If it's election time, it's Bob Smith time

IF THERE is another mayoral election in Akron, it means that Bob Smith is back in town. Smith has been tormenting the Plusquellic administration for too many years with fishing expeditions to embarrass the six-term mayor. Many of the Hudson businessman's requests have involved his demands for repeated deep searches into records by the city law department. They are costly and time consuming and have yet to yield whatever it is that Smith is trying to find.

I see that his name popped up again at a meeting of the Summit County Elections Board over an email that Smith sent to a Republican board member that was again fishing for any sort of damning information about the mayor's campaign finances. You may expect more of this from Smith right up to election day. z-z-z-z-z