Lorraine Fende is useless. Everyone knows she is the accidental candidate forced into politics by her father many years ago.
Moving along...Fende has been useless for two years: she has nothing substantiative to the legislation coming from Columbus. Fende's only accomplishment: tax hikes.
Fende has stayed in office by intimidating elected officials into endorsing her--how? Lorraine Fende's relationship with Judge Larry Allen is powerful--just ask Willoughby Mayor Dave Anderson.
Fende's only use of her influence on legislation has been promised appropriations--just ask Mayor Bob Weger about the money he was promised for Willoughby Hills. This promised appropriation helped Fende get Weger's endorsement.
This brings up the last point: Dave Fiebig.
Dave Fiebig had almost everything going his way: an at-large elected official in a modestly affluent community, the right party designation this year--yet he lost by a slim margin.
OH-62 results.
Fende beat Fiebig by 491 votes. 491 votes! That is a 1.76% margin! What? Fende has beat almost everyone 60-40 during the past few elections.
Hmmmmmmm.
Perhaps if Weger, Reichelt, and company did something to help Dave Fiebig he could have sent Fende back to Larry Allen's couch full time.
SHAME ON YOU BOB WEGER! SHAME ON MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF WILLOUGHBY HILLS CITY COUNCIL! WE ARE NOW STUCK WITH FENDE FOR TWO MORE YEARS JUST SO YOU COULD GET $100, 000 APPROPRIATION AND INCREASE INCOME TAXES.
Now that Fende is in the minority for her last term she will be even more useless for the next two years.
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I guess Cuyahoga County, Nevada and California aren't the only places with moronic, out-of-touch voters.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of politics that was kicked to the curb Tuesday, but some people are clueless.
This also is the kind of politics that got Jimmy D and Frankie Russo into a heap of big trouble.
And this is the kind of politics that the Tea Party movement is challenging at every turn. Forget Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell and Caroly Fiorina. The Tea Party movement elected historic numbers to state houses nationwide, including Ohio. The Tea Party movement elected scores for the 60+ historic win in the US House.
The local 9/12 Project or Tea Party Patriots need to get involved. They will not only take care of the Lake County RINOs, but Lorraine Fende.
Unless Bob Aufuldish retires as county commissioner state Senate is Fende's only play.
I suspect it will be Matt Dolan versus Lorraine Fende for the Senate seat. May the good people of Geauga County kick end Fende's career for good.
One last point, we obviously can't rely on The News-Herald to do any real reporting on this sorry excuse for a state legislator. And it's amazing how the NH, which has multiple editors who are not fans of Lorraine Fende, jumped on her bandwagon this year.
Pork (from Washington or Columbus) is intoxicating to elected representatives of both parties at all levels of government. Will the newly rejuvenated Republicans in Washington and Columbus keep their promises to reduce spending including earmarks?
ReplyDeleteFiebig won every precinct in WH, except the apts which vote heavily D anyway.
ReplyDeleteFrom today's Politico website:
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday he's willing to consider a Senate-wide ban on earmarks, but he said it wouldn't save money.
Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," he said a ban would simply shift the authority for spending money to the administration, and many members of the Senate aren't willing to do that.
"I'd be willing to consider it," McConnell said of the ban. "The problem is, it doesn’t save money. It’s an argument about discretion."
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It sounds like Mitch McConnell will not consider eliminating earmarks anytime soon. Some things never change even for Republicans.