The Martin Chronicles has learned that there are some serious-minded insiders in malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's Villa Hills who fully realize that-when it comes to the City's fouled-up finances-the car is almost ready to drive over the cliff. We also learned that recognizing a serious problem and having any ability to deal with it are two totally separate things. Especially in Martinville.
The universal view of these well-meaning-but completely ineffectual-insiders is that "Martin has absolutely no idea how to manage the budget. He's completely lost. But he doesn't even realize it." There is a growing sense of frustration that no one can explain the severity of the problems to Martin. As one person put it, "He just can't seem to understand the financial mess the City is in. We offer advice and suggestions and he completely ignores us."
This group has also had more than enough of the incompetence and insolence of Martin's crony-hire $47.50 per hour bucket-headed bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber. "She is useless. Every time we ask her a question she smugly laughs and tells us we have to talk to Martin. Then Martin sends us back to her only to be put off yet again. Its a sick and costly game of keep-a-way with huge sums of taxpayer money being wasted."
There is also complete agreement that the financial problems won't just go away if Martin is defeated in his crazy bid for a second term in November. A huge amount of money will have to be spent bringing in skilled people to untangle the terrible mess Martin, Schaber and other have created over the last nearly four dreadful years.
But that process can at least begin if the right thing happens in 135 days.
