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Tuesday, the 8th day of December, 2009

JOHN HAAS COMPLETES ONE YEAR ON CITY COUNCIL

ONE YEAR AGO - (JANE MURRAY DECIDED TO RUN FOR MAYOR TONIGHT)

"It is now 11:11 p.m. on Monday, December 8th, 2008. I wrote and published the

story below about 24 hours ago. Since John Haas was sworn in tonight as city

councilman; more new real estate taxes have already been proposed by City

Council.   With John Haas on council Martings Foundation Racketeer Clay

Johnson has the four council votes he needs to continue to control spending

of our tax dollars for his benefit.    Remember Clay Johnson

(Martings Foundation) who swindled the citizens of Portsmsouth out of

Two Million Dollars $2,000,000.00 in May, 2002?"

Now read the rest of the story - click on John Haas - SOGP

also read about new 3rd Ward Councilman NICHOLAS BASHAM

By Austin Leedom, Monday the 7th day of December, 2009

Rebel: I received information today that indicates that Nicholas Basham

became interested in becoming the third ward councilman after Mayor

Jim Kalb persuaded him to be a councilman. Basham has not been in

attendance at any council meeting to my knowledge, and although he

has formal education he cannot know what the city council has done to

aid the destruction of this city and its citizens during recent years.

It is an accepted and proven fact that present councilmen David Malone, Jerrold Albrecht,

John Haas and Mike Mearan have repeatedly voted to put the citizens in long term debt for tens

of millions of dollars in an effort to remove the city government from the present location so a

group of unelected developers may take title to the present city hall site for a development project.
With their votes they have unfailingly followed the desires and plans of C. Clayton Johnson, head of

the scandalous Southern Ohio Growth Program and developer Neal Hatcher. Remember C. Clayton Johnson,

the man who created the Richard Martings Foundation and sold the city the old Martings building for

Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) in May 2002?

The Martings building was appraised at $762,000; this amount was an excessive valuation. The Martings

building is not fit for anything. It is bull-dozer ready. Clay Johnson still has your Two Million Dollars,

and he and Neal Hatcher have more deals to make with the city council in order to even further loot the

city treasury of more taxpayer money.

Citizens have stood up, and spoke against more attempts of being swindled. Puppet Mayor Kalb and

Clay Johnson’s puppet Councilmen have been thwarted in their efforts to rob us again, and the conspiracy

of Clay’s councilmen are unhappy with the citizens who refuse to be victims again. They must stop the

citizens from talking. Apparently it seems that Mayor Kalb may have given Nicholas Basham reason to

try to deny citizens freedom of speech. Kalb, during his entire 15 years in city government, repeatedly

attempted to stifle citizens’ First Amendment Constitutional Rights.

Kalb, as President of City Council for many years, even banned vocal prayer at Council meetings.

Succeeding Council Presidents Howard Baughman and David Malone have followed Kalb’s lead.

Jim Kalb also has led council members into repeated attempts to eliminate other rights of citizens.

Kalb’s Un-American efforts to violate citizens’ rights earned him, an incumbent, a third place finish in the most

recent election. Kalb was not only beaten severely by a lady candidate but also by a late-running

write-in candidate. With two cndidates on the ballot, Jim Kalb finished third.

So it may always be with tyrants.

Presently we have two other councilmen who have taken part in secret council sessions to emplace

an ordinance into the city charter to eliminate citizens’ right to speak on items not on the agenda.

One such secret meeting of four councilmen was recorded on video by Joe Ferguson of Moezine

Productions, and James K. Wilson (aka Rebel) in 2005. This video is still available for viewing on

Moe’s Forum.

The four councilmen caught on video in his criminal act were Marty Mohr, 6th Ward, Howard Baughman,

5th Ward, Jerrold Albrecht, 4th Ward, and David Malone, 2nd Ward. Albrecht and Malone are

still on Council. Baughman was taken out by recall and Mohr decided not to run for re-election

after his council activities, and his questionable personal extra-marital adventures were exposed

to the public. Marty Mohr was replaced as Sixth Ward Councilman by an honest man, Richard Noel.

John Haas replaced the corrupted, disgraced and rejected Howard Baughman on December 8th, 2008

and Haas has voted consistently for the benefit of the Clay Johnson Gang of swindlers on every occasion.

Now the question is, how is Nicholas Basham going to vote? Will he blindly vote for whatever other

councilmen tell him to vote for?

Will Nicholas Basham vote as ordered by the Gang or will be vote for the citizens of the city?

The low road or the high road; Nicholas Basham must make his choice.

But, first, perhaps, Mr. Basham should consider that the gang cannot remove him from the office

in humiliating disgrace, but the citizens can, and shall, remove any person who tries to violate their

God-given rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

This is America!

Written by Austin Leedom
Monday, December 7th, 2009
68th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day
See http://www.runboard.com/bmoesnewsforum.f1.t14245%7Coffset=0#post247921 for more on Basham
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Copied from the University Chronicle

on December 05, 2009 by Austin Leedom

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Basham Elected to City Council

Vows to Create Opportunities for Students

Adam Sheets

Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: News

"Voters in Portsmouth decided it was time for a change," Nick Basham said.
br>Indeed, both Republican challenger Jane Murray and independent write-in

candidate Jerry Skiver defeated incumbent James Kalb in the mayoral race

and the challenger won both of the city council seats being voted on, including

the Third Ward seat which Basham won with 67 percent of the vote.

Basham, 31, who ran as an independent candidate and spoke about why he

decided to go into politics.

"I was tired of hearing all the fighting down at city hall. Everybody is too busy

fighting to accomplish anything," Basham said. "My first priority will be dealing

with the problem of the city building."

Basham also said he believes that the city needs to work more with Shawnee State

University and its students.

"We need to bring in businesses that cater to students at the university," he said.

In addition, he pointed out the need to create employment opportunities for

students in the downtown area and the need for more recreational activities

on and around campus.

"The university should help the city, and the city should help the university,"

he said. "We need to promote the city and let everybody know what the positive

aspects are. We're on the right track and hopefully with this election we can

make some real progress."

Basham said he also feels strongly about Portsmouth's infrastructure.

"We need to look at what we have and update the infrastructure in order to

attract people to the city," he said.

Basham also says he believes that there are too many water breaks and sewage

problems within the city and that he will work with the mayor and the other council

members to fix this.

When asked about Mayor-elect Jane Murray, Basham said, "Regardless of my

personal opinion, we need to work together and I will support anything that is

good for the city."

Basham holds a bachelor's degree in music education from Morehead State University

and a master's in education administration from Ohio University and is currently

employed by Rock Hill High School as band director. Later this month, he will be

taking the band to Dayton to compete in the marching band state finals. Prior to this,

he was band director at Northwest High School in McDermott, taking them to six state

finals appearances.

*** END OF UNIVERSITY CHRONICLE ARTICLE ***

Note: While at Northwest School District in 2006 there was an action filed by

Mr. Basham that the School Board settled with a cash payment to Basham.

More details will be written when we receive copies of the school documents.

By Austin Leedom -

Basham on Moe's Forum- http://www.runboard.com/bmoesnewsforum.f1.t14245

More on Nicholas Basham - -Many citizens are fearful that Basham

will attempt to stop citizens right to speak at Council meeting because

of remarks Basham made in an interview with Portsmouth Daily Times

Reporter Frank Lewis following the recent election. Some citizens who are

ardent defenders of their Constitutional First Amendment rights have

expressed anger and disgust with Basham for speaking about violating their rights.

Written by Austin Leedom, Saturday, 05 December 2009-

COUNCILMAN JOHN HAAS MOVES TO RESTRICT

CITIZENS’ FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Written by AUSTIN LEEDOM, March 23, 2009

JANE MURRAY WAS THE ONLY MAYORAL CANDIDATE AT MEETING TONIGHT

The meeting began with only four councilmen present. Bob

Mollette of the 3rd Ward, Richard Noel of the 6^th Ward

and appointed Councilman John Haas of the 5^th Ward and

Jerrold Albrecht of the 4^th Ward who took the gavel and ran

the meeting in the absence of Council President David Malone.

Mike Mearan came in a few minutes after the meeting started.

Mayor Jim Kalb, who didn’t look well, did not show up until

the Council Meeting was over.

There were no items on the agenda to vote on and a few

citizens spoke briefly to the council. The meeting was

adjourned about 6:30 p.m. The council members

then moved onto a conference session to consider items

to be presented at the next council meeting.

Jerrold Albrecht, the presiding councilman did well, but only got

to use the gavel one time. Albrecht hammered the gavel down

to quiet several citizens who began talking and muttering angrily

when the new 5^th Ward Appointed Councilman John Haas

proposed legislation to restrict citizens rights to speak at future

meetings about items not on the Legislative Agenda.

Councilman Haas instantly got the angry attention of all citizens

with his proposal to limit freedom of speech.

Haas’ proposal was revealing to some citizens that hadn’t

been sure what Haas’ intentions were to be as a Councilman.

One former sailor remarked it hadn’t taken John Haas’ long

to show his true colors. That is, appointed Councilman John

Haas ran the Jolly Roger up the flag pole tonight revealing that

he too will be party to pirating away the city treasury.

Written by Austin Leedom at 10:50 p.m. Monday, March 23, 2009 Double click to select image.

Monday, December 8^th, 2008 - - As I predicted yesterday

John Haas was chosen, over better qualified candidates,

(Jane Murray and Tom Rodriguez) by councilmen David Malone,

Jerrold Albrecht, and Mike Mearan at tonight's meeting to fill the

vacancy left by the forced resignation of Howard Baughman on

November 24, 2008.

It is now 11:11 p.m. on Monday, December 8th, 2008. I wrote and published the

story below about 24 hours ago. Since John Haas was sworn in tonight as city

councilman; more new real estate taxes have already been proposed by City

Council. With John Haas on council Martings Foundation Racketeer Clay

Johnson has the four council votes he needs to continue to control spending

of our tax dollars for his benefit. Remember Clay Johnson

(Martings Foundation) who swindled the citizens of Portsmsouth out of

Two Million Dollars $2,000,000.00 in May, 2002?

Truth about why John Haas was appointed to Council 10 Dec 08

http://www.runboard.com/bmoesnewsforum.f1.t13464|offset=10

Opinion and prediction, and some documentation by Austin Leedom 8 Dec 08-
(This article was written the day before the council meeting and published
that day, December 7th, 2008, 24 hours before the Council made the appointment.)
JOHN HAAS HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY CLAY
JOHNSON TO BE FIFTH WARD COUNCILMAN

Clay Johnson committed a grand theft fraud netting him
two million dollars ($2,000,000.00.)
He still owes the citizens of Portsmouth Two Million Dollars
($2,000,000.00), plus interest on this amount for over six years.

For several years Attorney Clayton Johnson has apparently been able to control the spending
of much of the Portsmouth City funds by controlling the membership of the City Council.
Remember Clay Johnson is the man who created the Martings Foundation and placed his
Martings Brothers Store under the Martings Foundation. He borrowed $600,000.00 from banks
using the Martings Store as collateral. Retail business had gone from bad to almost nothing.
Clay Johnson owed $600,000; he tried to sell the store, but could find no buyer.

In 2005 during a public forum meeting at Portsmouth High School
Clay Johnson told of once using fraudulent means to attempt to sell the Martings Building
to an out of town buyer for $900,000 by hiring ladies to carry shopping bags in the area
of Martings Building and pretend to be shoppers and make Martings appear to be a busy,
prosperous store. That didn’t work.

Then the Martings building caught on fire, but the building wouldn’t burn.
With a mortgaged building that wouldn’t burn and not being able to find a buyer at any price,
Clay Johnson then decided to sell the building to the City for Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00).

He sold the building to the City of Portsmouth with the help of Mayor Greg Bauer,
Council President Jim Kalb, councilpersons Howard Baughman, Ann Sydnor, Carol Caudill
and other council members.

Johnson met with Councilpersons secretly and in groups of three to persuade them to
purchase the Martings Building. This was in violation of the Ohio Revised Code. It was criminal.

The conspirators also hired unqualified Real Estate Agent Ken Rase to make an appraisal of the
building to fit the $2,000.000.00 price, although a competent appraiser (John Kisor) had recently
appraised the building for only $762,000.

Ken Rase also became a victim of the strange Martings Curse. In 2004 on the evening before
BCI&I investigators were to meet with Ken Rase to examine Rase and his appraisal documents
his real estate office on Court Street burned and the building and all documents destroyed.
At the scene while the building was still burning the Chief of Police and the Fire Chief deemed
the fire "suspicious" but it is not known that any further investigation was ever made. After the
fire the building was quickly torn down and removed.

  On May 29, 2002 Council President Jim Kalb, and council members Howard Baughman, Ann Sydnor,
Carol Caudill and the other two council members passed an ordinance to buy the old Martings building
for Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00).   The citizens were never given any public notice of the ordinance
before the vote by the council who ran the purchase ordinance through to passage
as an “emergency” to avoid the ruling that all ordinances were to be brought before the council during a
public meeting three times.

The sale contract was signed quickly after the ordinance was passed with Councilwoman Carol Caudill
signing as a witness, along with Neal Hatcher, Clay Johnson's incorporated land acquisition partner

The City Auditor made prompt payment to Clay Johnson. The payment was
hurriedly made by Auditor Trent Williams in disregard to the contract agreement that
payment was not to be made until a clear title to the property was delivered to the city. Clay Johnson
did not clear the title by paying off the mortgages until the following January 2003.

The plans of Clay Johnson, the unelected city controller were working well. Clay Johnson had
Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.) and after paying the mortgages off seven months later he still had
One Million, Four Hundred Thousand Dollars left over ($1,400,000.00).

The scheme included moving city government to the Martings Building and selling the present
city building to a favored developer at a low give-away price. The ownership of our valuable
riverfront city building site was and is a vital part of future plans for the racketeers.

A wrench was thrown into the crooked scheme when the Scioto County Common Pleas Court
ruled the sale was illegal and reversed the sale thus giving the building back to Clay Johnson
and giving the City of Portsmouth a Two Million Dollar ($2,000,000) lien on the building and on
Clay Johnson, who is also known as The Martings Foundation.

Then Clay Johnson’s shyster attorney, the disreputable Stan Bender, sold the building a second
time to the City with Mayor Jim Kalb as the agent and approval by Councilmen Howard Baughman,
Marty Mohr, Jerrold Albrecht and David Malone.

Angry citizens then petitioned that no more money be spent on the Martings Building and the
citizens of Portsmouth passed the action with a vote of 7 to 3. The city government was still in
the present building and the giveaway to the developers was stymied.

In the election of November 2008, voters again voted against the use of The Martings Building
as a city government building by a decisive vote. City government is still in City Hall and the
developers still have not got our prized city land on the riverfront.

Now that Howard Baughman has been unseated from City Council Clay Johnson only controls
three councilmen, Jerrold Albrecht, David Malone and Mike Mearan. To get ordinances passed
for his benefit Clay Johnson needs four councilmen voting in favor of any new attempts to loot t
he city treasury.

It is my opinion that Howard Baughman was ordered to resign by his handler to avoid a recall election
that would have put an honest lady in as Fifth Ward Council member. Baughman’s resignation created
an opening that can be filled by appointment by the three remaining Clay Johnson Council members.
Attorney John Haas has been chosen by Clay Johnson to be the next councilman and can win formal
appointment with the vote of Jerrold Albrecht, David Malone and Mike Mearan.
With Haas’ membership on Council Clay Johnson can continue to have four votes to get favored
treatment, undue tax abatement on real estate, and lucrative agreements to further enrich Clay Johnson.

According to our information Stan Bender and John Haas were law partners for four years before
Haas joined law practice with Attorney Dan Ruggerio eight years ago. Attorney Stan Bender was
the man who brokered the second sale of The Martings Building to the City in 2005.
Bender has a dubious reputation and is a well known shyster lawyer.   (In 1997 Stan Bender
defended a gunman who robbed a SSU student who was distributing Shawnee Sentinel newspapers
at the County Courthouse.

The Shawnee Sentinel had been been publishing hardcopy news about the Southern Ohio Growth
Program (SOGP) for criminal mis-use of public funds. Stan Bender told the Columbus Dispatch he had
defended the gunman free of charge because, "He's such a nice young fellow.")

Attendance at City Council will be a new experience for John Haas. In eleven years of watching
Portsmouth City Council meetings I have never seen John Haas in attendance.   His sudden interest
in being a council member is suspect. Not knowing much about John Haas I took a look at his
records in Scioto County Common Pleas Court and in the Portsmouth Municipal Court.
In Common Pleas Court records I found a record of divorce.
Go to http://www.sciotocountycpcourt.org/ Read of Divorce Action filed against John Haas in 2004.
Most recent hearing in this case was in September 2008. One interesting item of contention was who
got the use of the luxury BMV SUV. This man wants an appointment as city councilman to replace
the deposed 5^th ward Councilman Howard Baughman who resigned in disgrace rather than face an
election in February.
For John Haas' record in Common Pleas Court - Go to http://www.sciotocountycpcourt.org/

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Opinion and prediction, and some documentation by Austin Leedom 8 Dec 08-
(The corruptness of some of the city councilmen is so well known that an experienced
council watcher will know in advance exactly how the unholy trio of Jerrold Albrecht,
David Malone and Mike Mearan will vote. ) Will new Councilman John Haas soon have
a similar reputation or will he take "the high road?"

John Haas - SOGP his job is to stop freedom of speech? Basham will take orders from Haas?