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Issue Number 25, October 2012 eastcle lev get you Send an email to eastclevelandleaks@gmail.com to get the Tattler emailed to you
City leaders concerned that mayor is suffering a nervous breakdown over $8.2 million deficit, FBI investigation, state auditor investigation, strained marriage
NORTON CRACKS
Just as the Ohio Auditor of State is waiting for applications from people to serve on a fiscal commission that will oversee Norton, Council and the Municipal Court, the mayor tells residents the fiscal emergency is no big deal and that he plans to hire more cops. Council is quietly asking if the mayor has lost sight of reality.
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. suffered a mental breakdown in June after his wife caught him cheating and the feds started investigating him for bribery!
By CLYDE CLODHOPPER What if a mayor becomes mentally unable to function in the job? Thats a question council members are asking themselves in the wake of several events over the That damn past year that raise concerns about Mayor Gary Eric Brewer made Nortons mental stability. being mayor look so At a recent resident meeting Norton told the easy. I need to audience that the record-breaking $8.2 million smoke a joint. deficit he created, almost 45 percent of the citys $17.5 million budget, is no big deal. Council members Joy Jordan, Nathaniel Martin and Chantelle C. Lewis were shocked when they heard Norton told residents the astonishing lie that he was going to hire more cops. His statement is wild and erratic, said councilman Nathaniel Martin. Here we are facing a deficit of well over $8 million and hes going to make it larger by hiring more police? A deficit means the city is out of money. What Norton said doesnt make sense. Council has quietly wondered over the past year if public revelations of the body of lies Norton has shared with residents, other government officials and the media has unnerved the mayor to the point Bi-polar civil rights leaders son has Pathological lying is a mental illness! been readmitted to the Mayo Clinic that he may have already suffered a nervous breakdown. Stress has sent Gary Norton to the hospital at least twice since he became mayor. Observers Signs of a mental breakdown seems to have first say Norton has lost weight and looks like hes not sleeping well. Council is concerned that surfaced when Norton went on a lying spree at the Nortons made a record number of erratic and untrue statements about the city and its beginning of 2012 to hide his administrations finances over the past year. Norton has said privately he believes people are against and creation of a $5.7 million deficit, and the city being hate him. Said one source, Norton is asking community leaders to tell him what people placed in fiscal caution by Auditor of State David are saying about him, causing some to call him paranoid. I strongly believe he needs help. Yost. If we had $3.5 million in cash on hand we Records show he didnt stop paying himself as Norton told the Plain Dealers James Ewinger a wouldnt have had a $5.7 million deficit or been instructed by council, and that he wasnt just getting whopper of a lie on January 4 when he claimed he placed in fiscal caution, Martin said. $45,000 as safety director. Councils attorney, exwould quickly pay off the $5.7 million deficit with But Nortons lies didnt stop with his outrageous mayor Darryl Pittman, revealed in a Writ of $3.5 million in revenue on hand and the rest coming proclamation that the citys huge deficit had been Mandamus he filed in August that Norton was from his secret agreement with Cleveland Clinic resolved. He then told the media that council had paying himself another $45,000 to be his own CEO Delos Cosgrove. He also falsely accused excut his salary so hed no longer perform the safety deputy safety director for a whopping annual salary Mayor Eric Jonathan Brewer of creating his deficit. directors duties if he wasnt being paid, and that he of $130,000. Martin said the information Norton gave the Norton continued his lying spree in March when Plain Dealer was incredibly inaccurate because Yost was going to violate the citys charter by turning the required full-time job of mayor into a part-time one. he told the Plain Dealers Tom Feran that he and had just placed the city in fiscal caution.
Say YES to Issue 48 to say NO to the Mayor paying himself $130,000 a year at the citys expense!
No one disagrees that the salary for East Clevelands mayor is low. But Gary Norton gets paid $40,000 as mayor, and pays himself $45,000 as safety director and another $45,000 to be his own deputy safety director for a total of $130,000 a year. Clevelands mayor earns $132,000 a year. On top of it all, Garys been lying to the citys residents by telling them that council cut his wages even though hes broken the law to keep paying himself. Whats worse is that Gary has created an $8.2 million deficit in 33 months and our city is returning to fiscal emergency. More suffering for East Cleveland residents and more money for Gary. That aint right.
Is this how you want East Clevelands mayor spending your money? A $10,000 raise to an employee he was caught sexing it up with in a city car. It just aint right.