Interestingly enough, many people clearly understand the significance of the fact that there were 5 GUILTY verdicts on the three most serious charges against Martin. How so?
- Despite the fact that Janet Martin is actively assisting Jim Noll's State Senate campaign, even Noll has a threshold he won't cross. Noll voted GUILY on three of the charges. That is meaningful because many people now see that the last year was simply not a witchhunt. It wasn't about four councilpeople who just don't like Martin. Instead, these four councilpeople-and in three cases Jim Noll- care more about the law.
- Most people saw Mike Pope's behavior and votes for exactly what they are-obstructionism. The first big give-a-way? Pope didn't even want to go in to executive session to discuss the evidence that was presented.
- Oddly, Pope would have done the malfeasant Martin a huge favor by voting GUILTY on just one of the charges. Why? Because fair-minded people now clearly understand that the fix was in.
Here are more of the other opinions we overheard.
- Why doesn't everybody realize that the fault for the cost of this investigation rests squarely with Martin? Why didn't he just answer all of these questions when they first came up?
- So is (Interim City Clerk) Sue Bree the "exceptional employee" Martin said she was under oath? Or is she the incompetent chucklehead that Martin wrote up for her Open Records and Document Destruction failures? It can't be both.
- If Martin has proof that one police officer is "lying" to him, another is "planting evidence" and a clerk "has it out" for him-why doesn't he just fire them? The Civil Service Board wouldn't over-turn any of his decisions-if Martin had any proof at all.
- So MARY HARDMAN was hired just to clean up the City Clerk's desk? Martin let her decide what documents could be destroyed because she read some "Clerk For Dummies" book? Maybe Martin should have let her spend the night at a Holiday Inn Express too.
- What EXACTLY does Martin do? Everything that went wrong is the fault of City Council, The Civil Service Board, Sue Bree, Kim Robbins, Derrick Yelton, MARY HARDMAN and everybody and anybody else but Martin himself. He's been mayor for almost two years for God sake. Is he that stupid?
- Martin says it's time to move on. But he won't. How do I know that? What did he do when he beat his forgery rap? He sued the police and the taxpayers. Look for Martin to do something really crazy. And look for him to do it really soon.
- (Martin's attorney) Todd McMurtry is a (EXPLETIVE), (EXPLETIVE), (EXPLETIVE), (EXPLETIVE) JERK!
It's only eight days until the election. Candidates like Brian Wischer and Holly B. Menninger-Isenhour are busy trying to distance themeselves from Martin in order to fool the public into casting a vote for them. Will it work?
[EDITOR'S NOTE: We'll be offering our views on the looming election in upcoming posts.]
