Posts Tagged Issue 3
Plain Dealer Looks Past Imperial Ave. to Towpath, Public Square
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Economic Development, Media on November 5th, 2009
November 5, 2009… It didn’t even take a day for The Plain Dealer to set up the next pillage and plunder of Cleveland.
Listen to what the Pee Dee said editorially the day after the casino issue, strongly backed by the paper, about the use of its tax revenue:
“So consider this idea, which is already germinating among downtown boosters (read: looters): Divert some of the new property taxes the casino will pay – from the city’s share, not the school district’s – to complete the Towpath Trail and Canal Basin Park, to redesign Public Square and to add pocket parks, waterfront access and other residential enhancements.”
Forget about Imperial Avenue. Forget about all the Cleveland Imperial Avenues.
Let’s spend a few more million on a bike path and redo Public Square. Again.
Just read the intention of this proposal. You will see a community looting being pushed by the Pee Dee.
This is what the Pee Dee – acting as a front for the Greater Cleveland Partnership and its corporate thugs – wants to do with any revenue that might come to the city from the casino. Disgusting.
Can you believe it?
How insensitive is that on the day following the discovery of multi-murder victims and a city police force and government that allowed what happened on Imperial Avenue to happen. As the bodies are being ushered out.
Ms. Goldberg and the editorial staff of the Pee Dee, have you no shame?
To whom do you owe allegiance? Certainly not to the people of Cleveland. Certainly not to those in dire need.
Here you are already spending tax dollars, the result of a sickening monopoly casino, on the trinkets you want for downtown.
My God, when does it stop?
Plain Dealer Editor Accused of Pimping for Issue 3
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Economic Development, Media, Politicians on November 5th, 2009
Roger Stone, a Republican PR hit man, took quite a shot at The Plain Dealer’s Susan Goldberg, on the Issue 3 coverage: “PD Editor Pimps for Casino Gambling.”
She claims “to be an objective and principled journalist but her actions during Ohio’s recent campaign over casino gaming demonstrates that she is neither,” writes Stone in his blog “StoneZone.”
He was a hired gun against Issue 3.
He also calls Dan Gilbert a “nouveau rich loud mouth.” Pithy stuff.
You can read how Goldberg distorted a poll, giving Issue 3 some needed boosting. It worked.
The full posting can be found here:
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=286
As I’ve said before, the Pee Dee allowed editorializing to spread across its front news page on Issue 3 and, of course, on Issue 6.