Just how bad have the mayoral campaign attack ads and mailers been? So bad that News-Sentinel conservative columnist Kevin Leininger criticized Republicans for going over the top about Mayor Tom Henry:
And the loser is ... the Allen County Republican Party's claim that Democratic Mayor Tom Henry is “the father of the County Option Income Tax (COIT) ... (that) since 2001 has cost taxpayers over $128 million.”
Henry's alleged paternity came as news to the man who really deserves that title: former Republican Mayor Paul Helmke, who with the late Ed Rousseau
