One of our favorite TV shows from the late 1970’s featured a post-Star Trek Leonard Nimoy looking for answers to many of the world’s great mysteries. It was titled In Search Of and in it Nimoy explored the mysteries of The Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, the real fate of Amelia Earhart and UFOs.
The Martin Chronicles has uncovered a mystery that is worthy of exploration by Mr. Nimoy. In our December 7th post “It’s Everyone Else’s Fault” we reprinted a Mike Martin e-mail in which he advised council to “call NKAPC and talk to president Paul DePaul and some of the members” to learn what Martin’s bumbling presentation to the Area Planning Commission really meant.
But what Martin suggested lead us to a great mystery. Namely, who in the world is “president Paul DePaul”? We searched the Planning Commission’s website in hopes of finding a phone number to call DePaul. Here’s where it gets weird. The Planning Commission doesn’t have a “president” and there was nary a trace of anyone named Paul DePaul.
A Google search lead us to DePaul University, St. Vincent DePaul and finally, a Paul DePaul LinkedIn page. The plot thickened when we read that Paul DePaul ran a company in California. Suddenly, NKAPC “president Paul DePaul” was becoming more elusive than D. B. Cooper!
As Leonard Nimoy might describe it, we talked to some Martin “theorists” who speculate that the bungling mayor may have been referring to the Planning Commission’s Chairman Paul Darpel. But none of the “theorists” were willing to say that is definitely who Martin was referring to.
One theorist put it this way. “How can you expect any of us to know with certainty what Martin is talking about when it is quite clear that even Martin himself doesn’t know what the (EXPLETIVE) he is talking about?”
