Then he says he can’t cut anymore and will need to cut police and fire and trash services, which he and his talking heads warn can only throw the city into absolute anarchy.

Then he spends $500,000 on a special election to propose a 25% increase in taxes so none of his City Council cohorts will have to face the reaper with a tax increase on the same ballot as their election hopes.

Then we find out the city is paying BOATLOADS of overtime to police officers, and dispatchers are making two times their salary in overtime, and that the mayor’s office salaries average more than 5 times the average income of a citizen in Columbus.

THEN we find out today’s news from the Dispatch, that Columbus will receive $12.7 MILLION in stimulus funds to hire MORE police.

And to top it all off, Safety Director Mitchell J. Brown told the Dispatch that they’ll probably still have an increase in crime rates with the addition of 12.7 million in police. “It helps,” he said, “and we appreciate it, but it does not deal with the deficit we anticipate in Public Safety.”

WOW… and how are YOU voting for Issue 1?

Read the whole disaster in Mayor Coleman’s Columbus Dispatch