News from Columbus, Ohio: Union video on tax vote. Firefighter fired for killing dogs.
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This video on YouTube outlines IAFF Local 67′s reasons the citizens of Columbus, Ohio should vote for an income tax increase on August 4. Here is a recent article on the issue (and here).
Elsewhere in the Columbus Fire Department there is one less job to save. Firefighter David Santuomo who killed his dogs rather than pay for a kennel was fired. Here is an excerpt from an article in The Dispatch by Ben Cadwallader and Kathy Gray:
Disgraced Columbus firefighter David Santuomo, who executed his family pets and lied about it to investigators, was fired today by Safety Director Mitchell Brown.
The Dispatch and WBNS-TV (Channel 10) have learned that Santuomo sent a threatening text message to a fellow firefighter because he thought a Columbus police officer had turned him in to the Capital Area Humane Society.
The message said, “You realize that there is a funeral in CPD’s future,” according to the internal-affairs investigative report.
That information was forwarded to prosecutors and the safety director, sources said.
Last week, Fire Chief Ned Pettus Jr. recommended that Santuomo be fired. Only the safety director can fire firefighters under the city charter.
Brown did so today.
