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DON'T MISS THIS SANTA CLAUS NEWS SANTA WAS IN TOWN THIS CHRISTMAS - WRITER BOB FORREY WITNESSED THE VISIT BY THE CHUBBY, BEARDED OLD GENTLEMAN.
**********************************************WHO WILL BE THE NEXT CITY OFFICIALTO GO TO STATE PRISON? Auditor Trent Williamslying under oath in Common Pleas Court? Did he lie to Council Lady Ann Sydnor in 2004?88888888888888888888888888888888888888888ARTICLE BELOW WRITTEN BY DR. ROBERT FORREYTrent Williams's Double TalkIn view of the double talk that City Auditor Trent Williams resorted to in order to evade answering the questions of Frank Gerlach and Jane Murray about city finances at the recent hearing at the Court of Common Pleas, the underlined excerpt from the minutes of the Portsmouth City Council for 12 January 2004, shown above,* is revealing. Williams announced in January, 2004, that there were no deficits for the year just passed, 2003. First Ward councilwoman Anne Sydnor asked how this balancing of the budget had been achieved. Where had the revenues come from to erase an anticipated deficit? The question could not have been clearer, but Williams replied he “was not sure to what figures she was referring.” Williams gave the same evasive answer more than once when Gerlach asked the same question earlier this month. Williams said he was not sure what figures Gerlach was asking about. Gerlach, like Sydnor in 2004, was asking for an accounting of the revenues that had help erase the deficit. Williams said he was not sure which revenues Gerlach was referring to. Williams was being evasive because it was not “revenues” that had erased the budget but rather funds that had been transferred from the Capital Improvement fund. In October, 2003, with the approval of Judge Harcha, the city had made up the deficit in the General Fund by transferring money from the Capital Improvement fund. By law, the Capital Improvement funds are supposed to be used only for capital improvements, for the city’s infrastructure, and for such structures as the Municipal Building. But a loophole in the law allows the city to petition the Common Pleas Court to allow the transfer of CIP funds, which is what was done in 2003 and which is what the city is asking to do again, in 2011. The Capital Improvement funds are the piggy bank that the city periodically empties to pay off city employees.
The sorry condition of the Municipal Building today is a consequence of the funneling of Capital Improvement funds into the General Fund, which is used to pay general operating expenses, such as salaries and benefits for city employees, including fire and police personnel. The city has been generous to the fire and police personnel in particular because they are a potent political force in Portsmouth, and politicians cannot expect to stay in office if they don’t cater to that powerful political constituency. Now Judge Marshall, presiding in the Common Pleas Court, is being asked again to make an exception, even though, as Gerlach pointed out, the city is not currently in a deficit and has revenues coming in that will assure that it won’t fall into a deficit. Why does the city want the CIP funds to be transferred again? What is the emergency? The emergency is that the politicians, including City Solicitor Jones (who, last time we checked, appeared to be mortgaged to the hilt and beholden to those who control the city financially**) wants to make sure there is enough money in the city treasury to provide a reported 12% pay increase in wages for the fire department. Can that be right, 12% for fire personnel in these belt-tightening times? Surely the court is not going to reward the city’s budget busting-infrastructure wrecking behavior by allowing the transfer again. Will the citizens again have to take it to a higher court to see that justice is done, as it did when it appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court to overturn the Common Pleas Court’s ruling that City Clerk Jo Ann Aeh had not mutilated recall petitions? The city is now rehiring the same employees, the same people, who negotiated the contracts while Kalb was mayor that put the city in the financial bind that caused the state to put Portsmouth on a fiscal watch list. Kalb will once again be in a position to help take Portsmouth down the road to bankruptcy, a road he knows something about, having traveled it himself personally, as did the unelected, out-to-lunch mayor David Malone and the deadbeat president of city council, John Haas. The court should not allow the city to continue to follow the same path of misusing capital improvement funds, which led the state to declare Scioto County the first county ever to be in a fiscal emergency. The city will end up like the county if Williams is allowed to get away with his double talk. The city and the auditor have made no effort to change the way the city mishandles its finances since the Common Pleas Court approved the transfer in 2003. By approving another transfer, the court will be condoning the way the city auditor cooks the books.
*For more on the 2003 transfer of funds, go to Teresa Mollette’s invaluable website Portsmouthcitizens.info by clicking here.
** For my earlier post on Solicitor Jones's personal finances, click here. Article above written by Dr. Robert Forrey
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COUNCIL MEETING Citizens, come to the City Council Meeting at 6:00 this evening (Monday December 12, 2011) at City Hall Bring another person with you. The more people watching the council makes it less likely the Councilmen will do something else illegal. The (John Haas-Nicholas Basham- Jerrold Albrecht) Council works smoother when no one is there to watch them. SATURDAY COUNCIL MEETING WAS WASTE OF TIME NO AGREEMENT MADE. COUNCILMAN-ELECT STEVE STURGILL DENIED RIGHT TO SPEAKThe Saturday morning (December 11, 2011) Emergency Council Meeting was attended by all Councilmen except Nicholas Basham. Also in attendance were Mayor David Malone and Auditor Melvin Trent Williams and most of the Department Directors. Mayor Malone was greatly assisted at the meeting by his new $35,000 hire, Crystal Weghorst of the Minford area. She was the de facto Mayor of Portsmouth during the many years she worked in the office of Mayor Jim Kalb and helped Mayor Kalb out in many ways.UNSUCCESSFUL EMERGENCY COUNCIL MEETING WAS ABORTED EARLY BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT JOHN HAAS AFTER HE FAILED TO ACHIEVE BUT LITTLE AGREEMENT BY PARTICIPANTS. STEVE STURGILL’S CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATED BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT JOHN R. HAAS.HAAS’ REGULAR SWELL-HEADED ATTITUDE AND LACK OF KNOWLEDGE WAS AGAIN EXHIBITED WHEN HE ILLEGALLY DENIED SIXTH-WARD COUNCILMAN-ELECT STEVE STURGILL THE RIGHT TO SPEAK AT THE PUBLIC MEETING. THE MEETING BROKE UP SOON AFTER MR. STURGILL LEFT THE ROOM. THE EMERGENCY COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON SATURDAY MORNING BEGINNING AT 9:00 A.M.AT THE CITY BUILDING WAS TO HAVE BEEN A DAYLONG MEETING TO CONSIDER MANY ITEMS. Written by Austin Leedom, Sunday, December 11, 2011 ***************************************************************************************Where's the money? Why is the City of Portsmouth broke? ******************************************************** DO MARTINGS Swindlers C. Clayton Johnson, Neal Hatcher and several present and past city officials still qualify for prosecution and prison time under State and Federal STATUTES.? Yes, they do!Influenced_and_Corrupt_.Organizations_Act We can still recover the Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) that was stolen from us, plus interest and other monies, in this theft by prosecution of the thieves in a State or Federal criminal or civil action under RICO CRIME LAWS.
Don't miss Sheriff Chucky Horner athttp://rivervices.blogspot.com/2011/11/morning-after-election.html POLICE CHIEF Horner may pass on running for Sheriff and become the first NEW PORTSMOUTH CITY MANAGER IN JANUARY 2014. With Horner in charge and managing WITH CLAYTON JOHNSON AND NEAL HATCHER's RICO-controlled councilmen, LIFE WILL BE TERRORISTIC FOR THE CITIZENS. YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO SELL OUT AND GET OUT BEFORE THE GESTAPO TAKE-OVER.
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John R. Haas, City Council President; is he confused or just crooked? Council President Haas took Council and Mayor into another illegal secret meeting last night, Monday, October 10, 2011, allegedly to discuss pay negotiations with City Firemen. Portsmouth is blessed with good city workers and their pay is enough for them to survive and serve. Pay could be, should be, better if our city income were better. CITY EMPLOYEES NOT OVERPAID -INCOME HAS NOT KEPT UP WITH INFLATION FOR YOU, BUT TRENT WILLIAMS HAS BEGGED, BLOVIATED, AND CONNIVED HIMSELF A 12,000 A YEAR RAISE UP FROM $40,000 YEAR IN 2007 TO A PAY OF $52,000 A YEAR
City Auditor Trent Williams has refused to collect proper taxes and fees from many of the wealthiest citizens in the city, especially real estate predators Neal Hatcher and Clayton Johnson. Portsmouth City would have an abundance of money today if Trent Williams had worked for the citizens and the City instead of teaming up with such robbers as Clayton Johnson's Mobsters. For example, in the Martings Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) Grand Fraud Auditor Trent Williams not only encouraged the crime he also rushed a check for nearly two millions dollars ($2,000,000) of your tax money to Clay Johnson seven months before Clay Johnson paid off the mortgages and got clear title to the property. The question is, "Is Trent Williams afraid of these gangsters or did he simply cut himself in for part of the profit by getting "mobbed-up" with Clay Johnson's/SOGP group. Trent lost us $2,000,000 on one deal by not following proper procedures and has failed to collect tens of thousand dollars, year after year, for the past eleven years and eleven months. Time to RECALL Auditor Trent Williams and get a capable auditor to collect all the monies he is supposed to collect and everyone can have a pay raise. Workers in most all departments have some duties that are hazardous; this includes police and firemen. FIRE FIGHTERS NOW IN WAGE NEGOTIATIONS. WILL THEY OFFER TO TAKE A TEMPORARY CUT IN PAY? Fire Fighters are apparently the highest paid group of employees in the city. Considering the three consecutive raises of three percent a year for this year and the preceding two years. That makes a total of nine percent in raises for the past three years. Not only fire fighters, all city employees got these raises. These raises were given to all city and employees were passed in the budget ordinance of February 2009.
Three Appointed Councilmen ,Mike Mearan, John Haas, and Jerrold Albrecht, voted to approve this ordinance. Two Elected Councilmen Bob Mollette and Richard Noel did not vote for the ordinance. They claimed that the Budget of 2009 was indicating the expenditure of more money than the city would have in income, and would result in a large deficit. As you know, they were right; we ended the year with a shortage of more than a million dollars. Mayor Jim Kalb, Solicitor Mike Jones and Auditor Melvin Trent Williams, all in part-time jobs, were in favor of the raises because they were included in the raises. These three part-time men were constantly aspiring for higher pay and Auditor Trent Williams confabulated and connived raises of over Twelve housand Dollars for himself and Solicitor Jones in the first three years of this term of office, bringing their pay up from $40,000 to over $52,000,for their part-time jobs. Trent also treated himself, with city money, to the purchase of a luxury SUV which he bought from Glockner’s on December 16, 2009. This was after Auditor Trent Williams had counted up the loss for the ear and realized he and the Mayor Jim Kalb had once again made some serious errors in arithmetic. The city was more than a million dollars in the hole.
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MAYOR CONFUSED, WILL HE WORK TO ABOLISH THE CHARTER, GO TO OHIO REVISED CODE MAYOR MALONE CONFUSED,
BUT RESPONSIBLE COUNCILMEN NICHOLAS BASHAM,RICH SADDLER, STEVE STURGILL, AND KEVIN JOHNSON WILL NOT ALLOW MAYOR MALONE, AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT JOHN R. HAAS TO BULLY THEM INTO RUSH-RUSH, WASTEFUL CONTRACTS. Is Mayor David Malone confused by our 84-year-old City Charter about public documents being public? Malone was a councilman for seven years and has now been Mayor for one year and one month. The City Charter is confusing. With such brief experience, can we expect a professional self-promoting preacher-politician such as Mayor Malone to understand such “complexities and perplexities” as David Malone now faces as Chief Executive of our internationally notorious "City of Prosperity"? NO,we cannot. The 84-year-old Charter is self-contradictory, difficult and is old beyond its time. It is time to ABOLISH THE CHARTER and go to the Ohio Revised Code for an easier to understand Government "by the People", and "for the People". Under our City Charter all we have is "government of the people" by unelected wealthy power controllers. Mayor David Malone is to be forgiven for his error. He has learned from his handlers that it it best to keep public records secret so the public will have less to complain about when the money comes up short, and we have deficits that require repeated raises in income taxes, steep raises in property taxes, eighteen per-cent increases in water charges and other steeper fees. Also Mayor Malone has learned not to let lower-and middle-class citizens who are struggling with big, hard-to-pay increased water rates and destructive residential taxes know the truth about what he has been doing to them. While punishing the lower classes with excessive demands for more of their dollars, you, David Malone, have been, at the same time, “giving the store away” as you kneel behind fancy doors in the luxurious offices of shyster lawyers, criminal bankers, real estate predators and kiss the rings of the privileged rich. And then David Malone, you award them with special considerations such as tax abatements of Two Million and Six-Hundred Thousand Dollars to two local malefactors of great wealth. Also the Mayor must keep quiet about these same two arrogant multi-millionaires paying almost no water bills. They get a real break. These are only part of their rewards for being known as two of the wealthiest, immoral thieves in town. What do the ordinary citizens get in return for your special considerations for these big-dollar gangsters. Hopefully you receive special considerations from the ones you favor so well. Many citizens have noticed from the election records that you donated One Thousand Dollars to the campaign in favor of the last income tax raise. Did anyone help you pay that One Thousand Dollars? On Monday evening, January 23, 2012, at City Hall, Third Ward Councilman Nicholas Basham led four Councilmen in rejecting a multiple-year wage and benefit contract Mayor David Malone had secretly made with Firefighters. Mayor Malone, with Council President John Haas leading the effort, had presented the Firefighter wage agreement on the 9th of January, 2012, and expected the Councilmen to vote for its passage without reading it. This was the same proposed ordinance that Mayor Malone declared was secret to the public and would be kept a secret until after council voted it into law. Most citizens of the city knew the documents were public, and Portsmouth Daily Times Writer FRANK LEWIS certainly knew the proposed ordinance was a public document. He asked for a copy and was denied by our Honorable Mayor Malone until Malone received a legal opinion from City Solicitor Mike Jones. LINK: READ FRANK LEWIS ARTICLE http://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/view/full_story/17279896/article- Council-kills-deal-with-firefighters?instance=lead_story_left_column ************************************************************ ************************************************************
How big is your water bill? Did you get an abatement on your property tax for twelve years? Were your taxes lowered? Was your street paved? Do the sewers still stink? Did you see the street sweeper last year? Would you support eliminating the CITY CHARTER and returning to a government of Democracy with the OHIO REVISED CODE? Do you favor a RECALL OF THE MAYOR? Many citizens do, as he continues to scourge the needy, poverty ridden citizens with massive water bill increases (Eighteen percent increase on water and sewer) while giving special lowered water bill considerations to the criminally rich? David Malone was un-elected Mayor of Portsmouth for the entire year of 2011. He received $59,000 plus as Mayor and a $3,000 Bonus at Christmas time. When David took office in December 2010; the city was in effect bankrupt, and it was and is in that condition, because of bad budget legislation David Malone, Jim Kalb and three appointed councilmen, Mike Mearan, Jerrold Albrecht and John Rudolph Haas voted into law in February 2009. Mayor David was generous with NEAL HATCHER AND JEFF ALBRECHT, two of the wealthiest, avaricious, immoral rascals in the area, by furtively giving them TAX ABATEMENTS FOR TWELVE YEARS. A total of Two Million, Six-Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,600,000) to them in TAX ABATEMENTS.FOR THE NEXT TWELVE YEARS was given by Mayor Malone. A back-room abatement break of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) to Jeff Albrecht on his rehabbed motel across the street from City Hall and a Six-Hundred-Thousand-Dollar break to Neal Hatcher on a new building at 915-919 Seventh (7th) Street. Malone also donated One Thousand Dollars ($1,000 ) to the police and fire unions to support their income tax raise. Mayor David Malone also gave big-time water users a massive break on prices. To balance out this lowered rate for the big-time wealthy users, he was forced to give the “rest of us” an Eighteen Percent increase in our water and sewer bills. We are paying more so the fat-cat Mafia-type controllers of this evil city can pay less. Mayor Malone is taking care of Neal Hatcher, Jeff Albrecht and C. Clayton Johnson. What did Mayor David Malone do for you? Written by Austin Leedom on Thursday, January, 2012 *******************************************************LADY HIRED FOR ENGINEERING WHILE MAYOR TALKS LAY-OFFS NEW HIRE AT CITY HALL WAS MAYOR JAMES D. KALBS ABLE ASSISTANT Crystal Weghorst was known as a personable, hard working assistant to Mayor Kalb for over three years. She left the Mayor’s Office when Jim Kalb finished third in a two man race for re-election November, 2009. (Mayor Elect Jane Murray finished first, school administrator Jerry Skiver finished second, and Jim Kalb was in third place and David Malone somewhere below Kalb in votes.) In the Mayor’s Office Ms. Weghorst learned procedures and rules quickly and never refused or hesitated to deliver copies of public records asked for under the Freedom of Information Act. She was always pleasant and easy to get along with as the Mayor’s Assistant. According to First Ward Councilman Kevin Johnson, she has been wrongfully appointed by City Mayor David Malone to an Engineering position that is beyond her education. This appointment is not surprising to the many who remember Crystal Weghorst’s work in the Mayor’s Office. She was de facto Mayor much of the time when Mayor Kalb was on lengthy vacations in the Southland where he attended auto race tracks and actually raced on many tracks, including one big run at the Charlotte, North Carolina track. In Mayor Kalb’s many long absences Crystal Weghorst ran the Mayor’s Office and ran it well. Councilman Kevin Johnson has a proper complaint and we are blessed to have an aware, knowledgeable and vocal person such as Kevin Johnson in our city council. Crystal Weghorst is not the main subject to be concerned with here. The appointee is not the problem; it is the appointer. Mayor Malone has been Mayor over one year now and is beginning to believe, as many politicians tend to do, that he is not merely mortal ,but has been chosen and placed in Office by the Almighty Lord as a Divine Ruler. To you citizens who attend city meetings, please note: When Mayor Malone speaks please observe that he has arrived at the point where he now actually has come to believe that all the words he speaks are actually the truth. Inside information is Crystal Weghorst did much of the brain-work during the Jim Kalb Administration, including negotiating contracts and in preparing the annual budgets which were to be presented to the Council on or before November the Fifteenth, each year. Mayor Kalb year after year was late in producing the budget and claimed the Auditor, Trent Williams ,did not have the financial figures available so he, the Mayor, could not prepare the budget by the deadline. (It was all Trent’s fault. Trent can't count.) In last meeting in February, 2009, Mayor Jim Kalb brought a proposed budget to the City Council, and Mayor Kalb explained as he had, for year after year, that he was late because of the Auditor and this was the only chance to pass the budget he was presenting. Repeatedly, year after year, Kalb didn’t make the budget available until the last meeting in February; he then claimed it was late and must be treated as an emergency. Councilmen were not given time to read the budget and citizens never found out what was in it until it had been passed into law. He explained, if the budget were not passed by council as an emergency meeting that night, right now, the city workers would not get paid the following week. Kalb said there was no time for presenting this budget to the citizens and to the council for their three readings as the law decrees. This was the same old dirty government budget game Kalb planned and played every year. This time, with his re-election coming up only nine months away, Mayor Kalb asked that all employees in the city be given a three per cent raise for three years in a row, years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Appointed Councilmen Jerrold Albrecht, Mike Mearan, John Haas and elected Councilman David Malone voted for the big deficit. Mayor Kalb had written himself in for the three per cent raises for three consecutive year raises and also Mayor Kalb had included the City Solicitor Mike Jones and Auditor Trent Williams. Solicitor Jones joined in support of the budget and Auditor Trent Williams hesitated saying he did not believe there would be enough money coming in to pay for the raises. Auditor Trent finally agreed to go along with the bad budget after it was agreed that a new Luxury SUV Auto was to be purchased by the City for the personal use of Auditor Trent Williams. There was no time for the councilmen to even read the budget. But Sixth Ward Councilman Richard Noel and Second Ward Councilman Bob Mollette did read enough to learn that the proposed pay raises of three per cent for every city employee for the years of 2009, 2010 and 2011 would put the city into deep deficit. These two councilmen refused to sign a deficit budget. (Auditor Trent Williams did take delivery of his luxury auto on the 16th of December 2009 near the end of the year when it was clear that the City was more than a Million Dollars behind in being able to pay their bills. THEY HAD A MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT THAT WAS GOING TO BE INCREASED BY AT LEAST AN EXTRA MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, EACH YEAR, FOR TWO MORE YEARS.) Austin Leedom **************************************************************HORNER IS A PHONEY! Horner played off sick twice when he was to testify before Retired Fed investigators who found Police Chief Chuckie Horner guilty of crimes against his officers,citizens and Shawnee Sentinelpersonnel. news below about the local newspaper going bad again Latest Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT) tyrant arrives in Portsmouth; he has accepted assignment to stop citizens from bad-mouthing the evil city and county government officials. This is not new: The Hatcher/Johnson RICO Ring has making pay-offs to PDT top local managers, and others for years. This is another attractivePortsmouth Ohio tradition. The new Daily Times manager is doing what he has been paid to do.In his editorial he commands us to stop bad mouthing, "it is time to change the game." He is right; if you are to control the citizens, their speech must be limited. This is not new; Adolph Hitler knew this. If the editorial in the Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT) on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 is a fair example of the failings of new General Manager Michael Messerly, he may not be in town very long. His writing indicates he makes decisions without knowledge and writes without wisdom. The already bankrupt Heartland Publications can expect a new drop in circulation and income here in Portsmouth. And, we can expect very little worthwhile from Messerly's writings except more reasons not to buy the Portsmouth Daily Times. The people of Portsmouth and Scioto County are righteously bad mouthing their governments; they have been and are victims of both the City and County governments. Despite many tax increases, water rate raises, and other financial burdens on the citizens, both the County and the City are nearing bankruptcy. The Portsmouth Police Chief and the Scioto County Sheriff both for many years have been wasteful; the County has been under fiscal emergency restraints from the State Auditor for three years and the City of Portsmouth is under a fiscal watch, pending further State investigation. Lack of law enforcement is a crime itself in this city and county. Most officers in both City and County are honest and responsible. The County Sheriff and the Chief of Police are the opposite. Lack of honest and proper enforcement for the past eight years has made news across the continent. The Chief of Police and the County Sheriff have been so ineffective that this area is known as one of the worst drug crime spots in America. That is why federal and state law enforcement moved into this area in force and took charge of the closing of the deadly pain pill-mills. The area is being cleaned up by the federal and state officers; not because of our Sheriff and Chief of Police. As Mr. Messerly might say, "it is time to change the game." It is time to change out our Sheriff and the Portsmouth Chief of Police. The citizens have other good and proper causes to bad-mouth our local officials. The citizens have been and are being robbed by scoundrel City Council members in league with big-time thieves who are escaping prison time. In May 2002, five of the six members of Portsmouth City Council voted to purchase a decrepit old department store building for $1,999,000 from C. Clayton Johnson. This was a crooked deal all the way in conspiracy with a crooked Mayor and some corrupt council people. This was an unadvertised, backroom, secretive action that ignored the law and ws ruled illegal by the Common Pleas Court. C. Clayton Johson operating as the Marting Foundation, one of his shell corporations, still has our Two Million Dollars. Outraged citizens were determined not to allow themselves to be robbed by the City Council persons again as they were in the Martings Grand Theft in 2002. In the summer of 2008 citizens gathered signatures on initiative petitions to amend the City Charter
In a special election on February 02, 2009 citizens approved an initiative petition for an amendment to City Charter to force City Council to be more accountable in spending by making expenditures of amounts of $100,000 or more for buildings or building rehab, subject to approval by a vote of the people. City Council opposed this petition for citizens' participation in large expenditures and for greater accountability by the City Council. The citizens won the election. The vote was close. The City Hall gang cried, their criminal guidance directors moaned and wailed. Passage of this democratic measure would cause much difficulty for the City officials to continue to secretly loot the City Treasury as they had done in the Martings Building robbery and in many other thefts. The Portsmouth Daily Times, the mouthpiece for the hidden criminal government gang, came to the rescue with an editorial from JASON LOVINS who advocated that Democracy be set aside and the election be overturned. A petition against the election , supported by most council members and the city solicitor was filed in Common Pleas Court and the election was overturned. As advocated by Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT) Editor JASON LOVINS, Democracy was set aside. There were happy times in City Hall. The sun was shining for the City Hall Gang again and crimes of theft and other felonious acts against the citizens could continue as usual. All was well with City Hall; the officials and their controllers were smiling with their victory for dictatorship. But, there were gathering clouds of deep darkness developing in the evil conspirators skies; the small remaining element of Democracy led by citzens would not die without a battle. The City Hall Gangsters had a battery of big-name, over-priced shyster attorneys working this overthrow of Democracy to help maintain money control of city funds for the gang and the citizens’ own elected city attorney was working against the citizens. The citizens did not have even one attorney to battle the shysters, and no money to hire one. This was delightful for the Gangster Group and they rejoiced in their victory over American Democracy that the Portsmouth Daily Times had supported editorially. Without an attorney, the citizens appeared to be helpless and enemies of the citizens were laughing at them, but their fun would not last . One lone petitioner, Larry Essman, decided "it was time to change the game." He prepared an appeal of the local court ruling and filed it with the Ohio Supreme Court. The Supreme Court honored Mr. Essman appeal with a decision in his favor. The Citizen, Mr.Larry Essman, a Certified Public Accountant, won the appeal. The Supreme Court ruled the election stands, the citizens of Portsmouth won; they won without an attorney. Larry Essman alone, with no law school, and no legal training beat the likes of high-priced Attorneys George L. Davis III, Stephen Rodeheffer and City Solicitor Mike Jones. The initiative amendment by the people stands as law and is known as the ESSMAN AMENDMENT. some people call it the MARTINGS AMENDMENT in memory of the May 2002 Grand Theft of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) from our City Treasury by C. Clayton Johnson and his band of organized criminals in the MARTINGS SCANDAL. DEMOCRACY IS ALIVE IN PORTSMOUTH. THANK GOD; THIS IS AMERICA. LARRY ESSMAN'S FAITH, COURAGE, AND HARD WORK HAS PRESERVED ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GOD-GIVEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. . (We suspect that local unethical people in power have already introduced Mr. Messerly to the Glory of the truthfulness of feeling superior to ordinary mortals when you have a pocketful of new, crisp hundred dollar bills. We common people call these Ben Franklin One Hundred Dollar bills “Bens” here in this area.) PDT General Manager Michael Messerly wants you people to shut up In the next to last paragraph of his editorial/propaganda on page A4 of the PDT on 28 December 2011, Michael Messerly issued commands to us, "Bad mouthing our own community is sport here, and for those of you who do it, get over it, because it is time to change the game.” Father Messerly is right, it is time to change the game. Messerly is well named. He came on board here after Frank Lewis, Wayne Allen, Ryan Scott Ottney and others have done superb work in returning many readers, who were, in the long, long ago, regular customers, but had quit reading the Daily Times when they learned that the Times was controlled by unethical /criminal local interests. These reporters have given great news coverage, have been ambassadors of good will, have re-gained much of the lost respect and lost circulation despite Editors such as Jason Lovins who supports dictatorship over Democracy, and the new Michael Messerly who comes across as ignorant, hostile, paid-off, and oppressive. It is "time to change the game." Now, citizens, is the "time to change." Change Michael Messerly out. Renew your pledges to never again buy a Portsmouth Daily Times,......... until Michael Messerly is gone. Cut the circulation of the Portsmouth Daily Times here and Heartland Publications will cut Manager Michael Messerly from their payroll here. Heartland Publications would do much better with an honest, knowledgeable, local newspaper man. Frank Lewis would be a big, big winner for the Times working in management, if he would take the job. Written by Austin Leedom on Thursday, December 29, 2011 CITY COUNCIL MEETING 6:00 P.M. TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER, 2011 THIRD FLOOR, CITY HALL. OUR PAID FOR, CORRUPTED COUNCIL WILL GIVE AWAY A PUBLIC ALLEY NEAR ESPLANADE ON GALLIA STREET TO SUPER- WEALTHY DOWNTOWN BUSINESS PEOPLE WHO ARE "MOBBED UP" WITH LOCAL GANG. As Jim Kalb said when he took over the Mayor's Office from recalled Mayor Greg Bauer in July 2004, "There's a lot of BIG money to be made in real estate." During Kalb's too lengthy administration, Mayor Kalb did help people who sold real estate to the city at exalted prices make big money; he also sold our city real estate property in backroom deals at f ire-sale prices and made it profitable for the ones he sold to. Back-room un-bid, unpublished contracts can be very profitable for the person representing the city. The standard fee is ten percent (10%). There are estimates that former Mayor Kalb came out of the Mayor's Office a very wealthy man.
At the meeting on Tuesday night expect that our detestable council will give away an alley to unworthy citizens and will likely re-pave it for the recipients and perhaps install lighting, benches, water fountain, heating, air-conditioning, roofing and toilets, all at expense of citizens who likely will never be allowed into the planned gated alley without paying an entrance fee to persons "mobbed up" with the Clayton Johnson/Neal Hatcher Racketeer Inspired Criminal Operations (RICO). These same give-away councilmen have nearly totally ignored alleys in the rest of the city. There are alleys in sections of the city that require a four-wheel drive vehicle to get you through and some of our alleys are mostly dirt and mud holes. Even in the better sections of the city there are some alleys so trash-filled, infested, and filthy that many of our even bigger rats, cats, and dogs are afraid to go into these alleys after dark. This is no interest to our councilmen. Council doesn't care; most are known rogues who have been placed in office by the special interest gangsters who run this city. They know their job is to take care of the few powerful people who got them placed in council, and to the Devil with the rest of citizens. The powerful thieves who run the city are to receive tax breaks, have freedom from prosecution for their crimes and other special considerations such as the gift of a public alley that belongs to all the citizens. The citizens are expected to pay taxes, keep quiet about official corruption, high water bills and poor service. (NOTE: This is Portsmouth, Ohio. Our present city government is mostly a gang of criminals. If this town is not Mafia inspired and/or controlled why was Rocco Castellano here for a long stay with Mayor Grag Bauer at the beginning of the century?) Written by Austin Leedom, Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The place of the rest of the citizens is to keep quiet, pay taxes, and support the powerful few.
The place of the rest of the citizens is to keep quiet, pay taxes, and support the powerful few.
(NOTE: This is Portsmouth, Ohio. Our present city government is mostly a gang of criminals. If this town is not Mafia inspired and/or controlled why was Rocco Castellano here for a long stay here with Mayor Grag Bauer at 308 Chillicothe Street the beginning of the century?)
By Austin Leedom Tuesday, December 27, 2011
******************************************************************************************************* Judge William T. Marshall ruled for the people. He will not allow the big spenders at City Hall to mis-use taxpayers money illegally. December 2011 - City cannot take CIP funds! (See Moes Forum: Corrupt Councilman John HAAS crying and moaning about Court decision that has slowed him in further looting of the City Treasury for the mob's benefit.) Haas is best known as the DEAD-BEAT-DADDY OF CITY COUNCIL FOR FAILURE, FOR SEVERAL YEARS, TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN BY A PREVIOUS WIFE. His criminal record can be found www.sciotocountycpcourt.org . AUSTIN LEEDOM, 25 DECEMBER 2011 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011 At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, the 21st day of December, the Honorable Scioto County Common Pleas Court Judge William T. Marshall will announce his decision to the petition from City Solicitor Mike Jones to allow City Auditor Trent Williams to take money from funds designated for maintenance of streets, alleys, water supply, sewers, buildings and floodwall and transfer these funds to the now overspent, deficit General Fund. There is no financial emergency. There is enough money in the City Treasury to pay all bills and payroll for the rest of the year. By Austin Leedom, Tuesday, December 20, 2011
| Punched in the Stomach........
Poor John Haas felt as if he had been "punched in the stomach" by the Honorable Judge Marshall ruling he could not use the capital improvements money for more salaries, wages and perks for the city workers. He just can't stand to see the suffering citizens of the town get any improvement to their life with better roads, properly functioning sewers, dependable water lines, etc, etc etc.... Maybe he fears the State auditor might come in and clean house.
HOW DO WE GET STUCK WITH ALL THESE LOSERS????
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| Re: Punched in the Stomach........
We're not stuck with them. We just don't have what it takes to get rid of them....!
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| Punched in the Stomach........
Poor John Haas felt as if he had been "punched in the stomach" by the Honorable Judge Marshall ruling he could not use the capital improvements money for more salaries, wages and perks for the city workers. He just can't stand to see the suffering citizens of the town get any improvement to their life with better roads, properly functioning sewers, dependable water lines, etc, etc etc.... Maybe he fears the State auditor might come in and clean house.
HOW DO WE GET STUCK WITH ALL THESE LOSERS????
| 12/24/2011, 7:13 pm | Share Link to this post |
| Re: Punched in the Stomach........
We're not stuck with them. We just don't have what it takes to get rid of them....!
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| Punched in the Stomach........
Poor John Haas felt as if he had been "punched in the stomach" by the Honorable Judge Marshall ruling he could not use the capital improvements money for more salaries, wages and perks for the city workers. He just can't stand to see the suffering citizens of the town get any improvement to their life with better roads, properly functioning sewers, dependable water lines, etc, etc etc.... Maybe he fears the State auditor might come in and clean house.
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We're not stuck with them. We just don't have what it takes to get rid of them....! | | 12/24/2011, 11:39 pm | |
****************************** LEGAL BRIEFS FILED IN CASE NO. 11CIH299 GIVE FACTS THAT INDICATE THE CONSPIRACY IN THE ILLEGAL ATTEMPTED RAIDING OF THE C.I.P FUND BY AUDITOR TRENT WILLIAMS AND SOLICITOR MIKE JONES MAY RIGHTFULLY BE KNOWN AS LARCENY. CITY AUDITOR TRENT WILLIAMS MAY SOON BE GONE "the heavy iron doors may be opening for you." read all about it now at:
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