Just What All Gags and Muffles Even THINKING Plain Dealer Reporters?

Sunday, 3/25/07
Also found today, as I was looking online to locate the bizarre "director" of editorial pages, Larkin's newest attempt (also shared today) to shape public opinion in ways that are so skewed, they can only hold some great vestment for him:

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/

Talkin' Politics
Posted by Mark Naymik
March 23, 2007 16:19PM

The PD's Mark Naymik and Jean Dubail talk about winners and losers at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, week one of the governor's budget dissection and Bill Clinton's trip to Ohio.
Here's the audio there linked.

Notice that among some facts, there are such things as Naymik's stumbling around about Blackwell's "integrity"; the lack of accuracy about when and why the 2 CCBOE Dems resigned, slantedly and innacurately referring to them as "foot-dragging", while the 2 R's remain; the BOE's typical references to "voter fraud" ( meaning citizen voters, of which there have been less than a handful of cases nationally) but never mentioning, as his bosses never mention, even a possibility of "election fraud" - that done inside, now aided for massive scale manipulations with our Diebold machines; and more.

In the Plain Dealer Today

Secretary of State tightens screws on Elections Board
Friday, March 23, 2007
Joan Mazzolini
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1174639719208580.xml&coll=2

Exerpt:
Florkiewicz could not be reached for comment Thursday. Bennett, however, remained defiant, saying his attorney was standing by.
"How can she make a judgment? She wasn't here," Bennett said.

I wonder if his attorney is none other than...Roger Synenberg! ( A joke, I hope for Bennett's sake.)
And Mr. Bennett, there were many other citizens who WERE there... and watching....

and

Get out of the way
Board of Elections members should drop their fight, quit their posts and let the critical task of rebuilding begin
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1174640382208580.xml&coll=2

My hastily written letter to editor re: above "opinion", which article you have to read to understand:

Re: “Get out of the way; Board of Elections members should...quit their posts...” (3/23), the PD person who wrote this, and I suspect it's Bennett's apparent friend, Mr. Larkin, is another who should do same.
Of course Mr. Bennett and Ms. Florkiewicz should resign now, to allow timely quality, not nepotism and political appointment, rebuilding of this county’s election process from the hackery and unlawful cover-up mess they've left.
But for our city’s newspaper to attempt to minimize an internal election rigging, done in ways that could easily have covered more results, and they thought could deceive citizens and the paying recount volunteer witnesses, as (just) “gaming a recount” is absurd.
Had you looked, Mr. Coaxum was the only board member who treated citizen-owners decently, and asked intelligent questions about CCBOE management, soaring spending, and riggable electronic machines.
Mr. Mason must continue his investigation, so all impacted election problem sources - people from top to bottom – can be publicly revealed, so we can finally get a clean, transparent, process for democracy.
This PD writer should also get out for democracy. You don’t deserve the constitutional privileges and the ink your position hands you.

(It was signed.)

More on the Brunner's Complaint and Hearing from the PD

A few quotes from yesterday's PD:
http://www.cleveland.com/open/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1174467383192600.xml&coll=2
Election chair fights back
Bennett blames prosecutor for rigged-recount convictions
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Joan Mazzolini
Plain Dealer Reporter

"Attorneys for the convicted workers are appealing their convictions and filed a motion for a new trial Tuesday with Corrigan."
Just how many times are they planning to try that one? At least once during trial, once during sentencing hearing, and yet again? They obviously feel they must keep these women happy enough to not tell the truth.

" The prison sentences enraged Bennett..."
What seemed to enrage him was that his political strong-arming was not working, leaving himself exposed.

"They ( the attorneys for Dreamer and Maiden) also filed a motion for Corrigan to remove himself, alleging he has a conflict of interest involving Mason. Although Mason had a special prosecutor handle the trial of the two workers, he became involved in the trial when the defense sought to have him testify. An assistant county prosecutor represented Mason to fight the defense effort, but that assistant prosecutor also represented the judge in two unrelated cases, which lawyers say created a conflict for Corrigan."

HE had a conflict of interest? Why don't they check out the "defense" attorney, Synenberg and Bennett?
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Then quotes from Openers blog this afternoon by Mazzolini:
Elections chief files complaint against Cuyahoga board
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/03/elections_chief_files_complain.html
Mazzolini states:
"The 18-page complaint accuses board Chairman Bob Bennett and board member Sally Florkiewicz, both Republicans, of misfeasance, nonfeasance and violating state election law."

The post links the entire complaint: http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/Removal%20Complaint.PDF

Much of the complaint centers around security issues, recount issues and even lack of financial responsibility.

Check the following out from page 7. Reading it in the original gives a fuller flavor of the massive waste of taxpayer dollars to Diebold for non-secure and non-operating equipment that fed into massive overspending for May's meltdown (still without accurate results); and for the highly paid ridiculous "management", including that of the director and board for same.

"34. The Board estimated its funding needs for the fiscal year 2006 at $11,460,174.
35. However, in order to avoid incurring a massive deficit, the Board requested and received from the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners an additional $12,900,000 which exceeded the Board's initial total budget request."

It shows that other counts center around such things as the huge gaps between the number of votes cast (people signing in) and number of ballots per precinct in both May and November '06, poor (but I add, very overly paid - at least $1.5 million total to CCC and Diebold! ) poll worker training that did not allow workers to actually rectify those numbers at the precinct on election day and night, and more.

Mazzolini reported from the SoS statement linked in post directly below, that William Owen, the first assistant prosecutor of Delaware County, will preside over the hearing which will begin on April 2, if Bennett and Florkewicz don't have the good sense to resign first.
(Poor Maiden and Dreamer, their protected, and same to-be-tickets-out-of-this, are losing, (to use a "W" term) "political capital" pretty rapidly.)

Look for yourself.