The Lou Blessing saga
State Rep. Louis Blessing Jr. secured $900,000 in state money to expand a park and ball fields that directly benefit his Colerain Township church and civic association.
Read the rest of Jon Craig's story here
Read Blessing's statement here
And Carrie Davis has sent in a rebuttal to Blessing's statement, posted here:
davis.doc
Read the rest of Jon Craig's story here
Read Blessing's statement here
And Carrie Davis has sent in a rebuttal to Blessing's statement, posted here:
davis.doc
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Post a Comment*Colrain Township Trustees can make the controversy go away in one easy step: hire Scott Gehring as porject manager. He needs work and with Leslie Ghiz and Melanie Bates behind him, the Enquirer will not question anything he says or does.
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We would love to bash the fundamentalist 'bless-ings', but we feel that it is about time our elected officials bring home the bacon !
Sorry, we applaud the wRong wingnut whacko !
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
$900K - to fill a ditch - If he thinks this is a blessing to the community he needs to turn in his fiscal watchdog award. It's only bad when someone else does it, eh?
Can someone in the psychiatric ward please medicate the "all italics, all exclamation points, all the time" foot-tapping, liberal moonbat who posted above?
Your revolution is over, Mr. Moonbat. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Moonbat? The bums will always lose!
Pork Park gets phat on taxpayers' dime courtesy of church's blessing.
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Here are some more wRong wingnut whacko 'back-fires':
Last Thursday, in a significant victory, a federal judge in New York struck down the amended Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The law has permitted the FBI to demand private information about people within the United States without court approval. It also allowed the government to gag those who receive NSLs from discussing these letters with anyone.
U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero found this gag power was unconstitutional and, because the statute that authorized it prevented courts from engaging in meaningful judicial review of the gags, it violated the First Amendment and the principle of separation of powers. Furthermore, because the gag provisions could not be separated from the entire amended statute, the court struck down the statute in its entirety.
In another ACLU second legal victory last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. rejected the government’s broad claims of secrecy that the government made when it refused to comply with our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, demanding the release of documents involving the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program. This ruling strikes a blow to the administration’s sweeping and often unfounded secrecy claims.
Second note:
Someone must have 'foley fondled':
"The dude"
PATHETIC HYPOCRITES !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Wow, a Catholic church with financial problems getting the taxpayers to bail them out. This money should benefit the Colerain community, NOT a church. I'm glad Mrs. Davis investigated this. I was wondering what was going on back there when I go to the grocery store. Another Catholic church in the news again!!
Why is a church, Catholic or other benefitting from taxpayer money to improve their property and then make money from it? Shouldn't they be spending their own money? Maybe this church and their leaders in this project be investigated for wrong doing! I guess it goes back to it's all in who you know when you want to do something!! I wonder what the church members will think when they read this.
No different than Bill Mallory getting funds for his pet projects and pet people before and after leaving office. Then he assigns people to work for son Joe at Board of Elections outreach department full time that can work for his other projects part-time or one of the sons' campaigns while on vacation. Mallory Center. The Black History archives at the Museum Center. CEC. CHRC.CityLink.
Politicos able to pander the people's taxes. Lou's just a tip of an iceberg that the Enquirer can't and won't investigate.
I think it is time for Lou to retire.
Dude,
Your right, the bums do loose; they lost in the 2006 midterms and they are going to loose bigtime in 2008. There will be a permanent republican minority.
Little Barney Frank still can't understand why his fellow Democrat, the foot-tapping bold typist, still continues to stalk him.
BLESSING IS TOAST. THIS EPISODE IS ANOTHER EMBARRASSMENT FOR COLERAIN TOWNSHIP. NO ONE FROM "RUMPKEVILLE" WILL EVER REPRESENT ANYONE AT A HIGHER LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT AGAIN.
THE NEW STATE REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE FROM SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP: TOM BRYAN, JOE HONERAW, JOHN WAKSMUNDSKI OR CHRISTA CRIDDLE.
”Here are some more wRong wingnut whacko 'back-fires':”
Really??????? I wonder why all terrorist threats have been thwarted in the past 6yrs?????? I guess Sid and Marvin and the ACLU is going to provide us the intell on the dirty bombs brought across the boarder by the hard workers!
Lol Lol Lol
Clinton Judicial appointees know how to engineer an election!!
I am flattered that you now make two references to me per post!!!!
See you in DC Saturday; you’ll be the one wearing the Che shirt, right?
PATHETIC!
Another crooked Repugnicant. What a freaking surprise. I guess Repugs only ask their gay members to resign (Foley, Craig, etc). Unless, Lou takes a male staffer to Massachusetts or sends him perverted e-mails, he's in the clear.
St. Ann's is a tremendous asset to the Colerain community as well as the parishioners - Father Tom needs to pull his people out of this mess and let the public be served. They're better than this even if Blessing hasn't got a prayer.
Carrie Davis should be excommunicated for her actions. Anyone at St. Ann's should let her know how they feel next time they see her there.
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off topic, but, this just in:
The House passed H.R. 2786, to reauthorize the programs for housing assistance for Native Americans
However:
• Rep. John Boehner (R-8) N
• Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-2) N
Both voted NO !
Compassionate Conservatives
PATHETIC HYPOCRITES !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
"The House passed H.R. 2786, to reauthorize the programs for housing assistance for Native Americans"
It is full of pork and earmarks....our area reps voted against it for the same reasons that 92% of the Democratic Congress in 1964 voted against the Civil Rights act!
PATHETIC!!!!!
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"...I am flattered that you now make two references to me per post...9:18 PM, September 10, 2007"
Oh yes:
(1.) wRong wingnut whacko !
(2.) foot-taper !
Thak you for your self identification !
lol, lol, lol
PATHETIC HYPOCRITE !
SORRY (w) , I'm the DECIDER !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Someone should be excommunicated for exposing this? So are you saying Catholics support this type of thing? Is that what your religion has come down to, just a political venue. Doesn't the commandments require not lying, not stealing, not coveting ANYTHING that is your neighbors - including a piece of land you were allowed to play on as a kid.
Sounds to me like Blessing was a spoiled little boy who turned into a spoiled corrupt old man - he took what he wanted, abandoned his duties to represent the whole community and instead represents just a select segment of the community. Blessing should resign from this board
Blessing claims that the previous nonprofit refused to transfer the property to the township trustees ... so, then why didn't Blessing in the days after his group got the land title, or weeks, or years - transfer it himself? There obviously wasn't any conditions against it or it wouldn't have happened in the transfer -lease back deal.
It's clear, Blessing wanted to maintain control over this property himself - and the article shows exactly why - his parish stood to make alot of money off this from both future operations and the sale of a piece of land that apparently made the "back lot" far less valuable.
Yes it's time to send Blue Lou packing. He and Seitz need to be shown the door next year, and as for Clancy, no ones believes her story.
Rino hunters of SW Ohio
The Enquirer needs to look into Carrie Davis' connection to COAST.
Yeh right, Davis and COAST have gone to war in public forums. COAST doesn't want to pay any taxes, and Davis doesn't want to pay special interest taxes - 2 different flips of the coin.
Checkout the St. Ann website http://www.saintannparish.org/parish%20council/pc%20membership%202006.htm parish council members Lou Blessing and Scott Henn, two of the names mentioned in these articles.
I have seen that land rot for years locked up by the previous owners. Blessing opened it up so kids are playing there again. Whats wrong with that? I don't care if the kids are Catholic, Islam or what it is nice to see them out there having fun. Too bad Colerain Township's Trustee who APPROVED this was too cowardly to admit it in the press? He should be banned from the ribbon cutting!
Read the link in davis' rebuttal to Lou's 'when I was a boy..." wah wah wah. it goes to the Cleveland Plain Dealer article which explains more of the connections between all these people.
and how does a lawyer repesent the township if he sits on committees for the church getting the benefits.
Lou hasn't been indicted because there is only a 2-year statute of limitations on this stuff and he voted on it in 2002 and 2004 - all Lou's political buddies knew what he was pulling but let him do it because "he carried water for them" and voted with them when told to by Taft and the good ole boys.
Where did the money go for the land that was sold to the commercial development now anchored
by Biggs? Was it to the Colerain
Civic Association which was who?
Did anyone go after them? Those members should be identified? Lou is trying to improve the community for the community, not for himself. That land was not suitable
for a nature walk. Carrie, I recommend you visit Fernbach Warner, it is very nice. Mr. Fideldey should concern himself with the continued deteriotation of a great area thanks to the
metropolitan housing authority.
Can one of the trustees put a
message out to the public about
the littering problem?
Fideldey is the only elected official who votes to accept a million dollar grant for his community and says he has concerns and was against it after he voted for it then changed his mind and is against it. Is this John Kerry? HMMMMM?
Go to the links, read the contracts (that they'll let you see) and you'll know why this was another Bengals' sweet heart deal.
It's as simple as that: the public owns the property, the public pays for the improvements to the property, and only those belonging to one corporate entity get the financial and use benefits to the detriment of the rest of the "public parks" and fields in this township.
Because of this story, the facts that emerged and the heightened scrutiny - the property will no longer be under lock and key, the preferential treatment will end and ALL youth sports programs will have access to use of the fields at fair rates on an equal basis, and the profits generated will be treated like any other profits coming from a government facility - for the benefit of the park not this church and not the trustees pet programs.
And those are all good changes for the public. What's wrong with that?
The bigger problem is, since Lou decided to add 2 1/2 acres to this project belonging to the parish that ate up over $500,000 of the total $900,000 - there is no money left to build a single field where 3 had existed before.
The existing 12+ acres was big enough for 3 baseball diamonds and a football field -- why in the world was the land purchased from St Ann's in the first place?
Read the documents and find out for yourself. That's all you have to do - read them - 3 different and highly respected reporters saw the documents - all agreed this was an important story that the public needed to hear.
ok first of all many of the folks in this blog are idoits and looking to hang some guy who looks like he just wants to help his community. I have read both sides of the article, blessing and davis and it sounds like this davis person is just bitter. Personally I dont care how it happened by Colerain will benefit from this. It looks like a win-win for all so let it be.
What does the Metropolitan Housing Authority have to do with a public park being run as a private park?
So, how is it a good thing for taxpayers to fund a facility that they don't get to use?
Why is it an investigation had to be underway to get good ole Lou, "just working for the good of his community," to be forced to open this facility up to the public? Why has it been under lock and key for almost 4 years and no one but his associates been allowed to use it?
You're right, this has been a win-win ----- for St. Ann's and the GCA, not for the community
"Go to the links, read the contracts (that they'll let you see)"
What links? I am not seeing any links?
And for Carrie Davis, she likes to stir up trouble. You can see her name often in the Northwest Press as well...
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