If Only

Every now and then one of the Martin Chronicles reporters will hear someone lament that they would love to see what Villa Hills Mayor Mike Martin could do if he had a council that would work with him. Poor little fella. As you can probably guess, these sentiments are typically expressed by cave-dwellers who spend most evenings with their butts parked in stools around the bar at that rat’s nest known as the Civic Club.

Perhaps Villa Hills’ residents will get the opportunity to see exactly that come January 1, 2013. We know that the Civic Club is hatching a plan to run 15 Martin supporters for council. If luck is with Martin, he’ll have no one to stand in his way then. The council election is now only 209 days away. Can’t you just imagine Martin surrounded by six Mike Popes? Wouldn’t that be great?

Perhaps the dim bulbs yearning for the day when Martin can show what he is truly made of should pay closer attention to the mayor’s own words written in his recently circulated three-page Manifesto. Martin says YOU ARE GETTING WHAT YOU VOTED FOR. And the performance, character, integrity, intelligence and skill-level of the person you voted for was most accurately described in the recent letter we published from an unhappy customer of Martin's misnamed Quality Home Services, “Shoddy at best”.