The Martin Chronicles has no idea what tonight's Villa Hills City Council meeting will bring. Malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin will be surrounded by an entirely new group of councilmembers. Yes, we know. There are two retreads (Cahill and the venomous Koenig). But they have been gone for several years.
We suspect that the new council will be chastened by the hillbilly beatdown Shorty's low-IQ lynchmob served up to their council predecessors. The Norwood Nitwit received a serious Ethics Board reprimand for misuse of City personnel and resources. It was revealed that the Fidgety Forger has been operating an unlicensed handyman business for several years. The Norwood Sewer Rat was convicted on seven counts of official misconduct and neglect of duty. Shorty ran afoul of Kentucky's Department of Labor. Nothing but incompetence and corruption.
So what did the town's rapidly-growing hillbilly voting block do? They accused the 2011-12 council of "bullying" and "blaming" and punished long-serving, excellent public servants at the polls for daring to expect The Little CEO to simply follow the same rules everyone else must follow. It makes perfect sense. If you are a hillbilly.
We also suspect that Martin will be operating with a sense of invincibility. That is both obvious and ominous. He survived all of the aforementioned offenses after all. Heck, he even walked away from his 2007 forgery arrest with nary a dent or ding. While he did not win the $1.505 MILLION cash explosion from the taxpayers he was suing for, he did manage to convince the civic club ass clowns and burgeoning hillbilly population that he was some good-government zealot who fell victim to a massive-and more importantly-mythical conspiracy.
There are a couple of things we will be watching. The new council asked Shorty to provide several pieces of information during the January 2 SECRET MEETING. Martin cheerfully promised to deliver it all immediately. He he he he he. Our sources tell us that The Norwood Sewer Rat has yet to keep that promise. But as we have previously reported, Martin isn't well, uh, ummm, very good at follow-through. There are people who requested information from The Crooked CEO in 2007 and have yet to receive it. Tonight will provide us some valuable insight on that score.
More specifically, will the matter of the wayward city financials be resolved? The January 2 SECRET MEETING brought the news that neither the council nor the finance committee "have seen financials for three months". Interestingly, documents alleged to be the November financial records are posted on the City's crappy website. A careful review of the December meeting minutes indicate that no financials were approved. Something doesn't quite add-up, if you will forgive a pun.
One long-time local observer thinks that the Schaber family's new, giant telescope was purchased to assist in the search for the missing financial data. This pundit went on to quip that the telescope has a magnification of 47.50X. That is appropriate indeed.
