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The Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) is a state agency with unlimited legal funds to harass small businesses at its whim. Small businesses cannot afford to fight the unjust actions of a state agency; so their petty bureaucrats operate without accountability. We encourage you to share your opinions and experiences, and help us stop ODOD's unjust legal actions against Leader, who mistakenly believed ODOD was sincere about wanting to assist small business.National Internet Publication The American Thinker Picks Up ODOD Abuse Story
A short piece featuring Leader's harassment by the ODOD appeared today in The American Thinker, under the title "Back to Mercantilism." We would like to thank the author, J. R. Dunn, for his thoughtful examination of the issues involved when a private business ("designed to act quickly for the purpose of making a profit" ) is "partnered" with a bureaucracy like the ODOD ("designed to stretch things out as long as possible while generating large amounts of paper.") We should also point out that while The American Thinker is a conservative internet publication, the problem with the ODOD transcends party affiliation: it began under a Republican administration and continues under a Democratic one. The entrenched bureaucrats in the ODOD do not change with the administration, and their chief loyalty seems to be to the bureaucracy. In that sense, the ODOD provides equal-opportunity harassment without regard to party affiliation.
-- Mike McKibben
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-- Mike McKibben
02/13/09 @ 17:07 Having now reviewed our one foot thick ODOD file, hindsight is 20-20. ODOD referenced the 159 jobs in each of the component agreements. This builds in an inherent and irreconcilable inconsistency in any one of the agreements, if that agreement is ever enforced separately from the whole package, which is what happened to us on the 412 Grant. Its a clever bureaucratic insurance policy that goes into the file, if ever needed. Pundits tell me that this inconsistency is normally ignored. However, whenever politicians announce a crackdown on job creation commitments, their bureaucrats can readily pick a company, then pull out these documents, enforcing the "four corners" of any one of the components at will by accusing the company of not creating the jobs mentioned within that particular agreement... which was of course not dependent on that one program.
Future installments:
- The Cognovit Note - using threats of business disruption to get more leverage
- Attorneys use of the professional ethics rules to lockout the principals on both sides from negotiating a business settlement
- Using the Ohio public records act to misappropriate trade secrets
- When your ODOD project manager starts waffling, the project will not be funded as promised.
- An administration change; passing the unintelligible agreements to the next administration; fodder for creative interpretations of prior agreements.
-- Mike McKibben
02/13/09 @ 17:19 Leave a comment: