The Martin Chronicles is amazed at just how many ways Villa Hills Mayor Mike Martin's Civic Club crony Mary Hardman is connected to the current Special Counsel investigation. To use an old expression, Martin and Hardman seem to be as thick as thieves.
Mary Hardman is starting to seem a whole lot like movie characters Forrest Gump and Zelig. And not just because she is dumber than a vacated bee hive and has the personality of a gas station bathroom doorknob. Why? Because it seems that she is always nearby when Martin is caught perpetrating yet another fraud.
It's the darndest thing. Mike Martin has done unlicensed electrical work for the Civic Club. One of the two signatures on the Civic Club check to Mike Martin Electric belongs to-yes, you guessed it-Mary Hardman! In fact, Mary did such a good job of paying Martin that she actually cut a Civic Club check to him for more than he earned. How about that?
So, Martin decided to hire a "temporary" clerk to supposedly help out during last year's property tax season. Guess who Martin hired and paid the highest hourly rate for a part timer in the history of Villa Hills? Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! We have a winner! Yup, Martin hired the same Mary Hardman!
Martin was frequently questioned by council about why Mary Hardman was not bonded. Martin said he was advised (by some never-named "expert") she was not required to be bonded because she didn't "handle money". Except that she did handle money. Several residents told Special Counsel that Hardman took their property tax payments. These residents did not use fresh eggs, goat milk, aluminum cans or rare baseball cards as barter to settle their property taxes. They used money.
As has now become the stuff of City folk lore, Martin was caught improperly destroying City records on January 5, 2012. He falsified a document in a feeble attempt to cover his tracks the very next day. In an odd twist, it wasn't the official Custodian of City Records who signed the falsified document that purportedly listed all the records that were destroyed. Guess who signed it? Sure. That was easy! Why it was the same Mary Hardman!
Gee. We now hear that Martin is claiming he knew nothing about the document burn. Why, he was busy unclogging a toilet somewhere. It wasn't the official Custodian of Records either. She is too lazy to do anything. Ever.
So who was it that-with no guidance whatsoever-decided to burn several truckloads of documents (the documents Martin has told us never existed). Okay. Pull the lever. JOKER! JOKER! JOOO-KER!!! We have a WINNER! Isn't that amazing?!? The whole inferno was Mary Hardman's doing!
Does anyone else see a pattern developing here?
