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Ohio: Toledo's Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown

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Posted by mrp 2008-02-09 08:53|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Carty Finkbeiner?

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-09 13:05|| 2008-02-09 13:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Trying to out Berkley Berkley.

Posted by Bobby 2008-02-09 13:29|| 2008-02-09 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Toledo is home to one of the largest mosques in the US.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-09 13:33|| 2008-02-09 13:33|| Front Page Top

#4 You can e-mail the Mayor. Look in the upper right-hand corner.

Hurry, before Code Pink shuts it down.

Posted by Bobby 2008-02-09 13:45|| 2008-02-09 13:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Two comments:

1. Guess the mayor's party affiliation. Just take a wild guess.

2. In the 1830s, Ohio and Michigan fought a border war over Toledo. (Not much of a war, really: no casualties due to hostile fire on either side.) Obviously, Michigan won.

Posted by Mike 2008-02-09 13:51|| 2008-02-09 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is a donk. Toledo has been a donk stronghold forever.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-02-09 15:51|| 2008-02-09 15:51|| Front Page Top

#7 We've got some useful members of Congress here in Ohio. I wonder what undiscussed earmarks for Toledo were in that latest federal budget thingy -- and how quickly a bill to remove them can be submitted to both House and Senate.

I read a squib last night on Lucianne.com that one of the California state legislators is proposing to cut off Berkeley's roads'n'highways funding because they misused public roads to set aside parking space for Code Pink in front of the Marine recruiting center. These little political games can be so amusing for those with the right temperament... and contacts.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-02-09 15:54|| 2008-02-09 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 oops,

ok mods, fix dat. thanks

Posted by www 2008-02-09 16:18|| 2008-02-09 16:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Instapundit, Blackfive, Roger Kimball, et al are on it. Da Mayor's gonna get famous, for all the wrong reasons, and what a special name to have in Wiki, LOL.
From Instaguy:

And a reader from Toledo emails: "The really rich part of this is that our downtown still has many vacant buildings. One of Carty's 'arts' initiatives was to get artists to paint scenes that would be put up inside the windows of the vacant buildings so they wouldn't look so 'vacant'. Oh, and did I mention that the City and County were pleading with the Feds a couple of years ago not to move the local Air National Guard Base (and its jobs/payroll taxes) out of Toledo Express Airport? Pray for us." This won't help with that

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-09 16:47|| 2008-02-09 16:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Aww, not that shit again!

Pity that we can't eject these localities like Laputa floating islands of Gulliver's fame...

Or fence it good and give a 3 years lease to Taliban (or Khmer Rouge if they prefer) to do as they please (then shoot the leasees at the end of lease [undisclosed clause]--hopefully the populus will be cured by then).

Dunno, WTF is wrong with he sizable portion of people?

Posted by twobyfour 2008-02-09 17:08|| 2008-02-09 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 C'mon now, folks. Our man Carty's a...visionary.

New York Times
November 6, 1994

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner suggested at a staff meeting that a way to resolve complaints about airport noise would be to move deaf people into the neighborhood.

On Friday, after the remark was publicized, Mr. Finkbeiner wept at a news conference and said he had meant no disrespect. "Nobody intended to be insensitive," he said. "My only words were that it was an interesting idea."

Advocates for deaf people said the Mayor's original remark was an insult. A deaf woman who attended the news conference, Delores Lisac, said that deaf people could feel the vibrations from the jets.

Dave Wielinski, chairman of Barrier Free Toledo, a group for disabled people, likened the Mayor's suggestion to "saying let the blind work at night because they can't see."

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-09 17:47|| 2008-02-09 17:47|| Front Page Top

#12 the man's a ~~pretentious asshole~~ genius, I tell ya

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-09 17:50|| 2008-02-09 17:50|| Front Page Top

#13 It's not just the deaf he dislikes. It's also the handicapped and dogs.

"Mayor Finkbeiner speaks out
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 | 5:42 PM
He says he did nothing wrong

WTVG--August 7, 2007 (WTVG) -- Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is still catching flak for parking in a handicapped space and for leaving his dog in the car while it was still pretty hot. Now the Mayor is speaking out.

Mayor Finkbeiner is sticking to his story and that is, he parked in the spot to keep his dog cool in the shade. There's no arguing the ticket. Last Friday, it was on the car of Toledo's Mayor Carty Finkbeiner. It was there because his car was parked in a handicapped spot. The Mayor admitted fault and agreed to pay it. But then, attention shifted to what was in the car Finkbeiner's dog, Scout.

All of the sudden the issue became one of Scout's maintenance."

Thanks to the 90-degree weather, the mayor started taking heat from radio call in shows and websites."

Posted by Beavis 2008-02-09 18:27|| 2008-02-09 18:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Well aren't we learning a lot about Carty Finkbeiner...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-09 18:36|| 2008-02-09 18:36|| Front Page Top

#15 perhaps collective punishment, Gaza-style, is in order, not just for the injustice and inconvenience to our Marines, but for the city of Toledo repeatedly electing a Mayor with the name Carty Finkbeiner. To get away with that name, he'd have to be hyper-qualified, and it's apparent he shouldn't even be restocking tp in city hall restrooms, ethically, and probably technically. I'd bet he's from a long line of Finkbeiners, who've reached the end of a family fortune due to poor genetics, but perhaps, I'm taking it too far....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-09 18:39|| 2008-02-09 18:39|| Front Page Top

#16 But wait! There's more...

Toledo Blade
2/25/06

Finkbeiner defends $9,996 shower stall

Figures show city facing $4.5 million deficit

Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner yesterday justified the new shower stall in his 22nd-floor office as a way to work more efficiently for the city - despite adding to an unexpected $4.5 million deficit suddenly forecast for 2006. The mayor said he wants to begin jogging during his lunch hour and needs a shower in his office so he can get back to work quickly.

The fitting out of a long-unfinished shower stall in the mayor's personal bathroom has raised eyebrows because the $9,996 price tag fell $4 short of the $10,000 threshold at which a council vote is required.

Mr. Finkbeiner downplayed the cost of the shower and said it ultimately will pay for itself by allowing him and his successors to make better use of their time. He predicted the cost will fall short of the $9,996 projected by the Reuben Co., which manages the building for the Ohio Building Authority and which controls any renovations in the building.

However, Michael Sullivan, the property manager for Reuben who ordered the work at the mayor's request, was doubtful that the cost would decline. "I don't see how," he said.

City facilities administrator Dale Raczkowski acknowledged that he asked Mr. Sullivan to cut the original estimate of $10,006 by $10 to get below the $10,000 ceiling. He said it was not done to avoid council scrutiny, but rather to avoid additional red tape triggered by the $10,000 threshold.

First Lady Amy Finkbeiner yesterday gave reporters and photographers a tour of the new shower and other improvements to the mayor's office. She had 26 chairs or sofas reupholstered and a table repaired at a cost of $2,531. She showed pictures of other blemishes on mayoral furniture that she said conveys a bad image.

"The chairs were torn and tattered and certainly not giving the impression we wanted to give," Mrs. Finkbeiner said. "When the general public comes up to meet with the mayor, we want to provide them with seating that is appealing."

In addition to the shower stall, the mayor had a storage area converted to an exercise room. Mrs. Finkbeiner said the shower and exercise facilities will cut the time the mayor now takes to drive to Medical University of Ohio for his workout.

The mayor said he plans to start running outside when it gets warmer. He said he is determined to keep up his exercise schedule, having had heart bypass surgery two years ago. He said he would prefer to exercise in the middle of the day than in the evening as he does now three or four times a week."After this surgery of mine, I was pretty fixed in my mind I was going to have a shower that was operational," he said.

10 grand? That's about what the Marines got screwed out of, right?

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-09 18:54|| 2008-02-09 18:54|| Front Page Top

#17 since he's been Mayor since at least that 1994 article, I'm assuming the damage to furnishing occurred on his watch. I'd be surprised if he had drunken greco-roman midget oil-wrestling in there, but not much. This tool's an embarrassment and Toledo needs to feel the shame for reelecting such an asshole. Perhaps earmark disruption?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-09 19:06|| 2008-02-09 19:06|| Front Page Top

#18 This idiot needs run to Kentucky and find a hooker. He can follow the long prestigious line of other Ohio Mayor's.

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry

Posted by Beavis 2008-02-09 19:38|| 2008-02-09 19:38|| Front Page Top

#19 one of the California state legislators is proposing to cut off Berkeley's roads'n'highways funding because they misused public roads to set aside parking space for Code Pink in front of the Marine recruiting center

Yep. Another $2.3 million or so.

Posted by Pappy 2008-02-09 22:51|| 2008-02-09 22:51|| Front Page Top

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