Comments on: Crawford County Prosecutor Responds

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:00:35 +0000

I have seen enough of this Matt Crall guy. I am tired of all his mud throwing, name calling and misinformation. I am tired of Politicians like Matt telling half the truths and sliming everyone else who actually is working for us. Why is Matt Crall talking about a Prosecutor being paid $62.71 and hour and not telling us that he is paid $60 and hour and why is Matt Crall making $90,000 a year working part time? That’s ridiculous. Matt said he had all this experience and then we find out Matt has only had two Jury Trials and lost them both and then lost a 1.4 million dollar case from his civil blundering. Yeah, some experience. Now we have to pay private attorneys to fix Matt’s mistakes in addition to his $90,000 a year part time pay? Really? Why doesn’t that come out of Matt’s $90,000 a year part time salary. Maybe if Matt spent his time working instead of politicking he would be able to talk about his record without the spin. I know about the Mayor case Matt and I am glad the County Prosecutor did your job and handled this case, correctly. You don’t get the endorsement of the Galion/Crestline FOP and Ron Shawber by not showing up for work Matt. You don’t get the endorsement of the County Auditor for not being responsible for our money. That is why I am voting for Stanley Flegm. It is nice to know that we actually have a Prosecutor that isn’t a Politician. Go back to your Bucyrus Matt. Galion deserves better.

By: Ted Gillow

Ted Gillow — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:29:41 +0000

I can’t get past this double-dipping thing, where this Flegm guy gets to collect a full pension plus his full salary. So I Googled it with Ohio, and guess what comes up? Apparently the Ohio legislature is considering a Bill, introduced by Rex Damshroder that would make it illegal for a public employee to retire and receive a pension and then return back to govt. work. Its referred to as House bill 388. “It’s just not right,” Damschroder said of “double dipping.” “Retire means to stop working,” said Damschroder. “That’s what a pension is for.” No wonder he wants to keep his cushy Prosecutor job. I love Google.

By: Ann Sands

Ann Sands — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:57:05 +0000

As a teacher, I cannot believe that these government positions pay this much. Talk about needing to trim the fat! We do more with less and less every day, and the state education department keeps cutting more. Where are the priorities? One of my girlfriends works at the courthouse, and she literally told me that she has no idea who Flegm is, because he is never there. Parking spot — empty. She says most of the courthouse staff she talks to has no idea what he looks like. No wonder he wants to keep that gravy train going.

By: Grant Thomas

Grant Thomas — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:43:05 +0000

“Do you want a County Prosecutor whose main supporters and political advisers are members of the defense bar?” That’s one defense attorney. What about the rest of us, who are just plain taxpayers, that are disgusted by the fact that you are apparently getting a full retirement pension of over $80,000 a year, plus your salary of $104,000 a year, and all you have to show for it is to brag that you spearheaded the sale of our county trash dump? $180,000+ a year and you haven’t tried a criminal case yourself during your last 10 years as Prosecutor? Seriously? Is that why you pay your assistant prosecutor Murphy $103,000+ a year, because he does 100% of YOUR JOB? Pathetic, don’t you think?