Deters da man -- maybe
Hamilton County’s top law enforcement official will lead the official campaign to increase the Hamilton County sales tax to pay for a jail, Commissioner Phil Heimlich said Wednesday.
Prosecutor Joe Deters will be the campaign chairman, Heimlich said, “because he is the most knowledgeable about law enforcement.”
But Deters, through a spokeswoman, said he wouldn’t comment until the proposal is placed on the ballot and a campaign committee is formed to promote it.
Heimlich’s statement came after Commissioner Todd Portune complained in a Wednesday e-mail that any sales tax increase proposal would be the proposal of the Hamilton County Commissioners and thus a matter of public record.
That e-mail -- sent to Deters, Heimlich, Commissioner Pat DeWine, County Administrator Patrick Thompson and Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Barnett – sought information on the campaign.
Heimlich has joined with Sheriff Simon Leis Jr and Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner Jr. to support increasing Hamilton County’s 6.5 percent sales tax by a quarter-cent for 20 years to pay for a new jail and property tax rollback. Public hearings are being held on how to fund a jail.
Commissioners have until Aug. 24 to place a sales-tax increase proposal on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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Post a Comment*Just don't give the money to jaywalking joe to manage. He'll get his buddy, Noe, to invest in so rare of coins they can't be found, anywhere.
Or he'll open a string of Laundromats:
Make a Concealed Contribution !!!
Classic !!
Does this mean Deters won't be able to
communicate with Phil using Phil's usual private e-mail account which he uses to illegally circumvent public records law?
Kimball Perry, you're an intrepid reporter, right? Here's an idea. Do some public records requests for Phil Heimlich's county e-mail account.
Consider this. As everyone knows, Phil's best buddy is COAST's Chris Finney, whom Phil appointed to the Tax Levy and Drake Committees. You'd think there would plenty of e-mails in Phil's county e-mail account between these two, wouldn't you? If there were no e-mails between Heimlich & Finney, that might be considered conspicuous by its absence, don'cha think?
At the end of this sentence is the total number of e-mails between Heimlich & Finney in Phil's county e-mail account:
Anybody else reading this can do the same thing. Just write a public records request to Phil. Do it by e-mail and save the stamp!
Go ahead and pick other names whom Phil would be writing to about county business: Pat DeWine, Todd Portune, Banks attorney Tom Gabelman - anyone you think Phil would be corresponding with on county business. File a records request with Phil and see what turns up and post the results at the usual blogs.
Given how unpopular Phil has become, it's smart to put someone else in charge of the campaign. If he's the face of it, it will clearly lose.
Peter,
Why do you post in bold?
With regard to Heimlich's super-secret email accounts
This is not about private chit-chat with Heimlich's pals. It's about public business being conducted on private e-mail to avoid public records law: Banks, Drake, etc.
Records searches are underway, even if the Enquirer doesn't want to join in. Can't dodge this one, Phil & Co.
Using Pepper's name and image is a childish cheap shot and demonstrates how scared Team Heimlich-Finney is running, even before Labor Day.
Give it up, your days are numbered. And post-Election Day, we'll be calling for investigations from a new administration in Columbus.
deters is so popular and respected by the majority of county residents who live with their heads in the sand- that having him head the campaign is a great idea ... except, ithink heisunder investigation right now and he might not benefit from more jail space being made avaialble. hehehe
hey joe - ask si why he bails out of otr when the bars let out and the drug dealers hit prime time on the streets? too scared?
say it ain't so joe...
joe give us thename of one violent felon who was releasedfromjail for over crowding - just one.
or is this an urban legend designed to milk money from taxpayers and house the convicted homeless.
how about advocating for more judges and public defenders- that would catch up the court docket and clear out all those waiting for trial.
Isn't deters going to feel weird promoting the only reasonable and balanced plan for a new jail -- that of democrat todd portune's campus multi-purpose jail that addresses violent offenders, drug addicts and alcoholics, mentally ill, jobless petty thieves, and unskilled and uneducated opportunist criminals.
all to reduce the elephant inthe room -- recidiism.
how in god's name can coast, deters, si or even heimlich ( i know HE can't add, but) justify 20 years oftaxing to pay abank as much interest as it costs to build the darn thing??
if we need todo it, we should eat it, not shove it downthe throats of our children and grandchildren
come on guys, forget the partisan politics and at least pick the most logical plan out there.
Today's Enquirer carried this article by Kimball Perry about an e-mail sent by Commissioner Todd Portune demanding transparancy in the jail campaign. Portune's original e-mail is copied below.
Compare Portune's e-mail to Perry's article. Note that in his article, Perry excludes that Commission president Phil Heimlich publicly refused to answer Portune's questions. When pressed, Heimlich walked away from Portune. (Highlighted below.)
What reporter would not consider this a salient, newsworthy detail?
Portune has repeatedly made similar complaints about Heimlich in the past to Perry and his editors. None of Mr. Perry's articles has ever mentioned Heimlich's history of refusing to provide information or answer questions from colleagues.
Either Mr. Perry is omitting this information out of his articles or it is being cut by an editor.
If it is the latter, Mr. Perry might quit in protest or, at the least, be leaking information so that what is obviously a case of instiutionalized editorial bias at the Enquirer might be exposed by the blogs or in the trades.
If it is the former, Mr. Perry is a disgrace to his profession.
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From: Portune, Todd
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:31 AM
To: Heimlich, Phil; Dewine, Pat; Thompson, Patrick; sbarnett@sheriff.hamilton-co.org; 'joe.deters@hcpros.org'
Subject: FW: Campaign for a Safer Hamilton County
Dear Commissioners Heimlich and DeWine, Sheriff Leis, Prosecutor Deters and Administrator Thompson:
Over a week ago I wrote to Commissioner Heimlich per the e-mail below to inquire about the specifics of the "Campaign for a Safer Hamilton County" insofar as electoral aspects of the campaign are concerned. To date I have received no written response.
At our public hearing in Sycamore Twp. Monday evening I again asked Phil about these issues. He told me that Joe Deters was running the campaign and when I asked who, or how that decision was made he refused to answer. He refused to answer any other questions about the campaign, turning his back on me and walking out of the room.
I am writing each of you to inquire about the specifics of the campaign to support the ballot initiative that I am being asked to support. Admittedly I have a number of reservations about Commissioner Heimlich’s proposal that is all of a sudden being referred to as the "Leis–Heimlich Initiative." If this measure is placed on the ballot it will be Hamilton County’s initiative, for starters. But, regardless of what it is called it will be the county’s initiative and its success or failure will have great impact on a variety of county interests. How the campaign will be run; what it will be called; its potential for success; related issues that it will affect, all have an impact on whether this particular proposal is the right one or the best one for Hamilton County and impact the decision I am being asked to make.
Accordingly, this is a public campaign, just like all of the campaigns for other county issues or levies have been county campaigns. We as commissioners have full right to any information about how other campaigns are being run.
Commissioner Heimlich, for example, despite his opposition to the Drake Levy had full access to anything the Drake campaign was doing. The same would hold true here.
I am writing to each of you today to obtain as much information as I can voluntarily about this issue. I thank you in advance for your anticipated assistance and cooperation and your confirmation that I will have full and complete access to all matters pertaining to this "campaign".
Sincerely,
Todd Portune
Steve Chabot has had 12 years to get Federal funding for a new jail. He has reflexively ignored dozens of requests from city and county officials about funding a new jail.
Too bad that John Cranley has too much decency to blow Chabot out of the water by releasing copies of the numerous letters the City has sent Chabot about the need for a new jail. Perhaps another Democrat on Council, or, dare I say it, a Charterite, has the courage to do what's right, face up to the Republican Mafia that controls this city and county, and expose the truth.
Prosecutor Joe Deters will be the campaign chairman, Heimlich said, "because he is the most knowledgeable about law enforcement."
Right you are, Phil. Joe knows all the loopholes.
No longer welcome in Columbus, Joe Deters is poised to resign his current position as state treasurer and crawl back to his old job as Hamilton County Prosecutor after the upcoming election. "Deters Is Safe at Home" by Pete Shuler, CityBeat, 10-6-04
i've heard that the coin-gate trial and investigation has turned up evidence on dirty deeds deters. squel squel squel ( who investigators regard as "small potatos - so, maybe he is cutting an insider deal to give up info he has in order to be left out of the drag net of new indictments coming down)
i don't think he's going to want a bigger jail - and, i don't htink he'll have the time to campaign for it , though he'll make a nice "psoter boy" forwhy we need a bigger jail ( to hold all the republicans falling fromgrace in early 2007.
i can't help but laugh
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