It's certainly in line with the gloating piece of crap that passed for an editorial the day after the elections, the same one that branded the Issue 5 leaders — the ones who represented a REAL cross-section of county constituencies — as "out of touch" with their constituencies because they could not overcome the enormous money deficit that bought the corporate takeover of the county, with collusion of the PD. I think it's interesting that the closer you get to the inner city, the less it passed by — and that it came close to falling in Cleveland despite the money blitz. And they STILL paint "Mason-Zanotti" as some kind of clean government heroes, without ever pointing out the obvious self-interest in Mason's role and the mysteriousness of Zanotti's role who represents no "Democrats" except to the Plain Dealer, which fails to note that he was effectively thrown out of the party last year, declined to run again for mayor of Parma Heights for reasons that are still developing and that he represents exactly nobody — and that his interest in county government "reform" was sudden and unprecedented (as was Mason's). Do we really have ANY idea who Zanotti represents?

Lots to investigate; apparently no will to do the investigating. The real out-of-touch entity is the PD which ignores the problems of the people who live in the region to the point of gross journalistic negligence. I never thought I'd say this, but after Tuesday, i believe this region would be better off without a daily newspaper.