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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Boehner on Cunningham’s show
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., was on 700 WLW today with Willie Cunningham.
The interview in Cincinnati was about a number of topics, including “how the new majority is working to create a better environment for economic growth by cutting spending and removing government barriers to job creation.”
According to the blog posting by Boehner’s staff, the Speaker: “emphasized that ‘you’re going to see this Congress cut, cut, cut’ spending.”
Other themes from the interview include Boehner saying:
“Deficit spending ‘is causing job creators in America to hold back’ “
” ‘We have to reduce the uncertainty’ ” that’s making employers ‘scared to death to invest’ “
“We’re going to meet our commitments” regarding cutting spending.
Check out the Speaker’s blog posting and audio links to the interview.
Tell me what you think.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A reference to the Jan. 13 article on the EMA was included due to questions posted in the commenting section. This posting was updated at 4:11 p.m. Feb. 8.
Tonight there will be a new county prosecutor and there may be a new fee for townships to pay to the county Emergency Management Agency.
The Butler County GOP central committee will name either assistant county prosecutor Jason Phillabaum, defense attorney Michael T. Gmoser, former Butler County assistant prosecutor Lance Salyers and West Chester Twp. Police Chief and attorney Erik Niehaus as the successor to Robin Piper, who is now on the bench of the 12th District Court of Appeals.
This race has been contentious, as evident by this blog post. Comments got so out of hand they, the commenting feature was turned off. This also demonstrates the courage of anonymity — anybody will and can say anything so long as they don’t have to give their name.
The other issue is the fact that the Butler County EMA board will vote tonight, Feb. 8, (or at least expected to vote tonight) if the townships will pay into the EMA. The county had paid the townships’ share, but have not in the last few years. It’s unclear if there’s any document saying the county is supposed to be doing this. The county already pays for the capital expenses — such as the hazmat equipment.
A Jan. 13 story on this topic sheds some light as to why they funding increase is needed. As stated in the story:
This lack of funding has put the agency in a predicament considering the board would like to hire a deputy director in the near future. The need to seek this added — or makeup — revenue is because the county EMA must provide a 50 percent match toward its emergency management performance grant, and by 2012 that would be in jeopardy, said county EMA Director Jeff Galloway.
Fairfield Mayor Ron D’Epifanio was the one who brought this issue to the EMA’s executive board. He said it isn’t fair townships reap the rewards without paying into it — though admits it’s not the townships’ fault if the county didn’t pay into it for them (assuming that was indeed the agreement).
Now the advisory board is expected tonight to decide if the townships will pay into it, or go it alone — meaning they won’t use the EMA’s services. And by statute a community must have EMA services, either provided by another agency or its own. Any payment to the county EMA — which the cities already pay — is per capita. If OK’d, the townships would begin paying the EMA in 2012 at roughly 40 cents per resident.
What are your thoughts (and remember, please keep it civil)?
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