We are going to ask you to travel back with us to the year 1988:
- Vice-President George H. W. Bush defeated his Democrat challenger Michael Dukakis in the Presidential Election.
- A terrorist bomb explodes in a Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard.
- Compact disks outsold vinyl records for the very first time.
- Popular movies that year included Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, A Fish Called Wanda and the baseball classic, Bull Durham.
- Writing of baseball, Danny Jackson won twenty-three of thirty-one decisions, Tom Browning pitched a perfect game and manager Pete Rose was apparently betting on baseball games, but the Cincinnati Reds finished second behind the eventual World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
- The Cincinnati Bengals were the surprise team of the NFL, going all the way to Super Bowl XXIII. The Bengals lost a heart-breaking game to their nemesis San Francisco 49ers in the final minute of the game.
- Villa Hills was considered a "City on the move" in 1988. An area that was once comprised of six farms was growing in to one of the Tri-State area's premiere neighborhoods. Subdivisions like The Orchards and Beckmore Village were still only on someone's drawing board.
- Villa Hills' population was approximately 6,500 residents.
- Villa Hills had one school within its borders.
- The Villa Hills Civic Club was a welcoming place that was a destination point for many of the town's 6,500 residents.
- Villa Hills City Government was lead by long-time resident, and-sometimes-far-too-honest- Bud Cunningham and six councilmembers. Despite the rapid growth, Cunningham and the council were legitimately frugal with the taxpayer's money.
- Villa Hills' Police Department, led by the late Police Chief Michael "Corky" Brown, was comprised of seven, full-time officers who patrolled the well-maintained City streets and kept the one school it was responsible for safe and secure.
- Villa Hills City government is now considered by many to be "the laughing stock of the Tri-State" thanks to the well-reported corruption and incompetence of its mismanaging and mendacious Mayor Mike Martin. The dwindling number of Martin apologists can no longer take to social networks accusing WCPO of being "biased" against the mallet-headed Martin.
- Villa Hills population is roughly 7,500 people, and declining in-part because of the sad state of affairs in the Martin-mismanaged City government.
- Villa Hills now has two schools within its borders. The newest school is one of the largest elementary schools in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
- The Villa Hills Civic Club has experienced horrible corruption and is turning away the town's residents in droves because of a few hard-drinking residents parked at the bar every night who want to argue the indefensible case for the corrupt and incompetent Mayor Mike Martin.
- Villa Hills City government is lead by the corrupt and incompetent Mayor Mike Martin, who is wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in pursuit of his vendetta over his judicially-justified 2007 FORGERY ARREST.
- Villa Hills' Police Department, led by an unfortunate man who was promoted to lead it after about one year of serving as a part-time patrolman, is comprised of five full-time and one part-time officer who are desperately struggling to patrol the City's poorly-maintained streets and trying to keep the two schools in the area safe. Villa Hills is now experiencing an unprecedented crime wave and drug abuse is rampant. Martin is completely responsible for the City government's rapid decline.
But what will Martin do? Of course, he will tell LIE after LIE about his non-existent "accomplishments". Martin will whine that he needs another four years to clean up the equally non-existent "mess" he claims he inherited.
Remember, Nurse Janet, Nurse Janet's out-of-town, dishonest family, General Zod, Too Fat Tony, the sign-stealing, self-employed life coach and other civic club ne'er-do-wells, Cordelia and Dale Schaber and all of the other Martin cronies who have enriched themselves by sticking their nasty snouts in to the taxpayer trough, the vile Mary Koenig and the stunningly stupid Holly B. Menninger-Isenhour and even more losers will be campaigning hard to get the lawbreaker Martin re-elected. Who knows for sure what impact the work of these LIARS will have?
Think back to 2010. We somehow understand the mouth-breathers, vine-swingers, gun-toters, "Don't Tread On Me" flag-wavers, St. Joe's Heavy Drinking Men Society members, hillbillies and frenzied fanatics who supported "change at any cost". But, even some supposedly-intelligent-but-equally-mean-spirited-retired education professionals supported Martin.
Why? Because they all foolishly believed dumbass things like the most important thing local government should do is mandate the number of cats their neighbor should own. Yes, they were abject fools. But, all of these self-absorbed jack-asses fell for Martin's incredible scam.
This nitwittery led to Martin's razor-thin 2010 victory. Nothing but destruction has followed. Martin has brought nothing short of DISASTER to Villa Hills City government.
And, because of what will most assuredly happen again in 2014, the upcoming election result is still an open question. What will the majority of voters do on November 4?
We'll know in just 161 days.
