Facing yet another sloppy recall effort, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton summed up the faded prospects of his city in a brief conversation Friday afternoon:
“Voters can throw the bums out if they want and bring in new bums, but that won’t change anything. This city currently doesn’t have the fiscal means to safely survive,” he said.
Call it gallows humor if you want, but Norton is not laughing. He is desperately seeking ways to keep his fiscally paralyzed city afloat, but has run out of options. On Wednesday, he took the extraordinary step of asking Ohio Tax Commissioner Joseph Testa…
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