Mr. Soul

The Martin Chronicles is hearing that Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin may be backing off a bit from his plan to fleece every child who want to play sports on the Civic Club ball fields to the tune of twenty to thirty dollars a head. Why? Sources tell us that the  midget Martin and the civic club drones are really feeling the backlash to their insipid plan. As well they should.

Sources are saying that Martin may back down to only charge five to ten dollars per child. Whooop-eee. So what? Martin shouldn't be asking for a single dime for reasons we will explain. Instead, Martin and his council should be celebrating every child who turns away from technology to walk outside in to the sunlight to play sports.

As we have written before, The Martin Chronicles understands the need for "pay for play" under the correct circumstances. If a government or school board has launched a legitimate austerity plan as a means of dealing with rising costs that are truly beyond their power to control, "pay for play" could fairly be included in that austerity plan.

But that is not the case in the mismanaging Martin's Villa Hills.

• Maybe Martin should do some real soul-searching and decide to stop wasting thousands and thousands of taxpayer dollars on lawyers and legal actions only to further his personal vendetta against the people he will forevermore blame for his 2007 FORGERY ARREST.
• Maybe Martin should do some real soul-searching and decide to stop wasting a taxpayer-funded $47.50 per hour to pay an unqualified personal friend to do the City's bookkeeping when-after nearly three dreadful years of financial confusion-it couldn't be clearer that this personal friend is woefully incapable of doing the job.
• Maybe Martin should do some real soul-searching and finally admit that he really doesn't have a coherent plan to fix the City's streets, push to keep his 2010 promise to repeal the UNFAIR $40 PER CAR STICKER TAX and quit talking about new ways to dip in to the taxpayer wallets to fund his clearly non-existent road plan.
• Maybe Martin should do some real soul-searching and walk away from his plan to use taxpayer money to elevate the controversial City Clerk Craig T. Bohman to a City Administrator position that the tiny tyrant has always said a town the size of Villa Hills doesn't even need.
• Maybe Martin should do some real soul-searching and decide whether Villa Hills needs either the costly services of the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission or the costly services of a local so-called "Nuisance Officer", instead of pushing council to have his costly-to-the-taxpayers cake and spending a fortune to eat that costly-to-the-taxpayers cake too.

Just consider this. Martin authorized the waste of thousands of dollars on a park that most town residents don't even know exists. Why do that and then turn around and fleece the children to play at another park? It makes no sense.

How about just leaving the children alone?