The Martin Chronicles can see how it’s shaping up. Mayor Martin and his dwindling base of supporters are preparing their defense for what they know is coming in the months ahead. The special counsel’s report will present a picture of a “CEO” who believes that the rules apply to everyone but him. Consumed by the belief in his “broad powers”, it clearly appears Martin has decided that state statutes and city ordinances do not apply to the mayor’s office.
Martin will use his patented “I didn’t know then, but I know now” excuse in an attempt to explain away his unlicensed electrical and plumbing work, the peculiarities in his business filings in the State of Ohio, the seemingly endless number of jobs he did where proper permits were never secured, the years when his business operated without an occupational license, the conducting of private business in the public city building and a growing list of other major and minor improprieties.
And of course there will be the flip side of the coin of Martin’s realm. It is a very dark side. It is a tactic he employed in the successful defense of his forgery arrest and in his mayoral campaign. What is it? Martin and his cronies will spin like giant, industrial-strength lawn sprinklers slinging gallons of mud in every direction trying to portray the mayor as a victim of a massive conspiracy to bring him down. In a literal nutshell, “Martin is good, everyone else is bad”.
Martin and his cronies should be mindful that his dirt-hurling strategy was not so effective with the judges who twice laughed his $1.505 million lawsuit against the taxpayers of Villa Hills out of court. In fact, the appellate court ruling derisively described the mudslide effort by saying “Martin is barking up the wrong tree”.
The Martin Chronicles looks for the Martin gang to do a lot of barking in the coming months.
