Jimi Dimora

Jimi Dimora, I come not to praise you but to defend you. Right now you probably feel as though you do not have a friend in the world, well I might not be a close friend but I am willing to defend your right to being innocent until proven guilty. The writers and reporters who used to pretend to be your friend have all turned against you to sell advertising on their second rate newscasts and in the birdcage liner known as the Plain Dealer.

The buzzards in the news media have tried and convicted you already when you have not even been charged with committing a crime yet. They throw in their little disclaimers saying that you have not been named, but they know its you, they have pointed their fingers and have thrown their stones. I thought in America people were tried in courts of law not in a rag newspaper or on channel 19 news.

The FBI supposedly investigated Cuyahoga County Government for a year before it raided offices and homes of public officials. It now has been a year since those raids have taken place and the only sign of Dimoras guilt have been supposed leeks from the FBI to the unscrupulous Plain Dealer that will print any unsubstantiated piece of news that will sell a newspaper. The leeks do not name Jimi Dimora they only refer to Public Official #1 which the Plain Dealer and Channel 19 assume is Jimi Dimora. Jimi if PO#1 is yo so be it but I think you deserve your day in court before you get crucified by the self righteous media.

People claim the FBI is building an ironclad case. The FBI has had two years to build its case. If you have a case, bring it. If you do not have a case, then quit tearing Cuyahoga County apart with innuendo and unsubstantiated accusations.

The FBI seems to be using their tried and true method of building a case by busting a low level crook "A". Crook "A" then cuts a plea deal for a light sentence and turns in Crook "B". Crook "B" then cuts a deal and turns in Crook "C" who has no one dirty to turn in so he turns in an innocent person. No one believes the innocent person is innocent so he goes to prison the longest because he has no one to turn in. Don't believe me? Look at the Mansfield case. The FBI took the word of drug dealers and crooks over innocent people and locked up many innocent people. To hell with justice, conviction rates look good for the FBI.

Mr. Dimora wants a federal investigation into where the the original complaints came from. Jimi feels it could go all the way up to the heads of the Republican party. He feels that the heads of the Republican party want to break up the stronghold the Democrats have in Cuyahoga County so that Ohio will become a solid Red State. This seems a little far fetched until you look at the heads of the GOP. Mitt "I have no perceivable political principal" Romney, Dick "I'll shoot you in the face" Cheney, Mark "to hell with family values" Sanford, Rush "I will lie to make the GOP look good" Limbaugh. Greed heads all of them, willing to do any dastardly deed to turn an election towards the Republicans. With a bunch of Jackals and Scoundrels like that in charge maybe Mr. Dimora's claims are not that far fetched.

Hagen and Jones the other two County Commissioners are separating themselves from the Dimora Plague. But for anything to have passed one of the other Commissioners would have had to vote and or agree with Dimora. Most contracts are awarded to the low bidder in government. Buying one Commissioner does not guarantee you the contract, you need two. And is $19,000 bribe worth losing a $100,000 a year job over? I don't think so.

I have been offered a bribe. When I accepted the bribe I did not know it was a bribe. I thought the contractor was just being a nice guy. He offered me two front row club seats to a Cavaliers Basketball game. The waiter when he came around told us all drinks and food were already paid for. Nice! A week later the contractor was pouring concrete and violating the specifications of the contract. I told the contractor to rip out the concrete and do it according to the specifications.
Contractor: How was the Cavs game?
MC: Great. Remove the concrete.
Contractor: You enjoyed the seats, the beer and food were good?
MC: I don't drink beer but I had a pop. Yep, everything was fine. Remove the concrete and install it according to the specifications.
Contractor: Your an ASSHOLE! You will never go to a Cavs game on me again.
MC: A Cavs game is not worth me losing my job over. I can buy my own Cavs tickets. Quit cheating and do the work right.

So you see that sometimes what is thought to be just a nice gesture on a persons part can turn into a bribe. Is the gesture nice enough to sell your soul for, that's the difference between if it is a bribe or just a nice gesture gone sour. $200 to $300 spent on me is not worth me compromising my principles for or to lose a $55,000 job over.

Did Mr. Dimora force the taxpayers to pay extra money for services rendered that they could have gotten cheaper form someone else? Who was the other Commissioner voting in favor with Mr. Dimora? Are the snitches and crooks telling the truth to the FBI or are they lying to save their own asses? When the Plain Dealer folds will their reporters go to work for the Enquirer or the Star? Which of the following does Rob Frost, head of the Cuyahoga County Republican party enjoy more, Oral sex with an eighteen year old, male hooker or anal sex with a 55 year old man that he truly loves? Yes these questions have to be answered before we start casting stones. So far I have not seen any charges against Jimmy Dimora in a court of law and I think it is wrong that he has already been tried and convicted in the Cleveland media.