Only a day before, the Beacon Journal reported that Susan Truby, Falls community development director, was appreciative of a $780,000 federal stimulus grant to buy and rehab six homes whose mortgages had been foreclosed., "This creates a great deal of of positive community relations in the neighborhood," she said. Cool. Even the name of Don L. Robart, Mayor, plainly appears on a yard sign in front of one of the homes hailing the program.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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I love the fact that Tea Partiers & Robart himself congregated at the Falls Riverfront Pavillion, which of course was built with uh, er... tax dollars.
Robart is a clown and a phony. He has used tax dollars and stimulus money for a number of his pet projects. Usually those that benefit his pals. A good number of said pals hold city jobs. His jogging buddy was John Widowfield. Remember him? The sad thing is the citizens of the Falls keep putting him back in office. No one even ran against him last election.
The onus is on the Democrats for being so politically ineffective in the Falls that they haven't put up a winning candidate in years - much like the Republicans in Akron. As has been demonstrated at times, even a weak opponent can be competitive against Robart. Apparently there are no Dems in the Falls who want that job badly enough. Oddly enough, that's how the mayor's buddy, Alex Arshinkoff, keeps his job as Republican county chairman. No other Republican wants the job if he or she has to work for it.
The Robarts are friends with Tea Partiers such as Summit County Council candidate and Akron Tea Party leader Amy Schwan. If she won't stand against the free-spending ways of Robart, does she actually embrace any of the principles she expounds upon? Or will Robart and Scwann simply counter, "Well Cuyahoga Falls deserved the money."
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