Silence?

The Martin Chronicles entire staff wonders what's going on with Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's "golden moment" city council lately. They seem reluctant, or even afraid, to pose a single question to the mismanaging Martin about the diminutive dictator's erratic behavior. It is as if they have been bullied in to silence. The council only seems to come to life when they are parroting the misdirecting Martin's unpredictable party line.

• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked the megalomaniacal Martin for a coherent explanation for his comprehensive plan for the future of the Villa Hills Police Department? It would be fair to make this request in public. Why? Because a large segment local residents expressed their great unhappiness when the mendacious Martin finally stepped out from behind his long-told LIE, to finally admit he does want to disband the local department and "outsource". To date, nothing has been resolved or explained. The council has a duty to get answers for the people who elected them. What has the public gotten lately? Silence.
• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked misspending Martin for a coherent justification for the need to increase the City's budget for legal expenses ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT PERCENT only to be quickly followed up by a warning from the City's Finance Committee that the ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT PERCENT INCREASE won't be enough? The council has a duty to get answers for the people who elected them. What has the public gotten lately? Silence.
• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked the imperious Martin for a coherent explanation of his refusal to post a simple spreadsheet outlining his wasteful spending on legal fees on the City Website? This simple request was made by the pathologically-polite Councilman Jim Cahill. The malicious Martin rebuffed the kowtowing Cahill by saying that the disingenuous director had done some soulless soul-searching and decided he just wasn't going to do it. Is that a good explanation? Really? The council has a duty to get answers for the people who elected them. What has the public gotten lately? Silence.
• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked the malevolent Martin for a coherent explanation for why his abhorrent behavior has generated so many costly-to-the-taxpayers lawsuits? If nothing else, this "golden moment" council should demand a public explanation for why Martin's wife and sister have been active participants in his vendetta against the Villa Hills Police Department. The "golden moment" council should also ask the mealy-mouthed Martin to verify that he had absolutely nothing to do with the supposedly-anonymous letter to the State Auditor. What has the public gotten lately instead? Silence.
• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked the misleading Martin for a coherent explanation for why the miniature mullah has amazingly abandoned his long-standing (since at least 2004) opposition to a costly-to-the-taxpayers City Administrator for his tiny town only to propose appointing his compliant City Clerk Craig T. Bohman City Administrator? The council has a duty to get answers for the people who elected them. What has the public gotten lately? Silence.
• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked the mallet-headed Martin for a coherent explanation about exactly why he rushed them in to approving the small sultan's hiring of the Northern Kentucky Area Planning and Zoning Commission to provide building and zoning services for Villa Hills only to learn that the mismanaging Martin now also wants whatever a "Nuisance Officer" might be? The council has a duty to get answers for the people who elected them. What has the public gotten lately? Silence.
• Why hasn't anyone on the "golden moment" council asked the misdirected and miserly Martin for a coherent explanation about why the tin-pot tyrant now wants to shake down the children of his community for big bucks just to pay sports on the crappy fields of the Villa Hills Civic Club when he's wasting so much taxpayer money on other useless efforts like legal fees and new administrative positions? The council has a duty to get answers for the people who elected them. What has the public gotten lately? Silence.

Sure, we know that the mislead voters were duped in to believing that "Villa Hills needs a new council" in 2012 to make things better. The new, "golden moment" council came in to office with the thought that the residents wanted an end to the "blaming(?)". But, what the heck?

Well, the malingering Martin is running roughshod over the City's budget and any semblance of "honesty and integrity". Is this the time for the "golden moment" council to devolve in to a state of complete silence? If so, they are totally abandoning their State statute-mandated, sworn duty to provide oversight of City government.

That's why the voter's 2014 broom must sweep completely clean this November 4.