The Toledo mayor is the same mayor that told the Marine reservists that they couldn’t practice in his town because “they frighten people”, and didn’t tell them this until the day they showed up, even though he had known they were coming for three days.

Just check out the controversy section on his wikipedia page. There’s all kinds of fun stuff in there:

In her lawsuit filed in 1999, former city employee Carolyn Smithers claimed that Mr. Finkbeiner “accosted her with a ceramic coffee mug clenched in his fist” and shouted, “I ought to hit you with this!” She contends the mug struck the side of her face. Despite the fact that Finkbeiner denied the incident, Finkbeiner signed the $35,000 settlement on Jan. 29, 2001.

On July 1, 1998, Finkbeiner was fined $400 and court costs after pleading guilty to ethics charges when he was Mayor, realized a $10,000 profit from Owens Corning’s purchase of his condo, and his failure to publicly report the gain.

Also, in January 2007 Finkbeiner and his press secretary were sued by radio station WSPD, claiming that First Amendment provisions regarding freedom of the press were violated when the press secretary forcibly kept a station employee out of a public press conference. Finkbeiner’s objection to the employee is that he produces opinions and editorials, and is not in fact a reporter on behalf of WSPD. On January 31, a federal judge granted the station a permanent injunction requiring Finkbeiner and his staff to admit station personnel.

In August 2007, Finkbeiner was confronted on two occasions by reporters because he parked in a handicapped spot and left his dog, Scout, in the car during a hot spell. Finkbeiner was ticketed and fined, but denied mistreating the animal.

In April 2009, despite Toledo having the lowest police per 1,000 resident ratio in Ohio, Finkbeiner announced his plans to layoff an additional 150 officers. After the layoffs take effect, Toledo will have only 1.6 police officers per 1,000 residents. In order to maintain a basic level of protection and safety on the streets, numerous units are being eliminated or reduced. Some of these units are the Gang Task Force, Mounted Patrol, School Resource Officer, Crime Analysis, Traffic, SWAT, Vice, and Community Services. This controversy has led to the Toledo Police Department filing a lawsuit against the City of Toledo in an effort to stop the layoffs.

Oh, and note how in the originally linked article there’s no mention of the mayor’s political affiliation, which of course means he’s a Democrat.

It only makes sense that Liberals in Ohio would finally catch on and take up what the crooks and criminals in Chicago and Detroit have been doing…. I live in Wayne County and our city (Detroit suburb) has had those same Parking Rules for years… Of course, now they’re so worried about SAFETY they are again marking up the sidewalks forcing people to fix them – oh, they “say” it’s all about “safety,” of course, but they wont wave the Permit Fee nor the “Administrative Fee” (inspection, clerical, blah, yadda, etc) costs. There have been some sidewalks in such absolute disrepair for more than a decade, but now that every city is looking for any dime they can grab it is all of a sudden a matter of “safety.” While our sidewalks have to be repaired IMMEDIATELY the crumbling curbs at the corners where they are still lazily replacing with Wheelchair ramp they are in no hurry over. And, of course, that is to not even get started on how badly the roads are FAILED to be maintained – time for me to get out the orange spray paint, mark up the streets, take pictures, post them online, etc….

Finally, another one of our local crooks Monica Conyers, yes wife of the other clown in the Congress, might finally be going to jail for bribery in the Synagro scandal. Kwame is, of course, being repayed with a high paying job in Texas for his corruption while in Detroit and his mother still serves in Congress. So many crooks, so many scandals, and they just keep covering for each other and the moron Democrats keep voting them back in (Carolyn Kil[ljobs]patrck is my Rep, certainly NOT by my choice).