The Martin Chronicles reporting staff is spending a great deal of time at the wonderful St. Joe's End of Summer Celebration this weekend. And, brothers and sisters, we are learning more than we could have hoped for. One of the best stories we have confirmed through multiple sources deals with the now-at-best-fairly-new Councilmember Holly Menninger-Isenhour (the one and only HBM-I, or Holly Boo-Boo).
It seems the also-intoxicated-with-her-new-found-"power" HBM-I had a very recent confrontation with the football playin' Spartans. The incident reveals a great deal about the mindset of not only Holly Boo-Boo but also the rest of her Martinite crew.
So what happened? Well, the Spartans have been holding a "Welcome to the Spartans" event at the Villa Hills Civic Club event on Franzen Field now for 22 years. This year was no exception. Scores of Spartans and their families gathered on Franzen Field-with the blessing of the Villa Hills Civic Club-as a team building exercise for their upcoming football season. As always, it was going well.
Enter Holly Boo-Boo. Our reporters are told that HBM-I approached Spartan adult leadership demanding to know "who gave them the authority to do this?". She advised the leadership that she "is in charge of recreation" in Villa Hills. Boo-Boo was informed that the Spartans have been holding this event with the blessing of the civic club for more than two decades.
Not satisfied with the response, HBM-I then asked what would have happened if she had "given permission" to a sports team to play on the field? She was correctly told that the team she had promised the field to would not have had a game.
Obviously agitated, Menninger-Isenhour then demanded to know about the alcohol sales at the Franzen Field concession stand. Again, Boo-Boo was correctly advised that she would have to address her concerns with the contractor who runs the concession stand.
This exchange is very revealing. It reminds us of Abraham Lincoln's correct assessment that a true test of a person's character is to give them power. Much like her hero Mike Martin, HBM-I believes her election gives her the power to do whatever she wants. It doesn't work that way in the American Democracy. Much like Martin, she needs to remember that she is a public servant, not a despot.
The answer to this ongoing abuse of power isn't a mega-merger of the Cities of Villa Hills, Crescent Springs, Ludlow and Bromley. That won't change anything.
The answer is throwing HBM-I, Martin and the rest of those tin-pot dictators out on their asses on November 4, 2014.
