So what is the “horror” our reporter was referring to? Well, that would be the tangled mess of squirming snakes we laughingly refer to as the “administration” of Villa Hills Mayor Mike Martin. Layer on to this the obviously poor advice provided by the Councilman Mike Pope-led Finance Committee and you’ve got ugly trouble in this little river City. With a capital “T”.
And ugly it is. Channel 9 News presented a shocking report yesterday on the budget fiasco the bumbling Mayor Martin has created. The mismanaging mayor is pleading with council to hold an emergency meeting to pass a $125K budget amendment that will only cover his immediate shortfall. Martin is so frantic that he has reportedly threatened to “lay off half the employees”. Why? We suspect he is still desperately trying to save his “wife’s (?) house”. C’mon. you know the truth. One of our more sarcastic staff members asked, “Now when Martin says he is going to layoff ‘half the employees’, does he mean laying them off from the waist down or the waist up?”
As we have already written, we hope council declines Martin’s frenzied request. We hope even more that the council has the intestinal fortitude not to back down from Martin’s obvious blackmail. If the mayor truly lays off half the city staff for purely selfish reasons the explosion he has already created all on his own will become a literal radioactive mushroom crowd of residents’ fury with the fallout cascading down on his head. Our advice to the council? Call the mismanaging mayor’s bluff. If the council backs down, they will never, ever, no, not ever be able to stop the mayor again. No matter how crazy or irresponsible the mismanaging mayor’s mindless actions.There is a way Martin could solve his budget crisis. At least he could do so in his own mind. You see, Martin claimed he “found” $30K in unbilled taxes during his dirtbag 2010 mayoral campaign. Then, Martin assigned credit for “finding” the same $30K in unbilled taxes to $47.50 per hour clerk/bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber just a few months ago. There is now a Martin-generated pathetic propaganda piece floating around town where he credits his “hard work” for “finding” the same $30K in unbilled taxes yet again. Yup, the h-o-r-r-o-r!
The Martin Chronicles is convinced that Martin truly believes that saying he and Cordelia “found” the same $30K three times equates to finding $90K. So using the mayor’s own logic, he simply needs to tell five more people that either he or Cordelia “found” the same $30K and, according to his calculations, he will have “found” $150K! More than enough to solve his immediate budget busting problem. With $25K more of the same “found” money to spare!Maybe we can have that parade Martin, Pope and Noll want after all!
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Tomorrow we will try to help Martin by offering yet another excellent suggestion. We call it our “Martin’s April Fool’s Day Tell-All-A-Thon Solution”. Can’t you just hear it now? “TIMPANI!!!!”]
