Columbus Government in the past rant.

 I got lucky AND unlucky last night.  yea yea yea I had the Bucs at -8 and at times it looked good but always 1 minute later it did not look good.  HOWEVER - I decided to wager on Tampa Bay JUST winning, the money line.  I mean - there was no way they would lose right?  LOL 

So I hedged and took the money line - I broke even   WHEW!!!  

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Columbus government is SO SO much better then in 2013.   Remember this? 

Two city council members serve as auxiliary police officers.

When the chief goes before the counsel for more money, he already has one third of the possible votes in the bag.

How the heck is that NOT a conflict of interest?

Who still wonders why we spend more on law enforcement than most cities this size?

These counsel members have the opportunity to put the interests of their boss, the chief, ahead of the best interest of the citizens.

A wannabe cop is not going to vote against the chief on anything.

The citizens of this city should find this situation unacceptable.

We did.  A year later there was a new Mayor and 5 new alderman - I was the only loser as I went against the head of the snake. It took one more year and then we had a complete take over.

Then our first budget meetings showed how bad Columbus was being run.  The budget was chaos and instead of fixing things it was just trying to hang on.  The Police Department got EVERYTHING they wanted while the other departments were told to cut the budgets.  

THEN - when things were getting finalized we were told - OH - we need to cut $100,000 out of the budget as the last administration gave Enerpac 7 years of free property taxes.  They said they would move to Sun Prairie to a site that was not as good unless they got Free Stuff.    And the Council fell for it. 

Would an international company really decide to move forever to a worse place for something like $700,000?   So the administration purchased land for a HUGE price and then sold it at a loss to Enerpac AND gave them free property taxes for 7 years.

Now Enerpac is giving back to Columbus which is really nice but . . . . it's basically OUR money they are spending to help us with a new park.   There is no free lunch.

At the time everyone was blaming the farmer who sold the land to Columbus at a huge profit.  NO - I don't blame him at all.  He was screwed by a corrupt anti business government decades ago.  This was all on the city government. 

BUT I digress - in 2014 things got way way better and one of the proudest things in my life was being part of  rescuing our government from the right wing cronies who were screwing Columbus for their own profits. 

SORRY SORRY.

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OH - the great news is we get the NFL MAX package on DIRECT TV for free along with free HBO. 

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While in Door County we stumbled into one of the brewers/owners of Cercis Brewing.  THAT was a surprise. 

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 A study "demonstrated for the first time the anti-inflammatory and immuno-modulating properties of CBD directly in dogs’ immune cells."

WELL - I can not get Gus to take a hit so . . . that is worthless information  

 

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The comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 featuring the first appearance of Spiderman sold for 3.6 million.  Only 4 copies exist in mint condition.

Nuff.