"Villa Hills Ain't Covington!"

The Martin Chronicles believes Villa Hills mayoral candidate Irvin Callery is a decent fellow. This despite the cheap shot he took at us in the dinosaur media. By the way, thanks Irvin. Your cheap shot pushed our readership even higher. But we do digress.

Besides, any of the three people running against current malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin would certainly do a better job than the diminutive dictator. The mallet-headed Martin has set the mayoral bar as low as it can possibly get. The three best words to describe Martin's tenure as malfeasant mayor is, "Stink. Stank. Stunk. But we do digress again.



Callery certainly has his base of support:

• Callery's Villa Hills' supporters are desperate to see someone in the mayor's office possessed of a triple-digit IQ after four years of Martin's abject stupidity.
• Callery's Villa Hills supporters are desperate to have someone competent and honest in the mayor's office after four years of Martin's incompetence and corruption.
• Callery's Villa Hills' supporters are desperate to see someone who brings a track record of mostly telling the truth after Martin's four years of lie after lie after lie after lie.
• Callery's Villa Hills' supporters are desperate to have someone who is professional and knows how to effectively manage employees after Martin's massive unprofessionalism and the diminutive dictator's dishonest mishandling of the local police department's former leadership.
• Callery's Villa Hills' supporters are desperate to have someone who can effectively manage city operations after Martin's mishandling of the city's now-mostly-defunct street repair program, vendetta against the police department and the miniature mullah's wild spending on city administrative employees-and worse yet-lawyers and legal actions.
• Callery's Villa Hills' supporters are desperate for someone with experience after seeing Martin-who served two terrible terms on Villa Hills council, was correctly voted out after his judicially justified FORGERY ARREST-and then came back two years later to win the mayor's office by the narrowest of margins, bringing four years of non-stop, public embarrassment to the city.
• Callery's Villa Hills' supporters are desperate for someone who will find a different solution to the city's problems after four years of Martin's tax increase, after tax increase, after tax increase, after tax increase, after tax increase.

But Callery has his very staunch detractors as well:

• Callery's Villa Hills' detractors believe that Callery was "asleep at the switch" while now-imprisoned former Finance Director Bob Due was stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the taxpayers of Covington.
• Callery's Villa Hills' detractors are uneasy about the mayoral candidate's constant references to his "experience in Covington". As one resident put it, "Villa Hills ain't Covington!" Many people are pointing out the fact that Martin's Villa Hills overpaid-by-the taxpayers' City Administrator/Clerk Craigory T. Bohman was once a Covington City Commissioner and that the current Villa Hills' Police Chief once served on the Covington police department. As another longtime resident put it, "If we wanted to be Covington, we wouldn't have incorporated the City of Villa Hills in 1962".
• Callery's Villa Hills' detractors don't think the city needs another "shifty politician". These detractors are convinced that it was actually Callery himself who falsely planted the story at the civic club that he planned to withdraw from the mayor's race only to get the opportunity to get an unchallenged interview by the dinosaur media.
• Callery's Villa Hills' detractors think the former Covington mayor is nothing more than the mendacious Martin's "Trojan Horse", who-despite pleas from several Villa Hills' residents to instead run for city council-is in the race simply to guarantee Martin's reelection is a heavily-divided vote. These detractors point to the fact that Callery eagerly jumped at the chance to serve on one of Martin's crooked committees.
• Callery's Villa Hills detractors think the former Covington mayor was driven by his unchecked ego to move to Villa Hills about three years ago-seeing the corrupt and incompetent Martin as "easy pickings"-simply to redeem himself after his stinging defeat to Denny Bowman some year's ago.
• Callery's Villa Hills' detractors worry about the former Covington mayor's advanced age. Callery is a septuagenarian, after all. As one Villa Hills' resident pointed out, "Callery would be pushing 80 years old at the end of a first term. Will he really have the energy it's going to take to clean up the terrible mess made by that crook Martin?"
• Callery's Villa Hills' detractors claim the former Covington mayor is simply and ego-driven opportunist. These detractors worry that he would work hard to turn the reigns of power back over to the malfeasant Martin in the event that he wins on November 4. Detractors say that even Callery understands that he is simply "too damn old" to effectively run the city.

For the purposes of full disclosure, The Martin Chronicles has no preference in the 2014 mayor's race, with one very clear exception. We fully believe that Martin has been an incompetent and totally corrupt failure. He needs to go. And he needs to go now.



November 4 will be here before you know it.