Water-Bill Lie II: Bogus $100M Investment Claim is Really $70M Leaving Lakewood

[Michael Deneen]

post the screenshot of my words stating that the deck is "unimportant". come on, mikey.

[m buckley]

Man, I wish our water bills would just have water bills in them.

There is nowhere to turn without the sickening effect of this situation. We know we can't use the normal channels of our own city to have fair representation. Our own council people say, "It's a terrible deal but we have no choice." Well, that wasn't true until they made it true. Our law director makes sure the petitions don't get turned in on time for the already-paid-for March ballot, then tells us if the citizens of Lakewood vote to overturn the Council's decision, following our own city charter, the Council just won't do it. Using the precedent of another time, years ago, when a road was being built. Our own representatives are PLEDGING to fight our own city charter. So then THAT will have to be fought. More time on this. More money wasted because we don't have a representative government anymore. Whatever rules can be bent, will be bent. Our representatives can't just do their jobs. It's all about the big gift to Lakewood of losing our hospital, and having our EMS times become terrifying.

Oh no! It'll be better! It'll be great! It won't. It can't. It's simple. We had a hospital. Several years ago we had a real Emergency room along with a real hospital. Now we have hype. We have worse than hype, we have a dangerous situation. Mr. Fitzgibbons has done the simple math, speaking of math. How many Emergency vehicles do we have? Where are they? How far did they have to go? When will they be back? How much sorting out do the drivers have to do? How much waiting will you have to do at home before an ambulance gets there? You'll have to call one because YOU WON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO. Then when you get wherever, will it be the right place? How long will you wait there to know?

The present Emergency room at Lakewood Hospital has been severely degraded. The "new one" won't be any better, it will be worse, it's not a real Emergency room at all. And again, the one we have now used to be a real one, but it isn't anymore either, it's not for life-threatening situations-- or as they say in other countries: "Emergencies."

Can we just have our water bills with the amount of the bill on them? Can you let up for one second with the hype? And if you insist---- THEN BREAK IT DOWN. EXPLAIN IT. Please, Mr. Mayor. If you can't break it down and make it make sense, can you please just LEAVE IT ALONE? Can we have a moment's peace from this sickening situation? Can you just let us pay our water bills?

Meg, I loved your very efficient explanation of what we used to have but it of course made me feel bad. It didn't have to be this way, but it is right now, yeah there is a lot more fighting to be done, in court and out of court, with other government institutions involved like even more courts and the AG's office, the FTC, others, as more facts/crimes are revealed.

But this thread is about the water bill. Another one, with hype on it, in it, the Mayor mis-using his position. Is the situation SO BAD that it can't be left alone for a second? Campaign literature has to be printed EVERYWHERE?

Next, you'll have to read about the great new situation we have in Lakewood before you are allowed to put a coin in a parking meter when you try to park on Detroit. (Incidentally, meters around Belle Ave and Detroit have gotten a lot easier to find lately, now that the hospital has become a ghost town.)

Betsy Voinovich

Great post. Just wanted to bump it.