The Martin Chronicles is once again first to break an important local story. This time we are reporting that-in a very contentious meeting-the ass hats from the Villa Hills Civic Club have decided not to hold their usual election year redneck roundup that they always laughingly billed a "Candidate's Forum". This cannot be very good news to malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin and his band of dishonest cronies.
Why is the cancellation bad news for the diminutive dictator and his feckless followers? Oh, that's fairly obvious.
The civic club ass clowns actively assisted Martin as he narrowly won the mayor's office in 2010 by giving him a wide-open, unchallenged forum to tell all manner of slanderous lies. Then, in 2012, the asshats created a toxic atmosphere at the hillbilly hoedown that was actually dangerous for the incumbent councilpeople who dared to call out Martin for his incessant incompetence and corruption. Both events were a sickening-and-well-orchestrated-sham.
The usual social networking haters will call The Martin Chronicles "vile and disgusting" for calling that regular election year ridgerunner romp a "sham". But a sham is what it has become in the era of Martin. In reality, the civic club ass clowns and their inappropriately-named "Candidate's Forum" are what became "vile and disgusting".
No "asshat assembly" means:
- No Mrs. Martin slithering her way through the crowd spreading lies, hate and discontent.
- No Martin's hateful step-daughter falsely presenting herself as a Villa Hills' resident asking obvious, leading and pre-planned questions designed to embarrass anyone who is unwilling to kiss her mean-spirited and stupid step-father's undeserving ass.
- No Edgewood-resident civic club asshat "Sergeant-at-arms" ludicrously condemning another Edgewood resident for daring to question the motives of the-now-everyone-knows-false candidacy of one incompetent and corrupt Mike Martin for mayor.
- No-smelling-of-stale-beer-smelling-Dale Schaber asking inflammatory questions for the sole purpose of protecting his wife Cordelia's $47.50 per hour-rip-off-to-the-taxpayer-funded-job.
Not to worry. The misdirecting Martin will look for other ways to spread his licentious lies. The tiny tyrant is already using the taxpayer-funded City-joke-of-a-Website for propaganda that falsely portrays himself as a benevolent dictator who kindly gives of himself to help the pathetic residents. What a cruel hoax. Surely, more licentious lies are coming.
68 days to go.
The Martin Chronicles has a team of forensic accountants carefully examining the cooked books of Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's corrupt and incompetent city government. The most veteran of the forensic specials said, "We're finding more things buried in this awful mess that don't smell right than we would in a cat's litter box that hasn't been changed in a month!"
One of the very smelly things the accountants have uncovered is a more than $6,000 taxpayer-funded payment to the Lexington-based law firm of Sturgill, Turner, Baker & Moloney, PLLC. Some of our readers may be shrugging their shoulders and thinking that Martin wasting money on lawyers and legal actions doesn't exactly qualify as breaking news. The diminutive dictator has squandered more that a half of million taxpayer dollars in such a way already, after all.
But this particular $6,000 waste of money on lawyers and legal actions may have more far-reaching consequences. Why? Because Sturgill, Turner, Baker & Moloney, PLLC has been providing Martin's defense for his personal exposure in the many unnecessary lawsuits he has triggered by his reckless behavior.
Did you get that? Just in case you didn't, it bears repeating. It is a fact that the taxpayers of Villa Hills have just paid more that $6,000 to the law firm that is currently providing Martin's personal defense for his exposure in several lawsuits. The great-and-not-at-all-surprisingly-unanswered-question is "WHY"?
As we reported in October, 2013, the misdirecting Martin desperately tried to hoodwink his once-"golden moment" council to agree to a lawsuit settlement that would also involve using taxpayer money to free the tiny tyrant from his personal legal exposure. To their credit, Martin's once-"golden moment" council said, "NO!"
So, that brings us to yet another great-and-not-at-all-surprisingly-unanswered-question. That very similar question is "WHY ARE THE TAXPAYERS PAYING MORE THAN $6,000 TO THE LAW FIRM TASKED WITH MARTIN'S PERSONAL DEFENSE?" If Martin's once-"golden moment" council resoundingly said "NO" to bailing Martin out of his personal exposure, why are the taxpayer's funding it?
Oh, we're quite sure that the mendacious Martin will offer some total bu!!$#it excuse-if he ever needs to. But all it will be is total bu!!$#it. Just like most everything the pipsqueak potentate says.
The voters will finally have the opportunity to toss out the filth in Martin's odious litter box in 69 days.
The Martin Chronicles entire staff keeps track of the large countdown clock our beloved publisher has placed in our palatial offices. There are now 10 weeks to go until Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin must face the voters as he brazenly stands for re-election. That's 70 days. Or, 1,680 hours. 1,680 hours during which The Martin Chronicles team will be working virtually around the clock.
One thing we know we will be reporting about is the terrible mudslinging that has already begun from the malevolent Martin and his calumnious camp of cronies. Even though most political campaigns don't begin in earnest until after Labor Day, the malevolent Martin and his calumnious camp of cronies has already started slinging filth. And it's bound to get far uglier.
What have we already seen?:
- The miscreant Martin used his poor granddaughter as a human shield at St. Joe's End of Summer Church Festival, wandering the festival grounds making slanderous claims to anyone who may or may not be listening about opponents Irvin Callery and Ernie Brown.
- Trojan Horse mayoral candidate Holly B. Menninger-Isenhour has been traversing Franzen Field and any other location she believes may be "friendly", slanderously telling people that Ernie Brown is "a drug addict". Menninger-Isenhour's lies have been so egregious that two unlicensed contractor to whom she used some rather "unconventional"-and scandalous-"barter" for their unlicensed work have decided to come forward to let Villa Hills voters know exactly what she gave them in exchange for their unlicensed work.
- The vile, ancient crocodile Mary Koenig has already begun her usual, disgusting "whispering campaign". Koenig is feeding the social-networking haters with a pile of defamatory bu!!$#it to post on several Facebook pages. Voters should be mindful that it is Koenig herself who is a hateful piece of $#it.
- The civic club's cult leader General Zod has been braying that mayoral candidate Ernie Brown left the civic club books in such disarray that "an audit has to be done". How rich. You see, it was General Zod himself who did nothing when one of his buddies embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the civic club. General Zod's buddy did prison time for his misdeeds. General Zod only had to deal with the IRS.
Despite the fact that at least one mindless idiot took to a podium to foolishly proclaim that "this mayor (Martin) does great things for people, the malevolent Martin and his calumnious cronies' lies, slander, deceit and defamation has only just begun. It's the only thing that the malevolent Martin and his calumnious cronies can do to keep the diminutive dictator's undeserving ass in the mayor's office.
Why? Because Martin is a dishonest imbecile who couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag. The past four years has been a terrible embarrassment for Vila Hills. The only good (those not dropping acid, spreading hateful lies or their legs and pot in exchange for home improvement projects) councilmembers of the current six have become so disgusted with Martin's deceitful behavior that they took a pass on standing for re-election.
Villa Hills' voters need to carefully weigh the impact of their votes for mayor and council this time around. Whether they like us writing this or not, these same voters made huge, mindless mistakes in 2010 and 2012. If the majority of voters still haven't come to the realization that local government has the most impact on their daily lives and that those who serve on their local government is of paramount importance, they are beyond all hope.
Even still, we aren't sure what the voters will do.
The Martin Chronicles staff has seen and read about it many times before. History has presented many examples of it as well. Mostly weak-willed people get inculcated in to a particular groupthink that makes them say and do sometimes terrible, bizarre and inexplicable things.
Want a few good examples?
- The intelligent and industrious German people of the mid-twentieth century were oddly ready to be swept away in Hitler's wave of hatred that ultimately led to the dreadful destruction of their proud country.
- Even the otherwise placid 1950's was not immune to cults. The most famous was probably the Fountain of the World cult. A man named Frances Pencovic changed his name to Krishna Venta, attracting followers to his new religion with his tale of leading a convoy of rocket ships to Earth from the extinct planet Neophrates. Everything seemed to be going extremely well until Venta was killed in a suicide bombing perpetrated by a couple of former Fountain of the World followers.
- Alienated people who felt like outcasts in their contemporary culture came under the spell of the homicidal maniac Charles Manson in the late 1960's. Following Manson's teachings of "Helter Skelter", these disaffected people committed a string of brutal murders in the sick hope that they would spark a "race war" that would destroy everybody but them.
- Disaffected-and otherwise very good-people who were simply longing for understanding were pulled in to the twisted orbit of the Reverend Jim Jones and The People's Temple in the 1970's. Many of those otherwise very good people ended up face down in the Jonestown mud of Guyana.
- Very devout-and very desperate-people were lured by the apocalyptic teachings of David Koresh in the early 1990's. Approximately eighty people were ultimately consumed in the terrible conflagration that destroyed Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.
- Susceptible-but otherwise rational-people were seduced by the unusual doctrines of Marshall Applewhite in the latter 1990's. Desperately hoping that the pedestrian Comet Hale-Bopp was actually a spaceship on a mission to take them all to a better place, Applewhite's followers castrated themselves, donned black uniforms emblazed with the words "Heaven Gate's Away Team", put on Nike gym shoes, threw some quarters in a bag and committed suicide.
- Many Satanic cults have started in the 21st Century. People estranged from the turmoil of the modern world have been lured in to believing that the evil Lucifer can bring them great wealth and happiness. But then, there is that problem with human sacrifice.
Closer to home, we have the ass clowns from the Villa Hills Civic Club. Now, that is one crazy cult. Here is a group of loser misfits who spend most of their miserable evenings seated in a crappy bar swilling cheap beer and lapping up the demented preachings of a jackwagon we call General Zod.
General Zod is the dishonest doofus who was at the helm of the civic club for most of the time hundreds of thousands of dollars was being embezzled out of that organization's treasury. General Zod was wasting his misspent time bashing everyone else and creating straw man enemies while his treasurer-buddy was stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Insanity, yes. But it was pure, unadulterated General Zod.
General Zod and his facile followers helped the miscreant Mike Martin spread his "vile and disgusting" lies in 2010. That dishonest effort was a major reason that Martin eked out a razor-thin mayoral victory that year. It is amazing what a crazy cult can accomplish sometimes.
Well, the malevolent Martin is now standing for re-election in 2014. The miniature Mussolini is facing strong completion for the mayor's office. So, the calumnious civic club leader General Zod is at it again.
What is General Zod doing? He's trying to rally the civic club asshats to spread Martin's lies yet again. How? He's telling people that Martin's most formidable opponent, Ernie Brown, "made a mess of the civic club". General Zod is trying to blame the former club President Brown by saying that the club's books are in such disarray that "an audit is necessary". It is such a pack of dishonest deception that it even makes the mendacious Martin proud.
If General Zod was such a big believer in audits, he would have had one done when his buddy-the man who went to prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the civic club treasury-was stealing from the club. But General Zod inexplicably turned a blind eye then. A careful review of an IRS audit from just a few years ago might explain why.
Will the civic club asshats end up castrating themselves, donning black jumpsuits that say "Hail Martin", collecting a bag of quarters and committing suicide? Will the civic club asshats barricade themselves into the lodge sparking a showdown with the feds that leads to a deadly conflagration? Will the civic club asshats end up dead, face down in the mud of the infields of Franzen Field? Will former civic club asshats kill General Zod in a suicide bombing? None of that is likely.
Instead, the civic club asshats will once again host an October hillbilly hoedown called a "Candidate's Forum", The phony forum will be designed to portray Mike Martin as something other than the imbecilic crook he truly is.
We'll know if that works this time in just 71 days.
The Martin Chronicles is perfectly willing to admit when we are in error. We work hard to keep up with all of the fast-breaking corruption and incompetence of Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin. It's a daunting challenge. But we'll just keep working harder.
So what did we get wrong? We'll, we reported that the misdirecting Martin hid $60,000 of taxpayer-funded legal expenses in "Office Expenses". We were incorrect. Martin didn't hide $60,000 of taxpayer-funded in legal expenses in "Office Expenses". No, Martin actually hid $71,184.36 of taxpayer-funded legal expenses in "Office Expenses".
Secondly, we have been reporting that Martin and his cronies are pouring $12,000 in to a little-used park. Once again, we were incorrect. Martin is already 25% over budget, wasting more than $15,000 on the little-used park. No wonder no road work is getting done.
We stand corrected.
The Martin Chronicles suggests some enterprising resident ask Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin how he can justify HIDING MORE THAN SIXTY THOUSAND WASTED TAXPAYER DOLLARS. Do you want to know more? Sure you do.
You see, the misdirecting Martin has intentionally mis-categorized more than $60,000 of the six figure-plus lawyer and legal actions wasted to railroad former Police Chief Dan Goodenough as an "OFFICE EXPENSE". "OFFICE EXPENSE"? "OFFICE EXPENSE"?
"OFFICE EXPENSE"?!?!?
Why would the dissembling dictator do that? Well, first of all he's a dishonest little bastard. Secondly, the pipsqueak potentate understands that the MORE THAN $500,000 he has squandered on lawyers and legal actions doesn't sit well with many residents.
Martin is just trying to hang on for another 73 days.
The Martin Chronicles watched the $350,000 settlement of the harassment lawsuit in the City of Park Hills with great interest. Given the fact that Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin's personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry (of Gerner & Kerns) also serves as Park Hills' City Attorney, Villa Hills taxpayers should quickly lock up their wallets.
The circumstances in Park Hills are eerily similar to the current turmoil in Villa Hills.
- Both mayors were suing the residents of the City they were supposedly running to lead back in 2010 (at least Park Hills current mayor had at least enough integrity to admit that fact).
- Both town's mayors are possessed of great amounts of bluster and very small amounts of brain.
- Both town's mayors have been accused of harassing their police department leadership.
- Both town's mayors forced out police department leadership and triggered very serious lawsuits for doing so.
- Both town's mayors hired Toad V. McMurtry (of Gerner & Kerns) to serve as City Attorney (but we don't think McMurtry was the personal attorney of Park Hills current mayor).
- The Park Hills mayor has told anyone who will listen-and many who don't want to listen-that he and the Villa Hills mayor are "the only ones with the balls to do what needed to be done". Yep, whatever the hell that was.
Well, we don't know how much "balls" it took for the Park Hills mayor to harass the former Police Chief so badly that their City Council just approved a $350,000 settlement to that former Police Chief. Oh, by the way, $150,000 of that settlement came directly out of the pockets of the residents of Park Hills. What a totally unnecessary waste of other people's money.
The residents of Villa Hills should be mindful of the fact that the Park Hills settlement was tendered to resolve just one lawsuit. These residents should be equally mindful of yet another fact. That fact? Their "ballsy" Mayor Martin's outrageous behavior leaves five serious lawsuits still unsettled. Not one. Not two. Not three. Not four. FIVE.
While we're on the subject of the FIVE unsettled lawsuits, its worth noting that current City Council candidates Summer Berger and Dave Hilgeford helped trigger some of the litigation because of their own over-the-top behavior at Safety Committee meetings. Voters should remember that when casting their ballots on November 4.
Okay, back to the subject at hand. It's time for the tried and true "worst case scenario". Park Hills shelled out $350,000-$150,000 of which came directly out of the pockets of Park Hills taxpayers-to settle one lawsuit triggered by the "ballsy" behavior of their mayor.
Villa Hillians now need to do the "worst case scenario" math. FIVE times the Park Hills' settlement amounts to $1,750,000 (That's ONE MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for the uninitiated). The amount that would come directly out of the taxpayers' pockets? $750,000 (that's SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for the still uninitiated).
That staggering amount is nearly ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for every man, woman and child in Villa Hills. Or, TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT DOLLARS for every household in Villa Hills. Sort of makes the UNFAIR $40 PER CAR STICKER TAX that Martin continues to impose on the residents of Villa Hills-despite his broken 2010 solemn promise to repeal it-seem like "chicken feed", right?
Sure, it may not be that bad. But any reasonable person has to realize that it is going to be bad. Very bad. No road work. A broken police department. Zip, nada, nothing.
Here comes bad news, talkin' this and that.
