"Just sign a piece of paper that has falsely been alleged to be languishing on my desk for two years - that was, and is, unadulterated B-period, S-period, - and thousands of jobs will come our way." Carty said yesterday in the Blade.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080531/NEWS16/80...
On WSPD yesterday afternoon, they played the sound bites of Carty belittling Bob Chirdon at WTOL saying he was only a TV station manager and knows nothing about economic development.
Why is there not more reporting of the disparaging remarks Carty makes about Toledoans or area businesses?
I don't know if he mentioned anything about the Blade, which also ran an editorial supporting getting it done. Carty also wrongly said that no experts said that the airport would make a good. He apparently did not read the Toledo Free Press with all of the experts saying it is the perfect spot.
Contradicting himself again, by saying Brian has no end user for the site. On Troy Neff's show he states that if someone drops a check to back it, there would be no issue with water. I don't really know if Southwyk or the Marina district or the Riverwalk has an end user or no checks dropped before those projects have taken off, but that does not stop trying to get progress or city action being taken. Maybe Brian's fault is he could have used the same tactic the mayor used, maybe he should have just put down the names of 100 businesses who have expressed interest, regardless if they actually did (remember the Ace Hardware bru-ha-ha?). But maybe Brian is better than that.
You can read Carty's response in the Toledo Free Press at:
http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=7917
Free Press wonders why there is a silence in the city, especially when "Not since the drive to save the Jeep plant have Toledo's private sector, academic, political and media forces worked in union as they are for the proposed intermodal center." But a few voices are missing. This is an opportunity for action and leadership. Where are our county commissioners? Our city council? We know Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is circling around the conversation, but there has been no decisive leadership from that office; for his comments, see Page A4. Where are the voices that could help drive the political will on this development?
http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=7924
Do you think that Carty's position is right? Where should we go from here?
Carty shuts his pie hole and signs the paperwork and they extend the water lines. What happens then?
Best Case Scenario - Brian McMahon is proven correct and the Intermodal takes off and it's all kinds of successful. What happens to North West Ohio? Jobs right AT the Intermodal, plus jobs from businesses who would want to locate NEAR the intermodal to conserve as much transportation cost as possible (I am in transportation now - this IS what's done)
Worst Case Scenario - The thing fails completely and Brian McMahon falls flat on his mush. What do we lose? In the long run if Brian's plan fails, will the taxpayers have footed the bill to run water to a property that is now valued more because of the water lines and even if it's not developed, will the owners not still have to pay more in taxes because a piece of property that has water access is now worth more than one without and thus can now be taxed at a higher rate?
Please let me know - Is it this simple?
Czarty is once again showing he's clinically crazy.
He has the function of government completely reversed, in his malformed mind.
The function of government is to provide utilities and enforce the law, not to play favorites with private industry. But as Czarty is an "economic development" mayor, he does shit like this McMahon issue.
So, who's nuttier? Czarty, or the 65% of Toledo voters-at-the-time who re-elected him?
WE CAN STILL RECALL HIM.
concerning the alleged recall effort, but it's been a while since he's been around...suppose Carty's mafia got to him by now? lol
Carty personally attacked Bob Chirdon and WSPD because in his mind they know nothing about economic development. The mayor then turns right around and said that they don't know how to do their own jobs in the media.
Let's test the mayor's principle that it's wrong for people to say things they know nothing about or what goes on behind closed doors. He presumes that people are incapable of asking the right questions, reading and understanding plain English.
The mayor fails to make the distinction between how people know "XYZ" is true (investigation) with how people demonstrate "XYZ" is true (sound argumentation).. When people come to different conclusions that don't line up with his, then that's when he'll go off on some variation of the "mistruths, half-truths and outright lies" tangent instead of dealing with the arguments themselves.
Carty doesn't know what goes on behind closed doors at WTOL or WSPD. Carty doesn't watch or listen to these stations so how does he know about these stations or any other media?
Carty's argument defeats itself because the standard that he demands others to follow, he himself does not follow. If it's wrong for others to fail to follow his criteria, then it should also be equally wrong for the mayor when he doesn't follow it.
Since the mayor fails to see when he is wrong or admit it, (arrogance, lack of humility and his attitude that he is better than everyone else) then the things everyone watching gets to see are these unprofessional, personal angry attacks and rants based on false presuppositions and fallacious reasoning.
So, will the real B.S.er please stand up?