Victorian society rewarded the landed gentry while pushing those with nothing further into the margins until they were collecting filth in the courtyard of a debtor’s prison to survive. It was all praised as ordained by God. Charles Dickens quietly fought these exploitative economic realities by creating heroes whom fate plucked from the mire [...]
Independent Exclusive: Zanotti Gambled with J. Kevin Kelley By James Renner Contrary to his public denials, The Independent has learned that Issue 6 architect, former Mayor of Parma Heights, and county-transition executive committee member Martin Zanotti took trips north to gamble with county corruption figure J. Kevin Kelley and several other local politicians. [...]
Bill Mason takes a page from the Soviet Union playbook. It’s a time-honored cliché – the people elected to a government decide what kind of government exists. Thought you got reform when you voted for Issue 6? Thought you’d get better reform if instead Issue 5 had passed? Any promised level of reform must [...]
Last month, the Independent published a story [Payroll & Politics] about the rampant patronage suffocating the office of Cuyahoga County’s Prosecutor, a story the Plain Dealer had, but declined to publish. The article revealed that Bill Mason employed 49 Democratic committee members and political allies, at salaries over $100,000. It also revealed the [...]
Bill Mason is a bully. He’s that guy in High School who weaseled his way into the popular crowd, not because he was the star quarterback or because he was ruggedly handsome, but because he washed the popular kids’ cars and so was allowed to tag along. At the top, but undeserving, if you [...]
A Political Machine, Financed By You! ** The article the Plain Dealer was too afraid to publish ** Bill Mason is as guilty as Pat O’Malley and Frank Russo when it comes to blatant disregard for the ethics of public servitude. At last count, Mason employed 49 Democratic Precinct Committee members and Ward [...]
