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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Ficano Served, Retains Monica Conyers Mouthpiece


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Wed Oct 19, 2011 at 04:37:40 PM EST
    Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

    Three teams of FBI agents entered Wayne County government offices in Detroit this afternoon to serve subpoenas for county records.

    The agents' presence comes as County Executive Robert Ficano has retained prominent criminal defense lawyer Steve Fishman to represent him in the FBI probe into a $200,000 severance paid to former county economic development director Turkia Awada Mullin.

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    Ficano (none / 0) (#1)
    by RushLake on Wed Oct 19, 2011 at 06:40:59 PM EST
    Bob Ficano was the Wayne County Sheriff when we were fighting to resolve issues with the new concealed carry law. I lived in Wayne County at the time. Ficano came to one of the meetings of the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners one evening. He told us that he opposed the right to concealed carry, but that it was the law and he would not stand in the way of implementation of the law. At that time we were getting a lot of crap from the County Gun Board, lots of foot dragging, lost applications, finger prints that had to be redone, etc. Ficano introduced a lady who worked for him and told us that she was almost totally full time resolving issues involving the sheriff department and she did exactly that and really blasted thru a lot of those issues.

    I really respected the guy because I thought that, even for a democrap, he had principles. When he ran in the primary for County Executive against a field of africanhyphenamerican trough feeders, it was easy to cross over and vote in their primary for him. The people who run on the Republican ticket in Wayne County are often democraps who want to earn some name recognition or can't get a spot on the 'crap ticket so it isn't difficult to rationalize that it's probably worthwhile to pick the best democrap since you're going to get one anyway.

    As Executive, when he took on the county goonions over pay and staffing, I was again impressed.

    I'm no longer impressed with this crooked jerk and his buddy Turkey Mullin. The sad thing is that when he's gone, they'll elect a trough feeding africanhyphenamerican to replace him and it will only get worse in Wayne County. Undoubtedly Snyder will continue to enjoy some popularity there.  

    Other Peoples Money (none / 0) (#2)
    by Rougman on Thu Oct 20, 2011 at 02:05:19 PM EST
    Ficano's actions are completely understandable when one considers the fact that Ficano is carrying out the ever growing duties of his benevolent position with other peoples money.    

    He says he has done nothing legally wrong and he invites the investigation. We'll see.  The more telling questions to me are these, all legal considerations aside...would he have granted these severance packages if they were being paid for from the assets of his own company rather than being footed by the taxpayers? and is there something irresistibly attractive about the prospect of essentially wining and dining the meteoric careers of friends and family while not actually having to be the one that picks up the tab?

    At least the bankers and others on Wall Street have historically made silly and expensive mistakes at their own peril and with their own money--except, of course, in the age of bailouts and liberal fascism when even that most sacred of behavior modifiers is being compromised.  

    Robert Ficano is neither a large nor remarkable player within today's government waste arena.  That in itself is perhaps the most disturbing thing, and until we finally decide to shrink the size of government at all of its levels, almost by definition, we are going to be seeing more and more of this.  

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