The Observation Deck

It pains me to have to keep going through this. For 6 months I have begged city hall to find their moral compass and just stop all the bullshit.

Lakewood/Brooklyn Neighborhood News...



A) name of the website/domain

B) owner of the website

C) Creation Date, NOTE: after the paper went to press, if you walk back when they were delivered to Lakewood.
In other words a complete bullshit operation for 100% political means, to undermine the work of thousands of Lakewoodites at the Observer.
No disclaimer, not accountability, illegal according to the FTC and Election Board.

THEY THINK YOU ARE ALL STUPID, WELL 97% OF YOU.

D) The Date the license is over. ! year is the shortest amount a time you can grab a website for.
This means it was a complete throw away business. To lie and trick you into voting for the Mayor Summers, John Litten, and Tom Einhouse.

THEY THINK YOU ARE ALL STUPID, WELL 97% OF YOU.

A vote for Mayor Summers is a vote for this same kind of immature bullshit behavior that is tearing this town apart.

Lakewood, let's pretend we are adults, vote for the only candidate talking about honesty, transparency and accountability.

Lakewood, we are being played!

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The website is live - no names like the paper. A "Mission Statement" is all that's there:

So, this must be a terrible time to start a newspaper…so, we’re starting a newspaper.
We’re starting a string of local, community newspapers, because we believe that there will always be a place for local stories, and we believe that people still want to touch and feel that content, and pass it back and forth to each other across the table.
We also believe that although much of the decline of newspapers was probably inevitable, a whole lot of it was driven by clueless giant media companies, mostly based on the East Coast, who care much more about quarterly earnings reports than the local communities they are supposed to cover. They bought up a slew of local brands years ago to make a buck, and now they’ve ceased to be local at all. And ever since the easy money stopped rolling in, they’re showing just how hollow their commitment to our communities always was.
Our papers are 100% local news; you will have to go elsewhere for national news or celebrity clickbait content. You can’t subscribe to our paper- we are funded exclusively by advertising content. We may eventually post some of our content online, but unlike the big corporate media conglomerates, we are happy to leave all the tweeting and posting to someone else.
We don’t pay for any of our content. The stories you see in our papers were either written by volunteers or the owners of that paper. If you’re interested in contributing stories, or bringing Ohio Neighborhood News to your town, you can email us at info@ohioneighborhoodnews.com.
The decline of American newspapers has left a large hole where our civic dialogue used to be. One community at a time, we’re going to try and add a little bit of content to the mix. We believe that’s a mission worth all the hard work.
We hope you enjoy it.

Dan

When Ed FitzGerald was a councilman he asked Council Secretary, "How can we do a project like the Observer, we need to control the message."

This website has helped find the most prolific pedophile in the history of America, helping to arrest him. We helped with many other cause.

When residents work together many things are possible.

Bullshit like this, ruins it for those dedicated to doing what is right for a community and a community journal.

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Here's what they are doing.

They know they violated election law with that piece of crap they sent out. That website was set up to "cover" for them. They actually think they can pretend they were "starting a newspaper" and that will get them out of the mess they got themselves into.

Good luck with that boys!

Bridget Conant wrote:Here's what they are doing.

They know they violated election law with that piece of crap they sent out. That website was set up to "cover" for them. They actually think they can pretend they were "starting a newspaper" and that will get them out of the mess they got themselves into.

Good luck with that boys!

Bridget

It is the hallmark of an Ed FitzGerald job, half assed, dumb, and screws up political careers.

City Hall is basically still the same from Ed, so should we expect anything different from the same cast and his understudy at mayor?

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"When Ed FitzGerald was a councilman he asked Council Secretary, "How can we do a project like the Observer, we need to control the message.""

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If - big IF - he is serious, the mayor has two employees with local media experience.

Dan Alaimo wrote:"When Ed FitzGerald was a councilman he asked Council Secretary, "How can we do a project like the Observer, we need to control the message.""

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If - big IF - he is serious, the mayor has two employees with local media experience.

Yeah they have both run every project including the mayor into the ground. Seems like great hires.

Dan, it is 2015, controlling the message is a dream of the 90s.

I agree. So is trying to do a print newspaper with just a website behind it.
(...but note that your comment got mixed up with my original comment here)

Team Summers has created a self-inflicted "October Surprise".

Michael Deneen wrote:Team Summers has created a self-inflicted "October Surprise".

It is just stupid and political suicide.

Jim Rozakis said to me back in January, "You know this goes back to Ed FitzGerald. Link it to him, Summers is toast, no one wants to have anything to do with FitzGerald."

So City Hall controls, PD, Cleveland .com, Buzz, Citizen, Sun Papers, Crain's, anyone that will never question them. Scene and Observer on their shit list, they had to do a fake politcial piece paper illegally?! I guess Ed is still making the decisions.

Well guys, dream big, no bigger, bigger still!



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Remarkably, there are still Summers loyalists on the Facebook page defending City Hall.

Oh, my.

Over on FaceBook a guy named Mike was demanding more proof. This was my answer, to me it sums this entire nightmare up.

Mike, you have to excuse my abrupt answer. I have a second now to explain. Last September I asked the Mayor if the hospital was closing, he said, "No." I asked again in October, if the LOI was right and the hospital was closing and he said, "No LOI." I produced it I announced in December that the Hospital was closing, and January 10th the Mayor called a press conference where he said it was "not closing..., 200 beds..." and "$120 million in outside development was coming." I announced it was not true and that that all the money coming to Lakewood was really only coming back to Lakewood as it was all public money to start with and the mayor said, "that was a lie." I produced documents. I said it was about a rec center and active living task force run by a friend and he said, "false." Last month the Active Living Task Force Director, slowed down the Active Living Task Force white paper to wait and get the most out of the hospital deal. With documents of bullying public and elected officials.

Now we have our fiduciary agent and mayor partnering up with Ed FitzGerald not just to put out an illegal political mailing, but once again treat residents of Lakewood like idiots, well 97% of them. Our Mayor/Fiduciary Agent went out of his way to hide the truth yet again.

My point, Why do I care what Team Summers says? Or should I?

Or as the Observer has done for 8 months, go and get the documents, present them in their entirety, and allow you to decide for yourself, are the legal document lying, or are they?

You see my problem is I like Lakewoodies, I think they are generally far smarter than politicians give them credit for. When they work together there is nothing more inspiring, WestEnd lies, defeated, School BS knocked down, Vatican closes our church, Not so fast Mr. Pope! And now Ex-Mayor that should have embarrassed Lakewood City Hall into being better, teaming up with his long time friends to get this nightmare across the finish line. Hahahaha

I'll choose standing with residents of Lakewood who are demanding honesty transparency and accountability from our elected officials every time.

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For those of you who love to hate on Jim O'Bryan and The Lakewood Observer, please take note that Eric Sandy with Cleveland Scene also calls out Team Summers in his article entitled, "Ed FitzGerald Started A Fake Newspaper in the Days Leading up to Election," which can be viewed at http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-hea ... o-election.

There should be no further doubt ... after the fake "newspaper" folly ... that FitzGerald is the "master" and Summers is the mere "apprentice" ... so ... in anticipation of the much awaited "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" release ...





... indeed ...

We must all be very cautious of this FitzGerald and Summers reign.