Sure, it may
be perfectly innocent that Martin’s personal-and now City Attorney-neglected to mention that some
still-being-investigated portion of the money the tiny tyrant wants to siphon
out of the City’s taxpayer-funded cash reserves was going to be spent on lawyers
and legal actions during the first reading of an ordinance at the September
council meeting. But given Martin’s long record of deceit, it is now wonder
that many residents believe they’re being conned yet again.
·
Martin said he was “happy to tell the residents”
he wasn’t suing them during his dirtbag 2010 mayoral campaign. But of course he
was. Who says so? No less and august deliberative body than the United States
Supreme Court.
·
Martin complained that he was just a good
government zealot who was the target of dark forces attempting to stop him. But
of course he wasn’t. Who says so? Four highly respected appellate court judges
who opined that what Martin did fit “the very definition of FORGERY” and that there was indeed “PROBABLE CAUSE FOR HIS 2007 FORGERY ARREST”.
·
Martin claimed that he couldn’t fill Open
Records requests because he hadn’t been left any records. So, he deflected his ILLEGAL FAILURE on to his predecessor. Then
he later claimed that his part-time, temporary clerk had ILLEGALLY destroyed a large amount of City records because they
were scattered about everywhere in the City Building. One-or both-of those disingenuous claims simply can’t be true.
·
Martin claimed that the list of burned documents
he provided to the previous City Council contained everything that had been-as we now know-ILLEGALLY DESTROYED. Not once. No, he made that assertion twice. We
soon found out that was absolutely UNTRUE.
·
Martin asserted that he didn’t sit down with
Special Counsel to answer the perfectly reasonable questions being posed to him
from the previous City Council because he “was never asked”. When Martin was
presented with the multiple emails that had been sent to him to answer those
perfectly reasonable questions, he chuckled and said, “You got me on that one.”
Tens of thousands of dollars was wasted as a result of Martin’s duplicity.
·
Martin complained that all of the turmoil in
Villa Hills City government was a result of a council that just wouldn’t work with
him. Hungry to end the embarrassment, the voters gave the mendacious Martin an
entirely new council to work with beginning this year. And yet, the turmoil
continues. Who says so? No less that the venerable Kentucky Enquirer. Yet another example of Martin’s incessant
deflection and deception.
· Martin has maintained for years that he had no
intention to disband the Villa Hills Police Department. Then, he tripped over
his own tongue earlier this year to reveal that this was exactly what he
planned to do. Media reports later confirmed that he had been seeking costs for
police protection from other Cities for quite some time.
This is just
the tip of Martin’s giant iceberg of
LIES. It seems as if Martin is simply incapable of telling the truth on
matters large and small. It’s not our job to discern why Martin is incapable of
being truthful. We report what has happened. And what has happened proves
Martin just can’t seem to be truthful.
Sure, Martin will have his defenders. Some people will recount meaningless stories of the great things he does for people. Others will try to claim that spending six-figure amounts of money actually represents "saving money for roads". That is utter nonsense. But will fifty percent-plus one of Villa Hills residents be able to cut through the blue smoke and mirrors that is surely coming?
Hopefully, the voters will elect someone who
can be truthful with them in 398 days. That outcome remains to be seen.
