IS CLERK OF COURTS LOU GIAVASIS "CRONYISM" PERSONIFIED?

Updated April 10th at 4:00 p.m to include Giavasis complaint about this blog & the SCPR's response (see right before the text of today's blog begins).

VOLUME 1 IN A SERIES

AMENDED TO SHARE GIAVASIS COMPLAINT BOUT THIS BLOG

SCPR response to Giavasis' complaining e-mail.  (immediately followed by the complaining e-mail)

Martin Olson <tramols@att.net>

To:  Louis Giavasis Apr 10 at 3:50 PM

The SCPR plans to publish your email response in its entirety. Today's blog was the first of a series. So you are incorrect in surmising that Giavasis email response is not in the SCPR's publishing plan.

Today's blog will be amended to include (not the material of your vacation in Mexico)  the core of today's Giavasis complaining e-mail being responded to today's by this SCPR response.   Of course, it is pointed out herein that you are incorrect in presuming there is no plan to publish your email response to my email questions.  

As The Report recalls, you were asked on camera after the LWV candidates' forum event of September, 2016 for a response to Shriver's allegations.  For whatever reason, you declined. 

Since you seem to know so much about Mr. Shriver and others' hiring practices,  perhaps, you will provide me with the specifics of your allegations.

As you should know by now, nobody tells the SCPR how to structure The Report's blogs and the timing of the publication of particular parts of the material.  Such is in the sole decretion of this blogger.

I am interested in all the hiring practices of Stark County political subdivisions which, of course, includes the clerk of courts office.

On April 24th I have an appointment to interview, "on camera," Director Kimble of the Stark County Human Resources office.

You should be embarrassed as a Stark County elected public official in assuming that your email response to SCPR questions on the clerk of courts hiring practices is not planned to be published as a part of the series.

Should The Report say that it is no surprise that Stark County Clerk of Courts Louis Giavasis would jump to unwarranted conclusions?

Perhaps, in the future, you should ask about the timing of publication plans of matter like your full email response to the questions posed.

Martin Olson/SCPR

Giavasis' email

Louis Giavasis <LPGiavasis@starkcountyohio.gov>

To: Martin Olson Apr 10 at 1:25 PM

Martin, ...

I cannot say I am surprised by your blog this morning.

 You asked me for I formation and that is what you post?  

You told me that you would publish my entire email, I can only assume that you did not because the facts of my hiring practices do not have with your predetermined opinions. 

Maybe you should go back and look at Mr. Shrivers past hires as a trustee. Vince Marion Twp. Administrator and former executive director of the Stark GOP, Richard Kuhn law director and down the line. 

I sent you all the public postings of my hires and political affiliations of those hires and you post that and exalt Claude Shriver? I am laughing all the way from ... . 

Publish my email. 

Louis P. Giavasis

ORIGINAL BLOG

If the lead question in the title of this block were asked of Claude "Skip" Shriver (a former Plain Township trustee/fiscal officer), the answer?

YES, YES & YES some more.

Here is Shriver at the Canton League of Women Voters candidates forum on September 27, 2016 in his own words.  (2 min, 59 sec)



Shriver is hardly a political pop-off.  He is one of Canton/Stark County's most respected citizens.

The Stark County Political Report (SCPR, The Report) has never seen a Shriver-esque "public" statement going back to 1974 in the annals of Stark County politics.

Despite his efforts to defeat Giavasis in November, 2016 and implement his promise to end political cronyism in the Stark County clerk of courts office, he was unsuccessful.

Had he been successful, he could have "bet his bottom dollar" on SCPR scrutiny of his hiring practices.

This blog has a rich history in examining whether or not Stark County elected officials are into hiring based on personal/political connections and thereby cutting the taxpaying general public out of the opportunity of seeking to be hired.

And, add Stark County Probate Court judge Dixie Park to the parade of subjects of prior blogs pointing out what clearly seemed to be political-based hirings.

Why anyone (even a personally, politically connected person) would want to work for Park is a mystery.

Folks (not necessarily political based hires) who have been worked over by Judge Parks in an employment context have come to

Anyone who regularly reads the SCPR will recall the numerous blogs written about what appeared to The Report to be examples of Lou Giavasis and brother Phil Giavasis cronyism going back years within the 11 years that this blog has been published.

A few links:

• All the way back to May 1, 2008 re:  Giavasis anoints Reinbold as successor clerk of courts; Lawrence Twp trustee denied an opportunity,
• Phil Giavasis:  New King of Political Patronage in Stark County,
• Re:  the Giavasis' stranglehold on the Stark County clerk of courts office

Of course, the use of political patronage in Stark County government/politics is nothing new.

On April 3, 2009, two days after the revelation that there was a theft by an employee in the Stark County treasurer's office. the SCPR wrote this blog:

This blogger believes that the employee (Vince Frustaci) was politically connected to Zeigler or the greater Stark County Democratic Party when he got a job with the treasury in the early 2000s.

Zeigler denied that Frustaci got the job as a recipient of political patronage ii saying that all he knew about Vince Frustaci that "he was just a guy out on the golf course."

Even if Zeigler's explanation for hiring Frustaci is true, what does that say for the hiring processes within a Stark County government unit?

In this series, the SCPR will be delving into the hiring practices not only the Stark County clerk of court but also of Stark County political subdivision entities across the county.