WHERE DOES ALL THE MONEY GO?

Today's Sandusky Register had 2 excellent articles about the mess of the Erie County Clerk of Courts under the mis-management of former Clerk, Barb Johnson.  The "$3MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY" was on the front page and continued on A6 and the article "CLERK OF COURTS ALSO ENTITLED TO FUNDS" was found on page A6.

While we never wrote about "long-running system of negligence" (because we focused on the many other negligence that Johnson was doing to her office), with the $3 Million dollars in a STAR Ohio investment interest-bearing account, we did write about the money that is owed to the clerk's office that have never been collected.  You can see that article in the part 4 of the 11 part series "Areas of Concern" here "COLLECTION ON ESTIMATED $700,000 IN OUTSTANDING COURT COSTS & FINES."

This alone, yet another of Johnson's "astonishing negligence," will indeed be a "Monuental Task" to clean up.  Coupled with our other "11 Areas of Concern," which we have written extensively about in the past (see the left side bar for links to those articles), will be a TREMENDOUS burden on the new Clerk of Courts, Luvada Wilson.  However, we feel that Wilson is not only up to the job, but also is more than capable of doing the job!  Afterall, she has been instrumental in helping Judge Tone clean up the former Judge Anne Maschari's mess, and she has an impeccable work record (she actually shows up to work every day - hummm what a novel idea!).   Even though this Johnson mess is a "Mt. Everest" compared to Maschari's "Ice Berg" mess, Wilson has the experience and knowledge to get the job done.....she just won't be able to get any sleep what-so-ever for the next 15-18 years!

In all seriousness, Wilson is the man (or should we say woman) for the job.  And if she digs in and gets dirty right off the bat and shows significant progress, then we think she is someone we could endorse as a serious candidate for the job when she runs in 2012.