The Martin Chronicles has to admit that even we are surprised by how much public celebration Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin and his cronies are doing over their recent railroading of Villa Hills Police Chief Dan Goodenough. Their behavior is disgraceful even for the very low standards set by these jackwagons.
As we reported this morning, witnesses are telling us that council members Koenig and Menninger-Isenhour are ebullient about the rotten fruit they have served-up to Villa Hills residents. Other observers tell us that the mismanaging Martin seems convinced that he can now blame the Villa Hills Police leadership for all of his miserable mismanagement as we head in to an election season. It's truly disgusting.
We understand-but don't agree with-some of it. Why?
- Martin has finally gained his complete revenge against all of the people he incorrectly blames for his 2007 FORGERY ARREST. And, the tiny tyrant now believes he has a LIE he can tell to justify his undeserving reelection this year.
- Martin's personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry has earned a TAXPAYER-FUNDED king's ransom carrying out the miniature mullah's wrong-headed vendetta over the diminutive dictator's 2007 FORGERY ARREST. Hey, it's great work if you can find it.
- The vile, ancient crocodile Mary Koenig has never met a Villa Hills Police Chief she didn't want to see terminated.
- The dimbulb ass clowns who nightly populate the civic club bar now have a scapegoat they can blame for their EMBEZZLEMENT PROBLEMS.
- Yes, we know why Menninger-Isenhour and Wischer are so happy. But we'll tell you why later.
But what about the other folks?
- Does the woman who took to a podium to oddly proclaim that "this mayor (Martin) does great things for people really believe that the railroading of Goodenough was a good thing?
- Is the little fellow who LIED to either the Villa Hills Police or the Special Counsel still happy that he did so?
- Are the morons who STOLE the "Mayor Martin Please Resign Now" and "Save OUR Villa Hills Police Department signs still happy that they did so?
- Do the voters who believed that local elections don't matter in 2010 and 2012 still believe that?
We'll know for sure in less than seven months. Why? That is when there will be a referendum on what the mendacious Martin and his cronies have done will occur, That is when we'll know for sure.
What path will Villa Hills voters choose?
The Martin Chronicles is hearing that Villa Hills Council members Mary Koenig and Holly B. Menninger-Isenhour just can't mask how giddy they are that malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin has railroaded former Police Chief Dan Goodenough out of his job. The only people happier are Martin and his personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry.
We'll be giddy when all four of them are gone on January 1, 2015.
The Martin Chronicles reporters are constantly talking to the residents of malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's Villa Hills about the current state of their troubled town. One long time resident recently made this observation about the mismanaging Martin.
"That little fella is the classic case of a post turtle."
Of course our reporters had to ask for an explanation. "What does that mean?"
"Imagine you're driving down a country road and you see a turtle perched on top of a fence post. You don't know how in the world it got there. You know know he he didn't get there by himself. You know he doesn't belong there. You know he can't do a darn thing while's he's up there and you just want to help the poor, dumb thing down. That's Martin!"
Well, the voters can help Martin down from the post on November 4.
The Martin Chronicles has received more shocking information about Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's reckless spending on lawyers and legal actions. Many observe that most residents don't really care about anything Martin does unless it hits their wallets. Well, this wasteful spending most certainly does.
The current number for Martin's legal spending is in excess of TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Worse yet, that doesn't even include all of the taxpayer money that was wasted railroading former Villa Hills Police Chief Dan Goodenough.
By the time this fiscal year comes to a close, Martin will have squandered somewhere in the neighborhood of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ON ATTORNEY FEES. How can the diminutive dictator possibly justify that as we enter in to the election season? No doubt Martin will have some ridiculous excuse. But that's all it will be.
A ridiculous excuse.
The Martin Chronicles is constantly getting questions from our readers. We periodically like to share the questions and our answers to those questions with everyone. How much fun is this?
#1. How can it be legal for Martin to hire his personal attorney to serve as the City Attorney? That seems so wrong on so many levels. It's obvious to me that Mr. McMurtry is happily carrying out Martin's private dirty work.
The mayor of a 4th class City in Kentucky wields a great deal of power. Martin can always excuse the hiring of his personal attorney because his personal attorney also serves as the City Attorney in Ft. Wright and Park Hills. Besides, Martin's "golden moment" council approved Martin's appointment of McMurtry. Yes, it certainly provides the appearance of a conflict of interest. But ask yourself. When has Martin ever been concerned about appearances? And of course McMurtry is happy. He's making a fortune at the expense of the taxpayers of Villa Hills.
#2. Why did Chief Goodenough just give up? The residents were behind him and the facts were on his side. It's so disappointing.
You are correct when you write that a majority of residents supported Goodenough and that the facts were squarely on his side. But consider this. Martin obviously has no problem spending huge sums of taxpayer money on lawyers and legal actions as witness by the TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSANDS HE HAS SQUANDERED SINCE 2012. Remember that Goodenough had to use his own personal resources to defend himself. Let's say that Goodenough was reinstated. Do you think for a moment that Martin and his TAXPAYER-FUNDED GOON SQUAD would stop trying to find a reason to fire him? Of course not. Disappointing? Yes. But Goodenough correctly did what was best for himself and his family.
#3. I watched every second of Goodenough's dismissal hearing on television. That goofball Martin was acting CRAZY!
Martin wasn't "acting".
#4. My wife and I attended the last Sensible Citizen's group meeting. They are a great bunch of people who just really care about Villa Hills. But how can Martin possibly justify spending TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ON LEGAL FEES?
As long as Martin is plopped in the mayor's office, he doesn't have to "justify" much of anything. And he most certainly won't.
#5. How can Martin and McMurtry justify spending taxpayer money at Goodenough's dismissal hearing trying to find out who writes The Martin Chronicles? I thought that was disgraceful.
The entire effort to ruin Chief Goodenough was "disgraceful". What Martin and Toad can't seem to figure out is that there are several experienced reporters writing The Martin Chronicles. They all signed-on to the effort at the request of our beloved publisher, who enjoys nothing more than uncovering government corruption and mismanagement. Martin and Toad also can't seem to figure out that we have great sources everywhere. All over Villa Hills. That rat's nest of a so-called civic club. The Kenton County Courthouse. The Boone County Courthouse. The Campbell County Courthouse. Every City Government and their respective police departments in Northern Kentucky. The Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission. The Northern Kentucky Water Service District and SD1. Most of the local businesses. Frankfort. Lexington. Louisville. Reading, Ohio. Hamilton County Government. Hell, we even have sources at McMurtry's law firm of Gerner and Kearns. We are all over the mess Martin and his taxpayer-funded goon squad continue to create in Villa Hills.
#6. Do you really believe that this jack-wagon Martin has a snowball's chance in hell of being re-elected this year?
You bet we do. In fact, unless the people of Villa Hills show us something different than they did when Martin eked out a razor-thin victory in 2010 and somehow convinced the same voters to surround the tiny tyrant with a whole new council in 2012, we think Martin is a clear favorite in the upcoming mayor's race. Remember, Martin is a REMARKABLY SKILLED LIAR.
#7. Who is going to run against Martin this year?
We've heard several names. We sure hope it won't be some "Johnny-come-lately" like Butch Callery. You may ask why? Well, because Martin will beat him by sliming him with the City Treasurer Callery hired who allegedly ripped of Covington's taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Callery seems to be a good guy. Maybe he should do something practical like run for Villa Hills City Council first. We are also hearing that the vile ancient crocodile Councilwoman Mary Koenig plans to run. As much fun as that would be, we hope that isn't true. Koenig would be terrible for a City that has already been severely damaged by the mallet-headed Martin.
#8. Doesn't that stupid Martin realize how bad it looks to promote City Clerk Craig Bohman to City Administrator and give him an unconscionable pay raise right after he provided bogus testimony against Goodenough?
Martin doesn't care what you think. Remember, Martin sees himself as the "CEO". Martin believes that "the decision is his". Besides, Martin's "golden moment" council approved it.
#9. How can that idiot Martin justify charging my children to play sports on the crappy fields at the Villa Hills Civic Club when he wastes all kinds of money for his attorneys and lawsuits?
He doesn't have to justify anything. A small majority of voters gave him unprecedented power in 2010 and he can do whatever he wants because of that.
#10. Is Holly really as stupid as she seems at the meetings?
She may be far more stupid than she seems at the meetings.
#11. How did that crook Martin ever get elected mayor?
That's easy. His opponent in 2010 gave far too much credit to the voters. He mistakenly thought that people would understand that Martin was a despicable LIAR. They obviously didn't. They proved that again in 2012.
#12. Am I the only one who realizes that the nasty Mary Koenig was on council the only two times a Villa Hills Police Chief was run out of office?
We doubt that you are the only one. Mary Koenig can be a terrible human being. But will the voters do anything about it this year?
#13. Is Todd McMurtry a complete jerk?
He's an attorney.
#14. Is Martin nuts?
.You certainly have to wonder.
#15. Is Martin a LAWBREAKER?
What do you think?
#16. Is the current City Council useless?
They are in a tough spot. The mayor has a tremendous amount of power.
#17. How can former interim City Clerk Sue Bree still be employed by the taxpayers? She hasn't hit a lick for years!
Maybe it has something to do with the very favorable testimony she provided for Martin during his 2012 Removal Hearing? You'd have to ask Martin.
#18. How can some woman actually say that "This Mayor (Martin) does great things for people when Martin has screwed so many people?
Because that woman hasn't been paying attention to what's been happening. .
#19. What's wrong with Mike Pope?
You should ask him.
#20. Martin seems like a complete idiot. Is that possible?
Yes. Of course it is.
#21. What can I do?
The same as every resident can do. Tell your neighbors that they need to take the upcoming local election seriously. Why? Because the last three-plus years clearly demonstrate the importance of local elections.
Martin and all of his destructive entourage need to be voted out in 211 days.
The Martin Chronicles' readers know full well that this pesky little blog is truly offended by social networkers who have been attempting to brand any and all opposition to Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's corrupt and incompetent Reign of Error as "movements of hatred". It's an obvious effort by Martin and his willing accomplices to marginalize the diminutive dictator's critics who are justifiably concerned about the waste, fraud and abuse that has occurred over the past three-plus years.
Sure, we know we write about this a great deal. But given the growing and important efforts to change the course of Villa Hills in the upcoming mayor and council elections, we feel compelled to write about this issue yet again. Besides, it's our blog!
So let's go back and retrace the missteps that have led Villa Hills to its current embarrassed state.
For reasons only he could ever hope to explain, Mike Martin began his first term on Villa Hills City Council in January,2005 with an odd axe to grind against Assistant Chief Joe Schutzman. Martin appeared to be greatly upset over Schutzman's dual role as the City's building inspector.
Martin immediately began a so-called investigation in to Schutzman's building inspection activities. The feckless fanatic had his sister send Open Records requests to other Cities where the hard-working Schutzman provided similar services in an attempt to somehow prove that Schutzman was working for those Cities while being paid by the taxpayers of Villa Hills. The Martin Chronicles has investigated Martin's claims and know that they were completely without merit.
That didn't stop Martin and his willing accomplices from going door-to-door in the 2010 mayor's race DEFAMATORILY claiming otherwise. One stupid sap has even managed to get himself embroiled in a lawsuit by FALSELY claiming that it is a fact that Schutzman was being paid by the taxpayers of Villa Hills while performing work for other Cities. For the uninitiated, this mindless moron was DECEITFULLY accusing Schutzman of theft.
It gets worse. It is now an indisputable fact that Martin had been signing his deceased mother's name on his deceased mother's checks, cashed his deceased mother's checks and pocketed the proceeds. An investigation in to Martin's suspect activities was begun by officials in Hamilton County, Ohio.
These Ohio-based officials contacted the Villa Hills Police Department. The local police did their duty by looking in to the matter. It was risky. After all, Martin was a member of the City Council. The police knew full well that there was the potential for serious consequences. Brothers and sisters, how right they were.
After several unsuccessful attempts to gain Martin's cooperation in resolving the matter, the police took their findings to the Kenton County Attorney's Office. We now know that it was the Kenton County Attorney who concluded that Martin was committing FORGERY. We now know that it was the Kenton County Attorney who wrote a FORGERY arrest warrant for Martin and took it to a judge who signed off on it.
We also now know that Police Chief Dan Goodenough phoned Martin about the arrest warrant and gave him advice on the least embarrassing way to handle the matter. Martin turned himself in at the Kenton County Justice Center wearing a white shirt and tie and was processed and released in a matter of thirty minutes. Again, thanks to the kind advice of Police Chief Dan Goodenough.
Oh, we know the LIE Martin has told people. Martin likes to spin the FALSE tale that a vindictive Assistant Chief Joe Schutzman rudely cuffed and stuffed the mendacious Martin and drove him to the Justice Center. But, this is just another Martin LIE.
Martin was able to beat the FORGERY rap because he and his attorneys were able to convince an over-burdened judge that he was too stupid to understand the crime he was committing. Martin was afforded the chance to clean up his act and get on with his life. Instead, this is when all hell was unleashed.
A growing number of people are now convinced that this is the moment when the malevolent Martin decided to launch his own "movement of hatred". And he had several potential allies he could recruit for his FALSE "campaign of hate".
Martin began to weave a LIE that he had been victimized for his PHONY good government zealotry. Martin told people that he had been falsely targeted to derail his efforts to uncover non-existent corruption in the mayor's office. Martin wanted people to believe that his FORGERY arrest was trumped up and executed by the mayor, the police chief and the assistant police chief.
Every reasonable person now knows that Martin was LYING. How? Because Martin's $1.505 MILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE TAXPAYERS WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY TOSSED OUT OF TWO SEPARATE COURTS. Four judges rejected Martin's BASELESS LIES that he was an innocent victim and opined that WHAT MARTIN DID FIT THE VERY DEFINITION OF FORGERY. These four judges opined that there was more than enough PROBABLE CAUSE FOR MARTIN'S FORGERY ARREST. When commenting on the merits of Martin's lawsuit, one judge went so far as to write that MARTIN WAS "BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE".
Martin's deep anger escalated to seething rage when his FORGERY problems led to defeat in the 2008 council election. The die was cast for what happened next.
Martin recruited civic club ass clowns-still smarting from the embarrassment of their SIX-FIGURE EMBEZZLEMENT problems-to help push his LIES for him. What better way for these ass hats to deflect blame on to others than by supporting a DISHONEST story that would created the FALSE impression that both they and Martin were just victims of abuse by Villa Hills City Government? These idiots went "all in".
Martin also recruited a very strange fellow-who was still upset about his loss in the 2006 mayoral race-to assist in this "movement of hatred". This strange fellow put up weird websites condemning the City Administration and promoting Martin's "selfless" trips to Haiti. In retrospect, it was obvious and bizarre. But the inattentive populace of Villa Hills lapped it up at the time.
Finally, Martin pulled it all together for his 2010 mayoral run. Martin's hillbilly lynchmob, the civic club ass faces, the strange fellow-who was still upset about his loss in the 2006 mayoral race-and the mendacious Martin himself told just enough LIES to eke out a razor-thin mayoral victory in 2010. The inattentive voters of Villa Hills had earned the whirlwind they were about to reap.
Over the next three-plus years, Martin has been able to bring his "movement of hatred" to fruition. As he always boasted to the civic club ass clowns that he would, Martin has indeed "picked them off one at a time".
- Martin "picked off" Sadouskas in 2010.
- Martin "picked off" Kilburn, Ringo, Sogar and Bruns in 2012.
- Martin "picked off" Schutzman and then Goodenough in 2013.
Yep, Martin has done all of that while also successfully deflecting attention away from the fact that he was sternly reprimanded by the Villa Hills Ethics Board for his MISUSE OF CITY PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES, WARNED ABOUT HIS ILLEGAL DESTRUCTION OF CITY RECORDS by a respected judge and CONVICTED ON SEVEN OF NINE COUNTS OF OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT AND NEGLECT OF DUTY.
Hell, Martin even got a stupid woman to come to a podium to foolishly proclaim that "this mayor (Martin) does great things for people". Josef Goebbels would be proud of what Martin has been able to accomplish with his BIG LIES. But is that a good thing?
So here Villa Hills sits. Phony financial records. Crony hires and contracts. A devastated police force. Embarrassing media coverage. Children being fleeced to participate in sports. ILLEGALLY DESTROYED City records, A roads program that has done nothing since Martin took to the mayor's office. Legal expenses rapidly approaching TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Martin's personal attorney hired to serve as the TAXPAYER-FUNDED CITY ATTORNEY. A man hired as City Clerk who was given a THIRTY-THREE PER CENT TAXPAYER-FUNDED PAY RAISE to also serve as City Administrator approximately forty-eight hours after providing BASELESS testimony against former Police Chief Dan Goodenough.
Despite all of the intimidation and threats, The Martin Chronicles is not the least bit afraid to say it. The voters put a corrupt and incompetent clown in to the mayor's office in 2010. The voters surrounded Martin with a mean-spirited, stupid or spineless council to complete the "movement of hatred" in 2012. But the voters of Villa Hills get yet another opportunity to redeem themselves. How? By voting Martin, his taxpayer-funded goon squad and the rest of his willing accomplices out on their asses in less than seven months.
We'll be watching.
The Martin Chronicles is busily digesting the results of the second, well-attended meeting of the "Sensible Citizens" group that was held Friday night at the Madonna Manor Community Center. Our top-of-the-list-take-a-away? Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin and his willing accomplices are going to have an extremely difficult time FALSELY misrepresenting the "Sensible Citizens" group as a "movement of hatred".
You see, this group of concerned citizens isn't about hating Martin. The meeting clearly proved that this group is about moving beyond the mess that has been created by Martin over the past 39-plus months and trying to support a City Government that will get back to the business of public service and progress.
This group wants to encourage people who are genuinely interested in stepping forward to run for elected office in their City for the right reasons. This group wants to identify people who come to the table without personal agendas and instead want to do the hard work of restoring Villa Hills to a community that people will look up to as a good example for others. We don't see even a scintilla of "hate" in those goals.
We look for the "Sensible Citizens" to hold regular meetings between now and November 4, reaching out to the busy residents of Villa Hills to identify what their real concerns are. We look for the "Sensible Citizens" to invite all candidates to multiple public forums to explain why they want to serve and how they believe they can make a contribution to the restoration of a community that has clearly taken a huge step back over the past 39-plus months.
We look for the "Sensible Citizens" to sponsor genuine debates between mayoral candidates and between council candidates. We learned that Martin refused to debate in 2010 because he didn't believe that it was "in his best interest" to do so. No surprises there. But that mistake cannot be allowed to be repeated.
We look for the "Sensible Citizens" to serve as a rapid-response "truth squad" countering any and all misinformation being spread by any 2014 mayoral or council candidate. The Martin Chronicles believes this will be an environment that someone like Mike Martin will find quite uncomfortable, to say the least.
We did learn a few things that-while they were not the main focus of the "Sensible Citizens" second meeting-should be reported.
- We learned that Martin routinely went ballistic over the expenditure of EIGHT DOLLARS for a weekly wash of each Villa Hills Police vehicle, but evidently has no problem at all with the expenditure of TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS on lawyers and legal fees since 2012.
- We learned that Martin's recent announcement that a "settlement" had been reached with former Police Chief Dan Goodenough involving the dropping of all of Martin's baseless charges against the former Chief in exchange for Goodenough's immediate retirement is an unfinished story. Why? Because Martin and his personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry have done absolutely nothing to finalize any "settlement".
- We learned that Martin's personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry's huge binder of so-called evidence against former Chief Goodenough that was wielded at Goodenough's recent dismissal hearing was mostly filled with pages full of nothing. William Shakespeare would describe Toad V. McMurtry's falsely-stuffed binder as "a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury, but signifying NOTHING."
- We learned that Martin's crony-hire $47.50 per hour bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber has been totally incapable of answering any of the legitimate questions being asked by the City's hamstrung Finance Committee about the bollixed financial reports over the past three-plus years (Okay we aren't surprised. We already knew that Cordelia Schaber was in way, way, way over her head).
- We learned that Martin has been playing a disgraceful game of "dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge" with that same hamstrung City Finance Committee over the same three-plus years. Again, we aren't really surprised.
The rest of this post is solely the opinion of The Martin Chronicles and in no way claims to represent the views of the "Sensible Citizens". Please keep that in mind as you read on.
Despite the fact that the Villa Hills electorate has been mostly "asleep at the switch" during the last two elections of 2010 and 2012, they still deserve better. The voters need to pay attention to the efforts that are forthcoming from the "Sensible Citizens".
City Government has the greatest impact on the day-to-day lives of City residents. And yet, most residents spend next to no time thinking about that great impact of their votes for local elected officials. It has to be different in Villa Hills this time. Why? Because there is a lot at stake.
Villa Hills can't afford four more years of what they have seen over the past three-plus years of the mismanaging and corrupt Martin. Martin has to go. Someone who believes in the importance of true public service has to replace Martin.
Villa Hills also can't afford even two more years of councilmembers who are either too stupid, too timid, too stoned or too mean-spirited to see past their own fatal flaws to do what is truly best for their City.
It's time for the residents to wake up and realize that the people whom they elect to manage their City's Government make a real impact on everyone's day-to-day lives. They can't just pick someone they heard was a "nice guy" from some ass clown at the civic club without digging in to the truth.
2014 is a make-or-break year for Villa Hills.
