor of Cleveland, voters must roar like a lion, and show that their votes are not to be taken for granted. You balk at the prospect of voting for a Republican even given the depth of the corruption of the Democrats in power. That, to me, is uber-partisanship. But you are not alone. The crooked Dems in county office have been enabled by huge masses of uber-partisan Democrats. Time to put one’s foot down and cross party lines in county elections to demonstrate that the Democrats don’t deserve your vote.

I would have expected something a little less partisan from you on this – I for one have repeatedly written about my dislike for Dimora, Hagan and the retreadedness.

Given that the population change to red isn’t going to be happening anytime soon, I would dial back the rhetoric and blame a bit. But that would be my approach.

And among the minorities not represented in Cuyahoga County government are the Republicans. The reform I propose for county government is that voters wake up and realize the Democrat monopoly in county government is corrupt and must be voted out–replaced with GOP candidates, if that’s what it takes to clean house.