Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Answers, Anyone?

The Martin Chronicles crack staff of excellent reporters keep their eyes and ear wide open. They hear the questions a whole lot of people of Villa Hills keep asking. So, we decided to push some of those questions out there hoping someone can come up with reasonable answers.

  • How can malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin justify signing a purchase order that pays him the equivalent of nearly ten years of his mayoral salary in advance (more than $23,000)?
  • How can mendacious Mayor Mike Martin justify hiring his personal attorney to serve as the taxpayer-funded City Attorney?
  • How can mismanaging Mayor Mike Martin justify having at least six attorneys on his taxpayer-funded payroll?
  • How does the mendacious Mayor Martin claim he "runs a tight ship" when he allows Councilmembers Mary Koenig and Holly Menninger-Isenhour to pour a taxpayer-funded $15,000 into little-used Harry Rigney Park that abuts their personal properties?
  • How does the malevolent Mayor Martin really explain removing a CPA from his finance committee?
  • How does the foul-mouthed Mayor Martin explain his Executive Order justifying the arrest of "unruly" residents when he has shown his vulgar language and rude behavior at multiple meetings?
  • How does the myth-making Mayor Martin explain telling the City Council that Assistant Police Chief Joe Schutzman has been reinstated and is on medical leave when neither statement is true?
  • How does City Attorney Toad V. McMurtry explain that his hearsay claims justify the termination of a long-serving City employee?
  • How does City Clerk Craig Bohman explain his claims of "selective traffic enforcement" when Assistant Chief Schutzman never once pulled the City Clerk over much less ever gave him a single traffic ticket?

Oh, people have a lot more questions for the misdirecting Mayor Martin and his taxpayer-funded henchmen. But these nine are a pretty good start. It seems as if the very real possibility of Martin disbanding their local police department in the middle of a serious crime wave has opened many peoples' eyes. These people now want to know the answers to questions they had previously chosen to ignore. Better late than never.

Perhaps the pinheads who continue to insist that Martin "does wonderful things for people" and only hopes to "save a whole bunch of money" would care to step up and offer explanations.

We'd love to hear what they have to say.