I bet Erickson was one of those 5 dollar contributors to Change Akron Now.

This is the cost of doing business in the political world. Recalls are to keep politicians honest, dont get rid of the ability to recall, find honest politicians.

I wonder how much was spent to give a police test and conduct background investigations just to make it look like the city was doing okay financially.

If you go on changeakronnow.com you will see new evidence that Plusquellic used his campaign account to pay for entourage travel to LA and to stay in the Hyatt. There are more trips that will be posted to Europe and elsewhere. Plusquellic charged his trip cost to the City so the taxpayers foot the bill. Plusquellic's campaign refused to follow election law (again) and release these documents. They did so after the recall because they knew it would show Plusquellic to be a Liar. Plusquellic's illegal use of campaign funds and conversion to personal use avoids paying fedral income tax on ill begotten money, he is a tax cheat. This has been going on for six years but noone has picked up on it until now.

The Beacon refuses to do a story on it and will remove this posting.

and they keep voting this crook back into office.....

It's nice to see a list of the top contributors, but it wasn't surprisin'. All are beneficiaries of the city hall hero stayin' in office.

My question to Goodyear:

"Iff'n keepin' the city hall hero in office is important to them, $10,000 worth, how important are the taxpayers of Akron who are payin' over $100 million to keep them here. Do we get a rebate too??"

$300,000 TO KEEP SOMEONE IN OFFICE.Businesses that are laying off,Cutting back Akron workers. Anthony Alexander, president and chief executive of FirstEnergy Corp,Goodyear,Signet Enterprises of Akron,Kenmore Construction of Akron,Perantinedes and Nolan, an Akron law firm,GOJO of Akron,Princeton Environmental Group of Akron. And all his supporters should be able to come up with the projected $12 million shortfall.It was their God king Don who messed it up.

Do they have a line item for how much those billboards cost? Seems since they suddenly appeared here in Akron the only advertising I've seen done on them is from politicians (funny how politicians can afford to advertise on them but regular businesses can't), then there's the display screens on all the bar machines...............people are funny here on this planet!

there's a lot of things the Beacon likes to ignore or refuse to investigate. I wish they did more rabble-rousing. A little controversy would make this paper more interesting, instead of a seeming branch of the Mayor's office. They certainly can bring the hate to push their agenda...my current favorite is the lack of reporting on July being the deadliest month for US/Coalition forces in the entire 8 year war in Afghanistan. Under Bush that would be front page news for a week.

I'm still shocked they allowed Bob Dyer's article about what's really happening in Akron's neighborhoods. Maybe they could do a series of stories about that, like the Vinson shooting.

WOW..he actually said this: Mendenhall said the group ''spent every dime'' and he actually needs to deposit some funds to pay an outstanding bill. The committee's ending balance on its report was $0.31.

will he deposit the funds after he pays his deadbeat dad money or the back taxes he owes that we all have to cover...you have to say one thing about the guy..he has no care about what is right for him to do..just what is right for others, if it is his way...guy is a joke

Like my dear ole Dad said..the wind blew and the s**t flew!!!!
And the taxpayer is me and you.

Wow, what a bunch of cry babies in Akron. How about you something about it yourself. there was a recall vote, and the numbers show noboy wanted him out. do you remember Akron BEFORE Don??? No Canal park, no new library, no new Art Musuem, no new Akron u apartments downtown, the city was a crud hole. it actually looks better now than ever and you are worried about campaign funds? and his income tax? Same people who blame Bush for everything and think Clinton was a god and this obama fella is doing good work.. Get over yourselves, if you want change than get off you buttand do something other than sit behind a computer screen all day crying.

Ty you've obviously never been anywhere other than downtown. Spend an afternoon in one of Akron's formerly decent working class neighborhoods. You''l be shocked ( I assume ) at the open air drug markets, boarded up houses and general disarray. Sorry for being a crybaby, but I care about Akron and want it to be a better place, for everybody. I think the Mayor obviously cares about the city but I don't like all the effort and $ spent on downtown while the neighborhoods flounder.

hey Grubby
if you are talking about the formerly "decent working class" neighborhoods, maybe you are thinking way back to the early 1900's when Goodyear thrived.
And Yes I have been in those neightborhoods, I work in those neighborhoods and the work I do I am certain i have seen much worse than you ever will in your life. I too care about Akron, but I refrain from crying a river and doing nothing about it after that.

As i said the other day, how much money did Goodyear kick back to the Don for all the money he stole from the neighborhoods to pretty up their headquarters? I'd wager that he pocketed a dollar for every political dollar he claimed. Most all of the companies listed in helping him buy his safety have also been laying off employees. Again, why would someone spend 300,000 to keep a 100,000 job? He plans to steal it all back. As for the Beacon, it isnt even an American owned company anymore. What makes you think they care what happens? They lost all their real writers to the Plain Dealer (at least those with talent), with one exception: Bob Dyer.

I guess it will take a racist gang beating or home invasion of Donny-Boi's supporters for them to realize he is doing nothing for them. They seem to feel as long as it happens to someone else, it doesnt affect me. They will still follow him to the bowels of Akron's hell, like lemmings.

Face it Akron.... you are now a bigger laughing stock than Cleveland ever was, and your Mayor is why.

Maybe Arshnikoff was behind this group of sorry losers !!!!!!! Betcha he's behind someone; or in front !!!!!!!!!!!!

Logical,
How is the mayor going to stop a "racist gang beating" from happening? Oh, since he's the mayor I guess he is a babysitter to unsupervised children.

ygogo - he might stop it by first admitting it was a racial crime, and secondly by hiring the police officers we are understaffed by that he promised BEFORE the recall attempt.

Arshinkoff & Mendenhall. What a glorious pair! ROFLMAO!

@UrbanRenaissace, is there more information than just the credit card statements, like what these trips are or who went?

the cost of not recalling the don is a dying city.

well duh...

Ask Tom Ericson, of WNIR, how much his family cost the City of Akron.

do you remember Akron BEFORE Don??? Yes little debt.Akron growing. Property not given away to Akron U.City workers doing street paving, Mayors getting along.EPA not fining akron for violations.Not wasting money on an interbelt. runnig people out their homes just to teardown the interbelt to build houses again(planning)Not telling union leaders before the recall city is in fine shape.Not 15 deputy Mayors.Not CREATING JOB FOR FIRED W A K R WORKERS AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE.Never in default.No fear of loosing your job because of mismanagement.Safe neighborhoods.Not trying to throw our problems off to private co. (Failed sewer system lease).A rolling acres mall.

@stephend6, I have talked to my family that lived in Akron pre-Plusquellic and they tell me it was not all rosy as you make it. Besides, no one can logically compare the two time periods as the area, the state, and the world have all went through drastic change in 20 years. If you are stuck on the "good ol' days", you have more than just our city administration that must be stressing you out.

Clinton working with a Republican Congress.Signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which removed Depression-era laws separating banking, insurance and brokerage activities.Dec.2007 Start seeing the affects of it.Total collapse of the markets.Bush unpaid for war.One in which had nothing to do with 9/11(Iraq).The story of today’s deficits starts in January 2001, as President Bill Clinton was leaving office. The Congressional Budget Office estimated then that the government would run an average annual surplus of more than $800 billion a year from 2009 to 2012. Today, the government is expected to run a $1.2 trillion annual deficit in those years.You can think of that roughly $2 trillion swing as coming from four broad categories: the business cycle, President George W. Bush’s policies, policies from the Bush years that are scheduled to expire but that Mr. Obama has chosen to extend, and new policies proposed by Mr. Obama.

The first category — the business cycle — accounts for 37 percent of the $2 trillion swing. It’s a reflection of the fact that both the 2001 recession and the current one reduced tax revenue, required more spending on safety-net programs and changed economists’ assumptions about how much in taxes the government would collect in future years.

About 33 percent of the swing stems from new legislation signed by Mr. Bush. That legislation, like his tax cuts and the Medicare prescription drug benefit, not only continue to cost the government but have also increased interest payments on the national debt.

Mr. Obama’s main contribution to the deficit is his extension of several Bush policies, like the Iraq war and tax cuts for households making less than $250,000. Such policies — together with the Wall Street bailout, which was signed by Mr. Bush and supported by Mr. Obama — account for 20 percent of the swing.

About 7 percent comes from the stimulus bill that Mr. Obama signed in February. And only 3 percent comes from Mr. Obama’s agenda on health care, education, energy and other areas.

If the analysis is extended further into the future, well beyond 2012, the Obama agenda accounts for only a slightly higher share of the projected deficits.

How can that be? Some of his proposals, like a plan to put a price on carbon emissions, don’t cost the government any money. Others would be partly offset by proposed tax increases on the affluent and spending cuts. Congressional and White House aides agree that no large new programs, like an expansion of health insurance, are likely to pass unless they are paid for.Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an author of a widely cited study on the dangers of the current deficits, describes the situation like so: “Bush behaved incredibly irresponsibly for eight years.
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: June 9, 2009

TyDurden:stated:do you remember Akron BEFORE Don???
Same people who blame Bush for everything and think Clinton was a god and this obama fella is doing good work.Questioned answered.

Why don't Donny's fatcats pay off the election costs now if they care about the community and not the next city contact they are bidding on??

It took President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933-1945 to get us totally out of the depression.But Obama six months,Or he is not doing great job.WITH THE SAME REPUBLICAN PARTY OPPOSING HIM.If the REPUBLICANS would have had their way:No F D I C. No social security.(because it is socialism).No unemployment insurance.No Glass-Steagall Act (1933).An AMA recording by Ronald Reagan, "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine," was part of the organization's "brilliant effort to encourage opponents of the Anderson-King Bill to write to senators and representatives urging that they vote against the proposal." [Page 61] At the end of the recording, Reagan urged listeners to write to their congressional representative because otherwise, "we will awake to find that we have socialism." NO NOT OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN. MEDICARE. SOUNDS FORMILOR DOSN'T IT.

LOL! Fail!

$110 to The Country Diner? Sounds shady to me. Someone needs to check that out.

all this did was make king don richer... and you fools love that crook.

Gain Some, Unfortunately, Donny destroys all his receipts to cover his tracks which is a violation of public record law. He fails to record meals, hotels, and plane flights on his Ohio Ethic's Reprot, again to cover his tracks and again against the law. He doesn't pay tax on the money he shifts from his campaign to his personal use in violation of tax laws. We are reporting all findings to various law enforcement agencies.

We are attempting to get more documents from Board of Elections, but we are being stonewalled by political hack, Executive Director Marijean Donafrio and her leader and Board member and Roetzel Attorney, Political Lobbyist, Wayne "The Wiener" Jones.

The Beacon claims they are too busy with council election endorsements to write a story, which is comical since all they are going to do is rubber stamp the rubber stampers (council). If the Beacon does not go along with Don's agenda, all H breaks loose.

People vote with their feet and Akron is a prime example.

Marijean get us those 2008 Travel Expenditures from the Don the people want to know

TyDurden:stated:do you remember Akron BEFORE Don??? Where Copley Rd.ended and Maple St. began was akron/.West hill and Kenmore ws considered suburb.Some of my neighbors where VP of companies. Professionals lived on Wildwood and all over Ward 4.Buchtel was the best School in the State.Eighty to Ninty percent of all scholarships came to this school.Buchtel students was on academic challenge.You could not teach there unless you had your masters.Buchtel sent students and paid all four years to harvard university.Here come Don with his interbelt project.Moved all the slum from the bottom of the hill to west hill /kenmore where by no other means they could afford.Now look at it. WILDWOOD is now known for it's name wild. Buchtel (ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK) Don with his interbelt project did this .But don't blame the Don. And now ward 8 is turning.

Don had his post recall bash at Musica, someone ought to check it out. Seems shady.

@McDonald, first if everything you state is true he would be charged. So far, you have not provided enough evidence. If you want people to vote with you, you better provide evidence or it just becomes rumors.

www.countrydinerwatch.org

Gain, I provide the documentation to the respective agencies. It is all there ready to charge him, that does not mean they will. As you
know, Don has a lot of weight in Akron, Summit and the State. Example, Jimmy Dimora in Cuyahaoga County. The evidence is there, but he has not been charged, YET. We all know that Jimmy has a lot of weight.

OjOj (TT) You crackin me up. Lunch at the Diner tomorrow?

Gain, Donny took a fanstatic trip to LA to attend a conference of Mayor's bash. Donny can't float his entourage payments out of the city treasury, so he uses his campaign fund. He labels his entourage travel on his campaign reports as "travel expenses" he does not itemise as required. The political hack, Rose Deborg, who revies these reports lets Donny slide. One of the speakers in LA was convict Detroit Mayor and the other was rejected Obama cabinet member, Bill Richardson, along with the White House silverware stealer, HiLIARy.

On April 17, 2008, Donny's campaign fund was short, so he went to the Summit County Democratic Party to fund his credit card payment. The SCDP wrote him a donation of $5000. and on the same day the Plusquellic Campaign issued a check to First Merit for Donny's campaign Visa in the amount of $4500.

Both checks were signed by an excutive of the SCDP.
It has happend more than twice.

Gain, Donny can't shake the paper trail.

@McDonald, if your "documentation" is only those credit card statements, good luck. The statements alone prove no wrong doing.

McDonald:WISE SAYINGS From the wisest man who ever lived.Proverbs 26:4 (Contemporary English Version)
4Don't make a fool of yourself

by answering a fool.

Proverbs 26:4 (American Standard Version)

4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

Proverbs 26:4 (New International Reader's Version)

4 Don't answer a foolish person in keeping with his foolish acts.
If you do, you will be like him yourself.


<< Proverbs 29:9

When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.

Sorry to disappoint you Gain, but I have much more. You are aware that fedral agencies can identify passengers by credit card receipts, aren't you. All I must show, which I have, is that Donny purchased tickets for the same flights using the city and the campaign, claiming both were his expense. It is a done deal.

Stephen6, looks like I don't have go to Mass today.
I am educating, not just for Gain's benefit but for others as well since the Beacon is not monitoring this week.

McDonaldYou cannot educate a fool like Gain.Already been tried and failed so many times by so many people.A waste of good typing and knowledge.Like Jimmy Dimora in Cuyahaoga County.The FBI WILL COME AND THE TRUTH WILL BE KNOWN.And a person like that will argue with the FBI with Akron web sites as facts.

ABJ like others are in the mayors pocket.GODFATHER DON IS KNOWN FOR HIS PAYBACKS TO HIS LOYAL CLONNIES. LIKE Don Rickles said about Frank Sinatra.They asked the Pope to make you a Cardinal. THAT WAY ALL WE HAVE TO KISS IS YOUR RING.

Stephen6, Gain has shut his uneducated trap-have a peaceful evening. I have windows to wash.

sunnnnnnnnnnnn...ORE!

@Logical,
It was the police who were afraid to admit it was a racial crime. Second, it doesn't matter how many police you have. Why don't you castrate the parents of those children in the same light as the people who actually try to protect us?

McDonald,

Sorry, my employer isn't as generous as Larry. I'll be at work tomorrow.

OJOJ You want to work for Larry instead of Donny?

Kenmore Construction of Akron, with $3,500. - why shouldn't they? T Hey get all of the contracts from don baby. they just gave him the money the people of akron paid them for all of their crappy road repairs. they need to keep don in office so they can keep those easy contracts.

@McDonald, good luck. It seems like to crack anyone in politics it takes sometimes too much. If the ABJ will not run a story, follow up with the PD.

@stephend6, I do not need educated. I respect McDonald's efforts. They have facts and data they want to share. They are willing to discuss. All you do is come on here and post rumors, proverbs, and bible passages. Their posts are legitimate and are based in substance.

@stephend6, education takes facts and you never post any. All you do his post rumors and in some cases statements that can be taken as slander and libel.

McDonald:Stephen6, Gain has shut his uneducated trap-have a peaceful evening.WELL SAID GOODNIGHT,

@McDonald, why the nastiness? I did nothing to insult you and just wanted to know what information you had. If you have actual data and facts that is great. That is how I decide my views on the mayor and city actions, unlike people like stephend6 who only post unproven comments.

Gain, you are another tote boy for the mayor. You have seen actual data and you still refuse to digest, can't do more than that with a tote boy.

So I kept hearing from the city and several people who comment here about how much this cost the city. Let see, they raised nearly $300,000 in donations. Looks like it didn't them much. Talk about misdirected reporting.

McD,

Can I still keep my Deputy Mayor title?

McDonald;Now you see what I and everyone else sees.King Solomon was known for his wisdom, his wealth and his writings for close to six thousand years now. facts that stands the test of time.Something Gain will never understand.Thank you for waking up.(WITH WISDOM IN YOUR CUP).

@McDonald, so far I have not seen evidence that points to wring doing. If I had, he would be convicted for his actions.

Credit card statements alone are not evidence of wrong doing. It takes other documents and evidence to pull everything together.

I was just asking you what other information you had. I am not supporting the mayor. If you read my comments, I did not say he was innocent or guilty. I wanted to see what other analysis and information your accumulated and analyzed.

Rather than sharing your information and analysis, so that I or others can support your view, you have decided that name calling is your method of communication. You are demonstrating the same technique and the reason that the recall failed. You cannot post a single document and hope people make the same analysis of it as you. And name calling really does not gain support. I would think the mayor has proved that to you already.

@Karykzen, the money raised was NOT for the city. The city still had expenses. The money raised mentioned this article was solely in support of the mayor and related advertising.

Warner Mendenhall contributed $750 to the pro-recall campaign? WTF, this guy owes thousands of dollars in back taxes , why does he have any money left to donate to anything? What a crook!

According to McDonald there is plenty of evidence, and it has all been produced. So just like the Cuyahoga County case we should start seeing reports of the FBI involvment. Serving search warrants at offices and homes of city/county offficials. Seizing records. People being charged and agreeing to cooperate with the investigation of "Mr Big" (Mayor Don). Yep, I'm sure it will be on the 11 o'clock news tonight. Or does the mayor control all the local major network news stations too?

Gain some, great reply to Karykzen, I couldn't believe somebody read this article and thought that the city collected $300,000.

That last post about McDonalds "evidence" was my me, "Steve", in case somebody gets in a lather about people posting without leaving their name. The ohio.com comments site does this occassionally.

Karykzen. According to some people the Mayor is the city.It will not survive without him.So I can see why a person can get confused.like I posted on 10:13 AM, 08/02/2009. My family moved on the west side (ward 4)in 1969.I've seen what Don policies has done to ward 4 and now (ward 8).Him and Marco was fighting Mike Williams about the noise ordinance stating Mike and others was picking on the black kids.because people did not want to hear that noise from their cars(Some of them 4-5 city blocks it could be heard)It was reported by HOWIE on W N I R That MARCO pushed some lady in the public meeting.HOWIE and our west side block club went down to the next monday meeting.HOWIE told Marco push me like you pushed that lady that called in to my show.I told him he better start worrying about getting bodies in his funeral home and stop acting stupid about picking on these black kids,People have to work.We got it passed that night with an 30day start period.See I don't have to ask any family members. I was there.