Article source for : Toledo's Anti-Business Watch List
And so it goes and not surprisingly.
h2. Opposed to small business
March 14, 2007 Toledo Blade story titled "Toledo opts to run own ambulances":http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070314/NEWS16/703140385.
The vermin voting against private business and FOR Carty's big government:
* Wilma Brown
* Joe McNamara
* Frank Szollosi
* Phil Copeland
* Mike Craig
* Mark Sobczak
* Michael Ashford
Voting NO on the issue:
* Rob Ludeman
* Joe Birmingham
* Ellen Grachek
* Betty Shultz
* George Sarantou
Gracheck, the only Democrat on the NO list, is not seeking re-election this fall.
Now, the asinine comments by the YES voters as reported in the Blade.
* McNamara said : "It will provide better service to the citizens."
* Szollosi said : "If my grandparents were in an accident, would I want that continuum of care? That, to me, tipped the scales."
I'd like to see McNamara and Szollosi cough up proof that the private ambulance owners are not providing good enough care. Face it, the YES voters are simply saving their political asses. They want to remain in political office, and they know they need as many unions as possible.
And people wonder why businesses continue to flee Toledo.
Sarantou said : "It sends the wrong message to the business community."
More from the Blade story :
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Private ambulance operators yesterday said they were disappointed at the city's incursion into an area they said belongs to private enterprise. "Obviously, it's a bad day for business," said Richard Bage, president of the largest private local ambulance company, MedCorp Inc. He raised the prospect of moving some of his more than 300 employees out of Toledo.
Donald Kish, president of Rumpf Ambulance, said he likely would be forced out of business after 16 years in Toledo. "The areas where they're locating are primarily where my business is," Mr. Kish said. "It's going to take everything I have."
The administration has said it *would take about 40 percent of the emergency ambulance runs.* The proposal emerged last year *in contract negotiations* between Firefighters Local 92 and Chief Bell. They agreed the department could staff the five basic life support ambulances with current firefighters.
[Sarantou] said he was denied a copy of the draft of a manning study the administration ordered and partially paid for but has not released. The administration has refused to release the draft report that was ordered by the previous administration to get an objective analysis of the 103-person minimum staffing level.
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That last part is pretty frightening. What about an open government? Who paid for the manning study? Taxpayers? If so, how can an elected official be denied access to a taxpayer-funded report? In fact, such a report should be posted on the City's Web site. Where's the investigation by the media into why Czarty would not release the report?
h2. July 2008 Ambulance Closings
July 22, 2008 WSPD "story":http://wspd.com/cc-common/news/sections/local/?newsart=3 :
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Blaming competition from Toledo city firefighters, Mercy Health Partners has closed two of its Lifestar ambulance facilities: Mercy spokesperson Sarah Bednarski says the Arlington Avenue and West Bancroft stations were seeing low numbers of emergency runs anyway. EMT's and paramedics were transferred to other Lifestar facilities, but Bednarski says don't take it as a sign they're getting out of the ambulance business.
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WSPD audio "TFD COST THEM BUSINESS":http://wspd.com/cc-common/news/sections/local/player1.html?newsart=3&medianame=BEDNARSKI%20LIFESTAR%201_1_Pub.mp3
h2. Opposed to business rights
In July 2003, Toledo City Council voted FOR Jack Ford's fascist legislation to ban smoking in privately-owned businesses. July 9, 2003 Toledo Blade story titled "Council OKs smoking ban":http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030709/NEWS16/107090097.
These are the scoundrels on Toledo City Council at that time who supported such extremism:
* Louis Escobar
* Peter Gerken
* George Sarantou
* Betty Shultz
* Francis J. Szollosi
* Wilma D. Brown
* Rob Ludeman
* Robert McCloskey
* Michael Ashford
* Ellen M. Grachek
* Wade Kapszukiewicz - now Lucas County treasurer
- Karyn McConnell - absent for the 2003 vote, but is on record saying she would have voted for the ban.
All of these people need to be put on some kind of a Person of Interest list for anti-business viewpoints.
h2. Downtown terrorists
"Back in February 2005":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/3/953#1853, the Toledo Journal reported what Louis Escobar said about Fifth Third Bank.
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The area’s leading bank, *likened to terrorists by the president of city council*, will learn in the next few weeks whether it can use its own downtown property to increase security for money deliveries.
Fifth Third Bank of Northwest Ohio, which for over a year has sought city government help to end on-street loading of cash onto armored trucks, will finally have its petition to build a secured parking lot heard soon by Toledo City Council.
Council President Louis Escobar, who opposes the bank’s request, said Fifth Third’s warning that it might have to transfer jobs to a different location is the equivalent of terrorism. “The president (George Bush) doesn’t deal with terrorists and neither should I,� Mr. Escobar said last week. “If they want to threaten us, that tells me they’re not good corporate citizens.�
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It's amazing that Fifth Third has decided to remain in downtown Toledo by "occupying":http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070123/NEWS08/301230015 the vacant OI building after OI moved to Perrysburg.
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