By Tired of Political Jones

December 8, 2010 2:42 PM | Link to this

I think Jones needs to make his administration take a paycut and get rid of things that the County provides for him. Example lawyers, a Dog Warden too name a couple. Also why have two jails if we lost contract to house prisoners. Layoffs of Deputies should be the last thing he does we need to keep the streets safe. Also why am I a taxpayer paying for their drycleaning? I’ve seen their salaries and they make more than I do and my company doesn’t pay for my suits to be dry cleaned why should I pay for theirs?

By Tired of Political Jones

December 8, 2010 2:42 PM | Link to this

I think Jones needs to make his administration take a paycut and get rid of things that the County provides for him. Example lawyers, a Dog Warden too name a couple. Also why have two jails if we lost contract to house prisoners. Layoffs of Deputies should be the last thing he does we need to keep the streets safe. Also why am I a taxpayer paying for their drycleaning? I’ve seen their salaries and they make more than I do and my company doesn’t pay for my suits to be dry cleaned why should I pay for theirs?

By Wallace

December 8, 2010 8:46 PM | Link to this

The sheriff needs to cut the frills and non essential services. Bomb Squad, helicopter, dog warden, ICE investigators, attorneys’, and water patrol. Just give us basic law enforcement

By Tea Bagger Misery

December 8, 2010 9:53 PM | Link to this

This is what happens when pure-bred, conservative politicians run amok. They have bankruped the County and have it sliding towards complete decay, all the while am radio robots are ebabling them with pipe dreams of fiscal responsibility. We’re all paying for the failures of right wing politicians.

By wesley

December 9, 2010 12:59 PM | Link to this

Misery- these guys are not pure bred conservatives, not even close. They are commonly known as RINO’s Republican in name only. Some were even Democrats before they switched over. Dry-cleaning at taxpayer expense is NOT fiscal responsibility.

By No Tax Increase

December 9, 2010 2:23 PM | Link to this

Everyone keeps talking about “guys” and “politicians” in the plural. The only official to call for a tax increase is “SHERIFF RICHARD K. JONES”.

By gordon thomas

December 10, 2010 12:28 AM | Link to this

When Mr. Jones and his top staff take pay cuts, only then will I believe anything he says.

By Big Spender Jones

December 10, 2010 3:39 PM | Link to this

One needs only to look at the top five salaries in the Sheriff’s Office to know just how much money Jones is wasting.

By Public needs to know the truth

December 10, 2010 5:32 PM | Link to this

Mr.Jones is going to cut Deputies to save his friends. There are at least 10-15 non-essential positions that cost over a million dollars. Mr. Jones has been cutting deputies instead of the fat in his budget. He is willing to jeopardize the public and his remaining deputies safety. He wants the public out cry so the commissioners will be pressured into pumpimg play money into his yearly budget.

By Tea Bagger Misery

December 11, 2010 8:11 AM | Link to this

Jones et. al. are the classic right wing politicians. They wrap themselves in American flags, spout empty rhetoric about fiscal responsibility, demeanize some social or racial group to stimulate the hate genes in much of the voting masses, and then live like potentates while society flounders around them. Butler County is just a microcosm of Kentucky, Alabama and frankly the rest of Ohio is sure to follow now that right ringers totally run the state. Forget basic services. We’ll all have rampant crime, no street/road maintenance, no fire protection, bankrupt schools and no good-paying jobs, since there will be no infrastructure. But heck, we’ll all being saving a fraction of a percent on our taxes for our Dollar General jobs.

By the don

December 11, 2010 1:29 PM | Link to this

Its really simple get rid of the terminal disease——-called goverment unions and the problem is gone. fire the union garbage and rehire——-all private business non union. The unions are nothing but bloated, over-paid,over-bennifited, under-worked, goverment crybabies———-get rid of all of them——-

By Sick of Rick

December 11, 2010 9:00 PM | Link to this

Tell me sheriff, how many administrative people have you cut in your office. How are those desk jockeys keeping us safe,

By Fed up

December 12, 2010 7:10 PM | Link to this

I agree with ALL these people. Enough is enough. Let them drop their 6 figure salaries a bit. And for God’s sakes get the darn unions out of the workforce! Government unions are indeed a lot of spoiled city workers that have gotten everything they cry for and “then” some, while they dodge the unemployment line, unlike many of the rest of us.

By RINOT

December 12, 2010 7:31 PM | Link to this

NO. The answer is not to cut the Union’s. Unions are the only protection that government employees have. I have two friends who have worked for a village police department for years. One was a Lieutenant The village levy failed and they lost their jobs with a 1 hour notice. If the levy passes later, they are not reinstatable and can’t even apply for their old job because you have to be a part time officer, which they were not offered. That’s what no union did for them. Cut the bloated administration, double dippers and frill positions. But, leave the rank and file alone to do their jobs.

By tiredofstupidpeople

December 12, 2010 9:05 PM | Link to this

What the general public does not know is that the Sheriff has so many non-essential employees on his payroll (double-dippers, lawyers, financial directors, dog wardens) that he is choosing to keep, and laying off road patrol deputies. Not to mention the six-figure salaries his administration makes. The scariest part is, the Sheriff is housing contract prisoners that have housing priority over the criminals of this county who should be in jail. Sheriff, it isn’t your lawyers, financial directors, or double-dippers that get you re-elected and on the news, it is the people you are laying off, the deputies that actually deal with the public. I am sure that every tax payer and voter appreciates you keeping your top heavy, redundant staff, and laying off the people that actually come when they need help. Keep up the good work, hope that uniform fits and there is still someone around to train you on how to answer calls, since you have never been a real cop and all.

By tiredofstupidpeople

December 12, 2010 9:05 PM | Link to this

What the general public does not know is that the Sheriff has so many non-essential employees on his payroll (double-dippers, lawyers, financial directors, dog wardens) that he is choosing to keep, and laying off road patrol deputies. Not to mention the six-figure salaries his administration makes. The scariest part is, the Sheriff is housing contract prisoners that have housing priority over the criminals of this county who should be in jail. Sheriff, it isn’t your lawyers, financial directors, or double-dippers that get you re-elected and on the news, it is the people you are laying off, the deputies that actually deal with the public. I am sure that every tax payer and voter appreciates you keeping your top heavy, redundant staff, and laying off the people that actually come when they need help. Keep up the good work, hope that uniform fits and there is still someone around to train you on how to answer calls, since you have never been a real cop and all.

By Truth Matters

December 13, 2010 8:15 AM | Link to this

If blogs are now the only space for Butler County political discussion, then this fits………“It comes as no surprise that some readers responded to my factual, issue-based letter to the editor” writes Justin Coussoule on December 10. And yet, Coussoule continues to lie by writing it. The simplest proof is taxation as when Obama signed ObamaCare into law raised taxes. Why Coussoule continues to take liberty with the truth is anyone’s guess, though he did it in his campaign too – one of many reasons why voters soundly thrashed him at the polls. Coussoule also writes to “play fair and play tough” but what he excludes is that all should start with the truth first, a quality he obviously struggles with most.

By Jim

December 13, 2010 12:51 PM | Link to this

To Truth Matters: Justin Coussoule is right. Mike Fox writes a letter to the editor, wraps himself in the flag, tries to portray himself as some kind of defense hawk. I’ve read much about Fox, but never recall a bio indicating that he served in the military [unlike Coussoule], despite the fact that he was a young man during much of the Vietnam War. What is even more gulling is that he is lecturing us while he is under federal indictment for alleged crimes committed while he was serving us as an elected official – a fact glaringly absent from the short bio given him by the newspaper. If the indictment is true, he stole hundred of thousands of dollars from us through bribes and kickbacks, all the while labeling his opponents as tax and spend liberals. Mr. Truth Matters, those are exactly the kind of lies Mr. Coussoule is talking about.

By Sheriffs a "Richard"

December 14, 2010 10:42 PM | Link to this

How about all those donut eating double dippers hes got running around sucking up money from the BCSO, when they are already collecting a hefty pension from elsewhere. Heres a hint: All you overweight, useless, old dudes that are taking these jobs away from the guys that are laid off, that could clearly give more to the department than you can, STEP DOWN and do the right thing.

By Brenda Cox

December 14, 2010 11:19 PM | Link to this

We have to many Chiefs and not enough Indians. When will Sheriff Jones cut from the top. Take cuts from the offices and not the road we need our protection not people sitting in offices. Cut the fat

By Doug

December 15, 2010 10:23 PM | Link to this

Everyone needs to wakeup and realize that Jones does not care about anyone but Richard K Jones. Let’s keep electing this big government and high tax politician or we could elect someone to provide law enforcement.

By wsj

December 21, 2010 4:04 PM | Link to this

I have heard that same rumor about retired double dippers hanging around at taxpayer expense. Hope that one isn’t true! Can’t anyone else stand up and run against Jones? We need to get back to basics.

By not a rumor

December 27, 2010 11:03 PM | Link to this

WSJ..unfortunately that is NOT a rumor about the double-dippers being on the payroll at the sheriff’s office. there are multiple retired double-dippers making 50k+ a year while young deputies with families and mortgages are being laid off. the sheriff has his fair share of fiduciary employees.