Another Lefty Blog Shilling for Mary Jo Kilroy

We are beginning to wonder if Mary Jo Kilroy has some lefty blogs on payroll.  First there is the this lefty blog who shills for Mary Jo Kilroy but remains TOTALLY silent on the Huntington Ballpark fiasco.

Then you have “Ohio’s largest and most influential blog” that puts up this post today about the fundraising reports of mary Jo Kilroy and her opponent Steve Stivers, for the OH-15 Congressional District, siting this article from the Columbus Dispatch.  Now we have not looked at any reports or anything.  Hell don’t think we could figure out how to download it anyway.

Now I get shilling for your candidates as we do that here, but c’mon man.  Are we reading the same article?  Let’s look at what the story says:

“During the last three months of 2007, Republican state Sen. Steve Stivers raised nearly $50,000 more than Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy, a Franklin County commissioner, in the race for the 15 th Congressional District, reports filed yesterday show. But Kilroy’s balance eclipses Stivers’ by more than $200,000, because she entered the race months before Stivers did.”

• So, Stivers outraised Kilroy by $50,000 in the final three months.  And Stivers did not enter the race until November, so Stivers actually outraised her in 8 weeks as opposed to her 3 months.
• Kilroy has $200,000 more Cash on Hand because she has been in the race 11 months longer than Stivers
• Um, how is that “Kicking Stivers Ass’

“About 54 percent of Stivers’ haul came from political action committees, or PACs, compared with Kilroy’s 22 percent. Stivers, on the other hand, raised a larger share of his money from Ohio sources: 62 percent, compared with about 25 percent for Kilroy, according to the filings.”

• Um, it does not look like the business community/PACs are going to dry up.  It looks quite the opposite in fact
• Whoa, 75% of Kilroy’s conrtibutions came from out of state?  Well, using the lefty blog thinking does that mean that Mary Joe’s tearing it up in Ohio?  I don’t see that anywhere in the Lefty Blog post.

Anyway, we just wanted to bring this to everyone’s attention.  As a certain cable news network says, “We report, you decide.”

Mary Jo Kilroy and Unions: Part III – The story that keeps on giving

We are a little late getting to this storyin the Columbus Dispatch that ran on Monday, but it does not lessen the “hay-maker” effect of this story on Mary Jo Kilroy and her congressional campaign.  Here are some of the highlights:

“What commissioners say they didn’t know is that the union company they hired was forced by a court in Pennsylvania last year to pay $48,568 in pension benefits and attorney fees to a worker the company had shorted while he was on military duty in Iraq.“

So, does Mary Jo Kilroy hate Iraq Vets or does she just like companies that try to cheat Iraq vets out of money they are due?  (Yes, I am being snarky)

“Prosecutors said William Tomko Jr. dodged paying $225,000 in taxes by laundering bills for his home through his company. The 8,000-square-foot mansion sits on 8 acres and has a home theater, $1.8 million in furnishings and $81,000 in fine art.”

Best part is that this guy billed school districts for the work done on his house.  Does Mary Jo Kilroy support that too?

Ok, I want everyone to look at the following excerpts from the article attributed to Mary Jo Kilroy and her colleague Paula Brooks:

Mary Jo Kilroy: “I’m sorry to hear this,” Kilroy said, expressing surprise that no one else found the case, given the amount of information being tossed at commissioners. “I would expect that on this (ballpark) job, there should be close monitoring on pension, on prevailing wages and on health care.”

Paula Brooks: Commissioner Paula Brooks, who voted against the Tomko contract, said she was aware of the tax charges against William Tomko Jr. but not the pension lawsuit.

“I Googled him and was appalled,” she said.

She said she also knew about a Tomko employee who died on the job in an accident.

“And now, to hear about this,” she said. “This poor worker was doing his duty, putting his life in harm’s way, doing his job in Iraq, and he gets ripped off by his employer.”

Brooks said she agrees “with my two other colleagues that we have to protect workers and uphold prevailing wage. But you have to use common sense. We have to protect our corporate sponsors who are putting money up to build the stadium.”

Wow!  Nice work Commissioner Brooks.  Bravo on not-so-subtle backhand to Mary Jo Kilroy.

Later on it mentions this: Meanwhile, the county has told another nonunion contractor that it plans to reject its low bid for work on the ballpark, again citing the contracting standards. The Painting Co., based in Plain City, didn’t pay prevailing wages.

Then the lawyer for The Painting Company replies: “If ever Franklin County taxpayers wanted to know that the county commissioners were trying to enforce a union-only agreement by underhanded agreements, then this is it, plain and simple,” Mason said. “Hopefully, they will see the error of their ways and stop.”

Man, this is the story that keeps on giving!

Left Wing Blogger Even More Wrong

On the very first post on this blog, we promised to “call-out” the lefty blogs when they are either wrong, avoiding the issue or basically full of crap.  Well, we have been doing this with a blog, which is based solely on Ohio’s 15th Congressional District, and its lame attacks on Steve Stivers, the GOP candidate for OH-15.  The whole while it evidently has turned a blind eye to the shenanigans that its hero, Mary Jo Kilroy, is doing in regards to the contracts for the Huntington Ballpark that is costing the taxpayers HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. 

We would like to reply, point by point, to the weak claims with this post from aforementioned blog.  Oh, and yes we made some spelling grammatical errors.  Wow, that one really hurt.

Claim: “This blog’s content has been attacked by some right wing GOP apologist who hates unions but loves the politics of Bob Taft, Tom Noe, and Bob Ney.”

Reply: First, Don’t hate unions, just the pay-to-play backdoor deals they have with Mary Jo Kilroy that cost the taxpayers HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. Second, good to see they are riding the dead-horse of Bob Taft (out of office over a year), Tom Noe (in jail for over a year and for many more years) and Bob Ney (in jail).  Boy, I hope the Dem/Mary Jo Kilroy playbook has more than that.  Its 2008 not 2006.

Claim: 1. Steve Stivers was a lobbyist for Bank One, and received PAC contributions from businesses; 2. The Blog’s facts have links and Columbus Dispatch is right-leaning and our claims are opinions.

Reply: 1. Steve Stivers was a lobbyist for Bank One and according to your links he has received PAC contributions from businesses in Central Ohio.  Here is where we have a ideological difference.  These businesses actually create jobs and support candidates who has a mindset that allow them to create jobs.  Last time I checked we are a capitalist system, even if Mary Jo Kilroy would like use to be communists.  Unions kill competition and they are the reasons companies take jobs overseas with there ridiculous contract demands.  Again, this is just an ideological difference between us and the left wing blogger.

2. Your links are facts and our links are opinion.  Well, we believe that it is just a matter of time until the next contract for the Huntington Ballpark screws over the low-bidder for a high-bid union shop.  If you are too blindly loyal to your hero Mary Jo Kilroy then I am sorry for the utter despair you will incur when this story blows up.  You should start looking at Paula Brooks as someone who does the right thing and uses “common sense” as your new hero. (Wrote that just to send the Mary Jo Kilroy fan into a tizzy, as the Commissioners are not on best terms right now.) 

Also, the Columbus Dispatch must be doing a good job because the lefties think it is right-leaning and we think it is left-leaning.  Funny.

Claim: “What word around town?” Questioning the upcoming contracts on the Huntington Ballparks and rumors of who will get these contracts.

Reply: Um, ok there are no rumors going around on this subject…none at all.  In fact, we think Mary Jo Kilroy should just keep doing what she is doing.  Yep, nothing to see here, please disperse.

Finally, we here at OhioRedNovember tend to favor to focus more on statewide and national politics, but we will promise to keep an eye on what transpires in this race.  What is going on with the Huntington Ballpark contracts is a travesty and we want to relay what happens to those out in the blogosphere, since the lefty blogs are obviously turning a blind eye to this issue.

Mary Jo Kilroy and Unions vs. Protecting Children: What the $215,000 union payoff can get you

Just checking around the Dispatch archives and I came upon this article from December 19th.  According to this article, here is what that $215,000 union pay off from Mary Jo Kilroy could have gotten the taxpayers in Franklin County:

• An additional detective or two to help run the program that helps track sex offenders
• Two criminal investigators and two prosecutors to work on child pornography cases

Of course I am being a bit snarky here, but hey the Dems seem to be fine with saying how many kids you can insure for the cost of the war.  So, why not point out how we could better protect our children for what the “Mary Jo Kilroy Union Payoff Sweepstakes” cost taxpayers.

I’m not saying, I’m just saying.

Dispatch Editorial: Mary Jo Kilroy v. Taxpayers

I literally went through about 10 different titles for this post, per the Columbus Dispatch Editorial blasting Mary Jo Kilroy and the Franklin County Commissioners and there union pay off…err…decision to hire a high-bid, out-of-state, union company for the plumbing on the new Huntington Ballpark, instead of a lower bid, Ohio-based, non-union company.

What I think is the crux of the Editorial, and should be the focus on the argument is that although this decision was “Legal, but not wise” the Commissioners (Mary Jo Kilroy) decision will cost taxpayers and ballpark investors.  It is all about the (at least) $215,000 in additional taxpayer dollars this decision will cost John Q. Citizen and the Ballpark investors.  The union pay-to-play is just an additional black eye for Mary Jo Kilroy.

Here are some highlights from the Editorial:

Shout out to Paula Brooks for questioning the policy and voting against it.

“Any public policy that forces private and public investors to pay an extra $215,000 to punish a low bidder for a $4,000 clerical error is a policy that deserves reconsideration.”

“One might wonder if this is the commissioners’ way of setting a de facto union-shop-only policy for construction projects.  This decision could discourage non-union contractors from bidding on future county projects, such as a new courthouse.  That might be just fine with labor-friendly Democratic commissioners, but it will be no boon to county’s taxpayers, who will pay more for those projects.”

WOW!  Amen to the Editors of the Columbus Dispatch.  These are the points that I have touched on in earlier posts. 

We here at OhioRedNovember hear that this story is gonna have legs and that every single contract for the Ballpark and new “Glass Cathedral” Franklin County Courthouse will be under intense scrutiny. 

Good! 

Mary Jo Kilroy’s Pay-to-Play Union Tactics need to have a big, bright light shinned upon it!

Mary Jo Kilroy: “Reflects Community Values” = Crushing Workers and Tax Evasion

In her effort to try to spin away her obvious pay-to-play union hiring move with the Huntington Ballpark, Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy had a Letter-to-the-Editor published in the Columbus Dispatch today, read it here.

Let’s take a look at her favorite phrase, which she used twice “reflect(ing) community values”, and a couple things about high-bid, out-of-state, union W.G. Tomko company they hired.  This information comes from the January 8th Dispatch article on the issue…

“Reflecting Community Values” = A Tomko worker was crushed to death in 2006

This is my favorite….

“Reflecting Community Values” = the company’s president retired in 2004 after being convicted of tax evasion. Court records show he ordered subcontractors to bill school districts for work on his luxury home.

Hmmm…Mary Jo Kilroy…what community do those values reflect?

Just asking…

xoxoxo…

OhioRedNovember

Mary Jo Kilroy gets Cozy with Union Thugs: Pay to Play Dem Style

I would like to respond to the post from OH-15 blogspot here regarding Steve Stivers and his contributors in the business community. 

Riddle me this batman, what are you gonna say about the OBVIOUS payoff, dare I say “pay to play”, that occured with your hero Mary Jo Kilroy and the unions with regard to the Huntington Ballpark, and the one about to happen with the new Franklin County Courthouse? 

Business Community creates jobs.  Something this state sorely needs.

Mary Jo Kilroy creates jobs too…by taxing the hell out of the residents in Franklin County and then paying her union buddies off with contracts for the Huntington Ballpark and the new “Window Cathedral” aka the Franklin County Courthouse.

Mary Jo Kilroy does not Heart Paula Brooks

Word around the Franklin County Courthouse is that the already tumultuous relationship between Commissioners Mary Jo Kilroy and Paula Brooks has completely tanked since the whole “Mary Jo Kilroy payoff to the unions” with the Huntington Ballpark occurred.  I can imagine Brooks comments in the Dispatch about the lack of “common sense” on this decision and her comments on the ABC affiliate in Columbus that this decision is a “waste of taxpayers money” probably did not help.

So the whole BFF thing with Paula and Mary Jo Kilroy seems to have gone bye bye.  What a shame.

Partisan Union Hacks Plan Political Protests Under Guise of Product Safety

Still under Fire over Union Payoffs, Kilroy Gets a Pass

Editorial from your friends at Ohiorednovember

Tomorrow, the overtly partisan Coalition of Labor Union Women (www.cluw.org) will hold phony protests in 100 cities across America, feigning outrage over recent reports of dangerous recalled toys, medicines and foods.  While the issue of product safety is indeed serious, the CLUW is not.  These protests are blatant electioneering, seeking media attention and publicity over substantive public policy.

 

For proof of the transparent partisanship of tomorrow’s festivities, one need look no further than to what they have planned for Ohio.  For Senator Voinovich, along with Representatives Jordan, Chabot, Boehner, Tiberi, and Schmidt (all Republicans), the CLUW will be hosting “demonstrations”;  for Reps Wilson and Space – both Democrats – the CLUW characterizes the events as “friendly”.  C’mon, CLUW – at least try to give the events some appearance of legitimacy. 

 

Shame on anyone in the press who treats the substance of the protests with any sort of seriousness, without noting the blatant politics and electioneering at hand here.  Product safety is a concern to all of us.  CLUW’s overt and pathetic attempts to exploit the topic for partisan advantage belittles the issue, and suggests that CLUW doesn’t think much of the public’s ability to sniff out a phony political photo-op.

 

However, kudos to someone within CLUW’s leadership for sparing Mary Jo Kilroy the embarrassment of having union protesters stumping around Ohio’s 15^th tomorrow, so soon after she paid off her labor supporters with government contracts– evidence that at least someone within the union’s brass isn’t completely CLUW-less. 

Mary Jo Kilroy: Pay to Play at the Ballpark

So, a democrat judge rules in favor of Mary Jo Kilroy and Marilyn Brown, Paula Brooks voted agianst it, to allow the all Democrat Franklin County Commission to hire a high-bid, out-of-state union company to do the plumbing for the Huntington Ballpark?  Read the story here in the Dispatch.

This is such an obvious pay to play to Mary Jo Kilroy’s union buddies, I mean give me a break.  I sense a little Editorial action over here at Ohiorednovember real soon.  I am calling BS on this and I hope the media, and Steve Stivers absolutely house Mary Jo Kilroy on this.  She is costing the taxpayers in Franklin County at least $215,000 with this payoff to the unions.