Interesting email fron our "nineth" Alderman to recient elected officials in Crestwood!

Yes indeed, I filed a FOIA form for ALL emails from and to elected officials here in Crestwood from the date of election to last Friday.

Guess what, a Gentleman named Vic Pildes, (Consultant to Centrum Properties,) has seen fit to advise our new Alderman on what to do, and how to do it when it comes to agenda items reference Crestwood Courts and the TIF they desire.

" Please place the approval of the consultant contracts and the status of the TIF commission on the agenda for the next Board meeting on May 14th."
(I would like to suggest that YOU file a FOIA form at the City Clerks office for these emails and find out what YOUR Alderman is doing.)

If Mr. Pildes is so adamant about the need to place things on OUR agenda, may I suggest that he move to Crestwood, run for office, and THEN do it?

At this time it's a bit of a moot point as the BOA showed a great deal of common sense and voted down the "prospectus" at the last meeting on Tuesday night.

Speaking of that meeting, I am told by several who were there that the decorum was less than one would expect from what I had hoped were Ladies and Gentlemen! One resident was BOOED by another as she spoke, and yet another resident attempted to stop the conversation by shouting "Time up!"

Is this what we have become here in the community where I have resided for 44 years? Do we now expect that just because a vote does not go their way, people will act like a five year old who has all the red licked off their candy, and now feels the need to throw a tantrum?

Crestwood Court will be developed or it will be sold, we have no burning need to acquiesce to the demands of a developer (no matter who they are) who will not negotiate with us, but rather TELLS us what they will do, or not do! They want it their way, fine and dandy, but do it without financial assistance! You want to act like the big dog, great, SHOW US and build it yourself!



Tom Ford

NO. 2008

Once again Memorial Day is upon us. I n years past I have waxed elloquently about it, but this year.......

This year all I ask is that you please remember who gave you and I the chance to have the family outings, the freedom to worship the God of our choosing, and the freedom of speech that is so all important to all of us.


Tom Ford

NO. 2007

obama "document dump"has a two day gap! Anyone here remember the 16 hour gap in the Nixon tapes?

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/white-houses-benghazi-email-dump-shows-critical-two-day-gap-cia-objection/

That's right folks, "the most transparent administration (read regime) in the history of America" seems to have misplaced a couple of emails from ?

If you are old enough to remember the Nixon era with the resulting Watergate tapes you will remember that Richard Nixon resigned over a 16 hour lapse in the then White House recordings of ALL of his conversations.

It seemed that Mr. Nixon saw the possibility of impeachment hearings, and did not wish to put the Nation or his family through the resulting firestorm should that have happened. What did he do you ask? Well he "covered up" a break in of the democrat National office at the Watergate Hotel (no deaths or injuries by the way.)

What has obama done by comparison? Well it seems that he went to bed to be fresh for a campaign fund raised in Las Vegas, and left hillary clinton and others to watch in "real time" the death of four of our fellow citizens!

obama and his minions then proceed to hatch a plan to tell us it was over a video that was anti Muslim, heck they even arrested the producer of the video! We all now know that was a lie, and we know that for eight hours the four who were murdered in Benghazi pleaded for help, but the help was told th STAND DOWN!

Will obama resign as Nixon did? No he will not because his narcissism will not allow it! We have a group of regime people who have lied, cajoled and obfuscated the truth to keep this person in office, why? You Tell me, because to me he is a stench in the nostrils of honest men everywhere, and deserves to be held in far lower esteem that Richard Milhous Nixon ever was or will be!

What to do to right the ship, and bring back trust in Washington? Simple, impeach obama arrest and indict clinton and all others who participated in this foul lie, and that will be a start!

By the way, eric holder who gave Mexican drug lords guns under the "fast and furious" program said "no special prosecutor will be appointed!" Talk about flying in your face, he must appoint one NOW, or join the rest in a "perp walk!"


Tom Ford

NO. 2006

May 10, 1910, Evelyn Mae Ford is born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is celebrating her 103rd. Birthday today!

That's right folks my Mother is now 103 years old! Amazing as it may seem these day's she follows her own diet and has had very little reason to visit Doctors or hospitals in her lifetime.

She and my Father were married for 72 years (he passed at age 100) and during that time they enjoyed a life of dedication to family and service to their God and their Country.

At the present she resides in the Park view Nursing Facility, Sandusky, Ohio (near my Fathers grave site on Middle Bass Island) and is not only able to be ambulatory, but can and will cary on a conversation on most any subject you wish to put forth.

Needless to say we are all very proud of her, and I only wish I could join my Sister and Brother for the celebration there today!

Happy Birthday Mom, and the way your going, I may join you there as a resident before you know it!


Tom Ford

NO. 2005

Up date on the condition of the lovely Linda and the broken femur.

Linda has been moved from St. Clair Hospital to the rehab wing of Bethesda Dilworth where she will undergo physical therapy for a couple of weeks to learn to maneuver with the latest medical devices that we hope will insure no more falls.

In the mean time the "independent" will be cleaning, moving furniture, throw rugs, and other assorted pitfalls that may prove hazardous to her getting around the house.

I now have the distinct dis-pleasure of being a "bachelor" for a bit, and just think, I have no place to go, and nothing to do except shuttle back and forth to "the home." That is what 47 years of wedded bliss will do for you. But, that said, I am including the following old "drinking song" for those of you who are still able to do the "pub crawling."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok02ZZMCtPY&feature=player_embedded#!


Tom Ford

NO. 2004