WSPD and Carty
Due to a change of Job’s, I haven’t been listing to WSPD as much as I used to. I’m simply not in the right spot to be able to, and for some reason they don’t in believing in doing pod casts of the local Radio shows, but I follow the War between WSPD and Toledo’s Major Carty Finkbeiner with some amusement. It’s really more of a war between Brian Wilson, program director, and Carty more then anything, but if you think about it, but In a lot of circles, the Iraq war was considered a war between Bush, and Saddem.
For the people that are not aware of how it started, last year, while Carty was trying to get a bike path built, WSPD took a hand on getting it defeated. The home owners in the area the path was to be constructed didn’t want the path, and the radio sttation gave them a forum express their opinions. At a public forum, the mayor threw WSPD talks show Fred LeFebvre under the bus for comments made on the Radio, and accused Fred of telling “Mistruths, Half-truths, and Outright lies” Brian Wilson, backing his employee, promptly banned Carty from any Talk shows on the station. Carty in response banned WSPD from news conferences, press briefing, and banned his staff from talking to WSPD reporters. The ban was to be lifted if/When Carty Apologized. Well. He didn’t. According to WSPD’s website, they did left the ban, but Carty keep enforcing it. This came to head 2 days ago, when A reporter was banned from a press briefing, and then 3 of WSPD staff members was also not permitted from going into a meeting yesterday.
Now my 2 cents. When we elected Carty this last time, we knew he was going to do something like this. While Carty is Mayor, almost yearly something goes by that happens that Carty does that makes the news. In this case, it was with a News station. We knew this when we elected him, but why do we keep electing him. It seems like no one that is a strong candidate for mayor is willing to run for office, or the ones that do are you typical Republcrate and only want to say, what they think the voters want to hear. At election Time, Carty is now different but as soon as he takes office, he changes from a Dr. Jeckly to Mr Hyde. When every I talk to someone from Outside of the city, and explain to them about Carty, they can’t believe it. Brian Wilson was started on the radio he has never seen a Mayor act like my Finkbeiner in his travels. (which doesn’t surprise me, after all this is a man who suggested to move the deaf people to the airport) . To keep Toledo out of the laughing stock pages, and to put it in the front pages for good news. We need to have leaders that are willing to
1. Be willing to take criticism
2. Act like an Adult
3. Put forth an agenda that will make significe changes the city that will cause people to want to locate their companies, and live here, and not a plan to dress up the city. Face it, you can gold plate a turd, but remember. It’s still going to be a turd.
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