Thanks for posting this Lee--FitzGerald and the whole Dem machine in town will still not blow the whistle because the chain of command goes right to the top. 

Meanwhile, fake Dem Rokakis, the Land Bank, and banks like Wells Fargo continue to get a pretty cover up by the PD and now NPR.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/08/tug-of-war_over_land_bank_boar.html

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Kill the Land Bank.

The county taxpayers can not continue to pay for grass cutting, board-ups, maintenance, insurance, repairs, and safeguarding of the 100's of properties in the county landbank.

The landbank was created to keep property out of the hands of irresponsible out-of-state investors. The same irresponsible out of state investors that the county itself invited in the county via delinquent property tax lien purchases- minus any bidding process.

Public officials are responsible for much of the foreclosure crisis in Cuyahoga County by allowing tax lien purchasers to purchase delinquent tax liens and forcing 100's of people from their homes. After forcing folks from their homes, the tax purchasers greatly contributed to blight and vacant homes; however the tax lien companies did not contribute to the property tax collectors since they do not pay their own property taxes.

Property in the land bank also does not generate any property taxes.

Public officials are also responsible for the Afford -a -Home scandal that left behind numerous vacant properties in the county.

Now the same officials responsible for creating the blight and greatly contributing to the foreclosure crisis wants to correct the mess that they themselves created.

The county has issues maintaining the property that they already own.

Tax payers do not want to be responsible for paying for the 100's of properties in the land bank.

Let the free market take over. The less government control over anything-the better.

The entire tax lien sale to create the land bank was plagued with questions and concerns by people inside as well as outside the government. Early in the process " Bill Day" a laywer and CPA and clearly the brightest mind at the Georgia Tax Lien service identified extreme and improper large amounts of money not quite going to where it was intended to be going. When the well meaning MR.Day relayed his concerns with his superiors, he was immediately fired. This decision was made my jimmy "the creep" Rokakis. Millions of dollars flowed in the coffers of Resouce Title, owned by very large Rokakis contributor Richard Renell. Check out the campaign contribution filings at the Board of Elections. That will give you an idea on how our county is so broke. No raises for us workers for another two years.

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