Cuyahoga County Political Parties Get Drunk Off Your Donations

The PeeDee is reporting that both the Cuyahoga County Republican & Democratic Parties were recently caught by the Ohio Auditor's Office (Mary Taylor) for paying for alcohol out of accounts intended to pay "maintenance costs for party headquarters, voter registration programs and fund-raising drives."

2008 - Booze Fund

Cuyahoga County Republicans - $1,284

Cuyahoga County Democrats - $1,318

Remember we only know about this money because they spent it from the wrong accounts. We have no idea how much they have spent on alcohol from their unrestricted accounts during the year. This shows just how out of touch both parties are and how little respect they even have for their own donors. How much respect do you think they have for you, the average tax payer, who fills their troughs through taxation when they are in office?

See the article here: http://www.cleveland.com/naymik/index.ssf/2009/10/cuyahoga_county_democratic_and.html

State Auditor report says Cuyahoga Recorders Office is over staffed

It looks like our beacon of light for good government is at it again! State of Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor, who has proven to be the only worthy statewide office holder, has completed the administrative audit of the Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office.

Taylor's report recommends the Recorder's Office cut 17 of the 100 current employees...

In April, The Plain Dealer reported that O'Malley had given three dozen patronage jobs in 2007, hiring former mayors, the son and daughter of a judge and the wife of a councilman.

As of April, the newspaper also reported, his office employed 103 workers -- nearly twice as many employees as in the recorder's office in Franklin County, which has slightly fewer people than Cuyahoga County.

Personnel costs have been the office's top expense since at least 2003. Salaries were more than $3.8 million this year. The 2009 county budget, which was adopted earlier this month, calls for reducing payroll to $3.1 million. But Cuyahoga's elected officials, such as the recorder, have the authority to outspend their budgets and occasionally do so.

On a side note -- What the PD fails to report is that many of the patronage jobs they highlighted were filled as they, the Plain Dealer, supported & turned a blind eye to the democrat machine driving our county to the mercury-filled bottom of Lake Erie.

Back to Auditor Taylor....

This month alone Auditor Taylor has accomplished more than what most elected officials in Ohio have done in their whole career!

Can anyone say - Senator Mary Taylor or Governor of Ohio Mary Taylor?