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History: How Did They Destroy a Town

Springfield, Ohio, is a Council-Manager form of government. This is summarized in their 2015 PDF as:

Council-manager government combines the strong political leadership of elected officials with the strong managerial experience of an appointed manager or administrator. All power and authority to set policy rests with an elected governing body, which includes a mayor or chairperson and members of the council, commission, or board. The governing body in turn hires a nonpartisan manager who has very broad authority to run the organization. This appointee serves at the pleasure of the council and has responsibility for preparing the budget, directing day-today operations, hiring and firing personnel, and serving as the council’s chief policy advisor. Born out of the U.S. progressive reform movement at the turn of the 20th century, the council-manager system was designed to combat corruption and unethical activity in local government by promoting effective management within a transparent, responsive, and accountable structure. Since its establishment, the council-manager form has become the most popular structure of local government in the United States.

However, the last sentence says, "Today, this system of government is used in 48.9% of American cities with populations of 2,500 or more."

I imagine it might work for people who are or are governed by people with moral and/or ethical compass, but when that's not the case, as such in Springfield, it's just fertile land for corruption.

And the only way to oust a City Manager is with a Commission vote. So it behooves the Manager to work with the County Board of Elections to select or allow who can be on the ballot for both Mayor and Commissioners to keep him in his job. (This has been apparent in every election since Heck took over as City Manager in 2019 and especially in 2023 and 2025.) The result is a City Manager in the role for his lifetime, regardless of performance or even "mismanagement" of funds.

Why did they need to not just clarify, but defend this in 2015?

In July 22, 2014, then mayor Warren Copeland and his best pal from their Cedarville University days, Carl Ruby orchestrated a plan.

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But more on that later.

Rue came in, and "hired" The Don (City Manager Bryan Heck) in 2019. So now, the only way The Don can be removed is by a Commission vote. So, in turn, the Manager (and Mayor) work to make sure who is allowed to run for City Commission. They just determined this in Spring 2025:

From the Feb 12, 2025, Springfield News-Sun article, https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/donahues-petitions-invalid-4-will-run-for-3-springfield-city-commission-seats/C7EK57MU75ATJFBCFK4BLT4TJU/

Beth Donahue, executive director of the Springfield Domestic Violence Coalition, was the fifth person who filed petitions to run for city commission, turning in more than the required 250 signatures. It is common that some people who sign political candidates’ petitions turn out not to be registered voters, or live outside the jurisdiction the candidate is running for.

Board of Elections Director Jason Baker said after some invalid signatures were eliminated, Donahue had only 236 valid signatures, and therefore was not certified to the ballot.

Clark County Board of Elections Director Jason Baker, a former insurance agent with Code Blue, is a Springfield resident first elected to the position in 2015. In March 2023, The Clark County Board of Elections held its reorganizational meeting, where board members voted to not make changes to the board’s leadership.

Kettering wording - is it the same as the piece of paper from Springfield? : The City of Kettering operates under a Council-Manager form of government. The City Council makes policy and the City Manager executes that policy. This is much like a corporation in which the Citizens are like stockholders, the Council is like the Board of Directors and the City Manager is like the Chief Executive Officer. City Council appoints the City Manager who serves an indefinite term at the discretion of the Council. All City employees except the Clerk of Council and her assistants are appointed by the City Manager.

Why the need to clarify this in 2015?

Warren Copeland was a Professor of Religion at Wittenburg University and appointed to the Springfield City Commission in 1988. He served as mayor from 1990-1994 and from 1998 until he retired in 2023. Yes, you read that right. Mayor for 33 years (minus a 4-year stint in the mid ‘90s). Religion professor at Wittenburg.

Ruby was the Dean of Student Life at Cedarville in the 2000s before being fired in 2013 by conservatives for his refusal to denounce gender confusion and homosexuality as taught n the Bible (fundamentalists). He immediately signed on as pastor of the Central Christian Church.

And he started working on Warren Copeland to orchestrate his plan. Not hard work, they travelled in the same religious and political circles. It’s worthy to note that Ruby never lived in Springfield. It’s become the SOP they destroy from afar. And anybody within, they destroy and get out.

So Ruby and Copeland drafted a Resolution to designate Springfield as a “welcoming city”. On July 22, 2014, Copeland signed it.

Initially meant for Hispanics, who were immigrating at the highest rates at that time, the Del Rio, Texas, pipeline had a direct route to Springfield. Over the next five years, the numbers were both lovely and manageable. By 2019, there were 27 non-English speaking children in the schools, 6 Latino grocery stores, 7 restaurants, food trucks, etc.

And Ruby and Copeland saw that their embrace and empower approach could mean even more money for the city if they stepped up the game to recruit. Then, the perfect storm of the federal Administration that would change the country forever.

The money that could be made off the TPS Haitians was astronomical. Millions!

AI defines a Resolution as “an official, formal statement passed by a city council or other governing body that expresses its opinion, decision, or intention on a specific issue. Unlike an ordinance, resolutions typically deal with temporary or special matters, such as adopting internal policies, acknowledging individuals, or communicating with other governmental bodies, and are less legally binding than ordinances.”

AI says, “When a city resolution has no end date, it remains in effect until the city council takes formal action to repeal or amend it. Unlike ordinances, which typically create permanent law, resolutions are often used for temporary or specific administrative matters. However, if a resolution does not specify an expiration, it remains valid indefinitely.”

More on this when we get to 2024-2025. (They refuse to rescind it)

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Welcoming America vs. Welcome America – is that the word salad.

https://certifiedwelcoming.org/

https://welcomingamerica.org/welcoming-network/network-directory?listing_search=o

Section 1 says, “The City of Springfield, Ohio, joins cities like Dayton and Columbus that have formed a voluntary network of immigrant-friendly communities called Global Great Lakes and Welcoming America.”

Do we know they never paid the “up to” $12,000 fee? They’re not listed in the directory (I searched in “Ohio”.)

Welcoming America was an intiitative, but the article refers to Carl Ruby as the Executive Director. – all from afar, the Springfield SOP, destroy from afar.

George Ten had to start a new company, Ten Enterprises, to handle all the profits from their every need. Finding them cars, housing, clothes, services, etc.

And Rob Rue got in on it. HE bought 7 properties – 5 of which are duplexes with 6 bedrooms in each. He admitted to renting to Haitians but “at market rate”.

Ten and Rue and everyone else started evicting their tenants out to rent to Haitiians. So much more oney in it. Guaranteed from the Feds. You could charge by the room, by the bed, by the shift or even the hour of the day in some cases.

The companies here, like Magregor Metals, took advantage of federal WOTC credits of $9,600 per Haitian. Magregor hired 30 for a total of $288K in bottom line tax break and told reporters that they were just better workers.

The citizens started begging for help. They told the Mayor, City, Manager, and City Commissioners of the missing pets and geese in the parks. They brought pictures and videos. They ignored this until forced into the national spotlight in Fall 2024. Then, they had to say there was no evidence, using the term “pets” vs. “domesticated animals” semantics for the loophole. Heck’s response in the September meeting was, and I quote, “Let’s get them more resources!!!” to which Governor DeWine sent $2.5 million for a new hospital/urgent care facility in the heart of Haitian area (every town in the world has areas – think NYC – people are tribal/cultural – and besides, these people literally HATE us – they love our money, but hate us), translation services in the DMV and schools, and driving simulators (think video games).

The City cut of all interaction. We are “allowed” 3 minutes under threat of police escort or arrest (trespassing, disturbing the peace). We are dangerous racists. And liars. DeWine claimed or called in his own bomb threats to give Rue imaginary emergency powers (put in the City Charter so he could pay bills during Covid) to keep Trump from coming here for a rally. Costing the city millions in revenue, shutting down schools and scaring children half to death.

And a year later, the corruption hasn’t let up.

They got the United way to set up a Unity Fund, recruited a bunch more nonprofits and embrace and epower became recruit.

The money was fantastic.

The 7 , the 6, the non-English speaking kids in school. All lovely and manageable.

And then came the federal Administration that would change the country forever. DelRio

The Big Lots, then the Loves, in the dark of night.

The Catholic Charities and everybody wanted to drink from the fire hose of incoming money.

The Immigration Task force article- A Checklist even endorsed by Mike Turner to make sure the Haitans were getting all they needed.

Then the city went on a Forward Together campaign. Never including a Haitian in any marketing, but spray painting the words on the sides of buildings and on water towers. But the town is anything btu together.

They won’t rescind the Resolution.

AI end date thing.

Carl Ruby – who never even lived in Springfield. This is an SOP – they destroy from afar. None of the virtue signalers live in the city to suffer the consequences.

The nonprofits – 1,042 in the city, as of October 2025.

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