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The mayor’s wife is ‘not impressed’
Someone just brought it to my attention that Vickie Ryan, wife of Hamilton Mayor Don Ryan, has her own blog. And her most recent post is about the Butler County commissioners considering following the lead of Commissioner Charles Furmon and cutting their own pay.
An excerpt:
And wouldn’t you know it, the very day I could make it all about me and my fascination with this date, one of our County Commissioners gets the press because he’s “on board” with another Commissioner who has already taken a pay cut. The “on board” Commissioner may have thought about this before. He probably waited to see what the other commissioners would do, if anyone would take notice. People sure did take notice and now he’s all for it. I am not impressed.
What would impress me is this: if every past County Commissioner (the “on board” Commissioner included) whose private job was involved in land development (realty, building, development) would give back their salaries for every year in their terms decisions were made that profited their own private businesses. Their “salary” for those terms (which they deserve) would be the business profit they gained from those decisions. How many aces of land were changed from farming to residential and business? How many subdivisions were built and roads widened? How many homes were sold and resold? It was double dipping of a different sort but this would right the wrong (ethical if not legal.) This is just my opinion, of course, one of those 09/09/09 things that just didn’t occur to me or anyone else until it was staring us in the face.
According to the dictionary a “nine days’ wonder” is “anything that arouses great excitement and interest, but only for a short time.” 09/09/09 is one of those things. Being on board for a personal pay cut may or may not be one of those things (if I had made a million from the county I might give part of it back. I’d think about it for sure.) Let’s just hope that the new scrutiny of who is in office and what they are doing in office isn’t a nine days’ wonder.
Your thoughts?
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By just a guy
September 9, 2009 7:30 PM | Link to this
I don’t know Vickie Ryan but I know she speaks the truth
By just a guy
September 9, 2009 7:31 PM | Link to this
I don’t know Vickie Ryan but I know she speaks the truth
By RP McMurphy
September 10, 2009 4:08 AM | Link to this
I don’t know Vickie Ryan but I do know that her husband hasn’t offered any money back to the City of Hamilton. How about the royal screwing the taxpayers took over some real estate transactions involving Mayor Ryan?
By Bill
September 10, 2009 2:09 PM | Link to this
My question is why is the Journal News publishing the mayor’s wife’s editorial as news?
By slightly right
September 10, 2009 9:01 PM | Link to this
It seems that the days of holding public office as a dedicated politician who’s only interest is whats best for all are over. Whats just as sad is the extremes some folks will go to to attack well meaning politicians doing their jobs. While all this vile and venom is taking place, the important issues at hand are taking a back seat. If we are waiting for a perfect sparkling clean individual to take public office, we will waiting forever. Its the voters responsibility to learn about the candidate before they are elected, not go headhunting for entertainment afterwards.
By slightly right
September 10, 2009 9:01 PM | Link to this
It seems that the days of holding public office as a dedicated politician who’s only interest is whats best for all are over. Whats just as sad is the extremes some folks will go to to attack well meaning politicians doing their jobs. While all this vile and venom is taking place, the important issues at hand are taking a back seat. If we are waiting for a perfect sparkling clean individual to take public office, we will waiting forever. Its the voters responsibility to learn about the candidate before they are elected, not go headhunting for entertainment afterwards.
By slightly right
September 10, 2009 9:02 PM | Link to this
It seems that the days of holding public office as a dedicated politician who’s only interest is whats best for all are over. Whats just as sad is the extremes some folks will go to to attack well meaning politicians doing their jobs. While all this vile and venom is taking place, the important issues at hand are taking a back seat. If we are waiting for a perfect sparkling clean individual to take public office, we will waiting forever. Its the voters responsibility to learn about the candidate before they are elected, not go headhunting for entertainment afterwards.
By Bob Thomas
September 21, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this
I don’t honestly think that Vickie or Don Ryan , have anything to spout-off about . Concerning any other politician , either now serving , or those who have served in the past , in the city or the county . Mayor Ryan….didn’t do any favors ,other than personal gain for himself . In his reality dealings on the third street extension property ,he sold to the city of Hamilton . He used his political position / connections , to gain information that he personally profited from . As I’m sure he did also….when he bought and renovated his families downtown restaurant . There are very few….politicians today . That are politicians , dedicated to the betterment of the majority . Most of them , have ulterior motives . Aimed at personal or political party gain….of some type .