The Martin Chronicles recognizes it. We know we aren't inclined to let things go very easily. When something doesn't sit well with us, it really frosts our keyboards. The only way to warm 'em back up? That's easy. Write away!
Something that has really gotten under our collective skin is the way-off-base comment by that goofy Councilman Mike Pope. When Pope described what will rightfully be Special Counsel Phil Taliaferro's uninterrupted presentation of his initial findings into the inexplicable activities of Villa Hills' Mayor Mike Martin as a "Communist court", that really grabbed our "goat". Even the moribund City Attorney Mike Duncan agrees that a presentation without disruption is the correct way to go.
Here is the real problem. Pope is the ultimate Martin apparatchik. He is slavishly complicit in many of the misdeeds of the mayor. As czar of the City's Finance Committee, Pope has played a scurrilous shell game with taxpayer money. Pope frequently heaped propaganda on Martin for the mayor's adept handling of the City's finances. The disaster was only revealed when Martin was overcome with the fear of losing his wife's dacha(?).
The Martin Chronicles has revealed emails demonstrating Pope's "useful idiot" status as well. For instance? Well, Pope wrote that he had "no problem" with Martin's total-and possibly illegal-disregard for Kentucky Open Records statutes. Pope also emailed that he had no issue with Martin's January 5 document burn. However, last Thursday's court hearing has clearly demonstrated that Martin's wanton destruction of evidence may be as radioactive as Chernobyl.
Then there is Pope's now-defunct "alternate reality" City website. Pope filled it with propaganda that would most certainly make Pravda blush. Remember the adoring puff pieces about Martin's trips to Haiti? Sadly, the City website is travelling down that same road. Want an example. Martin has refused to place Taliaferro's hearing on the City calendar. C'mon, comrade!
Flash back to the rigged Civic Club Candidate forum of 2010. Each council candidate was given ten minutes for a brief presentation and to field questions from the audience. Pope ranted for nearly all of the ten minutes, revealing his "Log (yes, "LOG") Term Plan". Pope explained how many tractors the factories would produce and how many tons of wheat the farms harvest. In a manner that would make Josef Stalin proud, Pope left only enough time for a set-up question from fellow traveler, soon-to-be-crony-hire, uncontracted-contract-employee, $47.50 per hour clerk/bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber.
Pope is about to be faced with the facts about Mike Martin. What will he do if there is a removal hearing? Will he throw his own questionable reputation away to defend the indefensible?
Martin may very well be headed for a Siberian gulag. Will Pope blindly follow Martin into the wilderness? Hopefully, it won't be too long until we can say До свидания to both of them.
