Toledo mayoral candidate Mike Ferner said Ohio officials should demand Michigan Governor Snyder and his Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Quality stop 'cooking the books' when reporting phosphorus levels dumped into Lake Erie. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER One of Toledo's seven mayoral candidates is accusing Michigan officials of "cooking the books" by playing up decreases in total phosphorus loading into the Detroit River, the River Raisin, and western Lake Erie while downplaying increases in dissolved reactive phosphorus, the type that grows the most algae.