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May
9
Christian Sodomite Bishop to Wed Partner
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Those terms reveal the sorid state of the Episcopal Church. Such libs have decimated the meaning of the Bible much like libs have destroyed (or tried). They not only flaunt it but promote Christianity as being nothing more than living like the world. Certainly more people are starting to notice that there is something seriously wrong with the churches in America. In his interview Robinson compared himself to Jesus and the prophets who suffered for his genuine love. The interview on the morning show questioned him about the 100 congregations or so that were pulling away. Robinson pointed out that among nearly 8,000 congregations that is a small amount.
Robinson is right. Little will be done and his actions will be seen as normal for Christianity to live the loving Sodomite lifestyle. But what difference does it really make. Adultery, immorality and homosexuality are all symptons of the same problem. People are holding on to religion while doing what comes natural… not supernatural.Now love for God is equated with love of the flesh.
Pic and content from Times Online
“I always wanted to be a June bride.” As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I knew there’d be trouble. I’d just delivered an hour-long lecture on the relationship between religion and public discourse, and why religious fervour over homosexuality plays such a large and negative role in the securing of full civil rights for gay people.
During the question-and-answer period, someone asked me about the forthcoming civil union between me and Mark, my partner of 20 years. The audience had been welcoming and sympathetic, full of laughter and understanding, and for one moment, I forgot that the C-SPAN cameras were rolling and that every word I said would be parsed by my critics. Within hours, those eight words had made it around the world, thanks to conservative bloggers and the magic of the internet.
No context; nothing about the preceding hour of carefully constructed comments; nothing about my defence of - and love for - the Scriptures; nothing about the loving God to whom I constantly pointed. Just this one sentence.
May
9
Allen County Finances Better than Expected
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Brighter news than expected. The numbers seem to reveal a better situation than one might have expected with all the economy issues and higher gas/engery prices.
LIMA - National economic news might be bad, but that doesn’t appear to be keeping Allen County residents from spending.
Allen County Auditor Rhonda Eddy presented on Thursday the county’s financial statements for the first quarter of 2008. Among the surprises was an increase in sales tax revenue of more than $338,000 compared with the same period last year. That number represents 1 percent of sales in the county during the last quarter of 2007, which covers October through December. The increase, along with a considerable carryover from 2007 and $400,000 shifted from the county port authority to the general fund, gave the county a positive start for the year.
“Overall, if you look at the revenue, particularly the sales tax, it’s better than I expected,” Eddy said. “Even with all the encumbrances, we’re still better off than we were in the first half of last year.”
The numbers received a big boost from a $3.4 million carryover from last year. That was an increase of more than $1 million compared with the previous year carryover. Still, the numbers, particularly the increase in sales tax, gave the commissioners cause for optimism.
“I think it shows that all the doom and gloom surrounding us really hasn’t shown up here,” said Commissioner Sam Bassitt. “It also illustrates the efforts we’ve made as a community to show we have a strong economy,”
The numbers weren’t all good.
Property taxes were down $30,000 compared to last year. Local government funds dipped by $91,000. And charges for services dropped by $275,000, much of which was attributed to a reduction in property transfer fees.
“Less people are buying homes. That means fewer transfer fees for the county. Those start to add up,” Eddy said.
Property taxes are down and transfer fees are also down. As the Auditor pointed out this will add up. How will the economy hold up with rising gas prices, possibly less travel, less shopping and cost of gas for the local government? Time alone will tell. At least the news wasn’t terrible at the moment.
May
9
Russia, China and now the United States. One is not really any longer free to practice their faith. It is an individual thought system that cannot enter the public arena. Case in point. Christian photographer refused to do a gay wedding. It was taken not to a court but a “Human Rights Commissionn” in New Mexico. The appeal may take a First Amendment approach but I wonder when ministers will be forced to comply. What difference is there between a Christian who takes photos and a Christian who does weddings? Only the world sees a difference. Full article here.
Christian Photog Sued by Same-Sex Couple
CBNNews.com - A Christian photographer in New Mexico was found guilty last week of breaking state law for refusing to take pictures of a lesbian ceremony.
Elaine Huguenin of Elane Photography was contacted in 2006 by a same-sex couple wanting pictures taken of their “commitment ceremony.”
After Huguenin told them she only photographed traditional marriages, the couple filed a complaint for discrimination against their sexual orientation.
The case was taken before the New Mexico Human Rights Commission, which heard the case in January.
On Wednesday, the state commission ruled that Huguenin violated the state’s Human Rights Act. An order was issued for the photographer to pay close to $7,000 for the couple’s attorney’s fees.
The Christian-based Alliance Defense Fund plans to appeal the ruling.
“Christians in the marketplace should not be penalized for abiding by their beliefs anymore than anyone else should,” ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence said. “The Constitution prohibits the state from forcing unwilling people to promote a message they disagree with and thereby violate their conscience.
May
8
Carnival of Ohio Politics #116
May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Carnival of Ohio Politics #116
Love v. Lust - a good theme for this week’s 116th edition of the Carnival, especially as rendered by none other than William Shakerspeare in his Sonnet 116:
| Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
| Admit impediments. Love is not love |
| Which alters when it alteration finds, |
| Or bends with the remover to remove: |
| O no! it is an ever-fixed mark |
| That looks on tempests and is never shaken; |
| It is the star to every wandering bark, |
| Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. |
| Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks |
| Within his bending sickle’s compass come: |
| Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, |
| But bears it out even to the edge of doom. |
| If this be error and upon me proved, |
| I never writ, nor no man ever loved. |
May
6
Pic and clip: Dispatch: In an e-mail sent to his entire staff last Friday, Dann said, “We have all endured a lot in the past few weeks and today, after Sen. Ben Espy issued his report, I stood up and took responsibility for the report’s findings, apologized for my mistakes, and made changes to ensure that the administration of this office better supports the great work you all are doing.”
More from the AP. Appears that Dann is the third such Dem in a high profile scandel just recently. One Dem spoke to me saying… “You mean just like the Republicans?” Like that is their excuse. I say clean house anytime you got this kind of stupidity in office regardless of who is in office.
Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland said Monday that Dann’s refusal to submit to the pressure — including a threat by the Ohio Democratic Party to revoke its endorsement — means Democrats will move forward to impeach him. Republican House Speaker Jon Husted said that his chamber, which takes the first step in any impeachment, was already reviewing the process.
“I think it’s important for Democrats to send a very clear message that we will clean our own house,” Strickland said. Democrats’ calls for Dann to resign were applauded by Republicans, adding a new twist to Strickland’s reputation for bipartisan cooperation.
Dann is the third high-ranking Democratic official around the country to be marred by sexual scandal in recent months.
There were several ways Dann could screw up this job. It appears he has found more than one.
May
5
Always interesting. Especially when you find no coincidences in life. HT to the great Atlas who simply shrugs at the stupidity of it all.
Pic and Post From NY Post: May 4, 2008 — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner - after the man sought Wright’s help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends.
Delmer Reed, 59, confided to pals that he believed the minister moved in on his wife while Wright was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 1980s, The Post has learned.
“That’s exactly how he said it,” Reed’s divorce lawyer, Roosevelt Thomas, told The Post.
“It looks like Delmer might have been right,” he said, because after Delmer and Ramah Reed were divorced, she got remarried - to Wright. “Either that or this was the biggest coincidence in the world.”
May
2
ABC blames Mexican Violence on 2nd Amendment
May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Perhaps the uninformed will buy this sloop served hot by ABC. I won’t eat it and neither should you. ABC actually blames the second amendment for the violence in Mexican. Their logic is that since the “average” citizen can’t get guns in Mexico they come here to get them… that’s why there is violence going on in Mexico. Hold on a second. The average citizen isn’t the element we are talking about. The drug cartel isn’t in need of American gun shops. Even if American gun shops didn’t exist do you really believe they couldn’t get guns? If you believe that you are dumber than the article writer.
Pic and content: ABC “It’s a war going on in Mexico, and these types of firearms are the weapons of war for them,” said Bill Newell, the special agent in charge of the Phoenix field division of the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has primary law enforcement jurisdiction for investigating gun trafficking to Mexico.
“It’s virtually impossible to buy a firearm in Mexico as a private citizen, so this country is where they come,” said Newell.
May
1
NEVER FORGET THE inconceivable TRUTH
May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday was Holocaust Rememberance Day. There is no need to expound on just how evil this world can be and how people will subcomb to an evil government. This is from Atlas Shrugs and read more on her blog along with the rest of the pictures. Interesting to see on her site the pictures connecting Islam with Hitler. Nice reminder of what we are up against. Remember those words while looking at the pictures… “Religion of peace”.
Holocaust Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew) is today Wednesday, April 30. Holocaust Day commemorates the martyrs and heroes who died under the Nazis.
Holocaust Remembrance Day.Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority.
May
1
Supreme Court Upholds Vote Photo ID
May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The article calls it a blow to voter’s rights. They focus on the cost of a photo ID. However, at least in Ohio, other forms are accepted that don’t cost anything other than a bill from a Utility for example. Sure matching signitures is one way to go but if you ever looked at people’s signitures they can vary from week (or year) at a time. Photo ID or other form that has been accepted is certainly little burden on the poeple. Heck, showing up to vote is burden too. Perhaps someone will want to eliminate that also. Hey. No need. Most people don’t show already. Must be that photo ID issue. Yeah. That’s keeping them home. Right.
The US Supreme Court has just dealt a serious blow to voters’ rights that could help put John McCain in the White House by eliminating tens of thousands of voters who generally vote Democratic.
By 6-3 the Court has upheld an Indiana law that requires citizens to present a photo identification card in order to vote. Florida, Michigan, Louisiana, Georgia, Hawaii and South Dakota have similar laws. Though it’s unlikely, as many as two dozen other states could add them by election day. Other states, like Ohio, have less stringent ID requirements than Indiana’s, but still have certain restrictions that are strongly opposed by voter rights advocates.
The decision turns back two centuries of jurisprudence that has accepted a registered voter’s signature as sufficient identification for casting a ballot. By matching that signature against one given at registration, and with harsh penalties for ballot stuffing, the Justices confirmed in their lead opinion that there is “no evidence” for the kind of widespread voter fraud Republican partisans have used to justify the demand for photo ID.
Voting rights activists have long argued that since photo ID can cost money, or may demand expensive trips to government agencies, the requirement constitutes a “poll tax.” Taxes on the right to vote were used for a century to prevent blacks and others from voting in the south and elsewhere. They were specifically banned by the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1964.
But the Court’s lead opinion, written by Justice Stevens, normally a liberal, said that though rare, the “risk of voter fraud” was nonetheless “real” and that there was “no question about the legitimacy or importance of the state’s interest in counting only the votes of eligible voters.” The burden of obtaining a voter ID, said the court, was not so difficult as to be deemed unConstitutional.
Apr
30
Illegals in Augulaize County
April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Close to home. Some think it’s just a border problem. No… it’s a national problem and it’s reached the heartland. Don’t be fooled by the article saying that the department doesn’t deal with it much. They just haven’t been caught. What isn’t surprising but disturbing was that they they had identification and tax numbers…. hmmmm.
Motter said the man who hired the men also believed they were in the U.S. legally as they had identification and tax numbers.
More here and of course the whole article is linked to below.
WAYNESFIELD — Ten illegal immigrants were transported out of Auglaize County after a routine traffic stop Saturday night by officers with the Waynesfield Police Department. The men, ranging in age from 20 to 39, were from El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras, and were traveling through the area from Lima, where they were doing roof work, to Indian Lake, where they were staying until the contract job was complete. They all listed residences in the Columbus area.
Waynesfield Police Lt. Nathan Motter said he had seen the van they were driving, which had no tail lights go through town previously when he was off duty. When he stopped it at 10:40 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Wapakoneta Street he got suspicious when the driver of the vehicle and passenger handed him international identification from the same country that looked completely different.
Five of the men were in the van that Motter stopped. A Honda Civic following, with another five men inside, also stopped.After conversations with Immigration Custom Enforcement officials out of Cleveland (ICE) Motter said all 10 men were determined to be illegal aliens and were transported with the assistance of deputies from the Auglaize County Sheriff’s Office to the Auglaize County Jail, where they remained until Monday morning.
Apr
27
Methodists - Open the border Up!!
April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It appears that a call for enforcement of the immigrations laws is in for a fight at the conference of United Methodists. Which side will win? You call it.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Hundreds of United Methodists have simultaneously called their congressional representatives to voice opposition to an immigration enforcement bill.
The rally for open borders and better treatment of immigrants took place in Fort Worth, Texas, where more than 3,000 Methodists are attending the denomination’s general conference, held every four years.
Methodist Bishop Minerva Carcano said, “We pray that this afternoon we might be a strong voice in favor of those who are immigrants today who suffer in river beds and who suffer in deserts.”
The demonstrators oppose the SAVE Act, which would strengthen borders and require employers to verify that their workers are in the U.S. legally. The bill is pending, entangled in election-year politics.
Apr
27
America, the land of opportunity and freedom. Sure, we have our own sickies to deal with. Why add to our sorrows. In Sidney Cornelio Nunez admits to having attempted to buy sex with a 10 year old. Sick. The only competition here is which sickie was worse… the ones that come here to commit such acts or the citizens who are in this country who make such offers (even if this was a sting we all know it goes on… at least we have heard of such things).
I list this under National Security because our own citizens and government no longer provide us protection, not even from our own citizens willing to harm the youngest among us. When you look at the pedophiles in this nation you might ask “how many victims is a person allowed?” before they are eliminated from our society?” Is the answer 2, 4, 8, 20? At what number do we say enough?
SIDNEY, Ohio — Police said a man traveled to the Miami Valley hoping to have sex with a 10-year-old child, but he was arrested
Sidney police said Cornelio Nunez admitted to stealing his identity from a man in Texas, and that he is in the U.S. illegally.
Apr
24
Immigration Woes - We don’t reward following the rules
April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Wonder why we have trained millions to come across the border? It’s not the fence. It’s the stupidity of the buracracy we have created (well…. they have created for us). Wonderful thing big government is. (Tongue n cheek if you couldn’t guess)
Yet another teenager who has presented no problems, but who soon could be here illegally, has found himself trapped by this country’s senseless immigration system. Come April 10, Bryan Laue faces deportation from the United States, despite all his immediate family legally being here.
So fervent are we in this country to seal our borders that we’ve become willing to rip apart families to obey a nonsensical law. This continues even as the congressmen who shout loudest for a wall along the Southern border do nothing about our more porous Northern border. Meantime, the Lima area has another 18-year-old who thought he had played by the rules, but now finds the odds stacked decidedly against him.
As The Lima News reported last week, Christopher Laue, a substitute schoolteacher, brought his family from South Africa to Lima in 1994 when he was sponsored to teach at Bible Believers Christian School. His family returned to South Africa, but came back in 1997. One of the four Laue children married an American and the family wanted to stay together.
Christopher Laue and his wife, Ruth, began the process of permanent residency in 2002. They were told Bryan likely would receive permanent residency, too, since he was a minor. However, he never received his documentation. His parents were not eligible to petition for his residency until they received their approval. They received permanent residency in 2005, when they set out to sponsor Bryan.
While the family continues to wait for approval of its application to sponsor Bryan, the Child Protection Act no longer applies 180 days after one’s 18th birthday. For Bryan Laue, April 10 marks day 180. If Bryan doesn’t leave on his own by then, the government could deport him.
Tragic as this case is, it sheds light on why immigrants from right across the border flout the burdensome laws those who mean to close off this country have imposed. Why play by these cumbersome rules when you can just try crossing in again tomorrow? If Bryan were to remain past April 10, then leave, he could face up to a three-year wait before being allowed to return. If he were to stay a year past his 18th birthday, the government could bar him from returning for 10 years. It’s not hard to see why someone who lives right next door would take his chances on immigration officials ever being able to catch him here illegally…..
Because, for now, the system has caught another teenager who thought he was doing what the system required. You might remember the story of German immigrant Manuel Bartsch, a Pandora student who tried to address his long-expired 90-day visa — only to have Immigration and Customs Enforcement try to deport him. Bartsch’s stepgrandfather brought him to the country when the boy was in fourth grade, but the family never renewed his visa. Late U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor interceded on behalf of Bartsch…..
Apr
24
Strickland’s Long Winded Engery Plan
April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
More hot wind from the government’s energy plan. Sounds like more tax money for windmills rather than lowering taxes and bringing in more jobs, which are reluctant because of the taxes and needed tort reforms. But hey look at the windmills…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Environmental advocates are seeing dollar signs in the hundreds of windmills they envision sprouting on the Ohio landscape, thanks to the commitment to renewable resources in the state’s new energy plan.
Gov. Ted Strickland proposed that Ohio utilities be required to have 12.5 percent of their total power portfolio come from renewable resources, such as wind, solar and water, by 2025. The House version of Strickland’s bill spells out the percentages each utility must achieve each year, beginning in 2009, when they must draw 0.25 percent from renewables.
The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved changes the House made, sending it to Strickland, who likely will sign it next week.
The 12.5 percent requirement translates into an investment of at least $12 billion in wind energy installations, according to the American Wind Energy Association, an industry trade group. Most of the wind farms would be in Ohio, a key to Strickland’s desire for homegrown power sources, the association said.
Apr
23
Marc Dann Fails to do background check?
April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Just a bit piece by the Boring Made Dull. It’s about now former Driver for Marc Dann until the man who carried a 9mm was a former felon. Sure make it tough on law abiding citizens but fail to do background check on someone so close in the government. Unless it was pushed aside by the AG…. questions?
A minor story from Dayton Daily News – Marc Dann’s official driver is carrying a concealed, state issued, 9mm handgun.
As long as he’s trained, licensed, and keeps in practice, no problem.
The real kicker was a throwaway line at the end of the piece:
“David Nelson, who once served as Dann’s driver, was fired in May when it surfaced that he was responsible for another man’s shooting death 30 years ago.”
Huh? How is this relevant? Well, turns out that if you have spent time in the Hotel Greybar on an involuntary manslaughter rap, you might not be able to find work in Government security.
Apr
23
Let me get this right. These terrorists killing for Allah practice Islam but they really aren’t Islam. So these non-Islam terrorists are really only pretending to be… terrorist or Muslim or both? Wow. Now I am so confused. See what happens when you read their arguments. You get all brain dead. Wow. So close to where they Islamic terrorist want you to be. Let them help you finish that last step. So stop calling them that right now or we’ll kill you. Oh, heck they would say we will kill you either way. Enjoy.
“A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.
Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy. “We’ve tried to contact his office, contact his spokesperson to have them rethink word usage that is more acceptable to the Muslim community,” Mr. Fareed said. “If it’s not our intent to paint everyone with the same brush, then certainly we should think seriously about just characterizing them as criminals, because that is what they are.”
An aide to Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who is counting on his pro-Iraq war stance to attract conservative voters, said the senator from Arizona will not drop the word.
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Apr
23
I really think the story about the teacher burning crosses is probably a lie created by some parents. Or at least it’s being made out to be something more than reality. If he was doing this the issue wouldn’t be what was being burned into the arms. So that makes this motivated in a way that smells. The teacher has a Bible on his desk, at least according to the first story. Now he is distributing it to students (did they ask for them?) and burning crosses on their arms. It’s reported in a way to make it sound like he is evil.
An interesting thing is that the constitution says
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
How is that related to the schools which were once simply public schools and run locally. It betrays the fact that the federal government has taken over our schools and made them national institutions of indoctrination? Read the great wisdom of our educators when they make statements about the Constitution. They are responsible for teaching our children about this nation. We are in trouble indeed. Regardless how it turns out about the teacher this article says more than we might have wanted to know.
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — A public school district in Ohio says it has hired an independent investigator to look into allegations by parents that a teacher used an electrostatic device to burn crosses on to students’ arms.
The Mount Vernon City School District has assigned an administrator to monitor the classroom of eighth-grade science teacher John Freshwater until the investigation is over.
It’s the district’s latest run-in with Freshwater, who last week refused to obey an order to remove a Bible on his desk from view of students.
Freshwater also is accused of handing out Bibles to students and teaching the meaning of Good Friday and Easter.
School district officials say they are required by the U.S. Constitution not to promote religious beliefs.
No one answered calls made to Freshwater’s home on Tuesday afternoon.
Mount Vernon is about 40 miles northeast of Columbus.
Apr
23
The White House has said the agents have not filed for clemency. Apparently they are awaiting the completion of their appeals. However, the President I believe could pardon them without the paperwork. If anyone can enlighten us on the process for clemency, please do. In the meantime we wait… and wait…. and wait……
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Cornyn is again calling for presidential clemency in the case of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.
The Texas Republican, joined by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., sent a letter to President Bush on Monday, urging him to commute the sentences of former agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who are serving terms of 12 and 11 years.
The two were convicted last year of shooting Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and attempting to cover up the shooting. Mr. Aldrete-Davila pleaded guilty to federal drug smuggling charges last week.
Mr. Aldrete-Davila “admitted transporting two loads of marijuana both over 740 pounds valued at approximately $1 million each,” the senators wrote. “What is even more startling is that Mr. Aldrete-Davila could end up serving less prison time than Agents Ramos and Compean.”
The White House referred inquiries to the Justice Department; a spokesman there said neither Mr. Compean nor Mr. Ramos has filed a clemency petition.
Mr. Ramos and Mr. Compean have appealed their conviction to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and are awaiting a ruling. Justice Department guidelines for clemency petitions say that requests are generally not accepted from people who have ongoing appeals.
Apr
22
Ohio Restaurant Involved in Smuggling Illegals
April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
No surprise. However, we now see the ugly sweat shop mentality of those involved in the illegal immigration issues. They charge high fees to get them here and then make them slave labor. We are only beginning to see the tip of the iceberg on this one. There are many more companies in Ohio that are involved. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you… bad boys?
Plain Dealer: Owners and managers of a popular Mexican restaurant in Mentor smuggled workers north from Mexico, charged them high fees for the crossing and demanded they work long hours to pay off the debt, according to federal authorities.
Immigration agents and federal prosecutors say they broke up a smuggling ring that exploited illegal immigrants when they descended on Jalapeno Loco and six other Mexican restaurants in five states Wednesday morning.
Agents arrested two managers of Jalapeno Loco, which commands a prominent corner of East Points shopping plaza on Mentor Avenue and bills itself an “Authentic Mexican Restaurant.” They also took into custody eight restaurant workers - six men and two women - believed to be in the country illegally.
Apr
22
Local Preacher Goes After Negative Councilman Pitts
April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments
Pitts just doesn’t get it. At least one of the city preacher gets it and isn’t afraid to say so. Pitss even called the preacher an Uncle Tom. Doesn’t get any uglier than that. But who is betraying the community? Hortan spoke the truth and Pitts covers up his ugly behavior including his own son’s ties to the drug culture in Lima. Pitts own son is a part of the problem in the community and he blames the straight speaking preacher.
LIMA — Neighborhood activist the Rev. Bob Horton called 5th Ward Councilman Tommy Pitts on Monday a poor representative of his constituents.
Pitts responded by calling Horton a puppet of the city’s administration and an “Uncle Tom.”
The race wars continued at City Council, as Horton, president of SouthSide Neighborhood Association addressed the council. He labeled Pitts, in his first term, as someone who has put other agendas ahead of residents’ needs and not honored an oath he took upon election.
“He has not been listening to the voices of constituents and their needs,” Horton said. “Those who live in the 5th Ward are playing second fiddle to everything else going on in the city.”
Pitts said Horton’s criticism was unfair and that Horton has never called him with a ward need. Pitts also said Horton’s comments were prompted from the public sparring between Pitts and Mayor David Berger.
“A lot of people have called him an Uncle Tom. I agree with that, that’s for sure. … I know you’re up in this administration’s grille. Be a part of the solution; don’t be part of the problem.”
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