Pat DeWine has earned a spot on our Wall of Shame. Our Central Committee has unanimously awarded DeWine our 2007 Enemy of the Treasury Award for his role in opposing tax increases. This was an easy decision. No other official has done more in 2007 than DeWine to oppose higher taxes.
DeWine's 2007 anti-tax record speaks for itself. DeWine voted against Todd Portune and David Pepper's Sales Tax increase to pay for a new jail and add hundreds of millions to the county's general fund. Then that fool even joined forces with others and collected 57,000 signatures to let the citizens vote on the issue. The nerve of DeWine.
We do not elect officeholders to empower the citizens. We elect them to raise taxes and obey the party bosses.
Even worse, DeWine spent the rest of the year campaigning against the Simon's Sales Tax hike and he was victorious. Thanks to DeWine our Sales Tax is only 6.5% instead of 7.0%.
Later DeWine opposed the County Administrator's suggestion to raise the Sales Tax anyways and he opposed repealing a property tax break promised to residents for supporting the Bengals Stadium deal. As you can see DeWine has a terrible record of opposing the tax increases sought by Bill Seitz, Simon Leis, Bob Mecklenborg, George Vincent, Leslie Ghiz, Bob Bedinghaus, and Bob Taft. He has earned our award.
We are glad to see DeWine not running for County Commissioner again. This is a great victory for the tax hikers across the county. Unfortunately for us he is running for Judge.
We are afraid if DeWine is elected he will use his position to advocate for cost cutting in the judiciary. Our county's judicial branch has always operated without scrutiny. It should remain that way. We need to keep DeWine out so he doesn't have a chance to let the public see how they really operate.
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Opposing taxes once is bad enough. Defending the taxpayers 3,4,5 times though - in a single year- is unforgiveable. DeWine must be stopped! We cannot let him bring his fiscal conservatism to the courthouse.
What's more - he'll be a fair and impartial judge. We must have judges who dutifully follow Party orders!
-Bob Taft
Good post. I am also disgusted at the way Pat DeWine has opposed higher taxes. Jean Schmidt and the Republicans who supported Issue 27 are right....we need more taxes!
Vote for higher taxes - vote for Jean Schmidt and against Pat DeWine. I will continue my crusade to elect politicians who have raised our taxes.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the last time I checked The Republican Party was against higher taxes. So therefore, the Republicans for Higher Taxes are Democrats.
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