Enough Already!

The Martin Chronicles crack staff has tracked down a copy of “The Martin Manifesto” that has been circulating around town. It is quite a testament to Villa Hills Mayor Mike Martin’s greatness. As we read it we started to feel overcome with a sense that perhaps Martin’s visage should join those of Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln on the cliffs of Mt. Rushmore. Then we remembered. The three pathetically written pages of mindless meanderings are nothing more than the proverbial crock of bovine scatology and dangerous libel.

Please allow us to share an example. Martin claims, “The Accounting Firm used by the previous administration has been replaced with an annual savings to the City of around $15,000”. Is that a fact? You don’t say?

Do you join us in wondering whether or not it has ever occurred to the mismanaging mayor that replacing a competent accountant with his crony-hire, $47.50 per hour, hillbilly bucket head clerk/bookkeeper could be maybe a part of the reason he finds himself in the position of frantically pleading with council to give him an emergency budget amendment to cover his current $125,000 budget shortfall? Of course you do.

So perhaps Martin could tell us again how he thinks getting rid of a skilled accountant confident in what they were doing saved any money at all? It seems to us fairer to say that Martin’s bonehead move actually cost the taxpayer’s $125,000.

Besides, the accounting firm has a completely different version of what happened. As they tell it, they informed the mayor they would no longer be providing accounting services to the Martin-led government. Something about not wanting to risk their professional reputation. Given Martin’s consistent unfamiliarity with the truth, we absolutely believe the accounting firm.

You say you want an encore? Okay several readers have their Bic lighters fired up. So here goes. “Unfiled City Records have been identified, organized and filed so that City Records can be maintained as required by law and money due the City is deposited when received”.

As Mayberry’s Andy Taylor used to say, “Don’t that beat all?” And here all the time Martin told us there were no records. Why, that was supposed to be the reason he almost never fills an Open Records request in accordance with State statute. Didn’t he tell us that he wasn’t left even a Post It Note or paper clip?

What gives? Now we are supposed to believe that the City Building looked like an episode of Hoarders with stacks and stacks of paperwork scattered all throughout the premises? So, is that the reason Martin ordered the unlawful destruction of City Records on January 5, 2012? Is the mayor now saying that he committed what is potentially a Class D felony in a heroic attempt to prevent the City Building that was bursting at the seams with flammable records from perhaps catching fire?

Enough already.

[PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Sometime late today The Martin Chronicles will be hosting our 25,000^th UNIQUE VISITOR! Dare I say this is quite an accomplishment for our plucky little blog? I want to extend a grateful THANK YOU to all our loyal readers on behalf of our entire staff of dedicated people covering Mike Martin’s scandal-plagued river town.]