Merideth Funkenhausen speaks up at a City Council meeting about her general unhappiness, which sometimes includes the parking situation in Toledo.
TOLEDO, OH - Forget the Mayor and Recall Him! Times are hard everywhere, and Towns are looking for revenue. In this Town the people are getting a Toledo Blade in their butt. What does this brilliant Mayor do to get revenue? He screws the people who voted for him by cracking down on a Law for illegal parking in your own driveway. This same Mayor is going to be in a Recall Election. For this Mayor, that’s the ticket.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has the genius idea to enforce a Law that levies a fine against parking on an unpaved surface. Ms. Susan Frederick, another Rhodes Scholar and the Streets Commissioner, has brilliantly (?) agreed that even if you park in your own driveway, and it is not paved, a resident will get a ticket for $25.
We have learned from its very questionable, high quality unreliable, and absolutely incompetent sources that the people are pissed off. Here is what some citizens say about this Mayor and this situation:
"I'm starting a business. Mayor Finkbeiner's face will be on urinal cakes. They will sell fast."
"I would like to run over the Mayor with a glass bottom car and see the reaction on his face."
"We had a problem. People didn't want to come to our Church. We are now a drive-thru Church. You pull up to the order window and the Pastor will give you a sermon of your choice in the drive-thru line. We do it Car by Car. Then you pull up to the collection plate window and drop in what you afford. That way no one gets a ticket. We always say, 'Come to our McChurch, enter the driveway and you will be saved, the Pastor will speak fast cause the driveway ain't paved.'"
"The University of Toledo Football team needs a new tackling dummy. We choose the Mayor."
"I’d like to invite the Mayor over my House to discuss this problem. My driveway isn’t paved. If the Mayor parks in my driveway, is he going to get a ticket?"
"The people should be behind the Mayor. I’d like to be behind him......overlooking a steep Canyon."
"If he really wants to raise revenue, pass a Law that you can only buy toilet paper in Toledo with the Mayor’s face on it."
"What is the fine for parking ON the Mayor?"
"I hope the Mayor changes his mind. And lets hope this one works."
To further contribute to the angst, or people being PISSED OFF, our impeccable unqualified Journalism 101 sources say this Mayor has allegedly physically attacked a restaurant tenant in the City, locked his Dog in his Car, and took over a private towing business. There is a long, long list of people we've known who were successful leaders who did not avoid a rumble, mis-treated animals, and killed capitalism.
If these scurrilous Politicians can scour a Law book to screw the Citizens of Toledo, then the fine citizens of Toledo ought to do what Buford Pusser did in the Movie "Walking Tall." Pusser was dissatisfied with the Judge's decisions. He took a Law book from the Judge and said to him, "I’m gonna read this book, and you better hope there’s nothing in here I can use against you." In the Movie, Pusser found that he had the authority to put the Judges quarters in the men's restroom.
Grab the Law book Toledo, and do the same.
Politicians will look for any legal thing to do in a time not near an election to pull off things like this. We hope the fine will be rescinded, because it ain’t fine. What will the next Mayor be like? What will he do? We predict he will raise the fine for parking on an unpaved surface to $50.
One day, one person in Toledo will say to another, "do you remember that DOWN standing loser Mayor Finebeiner? Then the other person will say, "Yes, I recall him."
