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TexasTowelie

(120,673 posts)
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 01:33 AM Mar 2019

The cost of destroying evidence? Nothing for councilman. Cincinnati taxpayers lose [View all]

From his perch on Cincinnati City Council, Wendell Young has acted above the law and regularly thumbed his nose at the very taxpayers who pay his salary.

This has to stop.

Young is no longer fit to serve in public office after his attorney this week admitted that the Democrat destroyed evidence in an open meetings court case. Young blatantly destroyed the public's trust, and the only way he can truly be held accountable is to be removed from office.

But can true accountability be achieved?

Short of Young himself deciding to resign, I see no clearcut way to get him out of office before he's term-limited in December 2021. There is no recall provision in the city's charter.

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/columnists/politics-extra/2019/03/05/cincinnati-politics-wendell-young-resign-city-council/3066080002/

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