What a jackass. (With extra “name that party” goodness.)

I’ve heard of this clown of a mayor in other contexts before (calling the local Freemasons jerks for deciding to move their operations to the suburbs from the incredibly crappy downtown areas they’d been in for years, for instance, and for not allowing the Marine Reserve to do urban patrol exercises in Toledo in February 2008). But this is just silly.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner says he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He says the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways.
During a news conference Monday, Finkbeiner ignored a reporter’s question of whether the crackdown and fines were related to the city’s budget crisis.
The three-term mayor faces a recall vote in November. Critics have claimed he has wasted city money.

Just handing his enemies the rope with which to hang himself. I imagine the corruption indictments will follow closely on the heels of his landslide loss.
Oh! And, name that party!