The Martin Chronicles has always been a fan of Robert Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! The Ripley franchise deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. Sadly, Robert Ripley passed away in 1949. Had he lived to witness the Martin Administration in Villa Hills, Ripley may have devoted an entire wing of his many museums-or "Odditoriums"-to the mayor’s hijinks and antics.
We have been contacted by a resident who says he caught Mayor Martin in yet another lie. How so? At their October meeting, Martin told council that the endlessly temporary clerk he hired many, many months ago did not need to be bonded because he claimed “she doesn’t handle money”.
Well, not surprisingly, we now know Martin was not telling the truth about that either. You see, the endlessly temporary clerk took our resident’s check for his property tax payment. History tells us that Martin knows checks are money. He just didn’t know that you couldn’t sign someone else’s name on a check and cash it. But he knows that now too.
Had Robert Ripley built a separate wing to showcase the strange and bizarre hoodwinks and tomfoolery of the Martin Regime, he would have had to rename it Ripley’s Believe It? NOT!
