Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 01:53.
It amazes me how Mr. James Rokakis dares to have room to attempt to insult the citizens that demand transparency at 3am in the morning....because they "have no life" in his opinion....How truly disrespectful, contemptuous, and transparent of his indignant status as a public representative over the last 40 years.... Are you really trying to tell me that he has been an innocent participant in a corrupt regime over the last 40 years????
Look, he just had the foresight to lobby to initiate the LANDBANK STATUTES in the State of Ohio in preparation for his 2nd career as a Not For Profit Administrator reinventing the entire wheel of the REAL ESTATE INVESTING INDUSTRY with huge government kickbacks, grants, and gravy contracts in the Land Bank. He is far from stupid....he used the entire real estate market, housing industry, and political position to put himself into a huge power position in collaboration with all those 2020 Master Plans for the City and County......
Hey Mr. Rokakis-----the crazy citizens of northeast Ohio with "no life" have EVERY RIGHT to challenge your plans, your execution, and your actions...you are a public servant---even now in the NFP/NGO world... Your paycheck comes from taxpayer dollars----DO NOT FORGET THAT!!!! They have EVERY RIGHT under the constitution to challenge your COLLUSIVE, CONDENSCENDING, CORRUPT actions that violate their lives. Every decision you have made has not been on the up and up---and every decision has not resulted in a better community---so don't dare stand on your pedastal and think you are BETTER THAN ANYONE.... You are a jerk who used the citizens of this community to your own benefit. Why weren't you standing up against the other indicted folks through all those years of abusive practices? Huh????? Dahhhhhh????? Do you think the public is that ignorant and undeserving of questioning your behind in forums, in blogs, and or directly?
Your actions at large contributed to the ultimate demise of our neighborhoods, of our communities, and of our city; and then our county. You are a joke who pretends to be squeeky clean while your cohorts took all the citizens of NEO for a ride on their gravy train of inflated appraisals, inflated fiscal budgets, and inflated egos..... You are no different than anyone. Most significantly---your demeanor in this forum is the ultimate reflection of your abusive attitude towards the people who gave you all that power!!!
I hope you found time at 3am to read this blog you weasel. May God Bless You with the same wrath you portrayed upon your constituents.... and may you find that your lack of humility, lack of humble respect, and your genuinely rude nature are all reflections of your own ugliness.... You are just too lucky that your connections are up there in that Federal District Court and that your connections are helping to protect your sorry ass from the same prosecution as the rest of your "Buddies!"
BTW....you are NO BETTER THAN RUSSO & DIMORA and the rest of the mother flower corrupt folks who are being filtered out of our local government. Go home and retire and live a long life reflecting on your tragic existence! Drive through the neighborhoods you helped annihilate and tell the families of the people you helped abuse just how sorry you are for failing them. Your work has been implosive to our community....and to think you are now trying to be acclaimed nationally for this "Land Bank" idea??????
Seriously???? You helped devour industries! You helped to drive away jobs! You helped to drive out small businesses. You helped to violate citizens with the entire community development block grant industry and cdc's. You played all these years and you drove the City Housing court Industry... now you are driving the Land Bank industry and when people question the unethical practices of overpaid administrators to include yourself---you attempt to insult them and RETALIATE with your powers that be?????? Seriously???
PLEASE HELP ME STOP LAUGHING AT YOUR TRANSPARENT ATTEMPTS TO HIDE THE TRUTH BY MALICIOUSLY INSULTING THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY..... IT'S FUN TO WATCH YOU LOSE YOUR COOL AND VERBALLY ATTACK THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE TO QUESTION YOUR ACTIONS WHICH ARE SUPPORTED BY THIER TAX DOLLARS! I JUST HOPE THE CITIZENS DON'T GET TIRED OF INTERROGATING YOU AND YOUR HISTORY.... DARN-IT'S ONLY CLOSE TO 1AM...NOT 3AM THIS TIME.... SMILES............
BTW----I AM WELL AWARE OF YOUR UNDERHANDED TOUCH ON THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S LIVES....KEEP MESSING WITH THE LITTLE PEOPLE.....YOUR ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW MR. JAMES ROK
Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 18:59.(originally published date)
Thank you Councilman (Brian) Cummins for saving the house across the street from your home from senseless destruction. Thank you for reacting when you saw the bulldozer and crane pull up to tear down a PERFECTLY sound home (no violations) slated for demolition (without a condemnation).
Thank you for what ever you did to pry the property out of the Land Bank--it's a shame that it was already stripped by the demolition crew given the contract to demo the place (it was NOT on the City of Cleveland demo list). But, thank you--for lining up a decent family-owned CLE based company to restore and rent/sell the home in our neighborhood.
Don't you think it is time you blew the whistle on the "Land Bank?" How many homes can you run out and save? We know that Chestnutdale and Delmar are slated for demos...so, what's the "PLAN"?
The land bank, which is funded largely by federal grants and by penalties and interest on unpaid real estate taxes, receives about 110 properties a month. It has demolished more than 1,400 houses since its inception and expects to raze 1,000 more this year, thanks to an $8 million infusion from a nationwide settlement with mortgage lenders, earmarked for demolition in the aftermath of the foreclosure epidemic.
On page nine of that document it budgets $1,000 per year maintenance cost for houses that are vacant and waiting for demolition. It budgets $3,000 per year maintenance for houses that are vacant and awaiting rehabilitation. These numbers are a far cry from the $27,000 per year shown in the Gaylord/Cleveland City Council report.
I am unable to exactly duplicate the report's totals because some of their assumptions are unclear but I am able to come close. Using the same model and substituting $1,000 per year for the report's $27,000 per year, the report's $4.5 billion projected cost drops to about $265 million.
This is still a substantial amount of money. Several commentators have questioned the $27,000 figure and I'm disappointed that this newspaper didn't question it before featuring it on the front page.
Leila Atassi: Please respond to this comment so I know you read it.
What a load of crap that "special report" has put out. $75 a day per house per day -- to do what? “The report’s $4.5 billion projection is based on the city’s estimate that sustaining a vacant house costs an average of $75 a day. That amounts to about $27,000 a year and $540,000 over two decades per house.” I think we should look more closely at how much we paid for that report. Talk about "new math." I would choose a different four letter word for it!
If the Cleveland police would start protecting houses from the local vandals, then property owners wouldn't have to start renovation projects 2 and 3 times having had their materials stolen and the interior of the houses destroyed. What really happens is that a buyer purchases a nice little house that needs a bunch of work but not so much that doing that work would make it totally unprofitable for her. After all, would YOU want to take your hard earned money and dump it down some sinkhole all in an effort to provide a nice, newly renovated home for a Cleveland family? Heck no! Well neither do investors, most of whom are fellow Ohioans and Cleveland residents themselves. But with theft and huge taxes it becomes impossible and unfeasible to repair that house without losing lots of money. You try anyway, but eventually you have been beaten up too much and you’re FORCED to walk away from your dream of creating a new home for someone, something you can be proud of. Then city officials come along and as always they try to dump the blame on the mysterious out of state Evil Investor (which are in the minority) for causing this problem. Don't be fooled: Here's what has been causing the problem: Your taxes are too darn high and your crime is high and your leadership has been weak for decades -- that's why you've got these problems! Threatening to put people in jail is the dumbest idea I've ever heard and will never solve your problem, "judge" Pianta. And painting investors as evil avoids who is really to blame, thus never solving the problem.
By hiking the numbers on this consultant’s report, you give local and state officials a pass for fixing the problem. Can you imagine that it costs you $540,000 over two decades to take care of your own house? Then why should you think it takes that much money for these other houses? Stop and use your mind, reporter! Ask questions – that’s what you’re there for. And get real, Cleveland. You need someone like Rudy Giuliani who came in and cleaned up New York City (a much bigger mess at the time than you have) not by making things harder and chasing well-meaning investors away, but by working with everyone involved to get the job done. That should be your goal. Doing the same things again and again don’t work – they’re the sign of an insane city run amok.
Thank you for your comment, rovingbroker. Your instincts are correct. City officials are now saying that the $4.5 billion figure includes costs such as lost tax revenue -- even though the published report specifically excludes those costs from its calculation. I'm working on a follow-up story right now. Look for it in tomorrow's Plain Dealer and online.
-Leila
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:08.
and make them open to the public for purchase and rehab.....revitalize the real estate investors community of Greater Cleveland and stop abusing the public at large with this mass land grab and abusive practices with not for profit funding allocations that only pay for old guard politicians....
put these properties back on the shopping block for public participation at large!!!!
Some astute media folk realize that this has been the rise of a Winner take all mentality--land bank legislation allows the richest of the rich to write off debt:
The first episode of "Moyers & Company", originally broadcast on Friday, January 13, 2012. Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered
The Cleveland Area Board of Realtors (CABOR) is in support of House Bill 390, which will help protect vacant homes in communities across Cuyahoga County and the entire State of Ohio.
If signed into law, H.B. 390 would prohibit scrap metal dealers from purchasing or receiving copper plumbing pipe from any person other than a licensed plumber.
University Circle Inc. is giving the companies a year to secure tenants and funding. Rubin said the developers will contribute $30 million to the deal, while seeking out public and private financing. It's likely that Intesa would require tax-increment financing, an arrangement that uses anticipated growth in property-tax revenues from a project to pay for construction.
Brooklyn Centre has seen its share of this "development" funded by Tax Incremental Financing...
Metrohealth figures into the equation taxpayers < developers.
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The_Puppeteer March 06, 2012 at 10:48AM
Here is key passage to understand why this might happen:
"University Circle Inc. is giving the companies a year to secure tenants and funding. Rubin said the developers will contribute $30 million to the deal, while seeking out public and private financing. It's likely that Intesa would require tax-increment financing, an arrangement that uses anticipated growth in property-tax revenues from a project to pay for construction."
Of course, read between the lines and you see that it is the taxpayer that is primarily on the hook for the risk of this development. Public financing is the responsibility of taxpayer and "tax increment financing" is another way to say that the building will pay no property tax and use to the money to pay the debt that will be used to build. Seems like the developers will have around $30 million of their capital at risk and no doubt have the least risk of all as they will get paid first and everyone else behind them.
As to costs, public must pay for another RTA station in a city with declining population.
This is another Field of Dreams develoopment: build it and they will come. Where exactly are all these new jobs and people going to come from? Most likely from other parts of the city. Cleveland/Ohio are not attractive places to start a business.
This is great news as long as the public is not the one taking the majority of the risk. This being Cleveland, you can bet that the public IS the one taking all the risks while developer takes minimal risk. This is the Cleveland way: build and they WILL NOT COME. See Gateway, Browns stadium, soon to be complete Covention Center, etc.
The first episode of "Moyers & Company", originally broadcast on Friday, January 13, 2012. Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered
More sick propaganda out of WKYC (the folks who sold voters on school levy)- this time priming "black" voters to support Jim Rokakis in his bid for County Executive as some savior of the inner city. Disgusting:
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Truly Appreciative.....for an attempted insult by James Rokakis
It amazes me how Mr. James Rokakis dares to have room to attempt to insult the citizens that demand transparency at 3am in the morning....because they "have no life" in his opinion....How truly disrespectful, contemptuous, and transparent of his indignant status as a public representative over the last 40 years.... Are you really trying to tell me that he has been an innocent participant in a corrupt regime over the last 40 years????
Look, he just had the foresight to lobby to initiate the LANDBANK STATUTES in the State of Ohio in preparation for his 2nd career as a Not For Profit Administrator reinventing the entire wheel of the REAL ESTATE INVESTING INDUSTRY with huge government kickbacks, grants, and gravy contracts in the Land Bank. He is far from stupid....he used the entire real estate market, housing industry, and political position to put himself into a huge power position in collaboration with all those 2020 Master Plans for the City and County......
Hey Mr. Rokakis-----the crazy citizens of northeast Ohio with "no life" have EVERY RIGHT to challenge your plans, your execution, and your actions...you are a public servant---even now in the NFP/NGO world... Your paycheck comes from taxpayer dollars----DO NOT FORGET THAT!!!! They have EVERY RIGHT under the constitution to challenge your COLLUSIVE, CONDENSCENDING, CORRUPT actions that violate their lives. Every decision you have made has not been on the up and up---and every decision has not resulted in a better community---so don't dare stand on your pedastal and think you are BETTER THAN ANYONE.... You are a jerk who used the citizens of this community to your own benefit. Why weren't you standing up against the other indicted folks through all those years of abusive practices? Huh????? Dahhhhhh????? Do you think the public is that ignorant and undeserving of questioning your behind in forums, in blogs, and or directly?
Your actions at large contributed to the ultimate demise of our neighborhoods, of our communities, and of our city; and then our county. You are a joke who pretends to be squeeky clean while your cohorts took all the citizens of NEO for a ride on their gravy train of inflated appraisals, inflated fiscal budgets, and inflated egos..... You are no different than anyone. Most significantly---your demeanor in this forum is the ultimate reflection of your abusive attitude towards the people who gave you all that power!!!
I hope you found time at 3am to read this blog you weasel. May God Bless You with the same wrath you portrayed upon your constituents.... and may you find that your lack of humility, lack of humble respect, and your genuinely rude nature are all reflections of your own ugliness.... You are just too lucky that your connections are up there in that Federal District Court and that your connections are helping to protect your sorry ass from the same prosecution as the rest of your "Buddies!"
BTW....you are NO BETTER THAN RUSSO & DIMORA and the rest of the mother flower corrupt folks who are being filtered out of our local government. Go home and retire and live a long life reflecting on your tragic existence! Drive through the neighborhoods you helped annihilate and tell the families of the people you helped abuse just how sorry you are for failing them. Your work has been implosive to our community....and to think you are now trying to be acclaimed nationally for this "Land Bank" idea??????
Seriously???? You helped devour industries! You helped to drive away jobs! You helped to drive out small businesses. You helped to violate citizens with the entire community development block grant industry and cdc's. You played all these years and you drove the City Housing court Industry... now you are driving the Land Bank industry and when people question the unethical practices of overpaid administrators to include yourself---you attempt to insult them and RETALIATE with your powers that be?????? Seriously???
PLEASE HELP ME STOP LAUGHING AT YOUR TRANSPARENT ATTEMPTS TO HIDE THE TRUTH BY MALICIOUSLY INSULTING THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY..... IT'S FUN TO WATCH YOU LOSE YOUR COOL AND VERBALLY ATTACK THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE TO QUESTION YOUR ACTIONS WHICH ARE SUPPORTED BY THIER TAX DOLLARS! I JUST HOPE THE CITIZENS DON'T GET TIRED OF INTERROGATING YOU AND YOUR HISTORY.... DARN-IT'S ONLY CLOSE TO 1AM...NOT 3AM THIS TIME.... SMILES............
BTW----I AM WELL AWARE OF YOUR UNDERHANDED TOUCH ON THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S LIVES....KEEP MESSING WITH THE LITTLE PEOPLE.....YOUR ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW MR. JAMES ROK
Always Appreciative, "ANGELnWard14"
Thank you Councilman Cummins vs Land Bank
Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 18:59.(originally published date)
Thank you Councilman (Brian) Cummins for saving the house across the street from your home from senseless destruction. Thank you for reacting when you saw the bulldozer and crane pull up to tear down a PERFECTLY sound home (no violations) slated for demolition (without a condemnation).
Thank you for what ever you did to pry the property out of the Land Bank--it's a shame that it was already stripped by the demolition crew given the contract to demo the place (it was NOT on the City of Cleveland demo list). But, thank you--for lining up a decent family-owned CLE based company to restore and rent/sell the home in our neighborhood.
Don't you think it is time you blew the whistle on the "Land Bank?" How many homes can you run out and save? We know that Chestnutdale and Delmar are slated for demos...so, what's the "PLAN"?
(You can dress up the mob...but it is still the MOB)
More of the cover up by the PD here:
The land bank, which is funded largely by federal grants and by penalties and interest on unpaid real estate taxes, receives about 110 properties a month. It has demolished more than 1,400 houses since its inception and expects to raze 1,000 more this year, thanks to an $8 million infusion from a nationwide settlement with mortgage lenders, earmarked for demolition in the aftermath of the foreclosure epidemic.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/02/what_to_do_with_vacant_...
See earlier story
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/clevelands_glut_of_vaca...
4.5 Billion dollars and counting...into the pocket of mobsters...
http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/media/document...
(very large pdf)
In the "Sourcing Documents" at the end it lists the Cuyahoga Land Bank Budget Resolution which is available here...
http://cuyahogalandbank.org/documents/organization...
On page nine of that document it budgets $1,000 per year maintenance cost for houses that are vacant and waiting for demolition. It budgets $3,000 per year maintenance for houses that are vacant and awaiting rehabilitation. These numbers are a far cry from the $27,000 per year shown in the Gaylord/Cleveland City Council report.
I am unable to exactly duplicate the report's totals because some of their assumptions are unclear but I am able to come close. Using the same model and substituting $1,000 per year for the report's $27,000 per year, the report's $4.5 billion projected cost drops to about $265 million.
This is still a substantial amount of money. Several commentators have questioned the $27,000 figure and I'm disappointed that this newspaper didn't question it before featuring it on the front page.
Leila Atassi: Please respond to this comment so I know you read it.
If the Cleveland police would start protecting houses from the local vandals, then property owners wouldn't have to start renovation projects 2 and 3 times having had their materials stolen and the interior of the houses destroyed. What really happens is that a buyer purchases a nice little house that needs a bunch of work but not so much that doing that work would make it totally unprofitable for her. After all, would YOU want to take your hard earned money and dump it down some sinkhole all in an effort to provide a nice, newly renovated home for a Cleveland family? Heck no! Well neither do investors, most of whom are fellow Ohioans and Cleveland residents themselves. But with theft and huge taxes it becomes impossible and unfeasible to repair that house without losing lots of money. You try anyway, but eventually you have been beaten up too much and you’re FORCED to walk away from your dream of creating a new home for someone, something you can be proud of. Then city officials come along and as always they try to dump the blame on the mysterious out of state Evil Investor (which are in the minority) for causing this problem. Don't be fooled: Here's what has been causing the problem: Your taxes are too darn high and your crime is high and your leadership has been weak for decades -- that's why you've got these problems! Threatening to put people in jail is the dumbest idea I've ever heard and will never solve your problem, "judge" Pianta. And painting investors as evil avoids who is really to blame, thus never solving the problem.
By hiking the numbers on this consultant’s report, you give local and state officials a pass for fixing the problem. Can you imagine that it costs you $540,000 over two decades to take care of your own house? Then why should you think it takes that much money for these other houses? Stop and use your mind, reporter! Ask questions – that’s what you’re there for. And get real, Cleveland. You need someone like Rudy Giuliani who came in and cleaned up New York City (a much bigger mess at the time than you have) not by making things harder and chasing well-meaning investors away, but by working with everyone involved to get the job done. That should be your goal. Doing the same things again and again don’t work – they’re the sign of an insane city run amok.
Ohioans should be smarter than this!
Leila Atassi, The Plain Dealer
Thank you for your comment, rovingbroker. Your instincts are correct. City officials are now saying that the $4.5 billion figure includes costs such as lost tax revenue -- even though the published report specifically excludes those costs from its calculation. I'm working on a follow-up story right now. Look for it in tomorrow's Plain Dealer and online.
-Leila
Naseous--Townhall...
Happened to catch a few minutes of this before I had to turn it off...
http://www.newsnet5.com/generic/news/local_news/better_neighborhoods/bui...
WEWS-- don't add to the camouflage...real solution?!
http://realneo.us/content/gus-frangos-president-and-general-counsel-cuya...
http://realneo.us/content/vacant-property-solutions
See below:
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LIST THE LANDBANK PROPERTIES WITH A REALTOR...
and make them open to the public for purchase and rehab.....revitalize the real estate investors community of Greater Cleveland and stop abusing the public at large with this mass land grab and abusive practices with not for profit funding allocations that only pay for old guard politicians....
put these properties back on the shopping block for public participation at large!!!!
Always Appreciative, "ANGELnWard14"
Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
http://realneo.us/content/writing-debt
CABOR only NOW gets it...?
If signed into law, H.B. 390 would prohibit scrap metal dealers from purchasing or receiving copper plumbing pipe from any person other than a licensed plumber.
http://www.cleveland.com/pdrealestate/plaindealer/index.ssf/2012/03/cabo...
Rubin and Panzica
See how these "developers" use public monies--your $$$-- to make money...
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/03/university_circle_co...
University Circle Inc. is giving the companies a year to secure tenants and funding. Rubin said the developers will contribute $30 million to the deal, while seeking out public and private financing. It's likely that Intesa would require tax-increment financing, an arrangement that uses anticipated growth in property-tax revenues from a project to pay for construction.
Brooklyn Centre has seen its share of this "development" funded by Tax Incremental Financing...
Metrohealth figures into the equation taxpayers < developers.
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Here is key passage to understand why this might happen:
"University Circle Inc. is giving the companies a year to secure tenants and funding. Rubin said the developers will contribute $30 million to the deal, while seeking out public and private financing. It's likely that Intesa would require tax-increment financing, an arrangement that uses anticipated growth in property-tax revenues from a project to pay for construction."
Of course, read between the lines and you see that it is the taxpayer that is primarily on the hook for the risk of this development. Public financing is the responsibility of taxpayer and "tax increment financing" is another way to say that the building will pay no property tax and use to the money to pay the debt that will be used to build. Seems like the developers will have around $30 million of their capital at risk and no doubt have the least risk of all as they will get paid first and everyone else behind them.
As to costs, public must pay for another RTA station in a city with declining population.
This is another Field of Dreams develoopment: build it and they will come. Where exactly are all these new jobs and people going to come from? Most likely from other parts of the city. Cleveland/Ohio are not attractive places to start a business.
This is great news as long as the public is not the one taking the majority of the risk. This being Cleveland, you can bet that the public IS the one taking all the risks while developer takes minimal risk. This is the Cleveland way: build and they WILL NOT COME. See Gateway, Browns stadium, soon to be complete Covention Center, etc.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.cleveland.com/countyincrisis/index.ssf/2011/10/jimmy_dimora_a...
http://www.cleveland.com/countyincrisis/index.ssf/2011/10/sabra_pierce_s...
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Over here in the forgotten trapezoid...we still don't know how the Steelyard TIF monies will be divied up.... and so it goes...
DEMOS, ALEC and Land Bank legislation
The question is why the deliberate crafting of legislation to keep the Land Banks in Ohio from being under the control of voters? "A CLRC is created pursuant to the provisions of R.C. 1724 and is, in effect, a different class of Community Improvement Corporation (CIC); the legal status and rules that govern CLRCs and CICs are largely the same. The CLRC functions as a typical non-profit corporation and is organized as an independent legal entity separate and apart from the local government. The CLRC is also subject to the requirements of R.C. 1701, the chapter that governs non-profits." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wow--no surprise. Land Bank legislation was introduced by ALEC-Senator William Seitz. See the Bill Moyers special.
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2012/9/27/the_united_states_of_alec_bill
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/analysis.cfm?ID=127_SB_353&ACT=As%20Enrolled&hf=analyses127/s0353-rs-127.htm
Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
http://realneo.us/content/writing-debt
And, this, of course, means NOT paying taxes.
Does the FBI care about these violations?
Ongoing saga...reported repetitively and found to be destructive to our community at large.
Always Appreciative, "ANGELnWard14"
East Cleveland A-bomb by Rokakis
More sick propaganda out of WKYC (the folks who sold voters on school levy)- this time priming "black" voters to support Jim Rokakis in his bid for County Executive as some savior of the inner city. Disgusting:
http://www.wkyc.com/video/2319606153001/1/East-Cleveland-Demolition-dollars-could-spur-development
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/12/3_democrats_to_watch_for_cuyah.html
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/04/as_ed_fitzgerald_eyes_bid_for.html