Today's e-mail of the day
in the scandal arising from the 2012 school levy campaign at CPS involves
targeted shakedowns of vendors to the school district. It's called
pay-to-play, quid-pro-quo. If it happened at Procter & Gamble,
Federated Department Stores, the Kroger Company, Cintas or Fifth Third
Bank, the executive would be hoisted on their petard, and referred for criminal
prosecution. Not at CPS, the obviously criminal conduct of shakedowns of
vendors for kickbacks simply are part of the way they do business.
One of the things
we find abhorrent about the
continuing abuse of public resources by Cincinnati Public Schools, the illegal
campaigning, the rampant abuses of all rules of decency, is the casualness
with which the abuses take place. "Oh here's a quick email to remind you
to do some illegal campaigning today...Don't forget to abuse your position of
trust with children and tax dollars...and oh yeah, bully your co-workers as
well..."
Even as they attempt to avoid detection by using
personal email addresses and acknowledge that the reason they are doing this is
to evade the law and the COAST/CPS agreement, they are seemingly oblivious to
the damage they are doing and the criminal behavior in
which they are engaging (see
ORC Sections 9.03 and 3315.07 (C)(1)).
