Aside from the fact that the Mayor suddenly looks frazzled and desperate, there is little encouraging about Akron’s Mayor Don Plusquellic’ s latest political maneuvering. He accuses Warner Mendenhall of expecting taxpayers to foot the bill for his personal political obsession.  That is not only unfounded, since Mendenhall has already said he will not run for Mayor, but would better describe what has been happening in this City for the past 23 years.  Talk about expecting taxpayers to foot the bill; the Mayor’s call for a vote to sell our sewers might be admirable if he or his sponsors were paying for it but they expected you taxpayers who already owned it to pay for it again!  The 2 for 1 deal didn’t mean you got 2 for the price of 1; instead you would have paid twice for 1 sewer.

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In one of the mailers being sent out by the Anti-Recall group in Akron, it says, “The Mayor has helped revitalize our city…and generated enough revenue to provide for 100 additional police officers in our neighborhoods.”

Huh?  Where are they Mayor Don Plusquellic?  Numbers don’t lie, but you do!  In order to decipher the truth and the lies about just how many Akron police officers we have here in Akron and to see just how many have or have not been added, we complied a chart of the number of sworn officers going back to 1986, where his reign began.  These statistics are from the Akron Police Departments Annual Reports.

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In the Mayor’s Anti-Recall campaign literature, he boasts to the Taxpayers of Akron he brought in 31,000 new jobs plus 5,200 more jobs from his International efforts.  Which is a total of 36,200 jobs.  Where are they?

The following chart is information printed in the City of Akron, Ohio Annual Informational Statement prepared by the Director of Finance for the City.

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Goodyear demands that the taxpayers of Akron pay them to stay here and the Mayor & City Council approve anything they seem to ask for with their promises they fail to keep.

In the mid 1990′s see the following “Actual Investments Subject to Abatements”

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