Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Council Meetings on the 2nd & 4th. Mondays at 6pm at Bob Huff';s place,.

Now since there's no prompt reporters on the council meeing

tonight, I get the scoop. You know what they scoop up. ___

Come to the meetings and watch the mayor "raise" her immature

boys on city council.

One citizen told the council 4, Malone, Albrecht, Haas, & Basham,

the audio visual aid guy, that they need therapy and not to let their

personal life spill out into public council meetings.

4 hours tonight and the media, PDT's, Community Common and

Albrecht left early. (I won't snitch on Reb)

The President Pastor Malone allowed all the bashing of the mayor

there could be, but stopped any criticism of any or the city council.

Really extreme, the audience are not stupid............

The fools passed up 1/2 million dollars because they wanted to catch

the mayor not knowing the account number for the $4000 matching

funds. Later in the meeting the wimp, City Auditor explained

he could of allowed that to pass. Continued bashing of the female

mayor. The boys take any chance they can.

The boys 4, drug up all the stuff from January 4th. again and again,

they have to practice on their passive aggressive natures.

School yard bullies.

It reminded me of the night they did that to the Mollette.

did not work then, but where is he?

Anyone, who's on the "bashing of the mayor" side,

is as pathological as the bashers.

Malone denied he wants to be mayor if the mayor

would be REcalled...........

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The above article written by A Citizen spectator at the four-hour council meeting held on

22 February, 2010 at the Welcome Center (Clay Johnson’s SOGP Shadow Government Headquarters.)

on Front Street at site of his Clay Johnson' cousin George Clayton’s old failed Kenrick’s Discount Store.

Posted on Tuesday 23 Feb 10 by Austin Leedom

MAYOR KEEPS HER WORD - NO MORE SECRET

BACKROOM CONTRACT DEALS -

Insurance Contracts will be bid and will be negotiated openly.

(Read PORTSMOUTH DAILY TIMES Page six, February 16, 2010)

City saves $28,000 on liability contract by bidding the insurance.

First open insurance contract in twelve years. This $28,000

savings will more than pay for City Auditor Trent Williams’ new

luxury SUV vehicle he just bought (for his personal use) with city

funds without asking city council’s permission.

From Frontpage of Shawnee Sentinel 17-FEB-10 By Austin Leedom

MORE SNOW, MORE SNOW......Remember last month the Mayor

asked for funds to buy another truck equipped with a scraper

for snow removal. City Council denied the request.

From Frontpage of Shawnee Sentinel 17-FEB-10 By Austin Leedom

THIRD WARD COUNCILMAN NICHOLAS

BASHAM RUDE AT SSU MEETING

Wednesday 04 FEB 2010

I attended last nights meeting concerning the McKinley School property

and the rezoning of it. There were around 30 in attendance. Our Mayor

was asked to attend the meeting and she did an excellent job of

answering questions from the audience. Those questions that she

was not able to answer she acknowledged that as well.

I was very upset to see how the 3rd Ward councilman Basham acted

during this meeting. He was very rude and would interrupt the Mayor

when she was answering a resident's question, not just a few times,

but many times did he interrupt her. His face kept getting redder and

redder. Someone that I didn't know said, "Who is that man?"

Several said that they didn't know. He stood up, said he had another

meeting to go to. (I think it was around 8:00 or after at the time.)

Then he walked up to the board, wrote his name, under that, 3rd ward

and his telephone number 876-8030. Turned around and said "Call me!"

Walked over to the door, opened it, walked out, turned around and

slammed it very hard. I thought that he broke the door. It was a disgrace!

After the meeting two women came over to me and said that they voted

for him and regretted that they did. I heard others say that they were

going to start a recall on him. (You can't do that for 6 months.)

His actions have really bothered me and all that I can think about is

he's a teacher!

I want to apologize to those in attendance as not all of us act that way.

First Ward Resident
Linda Switzer
Retired Teacher

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2010

Mayor and city service workers deserve our thanks

From The Portsmouth Daily Times
by Frank Lewis

I was pleasantly surprised when coming to work around 7:30 l

ast Tuesday morning, to find trucks treating the streets from

the overnight snowfall.

I had written a column a couple of winters ago criticizing the

city for not taking care of the ice and snow on the streets.

I would come out Ohio 335, and ODOT would have the highway

clear. I would drive into Sciotoville, and streets would be

treacherous. Then things would be clear in New Boston,

but bad again when I entered the city limits.

I didn’t see that problem this time. So it is time to thank

some people who know that the streets must be cleared

in the early-morning hours when people are off to work.

I think the first kudo must go out to Mayor Jane Murray,

who foresaw the problems encountered in the past, in

advance, and made sure the city had salt and the proper

equipment for when the snow came. That is called planning.

Planning is not only a good thing, it is essential in running

any entity. I personally want to thank Mayor Murray for

seeing the need and making sure the problem was handled

before it arrived.

I also want to thank city service workers. These people don’t

get thanked enough for their hard work and dedication.

Whether it is standing in a hole filled with freezing water

to repair a water line break, or getting up before the sun

to make sure travel is a little easier for the rest of us, these

are great people who work hard, and who want to do a good job.

There are still many snow and ice days ahead, and now I

will feel more secure when I get ready for work on those

days, knowing the city crews are out making things safer

for all of us.

The service crews of the various jurisdictions across the

nation are the backbone of what keeps us going and thus

allow us to be productive.

It is nice to know we can count on that effort in our

local community.

COPIED FROM PORTSMOUTH DAILY TIMES ON 03 FEB 10

BY AUSTIN LEEDOM, SHAWNEE SENTINEL WRITER

Mayor’s Attackers at Council Meeting Lose Respect

Some men hold ladies in contempt and cannot bear that a lady

now holds the highest office in the City Government

That may be part of the reason for the severe attacks against

new Mayor Jane Murray at her first council meeting on

January 11, 2010.

Mayor Murray made some errors as she began her term of office. There was nothing done that was

illegal or irreparable.

Mayor Jane was treated with little courtesy by four of the city councilmen, especially by the President

of Council David Malone and shyster lawyer John Haas, fifth ward councilman. Ex-Mayor James D. Kalb

was in the audience; he was his usual oafish, disagreeable, lying self as he loudly mumbled and fulminated

without just cause against the lady Mayor who had beaten him so bad in the November election.

Fifth Ward Councilman John Haas and new third ward councilman Nick Basham attempted illegally to

hold an executive session to investigate the mayor and the SOGP- paid-for-City Solicitor Mike Jones

agreed with shyster Haas. Then Mayor Murray read the law to them that rules that the Council does

not control the actions of the Mayor and any attempt by any councilman to usurp the duties and

privileges of the Mayor is prosecutable and could cause loss of the culprit’s office in the city government.

The proposition to hold an illegal executive appears to be planned but their attempt at this deception was

stopped by he Mayor’s knowledge of the law of the City Charter.

Attacks on the new Mayor by the Solicitor and the aggressive councilmen were disagreeable,

discourteous, unmanly and caused many witnesses to lower their estimation of the attackers who

were ganging up on a lady during her first meeting as Mayor. The offending attackers damaged

themselves and lowered their already sub-par reputations.

In the days following the attack of these ruffians on the out-numbered lady Mayor I have heard ugly,

unkind remarks about Solicitor Jones, Councilmen John Haas, David Malone, Nick Basham and

ex-Mayor Jim Kalb because of their words and actions against the lady Mayor. One kindly old gentleman

remarked, “Those fellows mistreating the lady Mayor during that meeting can in no way deserve to

be called men. Real men don’t act that way.”

Council rejected all of the new Mayor’s requests including funding to get heat and renovation

for the Mayor’s Office.

Written by Austin Leedom - Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Daily Times Just Say No.

COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY, -Austin Leedom 4 January 2010-

JANUARY 4TH AT 7:00 P.M. AT CITY HALL - David Malone chosen

as Council President, John Haas as VP of Council; New

Councilmen Nicholas Basham, Third Ward, and Kevin Johnson,

First Ward, took office. Mayor Jane Murray assured Councilmen timely

information would regularly be furnished to all council members

January 04, 2010 -by Austin Leedom

Year in Review: The Number One event for the betterment of

Portsmouth was the removal of Jim Kalb from the Mayor's

Office by voters in the November election. Kalb is known by most

of the citizens for illegally buying the Martings Building twice, raising

our real estate taxes twice, our water rates five times, our trash collection

fees twice, begging for and receiving three large pay raises for himself,

taking numerous lengthy vacations every year, and working only part-time.

Jim Kalb received only 26% of the vote in losing the Mayoral election race to

Jane Murray.

Democracy is alive here. The year 2009 was good

for the City. This is America; 2010 will be even better through

the power of the people at the polls. There will be more elections and

the people will vote. Portsmouth will be better in this New Year.

Our Honorable Mayor Jim Kalb bowed out of city government

respectfully and graciously at his last meeting on Monday,

December 28, 2009.

He did well; he stayed awake throughout the meeting, presented

an award to a deserving citizen, smiled several times, and did not

abuse or threaten anyone.

Kalb gave credit and thanks to all who assisted him through his

many very difficult years as Mayor. Jim Kalb gave praise and

recognition to all and gratefully acknowledged the free publicity

accorded him by the news media during his administration.

He used many words for extra-special attention and recognition

to citizens’ websites who had done so much to help him out.

All in all, it was an excellent, courageous performance for a loser

who finished in third place in an election race that had only

two candidates on the ballot.

By Austin Leedom – 30 December 2009-

Austin Leedom Monday 28 Dec 09

City Council meeting at 6:00 p.m. today at City Hall.

Last Meeting for our Honorable Most Incompetent, Corrupt

Mayor Jim Kalb. Kalb won international attention for writing

a filthy email to a citizen from the Mayor’s Office at 1:47 a.m.

on the 5^th of October, 2009. When published by the River Vices

Blog and the Columbus Dispatch, the email won attention and

comment from around the world. Jim Kalb put Portsmouth on

the map as having the most stupid mayor on earth.

Come to the Council meeting; hear Jim Kalb’s Farewell Address

to the City.

Also hear financial expert City Auditor Trent Williams tell

us how Mayor Jim Kalb overspent the city budget by

a half-million dollars.

The world corruption spotlight has been on our city hall. – Credit for this

international illumination goes to Portsmouth’s mid-night emailing Mayor

James D. Kalb who sent the 1:47 a.m. message that brought delight to millions

around the globe who learned that somewhere on Earth there was a City Mayor

who was more stupid, more crude, and more tainted than the Mayor they are

suffering under in their own home town. Click on links to dreary London, England.

http://www.notthebarnettimes.co.uk/2009/10/ruder-mayor-than-brian-coleman.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2009/may/15/conservatives-london -Austin Leedom 24Dec09

(24 Dec 09) Portsmouth Daily Times article below:

Mayor-elect Murray Seeks Piketon Project Review:

Questions Transfer Of 340 Acres Of Federal Land To SODI

by Frank Lewis

As a part of an effort to “hit the ground running,” Portsmouth Mayor-elect Jane Murray has sent a

letter to the management at the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office in Lexington, Ky., accusing

them of not responding to recommendations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP),

and requesting “immediate consulting party status for all reviews at Piketon in compliance with the

National Historic Protection Act (NHPA).”

In an e-mail to William E. Murphie, one of the projects she addresses is the potential transfer of

340 acres of federal land to Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI), along with other leased

or owned properties. In that e-mail, Murray says, “Please forward to me ASAP all documents

pertaining to SODI’s proposed use of that property, and the status of the transfer.”

Murray continues.

“I hereby request that all work on the proposed transfer be terminated, pending an opportunity f

or the city of Portsmouth and all other NHPA consulting parties to review the documentation on

that transfer, and consult on the compatibility of the transfer with the proposed Historic District.

It is our current position that no federal land within the Historic District should be transferred to

private entities at this time, because the Historic District will propose future acquisitions of

federal land in the area.”

In that e-mail, Murray outlines six issues of concern which she says require immediate action. T

he transfer of 340 acres of land to SODI falls under issue 6.

“I hope that it (the e-mail) will slow down the process that has been subverted, in actuality,

so that we can make sure, as we are doing our work to create this historic district, that our

concerns are taken into account,” Murray told the Portsmouth Daily Times on Wednesday afternoon.

“… Some people in our own area don’t realize the ancient cultures that lived here and created these

mounds … they only existed here — nowhere else in the world. To be able to preserve, protect and

interpret those cultures is very very key to our region, and the potential we have for, not only the

tourism that it could bring, but also the kind of economy we need to be driving toward —

an idea-creation economy.”

Murray said she believes that as the process moves forward, it will bring tourists and

scholars from all over the world.

Under issue 1, Murray says she is aware that Dr. Thomas F. King, whom she says is the

leading expert on NHPA compliance in the country, toured the Portsmouth Area Gaseous

Diffusion Plant in June, and then submitted a series of recommendations to the Advisory Council

on Historic Preservation regarding problems in NHPA compliance at the Piketon site.

The recommendations were forwarded to the Department of Energy last summer, along with

additional concerns and questions, “yet the Department of Energy has proceeded with

NHPA reviews and compliance activities, without responding to the letters and

recommendations of Dr. King or ACHP.”

Murray follows the accusation with, “I would like an explanation as to why his and ACHP’s

recommendations have not been addressed. I assert that these responses, shared with all

consulting parties, are necessary before any further NHPA compliance activities can proceed.”

At one point in her e-mail correspondence, Murray tells DOE officials — “Dr. King has highlighted

the fact that your office has approached NHPA compliance backwards. Instead of seeking genuine

consultations with affected and interested parties, you seek a ‘compliance check-off’ from OHPO,

and then, after the fact, you inform ‘consulting parties’ that the deal is done.”

Murray tells Murphie that particular procedure is the reverse of the procedure set forth in the

NHPA implementing regulations. “According to those regulations, which we intend to see

implemented at Piketon, DOE should first identify and admit a proper set of consulting parties.

Second, DOE should actually consult those parties, allowing for discussion and review among them,

and soliciting ideas for alternatives to the proposed action. Third, DOE should review those

recommendations and proposed alternatives. Fourth, only DOE should forward any findings to OHPO

and the Advisory Council.”

In issue 2, Murray talks about having in her possession, NHPA compliance letters sent by project

officials to the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, requesting immediate approval of four projects

involving alterations to the process buildings at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and

finishes by saying, “No further action on these projects should be undertaken until all consulting

parties, including the city of Portsmouth, have an opportunity to review and actually consult on the

proposed activities, including the proposal of alternatives as required by NHPA.”

In point 3, Murray writes — “You should be aware that under my administration, the city of Portsmouth,

in cooperation with other governmental and non-governmental organizations in the region,

seeks to establish a Historic District of large expanse to protect the archaeological and architectural

resources of the Lower Scioto Valley.”

Murray says she envisions the district as extending from Greenup County through Scioto and Pike

counties, along the Scioto Trail corridor, “and therefore encompassing the entire DOE reservation.”

Murray went on to say it is imperative the DOE work with the other parties involved, “to insure that

proposed DOE actions accord with the needs of the district.”

On point 4, Murray says there is “continuing confusion about the NHPA compliance status of USEC’s

centrifuge project.

“I am aware, as Dr. King noted in his recommendations, that no Section 106 review was conducted

by the Department of Energy for either Land Cascade, the ACP project itself, nor any potential loan

guarantee decision, all in explicit violation of NHPA. Please notify me immediately as to why no NHPA

compliance was pursued or is being pursued for USEC’s project.”

On point 5, Murray asks for copies of all contracts and agreements between DOE and SODI, along

with copies of any pending applications or considerations for future federal assistance to SODI

regarding the Piketon site.

There are several other components to the correspondence including suggesting the entombment

of the most contaminated building at the site.

“I formally request on behalf of the city of Portsmouth, that the proper Section 106 review of the four

projects now commence, and that the suggestion of any completed review rescinded,” Murray wrote.

Joel Bradburne of DOE’s Lexington said, “We feel like we are compliant, and have the interest of the

law and the community in consideration.”

Bradburne said his company is looking forward to meeting with Murray.

“We’ve invited the Mayor-Elect out for a meeting to discuss, and we are going to provide a tour of

the facility for the Mayor-Elect,” Bradburne said. “We’re looking forward to discussing her questions

with her in person. Hopefully, we can understand her position and we can answer her questions.”

Murray said the company officials are going to be in the area in January.

“We’re going to meet,” Murray said. “I kind of misstated in my first e-mail that I really was wanting to

meet directly with Mr. Murphie. He is going to be in the area, so he and I are going to meet.”

Slowing down the transfer of property has caused concern with some civic leaders in the community.

“We now have about 2,000 people working at the A-Plant, with a lot of new hires that Lata/Parallax

has had in the last few months in preparation of the D & D (Decommissioning and Decontaminating)

work, it has put the employment at close to 2,000,” Bob Walton of the Southern Ohio Port Authority said.

“Next year, at this time, the employment could be 3,000 or more with the D & D work.”

Walton said the Southern Ohio Port Authority has been working with the bidders on the D & D work,

and in their proposals, some of the companies are putting in a community involvement and economic

development component.

“We have signed a memorandum of agreement with one of them that they will assist our community

financially with economic development projects that the Port Authority identifies, and that is part of

an economic strategy,” Walton said.

Murray listed Geoffrey Sea, Andrew Feight, Sharon Manson and Blaine Beekman as consulting parties.

FRANK LEWIS may be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232

Friday, December 18th, 2009 - by Austin Leedom

Jane Murray, Mayor-elect of Portsmouth

was administered the oath of Office in the Rotunda of the

Scioto County Courthouse in an impressive ceremony

at 11:30 a.m. yesterday before a very large group of citizens.

She will take office on the 4h of January, 2010.

WSAZ TV, WPAY Radio, and other news media were present

Mayor Jane Murray took oath of office

at County Courthouse Thursday, December 17, 2009

in an impressive ceremony before a large crowd

Back to News

Updated: 11:00 PM Dec 17, 2009

Portsmouth's Mayor Elect Sworn-in Thursday

The incoming Portsmouth Mayor says she is inheriting

a city government "in shambles and sinking in a financial quagmire."

Posted: 11:27 AM Dec 17, 2009
Reporter: WSAZ News Staff
Email Address: news@wsaz.com

Portsmouth Mayor Situation

WUPDATE Channel 3, Huntington, WV
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- The incoming Portsmouth Mayor

says she is inheriting a city government "in shambles and sinking

in a financial quagmire."

So the River City’s first female mayor says she plans to hit the

ground running, straight into a big budget battle.

Mayor Elect Jane Murray doesn’t take office until January 4, 2010,

but on Thursday Murray was sworn into office.

At a ceremony in the Scioto County Courthouse Rotunda,

Murray introduced her mostly volunteer cabinet as well as her

first full-time paid employee, military and big business veteran

Peter Mingus, as Chief of Staff.

Murray says long-time local educator Hilda Drake will work on

historic preservation and downtown development. Callie Nelson

will deal with community relations. Alan Barlow will specialize in

budget and tourism. Community activist Rita Haider will focus on

housing stock and neighborhood redevelopment. CPA and accounting

professor Larry Essman will be Murray's point man on erasing a

$500,000 Portsmouth budget shortfall - all without raising taxes.

The mayor elect says cost cutting starts with reviewing city

employee positions and finding new revenue sources.

Murray also has a plan for city employee union negotiations.

"We will discuss furloughs, layoffs and renegotiation of contracts,"

Murray said.

The mayor-elect says her administration will be transparent,

media friendly and all about the public trust.

ORIGINAL STORY
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Portsmouth’s new mayor doesn’t

take office until January 1, but Thursday, Jane Murray is being

sworn into office. The ceremony is taking place in the rotunda at the Scioto County

Courthouse.

Back in November, Murray garnered 44-percent of the vote,

defeating write-in candidate Jerry Skiver (30%) and current mayor,

James Kalb (26%).

Following the ceremony, Murray plans to introduce some members

of her new administration. Murray takes office on Monday, January 4. She is the city’s first

female mayor.

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Crooked Mayor Jim Kalb loses with only 26% of vote in November election.

MAYOR JIM KALB'S (Very Special)

ASSISTANT LOSES IN COURT

09 Dec 09 - by Austin Leedom

KALB HAS BEEN A CROOK FROM DAY ONE

Mayor Jim Kalb has consistently

worked for the "betterment of Portsmouth,"

according to Jim Kalb. - BY AUSTIN LEEDOM 09 DEC 09

Jim Kalb will never be known to most citizens as anything

but a crook, but no one can claim he is incongruent.

When Kalb took office for the first time in July 2004 the first

fellow through the door to the Mayor’s Office was Rick Fraley

of the Ohio Pest Control in Rosemount. Rick Fraley was not

noted for good service or efficiency; his main claim to city

contracts was his ability to furnish our dishonest Mayor Greg

Bauer with free NASCAR tickets and other favors.

At City Hall that day Reporter John Welton (aka Doug Deepe)

and I watched as Kalb escorted Mr. Fraley through the Mayor’s

Office and into the inner sanctum or the “holy of holies” behind

the office door in the rear which Kalb quickly closed hehind them.

John Welton then made an appropriate comment as he noted,
“A pest control man is the first one in to see the Mayor.

That is good, if there was ever a place that needed fumigating,

it is that Mayor’s Office.”

A few days later in response to a Freedom of Information

Request we received a copy of an unbid contract for mosquito

spraying awarded to Rick Fraley of the Oho Pest Control on the day

of his visit to Jim Kalb’s Office. The price for the work to be done

seemed high. John Welton and I visited with two local Portsmouth

Pest Control companies and we were told by both that the

price Fraley had charged the city was about $1,500,00

higher than the going rate for that work.

John Welton and I then went to Mayor Jim Kalb’s Office where he

admitted he knew the amount of the contract was over-priced

about $1,500.00. Kalb explained the over-payment, “ I knew it

was way too much but Rick is an old bike-riding buddy of mine.”

At least Jim Kalb has been a consistent crook. Five and a half

years later he apparently is still robbing the city funds by handing

out over priced contracts to his friends.

Austin Leedom 9^th of December 2009

05 Aug 09 - by Austin Leedom

Sheri Fischer, 43, Mayor Kalb’s (Very Special) Assistant

Service Director, lost her attempt to have a restraining

order placed against lovely Janet Jarrell in Common

Pleas Court Tuesday afternoon, 5 August 2009.

Both parties well represented by legal counsel.

In a two and one-half hour hearing Tuesday afternoon

before the Honorable Judge William T. Marshall, Sheri

Fischer was well represented by the very capable

Rebecca Bennett, a well-known former assistant

county prosecuting attorney.

Janet Jarrell was represented by the seasoned Attorney

Richard Nash who has gained much local fame as a highly

successful trial attorney.

A total of seven witnesses were called to testify. Judge

William T. Marshal, who is known for his patience, diligence

and fair rulings decided that there was insufficient evidence

to sustain Ms.Fischer’s petition for a protection order.

05 August 2009 Wednesday

Is Nervous MAYOR Jim Kalb facing crisis with abusive

administration personnel? Yes; and Kalb is being super-secretive

hoping truth doesn't become public. Kalb has had big lady troubles before.

Same story on Thursday, July 30. Sheri Fisher again failed to show

respect for the Common Pleas Court by ignoring hearing she herself

had requested.. The kindly Judge, William T. Marshall, reset hearing until

10:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 4, 2009.

Defendant Janet Jarrell, her attorney Richard Nash, and several

Witnesses were present for the hearing, but Mayor Jim Kalb’s

Assistant Service Director Sheri Fisher who filed the action was

at work at the office of City Service Director Chris Murphy.

Murphy, who was interviewed at Mayor Jim Kalb’s Office at

11:00 a.m., 30 July 2009, by this reporter. said he had

not ordered Ms. Fisher to NOT attend the court hearing.

Sheri Fischer, 43, failed to show in Common Pleas Court

On Friday, July 24, 2009 to pursue the request for a

protective order Sheri had filed on Monday, July 21,

against Janet Jarrell. Ms. Jarrell was present at court,

but Sheri Fischer did not appear. Why?

The case was continued until July 30, 2009.

Portsmouth City Assistant Service Director

Sheri R. Fischer filed an action with the Clerk of the

Scioto County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday,

July 21, 2009.

Ms. Fischer filed a petition for civil stalking or sexually

oriented offense protection order (SSOOPO) (RC2903.214)

against Janet Jarrell of Wheelersburg.

The Honorable Judge William T. Marshall has

ordered an injunction and notice of hearing to be held

at 10:00 a.m., July 24, 2009 in the Common Pleas Court.

This action against Ms. Jarrell was taken by Ms. Fischer

after Fischer was accused of dumping a gallon of green

paint over the top and rear of Jarrell’s white 2007 Mustang

while the Mustang was parked at Jarrell’s home on

Tuesday, 14 July, 2009.

According to the Official Police Report, Officer Chris Kelley

expended twelve (12) minutes (from 9:25 to 9:37 p.m.) on the

14^th of July at Ms. Jarrell’s home investigating and recording

this incident. The lack of further action or investigation by

the police led Ms. Jarrell to question the Assistant Mayor.

According to Ms. Jarrell, she was told by the Assistant Mayor

that the police had dropped the case.

The Mayor’s Office gave this reporter very little information.

Assistant Mayor Crystal Weghorst said they had

no record in the Mayor’s office of any qualifications for the

employment of Ms. Sheri Fischer as the Assistant City Service

Director on the 21^st of August, 2008.

Re-Written by Austin Leedom, Friday, July 31, 2009.

ELECTION-TIME PAVING FRAUD

MAYOR JIM KALB CAUGHT LYING AGAIN.

By Austin Leedom Monday, July 13, 2009

Why does the Mayor want an Emergency $800,000 debt placed

on real estate taxes for an Election-time Street Repaving Program?

He had over One Million Dollars collected in for street repaving

last year and used the money for other items such as big pay raises

for himself, the Auditor, The Solicitor and others.

According to the figures from the City Auditor $1,006.708.74

was collected in by the City for repaving work this year.

Why was this Street Maintenance Money spent on other items

instead of paving the streets?

When Jim Kalb became Mayor by default in July 2004, city

Streets and signs were in excellent condition. Kalb has frittered

away a million dollars a year of street maintenance funds and

done almost nothing on other needed improvements.

Just count it up, a million dollars a year received for street repairs

That is five million dollars not used for paving, but mis-used by the

Mayor on other Items. Now with election only three months away

Jim Kalb wants to do street paving and place an $800,000 debt on

Citizens, a debt that will be paid for by the home owners over many

future years with increased property taxes.

STREET FUND REVENUES COLLECTED IN 2008

The following amounts were reported as collected by the Auditor’s

office in 2008:

Street Construction and Maintenance Fund [Number 231]:

State Gasoline Tax $ 680,136.72

Auto Registration Permit Fees 93,001.41

Auto registration fees 156,263.83

Interest earned 2,329.45

Insurance proceeds 1,310.00

Refunds/reimbursements 801.14

Miscellaneous revenues 5,373.08

Total revenues collected in 2008 $ 939,215.63

State Highway Fund [Number 233]:

State Gasoline Tax $ 53,657.84

Auto registration Fees 12,670.05

Interest earned 1,165.22

Total revenues collected in 2008 $ 67,493.11

TOTAL REVENUES FOR THE STREET

CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

FUND AND THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND $ 1,006,708.74

Another $ 200,000 is allocated for the Street Resurfacing Program in the

Capital Improvements Fund.

This means that the taxpayers have already provided a total of

$ 1,206,708.74 in 2008 to maintain, improve, and resurface city streets.

Why are our streets not in better shape with this amount of street

maintenance money collected in 2008? And with similar amounts

collected over the past five years? What has Jim Kalb done with

our money? We need new management. We need a new Mayor.

We have Taxes Enough Already! Austin Leedom, 13 July 2009

MAYOR Our Greedy Mayor and his Four Councilmen

will try to raise more property taxes again tonight.

15 June 2009

WORK HAS RESUMED ON 317 FRONT STREET BUSINESS

AFTER MAYOR'S INSPECTOR ISSUED STOP WORK ORDER

For details read: http://rivervices.blogspot.com

Injustice in Portsmouth. Read Dr. Forrey article on harassment

by Mayor Jim Kalb’s Building Inspector (Larry Justice) of a new

man in town who is attempting to re-build a building at 317 Front Street

and establish a new business. A local developer wants the building.

Did local real estate developer order Mayor Kalb to harass this builder?

Questions for the Mayoral candiDATES

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By Austin Leedom - June 09, 2009

TAX- CRAZY MAYOR JIM KALB FAILS TO

GET “EMERGENCY” PROPERTY TAX

INCREASE TO FUND PAVING OF A FEW

CITY STREETS BEFORE ELECTION.

JIM KALB ASKED COUNCIL TO BORROW $800,000

FOR HIS PAVING PROJECT. HE CLAIMED CITY

STREETS DANGEROUS TO DRIVE ON. KALB WANTS

CITIZENS TO REPAY $800,000 LOAN, PLUS INTEREST,

WITH ANOTHER RAISE IN YOUR REAL ESTATE TAXES.

A first reading of the ordinance was approved after a motion

by city councilmen to table the action was rejected

During the past five years Jim Kalb has been Mayor he has

accomplished little except three fat illegal pay raises for

himself, while costing you repeated multiple raises in your

real estate taxes, your water rates and your trash fees.

At the two and a half-hour council meeting Monday night,

June 08, 2009, the do-nothing Mayor was besieged by citizens

who complained of his appalling failures in providing basic

services to the city since be became Mayor five years ago.

Disgusted, angry citizens spoke of:

repeated failure to open city swimming pool on time, trash in

the alleys, failure to provide dumpsters for neighborhood

clean-ups, declining population, loss of businesses in city,

exploding water line breaks, insufficient combined storm-sanitary

sewage capacity causing flooding of homes with human manure

and urine, lack of proper housing, deteriorated houses creating

blighting and loss of value to neighborhoods, dogs defecating on

lawns, pot-hole infested streets and most of all, repeated increased

taxes on property. By Austin Leedom, June 09, 2009

VOTE NO ON KALB’S PROPOSED BIG INCOME TAX RAISE

During nearly six years as the over-paid, part-time Mayor of Portsmouth,

Jim Kalb has received three major salary increases by slipping big raises

for himself into the annual city budgets. This is the way he does it. The

budget for the following year is to be presented to council in November of

each year so council will have time for proper consideration of the Mayor’s

proposals. Instead of delivering the budget to council on time he has

withheld the budget from council until the last council meeting of the month

in February of the next budget year and then asked Council to approve it as an

"emergency" measure.

Kalb explains that if the Council does not instantly approve the unpublicized

budget as he presented it, the City workers will not be able to receive their

next paycheck in March A dirty way to play, but it works for Jim Kalb.

He now receives nearly $60,000 salary per year, free insurance, free automobile,

along with a no-limit credit card. This is excellent pay for an incompetent,

lazy, unqualified, part-time employee, but Kalb wants more money and a

new luxury auto.

For nearly six years Kalb has ignored the needs for sewage renovation,

refused to maintain our now polluted city parks, failed to maintain and

open the city swimming pool on time, has tried to sell off our swimming

pool and some of our parks. He has allowed our streets to become dangerously

pothole infested and refused to continue the previous mayors’ "Green and Clean"

policy of placing dumpsters around the city for spring clean-up of items

that need to be discarded for trash collection.

Our alleys have become so filled with trash that a Second Ward citizen

told me yesterday, "Alleys now are so filled with trash that I wonder

how the trash trucks are able to get through. The big fire trucks probably

could not through the alleys?"

It’s time for a change; vote for anyone but Jim Kalb.

Vote no on the $2,700,000 annual income tax raise Mayor Jim Kalb

has placed on the ballot for the purpose of renovating the Martings

Building and moving city offices there so he can hand off our present City

Hall site to super wealthy developer Neal Hatcher for Neal’s private profit.

Three times the citizens have voted against the use of Martings Building

for city offices; first, the people voted in protest against use of the building

when they recalled the former Mayor Greg Bauer by a 70-30 vote in June 2004.

The citizens were outraged with Bauer and Council members for

buying Martings in secret meetings and running it through the council

in a secret manner as an "emergency." Also, the people were angered that

the building was appraised at only $760,000 but Bauer, Kalb and other council

paid Neal Hatcher’s real estate partner, Clay Johnson, Two Million Dollars

($2,000,000) as a bail-out for Johnson who owed $600,000 on the

old Martings store building he had mortgaged.

Later, in 2004, the Common Pleas Court ruled the Martings deal was crooked

because of the illegal secret meetings and ordered the sale reversed.

Jim Kalb, in 2005, went to Clay Johnson’s law office and bought the Martings

Building a second time. In the writing of the second purchase contract of

Martings, Jim Kalb granted Clay Johnson and his associates "forgiveness from the

beginning of the world" for any and all crimes committed in the first purchase.

A second rejection of the Martings Building occurred in 2006 when citizens

obtained, by a citywide vote by the citizens, an ordinance forbidding the City

to spend anymore money on the Martings Building.

In 2008, Kalb organized another proposal to vacate our present city hall site

so his super-rich associates could take over our prized riverfront land.

This caper was named "Portsmouth Progress" and was funded by massive

contributions of cash by Neal Hatcher, Clay Johnson and other wealthy

persons. So, the third rejection of the using the scandal-ridden Martings was

made as the people objected to being placed $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 in

debt on their real estate taxes to be paid over the next thirty years.

Now, Kalb is after an income tax to proceed with a project the citizens have

rejected three times. Jim Kalb is known to be excessively greedy and in many

citizens minds there is the question, "Why has Jim Kalb ignored his duties of

maintaining the basic needs and services due the people of Portsmouth and

worked for over seven years to help his wealthy gangster friends obtain our

land where city hall presently sets?" How much money has Kalb been

promised for delivering this property to the developers? Or, has be simply

been taking stacks of crisp new One Hundred Dollar bills in regular payments

for working for the developers?

Many people doubt that Jim Kalb is a crook. There is no doubt in the minds

of the Shawnee Sentinel reporters that Kalb is crooked. We have the

documented evidence of an over-priced backroom contract deal he made

with a friend. Kalb gave us the excuse, "He was an old bike-riding buddy

of mine." We also have the documented evidence that he assisted Neal

Hatcher in obtaining real estate by use of "eminent domain" threats.

Remember, Jim Kalb was the Council President that rushed the

unpublicized first Martings purchase secretly by the citizens during a

council meeting on May 29, 2002. Seven years later, Kalb is still at it.

Written by Austin Leedom, Monday, May 04, 2009

KALB TO GO TO KENTUCKY CRIMINAL TRIAL

04/16/09 CT ORDER

              ORDER TO APPEAR AS WITNESS IN GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY            

              IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT MAYOR JAMES KALB BE ORDERED          

              TO APPEAR BEFORE THE GREENUP COUNTY KENTUCKY COURT ON             

              AUGUST 3, 2009 AT 9:30 AM UNTIL EXCUSED AS A WITNESS BY           

              THE TRIAL COURT                                                   

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              RETURN FILED: SERVED                                              

              ORDER TO APPEAR AS WITNESS IN GREENUP COUNTY KENTUCKY             

              ON 8-3-09 AT 8:30 AM WAS SERVED PERSONALLY UPON                   

              MAYOR JAMES KALB ON 4-16-09 AT 1:30 PM BY TERRY MINCH             

              BAILIFF

Saturday 18 April 2009

After seven years Mayor Jim Kalb still insists on moving city

offices into shameful building with greatly increased property taxes!

"PORTSMOUTH’S GREATEST SCANDAL"

If you have doubted that the sale of the Martings Building

to the City of Portsmouth in May, 2002 was anything but a

Racketeer Influenced Criminal Operation (RICO) act of grand

theft from the citizens of Portsmouth, the following article

will be an eye-opener for you

Thirteen months ago, on March 13, 2008. Clay Johnson,

Neal Hatcher, Austin Keyser and Mayor Jim Kalb, and others,

were promoting a "Portsmouth Progress" group to overturn

two city-wide votes by citizens that ruled no more money was to

be spent on the notorious Martings Building.

Historian Dr. Andrew Feight wrote the following:

"Now that Portsmouth City Council is once again considering

renovating the old Marting’s Department Store Building to

house offices for city government, it seems only appropriate

that we recall the origins of one of Portsmouth’s greatest scandals."

http://lowerscioto.blogspot.com/2008/03/follow-money-history-of-martings.html

Written by Austin Leedom on Monday, April 13, 2009

MAYOR AND EX-MAYOR BOTH HEADED TO COURT IN KY

Mayor Jim Kalb is bound for criminal court on August 3, 2009 in Greenup County, KY

as a material witness and Ex-Mayor Greg Bauer is to appear in a civil action in United

States District Court in Ashland, Ky as a witness after the criminal case is tried.

Both cases are related to giant rock stolen in September 2007 from the Ohio River

near the Kentucky shore. Mayor Jim Kalb took possession of the stolen property and

has had it stored at the City Garage since the theft.

KALB AND BAUER HAVE SERVED NO PRISON TIME.

Both Bauer and Kalb narrowly escaped prison time when being charged with

feloniously destroying election recall petitions in 1998 and neither has yet been

indicted for assisting Clay Johnson in the swindle of $2,000,000 from the citizens

in 2002 in the fraudulent purchase of the Martings Building. This Martings crime

qualifies as a Racketeer Influenced Criminal Operation (RICO) and may yet be prosecuted.

ORIN CAMPBELL LAST CITY OFFICIAL SENT TO PRISON.

The last city official sent to prison, to my knowledge, was the likeable City

Councilman Orin Campbell. He had a reputation of being one of the few honest

councilmen at that time. Campbell was sent up to Orient in 1998 for possessing and

selling cocaine at the Ramada Inn. Inside information to us at the time told us

extra pressure was put on officials to put Campbell away, not just for dealing cocaine,

but because his sales were intruding on another cocaine dealer who regularly

operated at the Ramada.

POLICE CHIEF FIRED FOR BRIBERY, OTHER CRIMES

Many of the old-timers in Portsmouth may remember May 6 , 1962 when

Police Chief Robert M. Edwards was fired after City Manager George T. Meholick

charged him with nineteen (19) counts for taking bribes from gambling bosses

and operators of prostitution houses. The Civil Service Board upheld the firing

of Chief Edwards. I don’t remember if he went to prison.

PORTSMOUTH GETS HONEST POLICE CHIEF

Robert Edwards was replaced as Chief by Lt. Ted Wilburn,

the first black man to hold the position of Chief. The new chief vowed

he would enforce the law evenly, without regard for race. He did.

He not only upset business for the bookies at The Playhouse, but also

disrupted the all-night Saturday illegal drinking and poker games

at the City club attended by many well-known prominent bankers,

lawyers, physicians and confidence men.

NEW CHIEF WOULD NOT DISCRIMINATE

Ted Wilburn, the new Chief, was bold enough to raid the infamous

brothel (cathouse) owned by one of most socially prominent families in the city.

This well known, highly lucrative evening entertainment

business was operated by an affable gigantic black man whose

court testimony admitting he paid regular bribes to the Police

Chief had helped get Chief Robert Edwards dismissed from the force.

TWO COPS NABBED IN RAID

The raid by Wilburn and his uniformed officers netted several prominent

male members of Portsmouth’s high "society," many prostitutes, and in a

diligent search of all the playrooms, Chief Wilburn uncovered two of his own,

Portsmouth’s ‘finest’ police officers; both were entangled in sex with

naked, nubile, black ladies. All were arrested.

WILBURN TOO GOOD TO LAST IN PORTSMOUTH

With his fearless indiscriminate law enforcement Wilburn won great

publicity across many states and acceptance with his peers in other

cities and counties. He was good. He was too good to stay in Portsmouth.

The college-educated Ted Wilburn served only a short time as Chief

before accepting a job as the head of security for one the largest retail

businesses in America at a rate of more than twice that Portsmouth was paying.

Written by Austin Leedom on Monday, April 13, 2009

Mayor and news reporter in the news together.

A news writer usually reports news, but sometimes a

writer is part of the news that is reported.

By Austin Leedom, Shawnee Sentinel 9 April 2009

FRANK LEWIS, writer for the Portsmouth Daily Times, and

William Glockner will join Mayor Jim Kalb as material witnesses in

the August 3, 2009, criminal trial of Steven R. Shaffer to be held in

the Circuit Court of Greenup County, KY. Shaffer is charged

with illegally removing a historic rock from the Ohio River near

the Kentucky shore on September 7, 2007.

A petition by Kentucky Commonwealth Attorney Clifford R.

Duvall to bring Mayor Jim Kalb before the Scioto County

Common Pleas Court to compel Kalb’s attendance at the

Shaffer trial in Greenup County, KY was filed in Scioto County

Court on March 16, 2009. A hearing is to be held on

April 16, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. before Scioto County Common

Pleas Judge Howard H. Harcha III.

On Wednesday, the 8^th of April 2009 an amended petition

was filed by the Kentucky Commonwealth Attorney

adding William Glockner and Daily Times Reporter

FRANK LEWIS to the case as material witnesses.

An excellent article on this matter appeared today on the

front page in the Portsmouth Daily Times, written by PDT

Staff Writer WAYNE ALLEN.

By Austin Leedom, Shawnee Sentinel

BILL BEAUMONT – CHIEF OF CITY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

HAS BEEN FIRED BY MAYOR JIM KALB

– KALB WON’T TALK!

City Engineering Executive Terminated
By FRANK LEWIS PDT Staff Writer Portsmouth Mayor James Kalb is not talking about the

reason for the firing of one of Portsmouth’s best-known city officials. "It’s really a personnel issue,"...

http://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/

http://www.runboard.com/bmoesnewsforum.f1.t13768|offset=10

more information on Bill Beaumont

By Austin LEEDOM Tuesday, March 31, 2009

I have good reason to believe that Bill Beaumont is gone. I have made many calls to the

Mayor’s office during the past two weeks and have been unable to talk with Jim Kalb.

I have been given several answers to my requests to speak with Mayor Kalb; the answers

were such as, "The Mayor was here, but has stepped out of the office;" "The Mayor is

here but is meeting with someone, the door to his office is closed;" "Mayor Kalb will be

tomorrow after noon;" "The Mayor was here but has left for a meeting."

Today, when I asked if Bill Beaumont had been fired,

I was told by the lady Assistant Mayor,

"That is an administrative matter and I can not speak about that, I will take your

number and ask the Mayor to call you."

The Mayor did not call back. "Hmmmmm," What is going on with the Mayor?

Is he ill? He failed to show for the City Council meeting last Monday, (March 23, 2009,)

but did show up at the Conference meeting which took place after the Council

meeting was over. He did not look well at that time.

Today I received definite information from a highly reliable source and was told that

the City of Portsmouth no longer employs Bill Beaumont

Many citizens will miss Bill Beaumont. He would talk to the common people and

would give you a straight answer. He was refreshingly honest and straightforward.

After he came to work for the City I requested personal information about him, as I

do on many new public employees. There was no personnel record file for Bill

Beaumont in the Mayor’s Office. I then went to Bill Beaumont and received a

full background record (already printed out and ready for anyone who asked).

Mr. Beaumont has an excellent military record, served overseas in a critical skill,

and after his service to his nation he attended Shawnee State University, received

a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and worked as an engineer until he came

to the City of Portsmouth to head up the Engineering Department.

I’ll check the Portsmouth Daily Times hard copy tomorrow morning. The Times

reporters have been unusually good, in recent times, in getting

most of the news and getting it accurate.

Austin Leedom

Frank Lewis, PDT Reporter Article, below, 31 Mar 09

City Engineering Executive Terminated

By FRANK LEWIS

PDT Staff Writer

Portsmouth Mayor James Kalb is not talking about the reason for the firing of

one of Portsmouth’s best-known city officials.

"It’s really a personnel issue," Kalb said. "I guess my comment is ‘no comment’."

Word had reached the Portsmouth Daily Times newsroom around 2:45 p.m. Friday

that Bill Beaumont, the man over the city’s Engineering Department,

had been fired by Kalb.

Beaumont was reached by phone Friday at his office in the Engineering

Department and asked if he had, in fact, lost his job.

"I did. I was terminated this morning," Beaumont said. "So you need to talk to the mayor."

Beaumont was asked for the reason he had been terminated.

"Wait until you talk to him (Kalb). I don’t know what it is," Beaumont said as

he was preparing to leave his office — "it’s effective today," he said.

Kalb was not reachable on Friday, but made the "no statement," by phone

around 6 p.m. Monday.
Portsmouth City Service Director Chris Murphy, reached by phone, said he

knew nothing about the incident.
"All I know is that he (Beaumont) called me and said, ‘it’s been nice working

with you’," Murphy said. "When I asked him what he was talking about he said,

‘the Mayor just let me go’."Beaumont has been a fixture in the city building for

a number of years, and frequently attended Portsmouth City Council meetings.

Frank Lewis may be reached at (740) 353-3101 Ext. 232.

JIM KALB

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Read the Best of Forrey’s Stories. This is a re-run
by Dr. Robert Forrey of an article he published in 2005.
Read forthright words that testify there is no difference
between Greg Bauer, (the ex-gangster Mayor removed
by recall on 22 June 2004,) and Jim Kalb, the present
gangster Mayor. Both have danced to the same fiddler.
Citizens of Portsmouth were infuriated by the Two-million
($2,000,000) theft of city funds by RICO Gang Boss Clay
Johnson by selling the crumbling old Marting building
to the City for three times its value in May 2002.
Plus, the citizens were further aggravated when they
learned of the secretive plan to move city offices to the
Martings Building and then sell off, or giveaway, the site
where city hall now stands¸ to their"friends" for "development."
By AUSTIN LEEDOM, Saturday, March 14, 2009.
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KALB REJECTS CITIZENS AGAIN -- Mayor page

PORTSMOUTH (SCIOTOVILLE) GETS STATEWIDE
ACCLAIM AS ONE OF THE TWO TOP SCHOOLS IN OHIO.

Written by Shawnee Sentinel Writer Austin Leedom, March 2, 2009
Sciotoville Community School is a winner, one of the two best in the State.
http://www.runboard.com/bmoesnewsforum.f1.t13691 And as Moezine
writes on his forum, the top word here is Community.
The Sciotoville Community citizens have done this with a
school board that works, not for money, but only for their love of
the community and the school. The school board members receive no pay.
The only compensation they receive is the satisfaction and
pride they must feel for giving their children a superior education.
The Sciotoville Community has the honor of having one the best
schools in the State. However, the Sciotoville Community may also be
Number One as one of the two most neglected communities
in Ohio.
The citizens of Sciotoville have accomplished this marvelous
school success without, indeed, in spite of, the City Mayor and
his corrupted Council who have, for almost seven years, neglected
almost all else in the City except plans to sell off our present
City Hall site to their illicit accomplices after they move city offices
to the infamous old Martings Building.
The Sciotoville Community has long complained of neglect by
the City of Portsmouth. The Sciotoville Community is truly neglected
by Mayor Jim Kalb and the rest of City Government. But then,
most of the rest of the citizens of Portsmouth have also been
neglected.
Jeff Dempsey has been a resident of Sciotoville for his entire life
except for four years while he served with The United States
Marine Corps. He has built an excellent web site to furnish
information about, and to promote his home community.
http://sciotoville.blogspot.com
Last year when I first saw Jeff Dempsey's photos on his Blog showing
the neglect and abuse of the Portsmouth City Rose Park   in Sciotoville
I was astounded.
I had difficulty comprehending how any city Mayor, even our slothful
Jim Kalb, could subject any citizens, especially the little children who
still use this park, to play in such a disgusting, derelict,
hazardous environment.
After seeing the photos on http://sciotoville.blogspot.com
I drove to Rose Park in Sciotoville and saw conditions were even
worse than depicted by Jeff Dempsey’s website photography.
Sorry! Sad! Shameful! Conditions in Rose Park are so
appalling it is enough to make a grown old man cry tears
of anguish as he prays for his fellow citizens, especially our
little children, who through no fault of their own, must live and
play in hazardous conditions in Portsmouth.
May Eternal God have mercy on the soul of any man who neglects the children
he has sworn to serve.   You will not have forgiveness "from the beginning
of time" as Jim Kalb granted Martings Foundation/Clay Johnson for the
fraud connected with the purchase by the City of the old Martings Building
In May 2002.
Fellow Citizens, please view Rose Park and ask yourself,
"Does Mayor Jim Kalb deserve to be re-elected for four more years of
pay with continual raises for himself and four more years of
abusive discriminatory acts, higher water rates, increased
sewer fees and bigger real estate taxes for the rest of us?
Or does Jim Kalb deserve to be dealt with as a common renegade
and be given an old-time traditional special treatment and then ridden
out of town on a rail?
The present deplorable condition of Portsmouth reminds me of a 1932
Depression Era musical ditty written by an out of work railroader.
I have changed the lyrics to fit the present local city government disaster.
." Clay Johnson pulled the whistle,
   Neal Hatcher rang the bell,
Jim Kalb gave the signal,
And the City went to hell."
Written by Shawnee Sentinel Writer Austin Leedom, March 2, 2009

by Shawnee Sentinel Writer Austin Leedom, Monday, February 17, 2009
In the Special Council meeting on Wednesday, February 12, 2009
eight citizens stood and spoke about projects they felt should have
priority over a new city building. Most mentioned was the repeated
health-threatening flooding of dozens of homes with human manure,
urine, and hospital waste caused by the city’s failure to maintain our sewers.
Also the failure of our present government to maintain city streets, alleys,
signage, city parks, and recreation areas for kids were named by citizens
who felt that a new city building was not the most needed improvement
in Portsmouth.
However, Jim Kalb, as Council President, and as Mayor, has, for the past
seven years mindlessly followed the plans of super-wealthy developers
Clay Johnson and Neal Hatcher to move the city government from our present
riverfront site to the old Martings Building location so the Johnson/Hatcher
group and their associates can then take over our present city hall site for
"development" of their own personal enrichment.
Last week, after mayoral candidate Jane Murray had communicated with the
office of Senator Sherrod Brown and arranged for her friend Senator Brown
to send his agents to Portsmouth to explain the stimulus package of federal
money being released to cities across the nation a meeting was held with
Senator Brown’s grant representative and city officials.
The stimulus grant programs were explained to Portsmouth City officials
and Mayor Jim Kalb decided that renovation of the Martings Building was
the most important item in the City despite the history of the citizens
repeatedly rejecting plans to have any part of the Martings Buildings.
Twice, in citywide elections, citizens have overwhelmingly voted NO
on use of the Martings Building.
With a deadline of Thursday, February 13, 2009 to file requests for the
first stimulus grants for city funding, Mayor Jim Kalb, City Councilmen,
City Auditor Trent Williams, and City Solicitor Mike Jones met in a
special meeting on Wednesday, February 12. Council voted
4-2 to file a request for federal money to renovate the scandalous old
Martings Building so it may be used as a new city hall. Vacating our
present city hall site and moving offices to the Martings location was the
priority chosen. Solicitor Mike Jones boasted during the Special Council
meeting that he was the one who told Mayor Kalb that Mayor Kalb was
going to choose the Martings Building renovation as the top priority for
a stimulus grant. Click on link below for more ----
http://stormh2o.com/blogs/sw-editors-blog/looking-for-shovel-ready-projects-50375.aspx

DAVID MALONE to return respectability to Mayor’s Office, says Daily Times.

Keep praying, David. As you have said, "I'm only a heartbeat away" from being Mayor.

Come to City Council Meetings -See what your "Do nothing" Mayor Jim Kalb is doing.

Bring your soft drink or bottled water with you. The water fountain on this floor

at city hall has been out of service for the past eleven (11) years. In 1997 when

Jim Kalb was president of city council he told complaining citizens that he would

have the fountain quickly repaired. Throughout the past eleven years, Jim Kalb,

as President of Council and as Mayor, has given various citizens many different

excuses. He has also said fixing the water fountain was not important; people

could go downstairs to get a drink of water. This is not so good for disabled

persons, persons who need water urgently for medical purposes, nor for

prisoners under guard who many times have to wait hours to appear before

the courts.

Jim Kalb has also indicated that he does not want to fix the fountain, as it

would be too convenient for persons attending council meetings. Mayor Kalb,

Auditor Trent Williams, Councilmen Howard Baughman, David Malone, Mike

Mearan, and Jerrold Albrecht, operate best in backrooms, without witnesses.

They prefer that honest citizens don’t see and hear what they are doing.

They don’t want you in attendance at council. You might learn what they are

doing with your money.

During the hot summer months when citizens complained of poor air conditioning,

Mayor Kalb said words to this effect, “Make them (the citizens) uncomfortable;

maybe they will quit coming to our meetings.

Mayor Jim Kalb has refused to repair or replace the fountain, using the excuse,

“We are moving to the Martings Building soon and I’m not going to spend any

more money on this building.”

Reliable information recently received by the Sentinel is that Jim Kalb has

proudly boasted the water fountain was turned off by his orders,

as City Council President, in 1997.

According to our information there was nothing wrong with the water

fountain; shutting it off to discourage visitors to city council meetings is

another example of the sorry leadership performance of

Mayor Jim Kalb.

By Austin Leedom --- Sunday, November 9^th 2008

I read with amusement comments on forums and in the Portsmouth Daily Times that a Mr. Carlton Cave came to Portsmouth City Council and stated that he didn't believe that Portsmouth Mayor Jim Kalb was a racist but rather someone who didn't care about the black community in Portsmouth. How wrong you are Mr. Cave.

Portsmouth Mayor Jim Kalb was raised on Jackson Avenue in Portsmouth, Ohio. During his teenage years and into his early adult life, Mayor Kalb was a member of a gang called the Jackson Street Gang. This gang consisted of racist individuals that lived on or about Jackson Avenue in Portsmouth, Ohio. This gang swore a "lifetime oath" that they would do everything in their power to impair or destroy the lives of members of the African American Community in the Portsmouth area.

Members of the Jackson Street Gang included Jim Kalb, Bruce Kalb, (brother of the Mayor), Ron Feazell, Gary Shepherd, Larry Shepherd, Larry Huffman, Carl Bias, Scott Briggs, Ted Baer and other individuals that lived in this area of Portsmouth. These individuals would hang out around the corner of Jackson and Brown Streets on many Friday nights when football season was going on and attack automobiles driven by individuals that lived in Farley Square. Many African Americans were physically assaulted in their attempts to travel on foot to watch football games thanks to these thugs.

A review of the criminal court records in Portsmouth and Scioto County will reveal that many of these men were charged with criminal activity on numerous occasions as juveniles, teenagers, and young adults. Mayor Kalb has many arrests on his record.

How many African Americans have been hired by Mayor Kalb? It won't take long to count them up because we can't find anyone. Even contracts for minorities are contracts that were rolled over from former Mayor Greg Bauer's administration. Mayor Kalb is still honoring his lifetime commitment to his gang affiliation. While this gang was not the Bloods or the Crips they had similar values of hatred that they live by.

Is it any wonder why Mayor Kalb took back McKinley Pool and now wants to sell it off? He is honoring his commitment to his gang affiliation. What would be better than ensuring that the youth of the African American Community had no where to play this summer? Maybe Mayor Kalb is hoping that this would infuriate many of the folks that live in and around Farley Square to the point that they would move out of Portsmouth. That would be a big feather in the cap of this racist mayor.

More on Mayor Kalb's gang affiliation later.

John Welton (Doug Deepe)

Jim Kalb abused his authority when he recently ......

GROCERY CLERK/MAYOR AND ROGUE POLICE CHIEF -

WHO CAN WE TRUST? http://com2.runboard.com/bccgforum.f1.t923

Mayors going to prison in record numbers recently.

Will Jim Kalb be next?

JIM KALB CONFESSES: http://rivervices.blogspot.com/

Meeting Monday 14 July 08 - Corrupt Mayor Jim Kalb and four councilmen

continue work to sell off our city hall site to racketeer developers.

Councilmen Albrecht, Baughman, Malone and Mearan preparing to

put severe property tax increase on citizens to benefit special interests.

'DO-NOTHING MAYOR’ RIGHT ON SCHEDULE'

Thursday, June 3, 2008

Mayor Jim Kalb is to begin to prepare McKinley Pool for the swimming

season that traditionally (before he was Mayor) began on Memorial

Day. In an article by T. W. Allen, on the front-page of Portsmouth Daily

Times on June 2, 2008, it was reported that “According to city service

director Chris Murphy, the department has been planning to renovate the

pool for the past year.”

As you may remember the pool was opened several weeks late last year.

At that time the Mayor and his service director suggested selling the pool,

plus three city parks. This idea was rejected by City Council after nearly

a score of residents protested at a council meeting.

This year funds were made available for renovation of the pool in February.

This is now June and according to Reporter Allen’s article bid notices are

out. After bid opening on the 20^th of June work which is estimated to take three

weeks may begin.

Reasonably this project should have begun two or three

months ago, but Kalb is unable or unwilling to fulfill his duties.

Many people are asking the question, “What has Mayor Kalb done for the

people of Portsmouth?” You know the answer; he has done little, so very little

that many citizens long for a return of ex-Mayor Greg Bauer. Kalb has made

the recalled Mayor look good.

A bigger, more important question is, “What has the Mayor done for wealthy developers?”

Written by AustinLeedom – June 3, 2008

It is official. Steven Shaffer was indicted this morning by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Class D Felony for the theft of Indian Head rock. Last edited by Russ Cooper, 6/19/2008, 11:27 am

MAYOR WILL GO TO KENTUCKY IN ROCK CASE

Kentucky Commonwealth's Attorney Cliff Duvall represented Kentucky and

Portsmouth City Solicitor Mike Jones represented Mayor Jim Kalb in a

hearing Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 2:30 p.m. in Scioto County Common Pleas

courtroom in the matter of Mayor Jim Kalb and William Glockner as

material witnesses in Greenup County, Kentucky Grand Jury action reference

the Indian Head Rock.

SCIOTO COUNTY JUDGE WILLIAM T. MARSHALL RULED

PORTSMOUTH MAYOR JIM KALB AND WILLIAM GLOCKNER

WILL RESPOND TO KENTUCKY SUBPOENA TO APPEAR TO

TESTIFY BEFORE THE KENTUCKY GRAND JURY WHEN NOTIFIED.

KALB ABUSED HIS AUTHORITY WHEN HE

attempted retaliation by using city workers unlawfully against a citizen who caused a felony charge to be placed against Kalb in August, 1999.

Kalb escaped prison time when City Solicitor David Kuhn and County

Prosecuting Attorney Lynn Grimshaw refused to prosecute Kalb for

mutilating election petitions.

(Both prosecutors have since been voted out of office.) Breaking news--Past crimes of Mayor Jim Kalb to be exposed plus recent criminal violations against citizens.--------

MARTING’S AMENDMENT PASSED AS AN EMERGENCY MEASURE ON MONDAY, 24 MARCH, 2008 BY CITY COUNCIL IS A VIOLATION OF CITY CHARTER RULES.

This action by Council was secretive, like the purchase of the Martings Building, (valued at $762,000) in May 2002 for $2,000,000 was passed as an “emergency” ordinance. Was this ordinance secretive, too? Think about it, this ordinance was not made public or seen by any members of the public and was not read in its fullness at the Council meeting on 24 March 2008.

The citizens of Portsmouth, including the ones at the Council meeting had no way to know what this Ordinance contained. Now it is law and is a step in the fulfillment of the plans of identified developers, the Mayor and possibly four councilmen who want to sell or giveaway our finest building site in the city to the greedy gang who has been controlling our Mayors and most of our councilpersons for too many years.

Why were the four councilmen in such a hurry to pass this ordinance? Were they fearful that the citizens would raise a great outcry and spoil their plans?

There was no emergency; such a vote was wrongful. Court action will likely follow. Already drastic actions against the council have been proposed by aggravated citizens who have likened the action by the council

as tyrannical and more fitting to a Nazi regime than to a democracy.

Many citizens are angered that a similar Martings Ordinance that was overturned by a 2006 popular vote of the electors by a 70-30 percent margin only two years ago with a referendum action has been ignored by the City Council. In the successful referendum the voters of the city ruled that no further action be taken on the renovation of the Martings Building unless it was brought to a popular vote of the electors and approved.

Filed under: Jim Kalb, Uncategorized — tkm March 10, 2008 @ 0:1 am

Recently, at a chiropractor’s waiting room, I ran into Mayor Jim Kalb, Portsmouth’s

worst pain in the neck. I asked him if he was in any pain. He said if he could stop me

from coming to City Council meetings, maybe neither of us would need to see a chiropractor.

I asked him about being subpoenaed by Greenup County to testify about the Indian Head

Rock he had stolen from Kentucky. A lady sitting next to me suggested breaking the rock

in half, with each state getting half. That might work if Kalb didn’t have rocks in his head.

I told him to just give the rock back and quit embarrassing our city. He said defiantly he was

going to display the rock in the Marting building after it was turned into city offices. I said that

citizens of Portsmouth had already voted by a two to one margin against turning Marting’s into

city offices and that he should be trying to get the city’s money back from the Marting Foundation

to pay to tear the building down.

Kalb said his blood pressure was rising as a result of talking to me. His voice was also rising,

so I asked him to tone it down. He was embarrassing the city not only by stealing a historic rock

but also by raising his voice in a public waiting room. Where did he think he was, at a City

Council meeting? He moved on to the subject of Ohio’s Sunshine Laws, claiming that my husband

Bob was violating those laws by closing his letters to Kalb by saying, “If you have any further questions

contact me.” I pointed out that he still does not understand the Sunshine Laws. He still does not

understand why he and Clay Johnson and the City Council were ruled by Judge Marshall to have

violated the Sunshine Laws when they met in groups of three to hatch the Marting scam. I had to

end our conversation, because it was my turn to see the chiropractor. I was glad to get some

relief from Portsmouth’s worst pain in the neck.

Copied to this page on Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Austin Leedom

Word on street is there will be more arrests regarding city property. Who is charge of

city property; who does the annual check on city assets? Is the Mayor himself

involved in missing city property? Will the Mayor and the Auditor investigate?

How many city employees involved?

23 March 2008 by Austin Leedom

Portsmouth Municipal Court
Information on criminal case number 0800397

Click here for docket entries
Party Involved
Defendant's Name: Payton, Roy E Jr A.K.A.: Address: 13391 St Rt 139 City/State/ZIP: Minford, Oh 45653 Telephone #: Confidential	Social Security #: Confidential # of Priors: Warrant(s): None Active T.P.O.s: None Date of Birth: Confidential
Complainant/Officer
Name: Dawes Agency Code: State Of Ohio (Pd)	Unit Number: D.B.A.: Ppd
Violation Information
File Date: 03/03/2008 Ticket Number: Violation Date: 02-29-2008 Violation Description: Tamper W/Eviden	Section #: 2921.12A1 Degree: 3rd Degree Felony Points: Waive Amount:
Hearing Information
Hearing Date: 03/07/2008 Hearing Time: 11:00 AM Hearing Type: P

I don't like to post rumors and maybe someone more in the know at the city can add to the real story.
Perhaps the Mayor will make a public statement ? Neighbor to a Portsmouth city worker told of police

cleaning out his garage today and removing about two trailer loads of city property including the trailer.
Maybe he was just storing it for the Mayor or he was going to take it to a city project.

Will the news media release the reports since he's close to the top man in the city ?
This may be a misunderstanding but he was recently arrested on a drug charge as well,

and that's public record. Interesting to see if the PDT's will shy away from this story since

they got a lot of heat out of the NO SALT STORY. I do remember a copper removal story done

by a couple city workers that never made the paper as well ? or I might of missed it by

being out of town. Tell us more please PDT's we want to know the whole story we are big kids now.

2/29/2008, 11:30 pm

D O C K E T S H E E T

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Mar 1, 2008 Scioto County, Portsmouth Ohio Page 1
12:39 am Mildred E. Thompson
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
D O C K E T S H E E T for 07CR001200
OHIO vs. ROY E (JR) PAYTON
________________________________________________________________________________
Date Filed: 11/26/07 Style: ST VS. ROY E. PAYTON, JR
Judge : 1

Action : DECEP TO OBTAIN DANG DRUG
________________________________________________________________________________
Judge William T. Marshall Judge

Plaintiff 1 Attorney
Pty 1 OHIO KUHN, MARK E
602 7TH ST - RM 310
PORTSMOUTH OH 45662

Defendant 1 Attorney 740 353-1800 Gen
740 354-4308 Fax
Pty 2 PAYTON, ROY E (JR) MARSHALL, JR, J B
117 GLOVER STREET 717 WASHINGTON STREET
PORTSMOUTH OH 45662 PORTSMOUTH, OHIO 45662

TRNSCRPT # S07CRA-2758
D.O.B. 11/25/64

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11/26/07 TRANSCRIPT
TRANSCRIPT FROM MUNICIPAL COURT
CRA 0702758; DECEPTION TO OBTAIN DANGEROUS DRUG (F4) -
SECTION 2925.22(A)
DEFT HELD UNDER BOND OF $2,500. S/0 (COPY ATTACHED)
COURT APPOINTED ATTY J.B.MARSHALL, JR AS COUNSEL
BCI PRINTS ATTACHED
12/20/07 INDICTMENT
INDICTMENT FILED
DECEPTION TO OBTAIN DANGEROUS DRUG (F4) - SECTION 2925.22(A)
(B)(1)
12/20/07 ISSUANCE
ISSUED SUMMONS ON INDICTMENT TO SCIOTO CO SHERIFF. HEARING
ON JANUARY 9,2008 @ 8:30 AM BEFORE JUDGE WILLIAM T.
MARSHALL
01/02/08 SERVICE
SHERIFF'S RETURN FILED. SERVED
SUMMONS ON INDICTMENT ON 12/31/07 BY PERSONAL SERVICE BY
TERRY
01/08/08 FILING
NOTICE OF HEARING.
ARRAIGNMENTS ON 1/9/08 AT 8:30 AM BEFORE JUDGE WILLIAM T.
MARSHALL
01/09/08 BOND
ARRAIGNMENT AND BOND ENTRY: THE DEFT APPEARED BEFORE THE
COURT AND WAS REPRESENTED BY
ATTY J.B. MARSHALL
AS COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT. THE DEFT ENTERED A PLEA OF
NOT GUILTY. BOND IS CONTINUED
285/274
01/09/08 CR
DEFENDANTS REQUEST FOR DISCOVERY
01/09/08 CR
DEFTS REQUEST FOR BILL OF PARTICULARS
01/16/08 FILING
BILL OF PARTICULARS FILED BY
(STATE)
01/23/08 ST RESPONS
STATES RESPONSE TO DEFTS REQUEST FOR DISCOVERY
& RECIPROCAL REQUEST FOR DISCOVERY
01/28/08 FILING
NOTICE OF HEARING.
PRETRIAL CRIMINAL ON 2/7/08 AT 2:15 PM BEFORE JUDGE HOWARD
H. HARCHA, III.
02/11/08 FILING
NOTICE OF HEARING.
PRETRIAL CRIMINAL ON 2/21/08 AT 11:30 AM BEFORE JUDGE
HOWARD H. HARCHA, III.
02/28/08 FILING
NOTICE OF HEARING.
PRETRIAL CRIMINAL ON 3/20/08 AT 10:30 AM BEFORE JUDGE
HOWARD H. HARCHA, III.
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Roundtable CCG Teresa Mollette
Police "CRIME RULES THE CITY" - Roundtable CCG
Read "PAY FOR PROTECTION- by Teresa Mollette -28Nov07

FREE PRESS SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

Mayor Kilpatrick, chief of staff lied under oath, text messages show

Romantic exchanges undercut denials

BY JIM SCHAEFER and M.L. ELRICK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS COPYRIGHT ©2008, DETROIT FREE PRESS • January 24, 2008

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff lied about their relationship last summer at a police whistle-blower trial that has cost the cash-strapped city more than $9 million, according to records obtained by the Free Press.

The false testimony potentially exposes them to felony perjury charges, legal experts say.

Kilpatrick and chief of staff Christine Beatty denied during testimony in August that they had a sexual relationship. But the records, a series of text messages, show them engaged in romantic banter as well as planning and recounting sexual liaisons.

The messages are also at odds with the pair's trial testimony that they did not fire Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown in 2003, an ouster that led him to sue. The text messages show Beatty recalling the "decision that we made to fire Gary Brown."

The newspaper examined nearly 14,000 text messages on Beatty's city-issued pager. The exchanges, which the Free Press obtained after the trial, cover two months each in 2002 and 2003.

The Kilpatrick-Beatty relationship and Brown's dismissal were central to the whistle-blower suit filed by Brown and Harold Nelthrope, a former police officer and mayoral bodyguard. The two cops accused Kilpatrick of retaliating against them because of their roles in an internal affairs investigation of the mayor's security team -- a probe that potentially could have exposed the affair.

The Free Press sought interviews with Kilpatrick and Beatty, but they declined.

Late Wednesday, the mayor released a statement that said the text messages were "profoundly embarrassing" and "reflect a very difficult period" in his life.

"My wife and I worked our way through these intensely personal issues years ago," he wrote.

The mayor's statement did not address his or Beatty's trial testimony.

The text messages cover a range of issues, from the daily minutiae of city business to political gossip to the latest doings on "American Idol." Kilpatrick and Beatty, both 37, exchanged personal messages almost daily, including romantic notes.

"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.

"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty answered. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"

Other texts contain sexual content, like this exchange on April 8, 2003:

Beatty: "And, did you miss me, sexually?"

Kilpatrick: "Hell yeah! You couldn't tell. I want some more. "

SkyTel, the Mississippi-based company that provided text devices to the city, confirmed the existence of messages to the Free Press.

The city has tried since 2004 to keep the text messages under wraps. It fought in court to keep them from being provided to the legal team for the former cops and went to court this month in an effort to kill a subpoena issued in a Free Press suit to learn more about the settlement.

If Kilpatrick and Beatty are found to have committed perjury, they could face up to 15 years in prison under state law.

Peter Henning, a professor of criminal law at Wayne State University, said "there is a basis to raise a question whether this is perjury." He added that proving perjury is difficult. "It's rare that you get a question that is so clear that it is obviously perjury," he said.

He added that prosecutors may initiate an investigation on their own.

Maria Miller, a spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, declined comment Wednesday.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Callahan, who oversaw the whistle-blower trial, was shown excerpts of text messages Wednesday. It was the first time he had seen them.

He said he is unlikely to take action, given that the case has been settled, but would cooperate if a prosecutor decides to investigate.

"If it happened during the case, they would feel the fury of my wrath, but it's over," Callahan said. "Now, I wish I had seen the messages."

Kilpatrick, a lawyer, could also face discipline if the state Attorney Discipline Board finds he lied in court.

Lying under oath is one of the worst sins a lawyer can commit -- akin to stealing a client's money, legal experts said.

"It's literally the equivalent of the death penalty for a law license," said Michael Schwartz, former administrator of the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission, which investigates lawyers.

The head of the grievance commission, Robert Agacinski, declined to say Wednesday if he would investigate.

Beatty, a Wayne State law student, may face hurdles to obtaining a law license if she lied to or deceived a court.

Mike Stefani, the lawyer for the former cops, said he was not surprised the mayor's testimony was contradicted by the text messages.

"I know he perjured himself," Stefani said. "And I was maintaining that throughout the trial."

Taxpayers hit

The costly settlement of the whistle-blower suit was a financial blow to a city that is struggling to provide services to residents and is selling assets to raise money.

Kilpatrick balked at early efforts to settle the 2003 suit and continued to fight even after his attorneys learned in 2004 that the damaging messages might eventually surface in the case.

In June of that year, a mediation panel urged the city to pay Brown and Nelthrope $2.25 million to drop the suits. The city and Kilpatrick rejected the recommendation. So did the cops, although Stefani, their lawyer, said the city never made a settlement offer over the next three years.

At the trial last summer, the mayor and Beatty denied a romantic relationship. Both were married at the time of the text messages; Beatty later divorced.

Stefani asked Beatty the following question when she was on the stand Aug. 28:

"During the time period 2001 to 2003, were you and Mayor Kilpatrick either romantically or intimately involved with each other?"

Rolling her eyes, Beatty answered: "No."

Kilpatrick testified for more than three hours the next day.

Stefani asked him: "Mayor Kilpatrick, during 2002 and 2003 were you romantically involved with Christine Beatty?"

Kilpatrick's response: "No."

The messages show otherwise: They arranged trysts in area hotels and on business trips and exchanged messages that were unmistakably sexual.

The Free Press is not publishing some of those exchanges because of their explicit nature.

"I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days," the mayor wrote on Oct. 16, 2002. "Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."

During the trial, Kilpatrick bristled when testifying about speculation that he and Beatty were lovers.

"I think it was pretty demoralizing to her -- you have to know her -- but it's demoralizing to me as well," he said. "My mother is a congresswoman. There have always been strong women around me. My aunt is a state legislator. I think it's absurd to assert that every woman that works with a man is a whore. I think it's disrespectful not just to Christine Beatty but to women who do a professional job that they do every single day. And it's also disrespectful to their families as well."

Times of conflict

The dates covered by the text messages are significant because they surround two controversial periods of the mayor's first term in office.

The first batch -- September through October 2002 -- book-ends the purported date of a never-proven wild party at the Manoogian Mansion, the city's mayoral residence. Nelthrope mentioned rumors of strippers and an assault at the alleged party to internal affairs investigators. The second batch -- April-May 2003 -- covers the weeks before and after Brown's ouster as head of internal affairs. Brown had wanted to investigate Nelthrope's allegations.

The text messages suggest Kilpatrick and Beatty intended to fire Brown, even though they and their lawyers said in court they meant only to remove him from his post overseeing internal affairs.

"He was not fired," Kilpatrick testified. "My understanding is he could go back to lieutenant ... but I think Mr. Brown chose to retire."

The text messages, however, use "fire" to describe Brown's departure. On May 15, 2003, Beatty wrote to Kilpatrick: "I'm sorry that we are going through this mess because of a decision that we made to fire Gary Brown. I will make sure that the next decision is much more thought out. Not regretting what was done at all. But thinking about how we can do things smarter."

Kilpatrick replied: "It had to happen though. I'm all the way with that!"

Personal history

Beatty and Kilpatrick have been friends since attending Detroit Cass Technical High School together in the mid-1980s. Beatty has run all of his election campaigns, including his winning bid for state representative in 1996. He has praised her as an indefatigable and tough negotiator who helped the city wrest concessions from labor unions.

But she has also been a source of controversy. One notable example came in 2004, after Detroit police pulled her over for allegedly speeding.

The cops say she pointedly asked them: "Do you know who the (expletive) I am?" before calling Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings. Beatty later acknowledged calling the chief from her cell phone, but denied pulling rank on the officers. She was never ticketed.

Kilpatrick also has been a longtime friend of Lou Beatty, who was married to Christine Beatty until their 2006 divorce.

At the trial in the whistle-blower suit, Kilpatrick testified: "Lou Beatty grew up three houses down from me. We played on the same Little League team. He played football with me, yes, at Cass Tech. ... At 6 o'clock he'll be coaching my sons."

In Washington

In 2002, among their intimate text conversations, Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty planned a clandestine meeting in the mayor's Washington hotel room during the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference.

Beatty asked the mayor, on Sept. 12, 2002, if she could "come and lay down in your room until you get back?"

The next morning Kilpatrick, referring to his bodyguards, wrote: "They were right outside the door. They had to have heard everything."

Beatty replied: "So we are officially busted!"

"Damn that," Kilpatrick responded. "Never busted. Busted is what you see!"

The text traffic appears to lend credence to allegations made by Walt Harris, a former mayoral bodyguard who filed his own whistle-blower suit. Harris said he was punished for supporting Nelthrope's reports of wrongdoing by Kilpatrick and his bodyguards.

His lawsuit claimed, among other things, that Beatty met alone with the mayor in Kilpatrick's hotel room during the Washington trip in 2002.

Kilpatrick later told reporters Harris was making up stories to get money from the city.

On May 14, 2003, Kilpatrick and Beatty traded text messages about another late-night tryst in a Washington hotel. The next day, Kilpatrick stood on the steps of the Manoogian Mansion and spoke of his devotion to family and God amid a frenzy of news reports that Brown was fired for looking into rumors of the Manoogian party.

The verdict

In September, a Wayne County jury concluded Brown and Nelthrope were victims of retaliation and found in their favor, awarding Brown $3.9 million and Nelthrope $2.6 million.

Kilpatrick's public response was: "I'm absolutely blown away at this decision, and I know Detroiters are, too."

The next morning, on Sept. 12, Kilpatrick told a WJLB-FM (97.9) radio audience why he had refused to settle the case.

"I thought that the people of the city of Detroit needed to have an opportunity to hear the truth, they needed to see me sit in the chair," he said. "They saw that." He vowed an appeal.

Then, in October, Kilpatrick abruptly settled the case, as well as the suit brought by Harris, for a combined $8.4 million. Legal costs have pushed the total to more than $9 million.

"Since the verdict," Kilpatrick told residents in a statement, "I've listened to pastors, business leaders and so many Detroiters who genuinely love and care about me and this city. I've humbly concluded that a settlement ... is the correct decision for my family and the entire Detroit community."

Kilpatrick's decision to settle pleased Detroit City Council members, who swiftly approved the deal.

Harris received $400,000. Records show Kilpatrick could have settled that case two years ago for $100,000 -- but he rejected the mediators' recommendation.

Because they were sued in their roles as city officials, Kilpatrick and Beatty did not personally have to pay the costs from the $9-million legal fight.

Contact JIM SCHAEFER at 313-223-4542 or jschaefer@freepress.com. Contact M.L. ELRICK at 313-222-6582 or mlelrick@freepress.com. Staff writers David Ashenfelter, Zachary Gorchow and Todd Spangler contributed to this report

Slipping on the streets
By Frank Lewis
PDT Staff Writer
Published:
Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:42 PM CST
There is absolutely no excuse for the streets in the city of Portsmouth not being maintained when snow and ice storms hit.

In recent days, and again Friday morning, I had the same experience - an experience shared by a lot of other people.

I first drove that morning on my township road, and it was clear. I then drove through Sciotoville, and the roads were covered with ice. I hit U.S. 52, and it was clear. When I entered New Boston, I noticed it too, had been taken care of. But that's when the pleasant experience ended and the nightmare began.

As soon as I crossed the city limits into Portsmouth, I encountered ice.

I began to slide all over the place. I pulled up on 10th Street, got out of my car and couldn't walk across the street without slipping.

When I got to the Portsmouth Municipal Building, again, nothing had been done to the sidewalks. They were a sheet of ice.

When I stopped at Crispie Creme, Jeanie told me customers had been talking for days about how Portsmouth does not take care of its streets when everyone else does.

She said, "I live in Wheelersburg, and it was clear this morning. But when I got to town, I couldn't believe the difference."

When I got to the newsroom, one of the women in the sales department was walking in the building. "Can you believe these streets? It sure is a lot clearer in West Portsmouth," she said.

It all took me back to a story Ryan Ottney wrote a week ago, when the city told him right in the middle of a winter storm they ran out of salt. How do you do that when you know winter brings hazardous conditions? You do something called "prepare."

It's embarrassing to have people come to this city and see the condition of our streets in the winter.

Every morning, people are arraigned in municipal court, and these people walk on the same sidewalks

I was slipping and sliding on. I am sure city officials know all it takes is one slip, and a lawsuit will be filed before they hit the pavement.

Just as it is time to get busy making a decision on a new city building, it is time to start taking care of our streets.

Speaking of streets, here are two more experiences I have had on area streets lately.

I was southbound on Chillicothe Street and right in front of National City Bank, where I wanted to go. Guess how you get to their drive-thru from right in front of the bank?

You go what is equal to two blocks to Fourth Street, then turn left and travel to Gay Street. Drive a block to Gallia Street, turn left, and drive another block to the parking lot and drive-thru window.

By the way, I tried the alley, but there was a Dumpster right in the middle of the alley forbidding any traffic from passing through.

The other recent experience was timing the light on U.S. 52 east, at the entrance to Wal-Mart. Anyone want to guess what the length of time for a green light on one of the area's major thoroughfares is? The answer is 20 seconds. So if you put it into perspective, traffic is stopped on U.S. 52 east every 20 seconds. Does that make any sense?

We need to return to some semblance of flow and access on area roadways.

Those who set the rules, those who decide the length of traffic lights and those who, in this case, don't clear ice from city streets, need to remember it's the guy behind the wheel of the car footing the bill for it all.

How about some consideration?

FRANK LEWIS can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232.

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Reader opposes property tax increase
Published: By PDT originally
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:38 PM CST
Homeowners, hold onto your easy chair! If you haven't
noticed your 2007 property tax bill yet, hold on tight,
there's more to come.

A just-completed property tax assessment will hike your
property tax 10 to 15 percent for many, but may vary on
a case-by-case basis.
And if you've built an addition or a garage, this will
affect your percentage increase, as well.

If this isn't enough bad news, and if Portsmouth City
Council has its way, there will be another large
property-tax increase added to your home, sweet home.
Council is planning to ramrod a $10-million to
$14-million city building down our already depleting
tax base and slumping market without any say or vote
from us, the property owners. Council members apparently don't realize the whole country is facing a recession.

More than 50 percent of property in Portsmouth is in
the hands of landlords who only will pass any tax
increase along to their tenants - many of whom are
government subsidized or who pay only a small
percentage of their rent. Here, the taxpayer pays again
for the tax increase.

In a recent article in the Portsmouth Daily Times,
it was reported Scioto County has the second highest
percentage of people living in poverty in Ohio -
25.3 percent. Of course, this includes the city of
Portsmouth.

In a recent City Council meeting, it became clear to
members their only solution to bail themselves out of
their poor management skills is to go after those who
are trying to make an honest living or to be a proud
city homeowner.

Instead of looking for ways to cut costs like many of
us have to do to make ends meet, they are talking of
income-tax increases and placing more property taxes
on homeowners for their own self-serving, selfish egos.

Councils seem to be under the impression citizens are
in favor of them sitting in a new, plush city hall,
while the rest of the city turns into filthy slums.

This new city hall tax will be placed on us without
a vote from the citizens, much like the Marting's building

purchase was assessed to our property tax without a vote.

If you haven't kept up on it, the city's latest,
sneaky fee increase of a 3-percent water rate hike
for all users, and a 3-percent increase for sewage
users amounts to a 6-percent increase. This increase
was placed in the 2008 budget by your Mayor (James)
Kalb, in which he also included himself a 12-percent
pay raise, which amounts to about $7,000 a year.

Remember, your Mayor Kalb still works elsewhere, too,
and also is earning his full retirement while he
drives a city car to work using the city's gas
credit card.

Let's not forget the fact he wanted to close McKinley
Pool, as well as sell some of the city parks, while
our children wander the streets with nothing to do.
No wonder Portsmouth has become what it is.

Remember all the mayor's requests - not for
playgrounds, but for a new SUV, 100% paid health
insurance and now a big new high-rise office in
a new city building just to satisfy his over-inflated
ego, while the city is being taken over by drug
dealers and prostitutes. Taxes and rate increases
are his only accomplishments while in office.

I think of those on fixed incomes, who must do without
some essentials just to pay their taxes or lose
everything they've worked all their lives for.

There still will be hope if homeowners stand
together and say we've had enough, make the city
tighten its belt like poor citizens who are
struggling to survive. Make that phone call,
write your representative, call the mayor's office.
Unless you do, they will continue to think you're
happy to pay more taxes and just keep adding more.
Are you happy to pay more taxes? It's better to work
against bad management and unfair taxation than be buried with it.

Harald Daub
Portsmouth

KALB'S "CONTRACT ON PORTSMOUTH "
Mearan warns citizens they have only one month left before Clay Johnson
enforces Mayor Kalb's contract for Clay to keep all of the Two Million
Dollars he stole from us if City doesn't have plan to use Marting Building
and/or the Adelphia building for city use.
The contract stipulates Clay must appove any plan they offer. Give it thirty days
and you will learn why Clay Johson had Mike Mearan installed as appointed
First Ward Councilman and head of Citizens Building Committee. You will be
surprised and angry; Kalb no longer has former Solicitor David Kuhn to
hide behind.
RECALL TIME. PAST TIME TO REMOVE CITY CHARTER.
Written by Austin Leedom, 31 January, 2008
ANGRY AND DISGUSTED CITIZENS SPEAK AT COUNCIL MEETING
Written by Austin Leedom 30 January, 2008

Heartland Publications

Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT)

Glockner's

Is this man the city employee who has been
a close associate and supporter of Jim Kalb?

Hearing scheduled for 7/
Feb/08
D O C K E T S H E E T

________________________________________________________________________________
Feb 4, 2008 Scioto County, Portsmouth Ohio Page 1
2:22 am Mildred E. Thompson
           Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
           D O C K E T S H E E T for 07CR001200
           OHIO vs. ROY E (JR) PAYTON
________________________________________________________________________________
Date Filed: 11/26/07 Style: ST VS. ROY E. PAYTON, JR
           Judge : 1

Action : DECEP TO OBTAIN DANG DRUG
________________________________________________________________________________
Judge William T. Marshall Judge

Plaintiff 1 Attorney
Pty 1 OHIO KUHN, MARK E
           602 7TH ST - RM 310
           PORTSMOUTH OH 45662

Defendant 1 Attorney 740 353-1800 Gen
           740 354-4308 Fax
Pty 2 PAYTON, ROY E (JR) MARSHALL, JR, J B
           117 GLOVER STREET 717 WASHINGTON STREET
           PORTSMOUTH OH 45662 PORTSMOUTH, OHIO 45662

           TRNSCRPT # S07CRA-2758
           D.O.B. 11/25/64
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IS A STOLEN ROCK A PROPER TEACHING AID FOR INSTRUCTING OUR CHILDREN?

By Austin Leedom
According to an article by FRANK LEWIS published in the
Portsmouth Daily Times on Monday, February 4, 2008,
State Representative TODD BOOK spoke with Scioto County School
superintendents on Friday, February 1, 2008 at the Scudder building and
recommended using the notorious stolen eight ton rock, recently taken
without permission out of the Ohio River in Kentucky, as a History
teaching tool. Several superintendents agreed with Mr. Book.
Many citizens disagree believing it would be morally damaging to have
students using an item Kentucky state officials declare STOLEN.
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Mayor Receiving stolen property--

Mayor Jim Kalb recently received an 8-ton rock
stolen from State of Kentucky by local Ohio men. Ancient historical
boulder removed from river near Kentucky shore. Kentucky officials
want their rock back . They have suggested raid on Portsmouth.
Mearan warns citizens they have only one month left before Clay Johnson
enforces Mayor Kalb's contract for Clay to keep all of the Two Million
Dollars he stole from us if City doesn't have plan to use Marting Building
and/or the Adelphia building for city use.
The contract stipulates Clay must appove any plan they offer. Give it thirty days and you will learn why Clay Johson had Mike Mearan installed as appointed First Ward Councilman and head of Citizens Building Committee.. You will be surprised and angry; Kalb no longer has former Solicitor David Kuhn to hide behind.

RECALL TIME FOR KALB, BAUGHMAN AND MALONE.

Mearan warns citizens they have only one month left before Clay Johnson enforces
Mayor Kalb's contract for Clay to keep all of the Two Million Dollars he stole
from us if City doesn't have plan to use Marting Building and/or the Adelphia a building for city use.
The contract stipulates Clay must appove any plan they offer. Give it thirty days and you will learn

why Clay Johson had Mike Mearan installed as appointed First Ward Councilman and head of

Citizens Building Committee.

You will be surprised and angry; Kalb no longer has former Solicitor David Kuhn to hide behind.
RECALL TIME FOR KALB, BAUGHMAN AND MALONE.
Written by Austin Leedom, 31 January, 2008
Comparison of County Court House and City Hall.

By Austin Leedom, January 25, 2008
On Wednesday night, 23 January, 2008 I attended the inquiry into the
qualifications of Democratic Party Sheriff Candidate Ken Reed by the
Scioto County Board of Elections on the second floor of the County
Courthouse. New Boston Police Officer Ken Reed was approved
as qualified to be a Candidate.

Upon entering the courthouse I found the lovely interior was
clean and gleaming. The floors were a polished,shining pleasure
to behold. The walls were sparkling clean and appeared to have
been freshly painted. The image I perceived spoke of capable
management, pride by county officials and employees in their
stewardship of our magnificent building and gave forth an atmosphere
of dignity and responsibility.

I was impressed that appearance of the Courthouse interior is so sadly
different from the Portsmouth City Hall where the interior is depressing,
and nasty dirty. Floor tiles are missing, walls have been crudely patched;
the stairways are a horror to behold with plaster falling from the walls and
ceiling and electrical and communication wiring hanging helter-skelter.

During a break in the three-hour proceedings I went to the Men’s
Room on the second floor of the couthouse, an area I had not visited for
several months. I found this rest room spotlessly clean and all equipment
clean and working properly and generous paper supplies.

After leaving the restroom I went to the second-floor water fountain
on the north side of the building. The water fountain was clean and
working properly. The water was pleasantly cold. At the stairwell I
noticed that yellow safety ribbons barred access to the stairs from the
second floor to the third floor. I looked closer and found a heavy
substantial platform had been installed above me in the stair-well.
I then learned that the Commissioners were having building maintenance
work performed in this area.

Again I thought of our deliberately neglected city building that has no
maintenance program, insufficient personnel to clean the floors and rest
rooms properly and our corrupted city officials who have no pride,
no responsibility in the condition or appearance of our building.

I also thought of the two Municipal Courtrooms on the third floor.
The condition of the Courtroom on the south side of the building is
enough of a disgrace to disgust the average citizen, but the Courtroom
on the north side of the building is tragic in appearance.

In this Municipal Courtroom the Honorable Judge Russell Kegley
holds court. Here the plaster has peeled away from the walls and ceiling from
leaks in the roof that were intentionally not repaired for several years.

The leaks have been stopped, but neither the Council nor Mayor Kalb have
any intention to better the condition of this Courtroom despite an appearance
by the Honorable Judge Kegley before the Council three years ago when he
implored the officials to improve the Municipal Courtroom. His requests
were ignored by the Mayor and five of the six councilmen. The Judge was
accorded the same of lack of respect that most citizens receive. The Judge
was treated the same as any tramp off the street; This is wrong.

A better atmosphere of dignity should be attained. The Judge deserves this
and the citizens deserve a proper courtroom. The present condition is an
undesirable, improper tribulation for the Honorable Judge Kegley and is an
embarrassment to the State of Ohio, the City of Portsmouth and to the
citizens of our City. Even the cuffed and shackled prisoners sitting
on the benches awaiting their turn before the bar of justice decry the
dirty, unpleasant surroundings, The prisoners deserve better. They, nor
any other citizen can even get a drink of water on the third floor. The
water fountain has not been in working order for over ten years.

A few thousand dollars could restore the woodwork on the walls of the
Courtroom and the ceiling and walls could be re-plastered and painted.
A new carpet could be placed on the floor to replace the filthy, ancient
rug now covering the floor. The courtroom could be attractive and clean,
but Mayor Jim Kalb refuses. He has said, “I don’t intend to spend any
more money on this building; we will be moving out soon to a new building.”

The neglect of our city building is more than irresponsible; it is criminal.

Next, we will bring you photos of this sickening building, plus photos of
those responsible plus the inside reasons for the deliberate neglect and the
plans of the evil ones who will profit.
Written by Austin Leedom, January 25, 2008.

The article below was written by Teressa K. Mollette and was copied by Austin Leedom from Roundtable CCG
Mayor Jim Kalb: A Fool and a Tool
Filed under: Jim Kalb, Uncategorized — tkm January 17, 2008 @ 19:0 pm
As was evident at the January 14, 2008, Portsmouth City Council meeting, Mayor Kalb continues to blame others for the city’s financial difficulties instead of doing his homework on how to successfully manage a budget; click the 1-14-08 Council Meeting video of Mayor Kalb on the following link http://portsmouthcitizens.info/blog/?page_id=47.

It is no secret that I have a low opinion of Kalb’s ability to run the city and sometimes wonder how he ever kept a fulltime stock boy job at Kroger’s. But it may come as a surprise to most people to learn that perhaps the most influential and wealthiest person in Portsmouth, C. Clayton Johnson, doesn’t think much more of Kalb’s abilities than I do.
On Wednesday, October 24th, 2007, my husband Bob and I were eating lunch at Williams Restaurant on Chillicothe Street, and we were seated next to C. Clayton Johnson and his guest from out of town. We recognized Johnson, but based on the content of his conversation with his guest, in a voice loud enough for others in the restaurant to hear, he obviously didn’t recognize us. At least I don’t think he would have dared to express the opinions he did if he knew the woman sitting at the next table next to him was Teresa Mollette, who was responsible for getting his sale of the Marting building to the city invalidated in the courts.
During this lunch I overhead some very critical opinions expressed by Johnson about Portsmouth, about Mayor Kalb, and about others. I am not sure who Johnson’s younger guest was, but he might have been from a development company. What became clear in the course of their conversation was that Johnson and his guest were both graduates of Ohio Wesleyan University, and very proud of it. His guest apparently didn’t know much about Portsmouth, and Johnson was filling him in.
About Mayor Kalb, Johnson said that he was only an uneducated stock boy from Kroger’s. Kalb’s predecessor, Mayor Bauer, was doing an adequate job for us, Johnson said, but he had been recalled as result of voters being stirred up by some agitators. As a matter of fact, Johnson told his guest, one of the individuals involved in getting the City Manager fired in the 1980’s was then-councilman Harald Daub, who was still causing trouble now. Johnson told his guest that he, Johnson, had led a group in the 1980’s that got Daub and two other councilmen recalled, and Johnson said it was probably a good time for that group to be reorganized.
The problem with Portsmouth, Johnson said, is that we have many ignorant residents who do not even know how to set an alarm clock. Both Johnson and his guest chuckled over that characterization. Johnson was willing to admit that there were some successful people in Portsmouth besides himself. He said there were about a half a dozen lawyers in Portsmouth who were very successful. Johnson also noted there are a couple of doctors who are making a million dollars or more a year in Portsmouth, but he failed to point out they are making millions from the citizens of Portsmouth. It is revealing but not surprising that Johnson measures success by money and whether or not a person is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan, as if Ohio Wesleyan was the Harvard of Ohio.
Kalb, of course, is not a graduate of any college. He is not even a regular high school graduate. He attended a vocational school. There are some very smart people who are not college graduates and who are vocational school graduates. But Kalb is not one of them. Kalb is, unfortunately for the citizens of Portsmouth, a fool, but he is also a tool, a useful tool to Johnson and the other unelected officials whose interests he serves so obediently. You would think Johnson would

have at least a little respect for Kalb, since he is so useful to them, and that he would have a little more respect

for those who aren’t millionaires, instead of ridiculing them to out-of-town guests as people who don’t even know how to set an alarm clock.
Isn’t it time we took back the city of Portsmouth from millionaires like Johnson and tools like Kalb?
The superb writing above was by Teresa K. Mollette and published on her website. Copied
to this site by Austin Leedom on Sunday January 20, 2008

Angry Mayor Kalb leads continuing corruption in new city building fraud.
City facing one million dollar deficit, Kalb begging for another pay raise to his $52,000
salary. He wants a $6,200,00 pay increase.

Written by Austin Leedom at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday the 15th day of January 2008.

In a lengthy meeting, Citizens at the Portsmouth City Council meeting on Monday, January 14, 2008 heard talk of increased water rates, possible increase in income taxes and an increase in real estate tax for the next twenty years to pay for a new city building at the less than one acre site of the old Adelphia/Mearan building on busy Washington Street near the OSCO factory.

What citizens did not hear was that this building plan is another Racketeer Influenced Crime to take our city hall property on the riverfront and hand it over to the same SOGP gangsters who stole $2, 000,000.00 from us in the Marting Fraud in 2002. (Just like in the Martings fraudulent purchase, Jim Kalb is once again a vital part of the criminal conspiracy.)
(NOTE: Twenty-eight percent of real estate is untaxed in Portsmouth with tax abatements granted by the Mayor for hundreds of properties, many belonging to known racketeers.) For example:e swindler Clay Johnson (the SOGP lawyer/banker) who stole two million dollars from the people of Portsmouth in the Martings Building fraud in 2002), pays nothing on his nearly new office building at Sixth and Washington. It is valued at $650,000. Also, Clay Johnson’s corporate partner Neal Hatcher has dozens of properties on which he pays no taxes.

MAYOR'S BUDGET MAY HAVE DEFICIT OF ABOUT ONE MILLION DOLLARS

The projected budget for the year 2008 was once again tardily presented to the Council by the Mayor with expenses of about eleven million dollars proposed and income estimates by the Auditor of about ten million dollars. In a discussion of the deficit by Auditor Williams and Mayor Kalb, Mr. Williams said he has no way of knowing exactly how much money will be received and he is conservative in his estimates. He gave great praise to Mayor Kalb for his work on the budget proposal and Kalb in turn praised Auditor Williams in a long exchange of compliments. Watching this, I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had presented flowers and engraved plaques of commendation to each other.

Council did pass an interim budget for the first two months of 2008 so city payrolls and other necessary expenses could be paid.

KALB LOSES HIS COOL - HATES CRITICISM OF WATER INCREASES

In closing statements Mayor Jim Kalb once again lost his temper and attacked former councilman Harald Daub who had earlier spoken against the water raise. Daub, an
experienced researcher and an excellent speaker presented council with a list of many
cities in Ohio of about the same size as Portsmouth and the water rates they charge their citizens. None were as high as existing Portsmouth rates which Kalb has repeatedly raised
since becoming Mayor in 2004. The existing Portsmouth rates are many times higher than
most of the rates charged by other cities.

In his verbal attack on Mr. Daub, Mayor Kalb became very loud in his tirade against the
former councilman. As usual, the longer Kalb talked the louder he got. Mr. Daub finally
audibly protested the Mayor’s unfair assault and was gaveled down by Council President Howard Baughman.

Daub dared to speak again and the Great Intimidator, (Police Chief Charles Horner,) rose to his feet and moved toward Mr. Daub. (The Honorable Mayor Kalb
has long experienced difficulty in controlling his temper.)

ATTORNEY/APPOINTED COUNCILMAN MIKE MEARAN SPEAKS

In his closing remarks the appointed First Ward Councilman Mike Mearan indicated he
would continue efforts to build a new city building on Washington Street on the property
Mike once owned before selling it to a client.

A real estate tax increase to pay the estimated 12 to 14 Million Dollar cost for the new
building will be necessary but this doesn’t trouble Mike Mearan . He doesn’t pay taxes, and owns no property. Lien Records in the County Recorders Office reveal Mearan owes big money to the Federal government for unpaid income taxes since 1992 and also has liens filed against him by the State of Ohio for unpaid taxes. He is trying to cram his

corrupt plan down
the citizen’s throats and he will profit; he won’t pay a dime. The rest of us will pay,
unless we have been granted tax abatements on our properties.
See
http://dougdeepereturns.blogspot.com/2007/06/first-ward-city-councilman-mike-mearan.html

It was also revealed during the meeting that our Mayor who now receives $52,000 a year wants a $6,200

increase in pay. In addition to his part-time Mayor’s job
Kalb also works part-time at Krogers.

Written by Austin Leedom at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday the 15th day of January 2008.

Written at 1:30 a.m. on Monday January 14th, 2008 by Austin Leedom.
Re-posted at 10:55 p.m.

Council meeting tonight at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall, on the third floor, Council will
consider Mayor Jim Kalb’s unbalanced budget proposal. Kalb has proposed a 10% raise on his $52,000

pay for being a part-time Mayor; (he also works part-time at Krogers.)

But the Honorable Mayor is not all selfish; he also has proposed $5,000 for the

operation of the only City swimming pool so the kids will have a place to swim

this summer. That is an improvement for the kids; last year the Mayor tried to close the pool .

In the budget there is also no mention of money for repairs to the drainage sewers along

Grandview Avenue. A fine lady, along with dozens of others residents of that area,

was first flooded by backed up sewage and hospital waste over ten years ago.

The lady on Grandview who was complaining in 2007 about the sewage repeatedly

flooding her home and causing her to be sick has quit complaining. Her funeral was last month.

Jim Kalb and 5th Ward Councilman Howard Baughman promised to take care of this tragic

unhealthy situation over a decade ago. Most of the other victims on Grandview are still alive

but there is no plan to spend any money for their relief. Kalb’s undeserved raise in pay takes

priority over the health and lives of the citizens.

Come to the council meeting Monday night and watch the racketeer influenced councilmen and mayor at work.

NOTE: All of the council men are not dishonest, but the crooks are in the majority.
Watch the councilmen and see if you can tell who the honest members are.

Kalb’s plan for 2008 doesn’t include doing anything for the regular citizens. He will continue

to try to get a new building built at an estimated cost of Fourteen Million Dollars on busy

Washington Street (with a good view of the

OSCO factory’s smokestack). The citizens of Portsmouth who do pay real estate tax will pay

the entire bill

through big increases on their property taxes to build on the site of the old Adelphia
Cable building. This building has been owned by Jeff Albrecht of the Ramada Inn and

then by Attorney Mike

Mearan who sold the building for a $95,000 profit to a Los Angeles physician, Dr. Singer.

Doctor Singer l

eased the building to Century Cable and then to Adelphia Cable that went bankrupt when the

Adelphia president

left a few years ago to serve a 14-year prison sentence for stealing from the stockholders.

The Adelphia Building sets on a site that is less than one acre in size and has little space for parking.

Councilman Howard Baughman has spoke of bailing out another failed business nearby for

$500,000 so there will be space for parking at the proposed new city building.

When the new building is built you can expect Mayor Kalb and his co-conspirators in city council

to give away or

sell at a very low price the present City Buildings and the spacious land to a local racketeer

who plans an eight-story motel and pleasure house on the site which is the most attractive

place available on the river in the entire city

of Portsmouth

This racketeer project and plan has been in place for over ten years. When the city was
offered the vacant Norfolk and Western Railway building for a dollar several years ago the

city council refused to the

take the gift, because if they took that site for a new city building, they would have no excuse

to buy the old fire-damaged Marting building to bail racketeer Clay Johnson out of his

$600,000 debt he owed on loans he received by mortgaging the Marting Building. In May 2002

former Mayor Greg Bauer, Council
President Jim Kalb, and council members Ann Sydnor, Howard Baughman, Carol Caudill and

other council persons did illegally, and secretively pass an ordinance to spend two million

dollars to buy the Martings Building. This purchase was upset when citizens Bob and

Teresa Mollette filed suit against the city participants for committing this illegal act.
The Common Pleas Court agreed with the plaintiffs and ordered the sale be declared void

and the County Recorder to change the land records back as they were before the swindle.

Clay Johnson had the building back along with a lien of Two Million Dollars against it and

property taxes to pay on the building.

This was a big upset for swindler Clay Johnson and the conspirators in city government who had authorized

the spending of tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money to fight the suit in the courts; Solicitor

David Kuhn had hired outside lawyers to help defend the actions of the corrupted council. (Mr. Kuhn

was defeated for another term 68-31 by challenger Mike Jones in the election in November 2007.)

Mayor Greg Bauer was recalled from office in June 2004 by an enraged citizenry and Jim Kalb, t

he Council President became Mayor by default.

Kalb went to the offices of Clay Johnson in 2005 and made a new deal. He took title to the

Martings building a second time on the promises of Clay Johnson to return, with certain conditions,

$ 1,400,000 of the stolen money. City Council approved the deal.

Clay Johnson has not returned any of ill-gotten gains as of this date. Mayor Jim Kalb,

Council President Howard Baughman, appointed first ward Councilman Mike Mearan and

others are “moving on” to another Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Act in spending many, many

millions of the citizens’ money in order to vacate and sell, or give away the present city hall site,

for the benefit of the racketeers, ....again.

A new building is not needed and is not wanted by a large majority of the citizens.

Council President Howard Baughman appointed a city building committee in 2006.

Their committee meetings were held illegally.

Illegal, because citizens were denied the right to speak at the meetings, contrary to law.

If you attend city council meetings regularly,

you will learn that when these racketeer influenced council members say,

“we must move on with this new building,”

do they really mean, “let us finish up with this crooked deal and collect?.”

More facts on the city councils corrupt racketeering in later postings.

You will be surprised who (Larry Leiter) has already reserved a plush suite on

the eighth floor of the planned new “pleasure palace on the river” where there is “a good view.”

Written at 1:30 a.m. on Monday January 14th, 2008 by Austin Leedom.

Kentucky Lawmaker wants stolen rock returned to Ky.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/01/31/red.html?sid=101 Ohio
Supreme Court rules red-light cameras legal; Mayor and Council may again consider
traffic cameras for income increase and safety. 2nd Ward Councilman Malone was urging
use of cameras before being stopped by previou high court ruling. ( Feb 08)

Missing Crime Report is of concern to many citizens.
Posted by Austin Leedom on Thursday, January 10, 2008

Comments on the missing police crime activity report to the FBI
for 2006 indicate many East End citizens feel unsafe and are disgusted
with the lack of essential law enforcement in Portsmouth. They wonder
what the police are doing. What are they doing besides harassing
Columbia Music Hall owner and operator Lee Scott?

Chief Charles Horner made no report to FBI for 2006; even Mayor Kalb
doesn’t have a report from the Police Chief on the criminal activity in Portsmouth
for the year of 2006. What is going on? Even the Mayor publicly admitted he has
no idea of the amount of criminal activity in his city for the years of 2006 and 2007,
and Mayor Jim Kalb doesn’t appear to care. Jim Kalb is asking for another pay raise.
Theft is wild in Portsmouth and prostitution is apparently at an all time high.

A 21-year-old lady, Amber Howard, from the East End is missing since
August 10, 2007 and is presumed dead. Who will be next person to
become missing? Citizens are frightened and have lost faith in the Police.
Most of the officers are excellent law enforcement personnel. They have
a lack of leadership that makes them look bad.

We have information that a gang that calls themselves the “East End Mafia”
is terrorizing Afro-American and Mexican people in the East End.
Graffiti has been sprayed on walls by the “East End Mafia” advertising
their presence.

Mayor Kalb and the Chief appear to have little interest in crime.
Last fall a young mother from Ninth Street presented a petition to
City Council with the signatures of 448 persons who were asking
for something to be done about the invasion of prostitutes and drugs
in the East End. Chief Horner answered during the Council
meeting; he indicated that he didn’t have much interest in
the problem. Mayor Kalb declined to even mention the petition
in his closing talk at the end of the meeting. What is going on?

Below is a comment copied from a local forum:

KALB YOU IDIOT FIRE HORNER NO RECORDS?

CHUCKIE, KNOWS WHAT HE DID AND SO DO YOU MAYOR, THE

A.G.OFFICE WILL CHECK ON THIS SOURCES OF THE F.B.I. OUT OF

CINN OHIO, IS COMING IN TO SEE THE RECORDS.GOOD GOOD GOOD.

YOU BUNCH OF MORON'S THINK YOU CAN GET BUY WITH ANYTHING

WILL TIME IS UP YOU PUNKS.
1/7/2008, 6:23 am Applaud Smite Send Email to BO CHAMBERS   Send PM to BO CHAMBERS

End of post 10 January, 2008 by Austin Leedom

Also read official history of council acts on water contracts at
http://portsmouthcitizens.info/blog/?page_id=26   ! Report of investigation by Teresa Mollette -

MAYOR KEEPS LOSS OF WATER INCOME SECRET FOR TEN MONTHS
The state prison, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility quit buying Portsmouth City water
in November, 2006. This was income that was budgeted for expenditures during the
year 2007.

Vote for new men in the November Election..Our present elected City officials have betrayed us
and denied our rightful freedoms for the profit of their unelected Masters who control them;
vote for a change, our present officials have "been weighed in the balance and found wanting."

Written by Austin Leedom, Friday, September 2007.

Auditor reports funds now short in Water Department.
.
Will Mayor Kalb Raise Water Rates Once Again?

An illegal ordinance passed by then-Council President Jim Kalb, Howard
Baughman, Ann Sydnor in August 2003 will cost City of Portsmouth about
$2,600,000 (Two Million, Six-Hundred Thousand) over the next twenty years.

This ordinance was illegal and wrongful on the face of it, but Solicitor
David Kuhn upheld the ordinance despite a citizen appeal.

Auditor Trent Williams yesterday told the Sentinel the annual loss in water
revenue to the City is $130,000.

Kalb's attempt to funnel water revenue to Clay Johnson/SOGP has backfired and
will cut water income for Portsmouth. Many residents expect Mayor Jim Kalb to
raise water rates again for the third time since he took office in July, 2004.
In an article below about the city water contract the purchases of 2004 show
Clay Johnson bought city water for $84,318.42, sold it to the State of Ohio at
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility for $205, 490.44 for a Clay Johnson/SOGP
profit of $131, 176.62.

Since 2004 raises in city rates have greatly expanded income to the city and profits
for Clay Johnson.

PORTSMOUTH CITIZENS HAVE LOST FREEDOM

UNDER PRESENT GOVERNMENT

TYRANNICAL MAYOR VIOLATES RIGHTS

Mayor Jim Kalb uses authority granted to Auditor Trent

Williams to attack citizens for political and personal

reasons.

HARALD DAUB HARASSED BY MAYOR’S AGENTS

Kalb’s agents, Assistant Engineer Bill Beaumont and his subordinate Larry Justice
recently made an attack against Harald Daub of 22nd Street after Daub

complained
a neighbor’s drainage was damaging Daub’s property. Inspectors Beaumont and

Justice found it okay that Daub’s property was being damaged, and then found

faults against Daub who often speaks critically of the present corrupted city

officials during Council meetings.

Mr. Daub had received a threatening letter from Sidewalk Inspector

Larry Justice to repair his sidewalk before Beaumont ever visited Daub’s property.

Daub’s sidewalk was in excellent condition compared to many of his neighbors who

received no repair notices.

DAVID NEWMAN UNDER ATTACK

BY MAYOR ‘S SIDEWALK INSPECTOR

Below is a copy of an email I received yesterday from David Newman who has been

wrongfully targeted by Mayor Jim Kalb’s Sidewalk Inspector Larry Justice.

Kalb’s agents often perform unreasonable inspections of citizens. who run

afoul of the plans of the Clay Johnson/Neal Hatcher Machine.

It is believed that Neal Hatcher has designs to take Mr. Newman’s property and the

Mayor is assisting him by ordering this illegal harassment. Kalb has violated citizens'

rights before to help the Johnson/Hatcher Machine.

Mayor Kalb, citing Eminent Domain, on October 14, 2005, wrongfully and illegally

took property from a citizen on Third Street near the University and deeded it to

Neal Hatcher thus avoiding any taxes for Hatcher. Only five days before that,

the Mayor was present in City Council when the Council voted 5-0 against any

seizures of property by Eminent Domain.

Jim Kalb arrogantly disregards the law to follow orders from the Machine.

The Mayor has also illegally been usurping the duties of the Auditor and using the

Inspection Power given to the Auditor for political and personal reasons by taking

over mailing of notices of violations. This gives more power to Jim Kalb and the

Clay Johnson/Neal Hatcher Machine as Kalb represents the Machine at the

expense of citizens he has betrayed. (Auditor Trent Williams has not objected

to the mayor doing Auditor's duties; Williams has only been in office seven years

and eight months; he is a slow learner who does not yet know his responsibilities.)

The email from Mr. Newman is as follows:

“Austin: I have till sept.14, till I have to do something on my sidewalk. I believe I

should send the letter to Cin. regarding how this was handled. I believe Larry

(Inspector Justice) will take action if I do not do anything by the 14th.

I never did get a call from David Malone. If you can get address for me don't

you think I should follow through. .My cell is 3573717. Thanks Dave Newman “

(David Malone is the Second Ward City Councilman who
represents Mr. Newman.)

The Mayor’s actions are contrary to the City Charter that declares the

Auditor’s Office is in charge of sidewalk inspections and the mailing of

certified notices to property owners to repair damages. The Mayor served 11 years

in City Council and 3 years as Mayor. He knows the law but prefers to follow

directions from the Clay Johnson/Neal Hatcher Gangster Machine. Mr. Newman

is considering federal charges of civil rights violation against Kalb and the

City of Portsmouth in Federal Court.

Composed and posted on September 5, 2007 by Austin Leedom

CLAY JOHNSON, THE MAN THAT DEFRAUDED

TAXPAYERS, OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS,

IS REPAIRING HIS SIDEWALKS, TWO YEARS LATE.

IS CLAY JOHNSON SELLING OUT AND GOING SOUTH?

According to information received at the Shawnee Sentinel, Portsmouth's KingPin
of White Collar Crime is finally replacing his sidewalks where he lives behind the
big white walls in a mansion at the Northwest corner of Fourth and Washington
Streets.

Yes, that is right. Attorney C.Clayton Johnson the admitted swindler who stole
Two Million Dollars from the citizens of Portsmouth in the sale of the Martings
Building in 2002 is replacing his damaged, cracked sidewalks. He apparently
has hired his real-estate acquisition partner Neal Hatcher to do the work with
Hatcher’s JNH Construction Company.

Over two years ago many residents along Fourth Street had cracks in their
sidewalks painted orange and were ordered to repair their sidewalks by the
Sidewalk Inspector from the City Engineering Department. Most citizens followed
the Inspector’s directive and, replaced or repaired their sidewalks, but Clay Johnson
didn't.
C. Clayton Johnson who pays no real estate taxes on his new $650,000 building
at the corner of Sixth and Washington simply ignored the law. He doesn’t have to
pay his taxes nor obey the law. Mayor Jim Kalb takes his orders from C. Clayton
Johnson.
Johnson is a back room, deal-making buddy with Mayor Jim Kalb and Kalb didn’t
have the guts to force Johnson to obey the law. If you remember, it was Jim Kalb,
as Council President in 2002, that rushed the sale of the Martings Building from
Clay Johnson through City Council in a secret act and denied the citizens any
knowledge of the illegal sale until the Ordinance to purchase was passed.
Citizens were not allowed to know what was happening.
C. Clayton Johnson profited, the citizens lost. After Common Pleas Court Judge
William T. Marshall declared the sale illegal and reversed it, Jim Kalb, in
another secret meeting with Clay Johnson, bought the old building a second time.

This year, Mayor Kalb’s Sidewalk Inspector, Larry Justice has repeatedly engaged
in selective enforcement of the sidewalk ordinance. He has apparently been ordered
to mark certain citizens sidewalks for expensive repair while ignoring other sidewalks
in the same areas. Inspector Justice recently targeted one citizen after the man had
dared to attend Council meetings and ask questions. Other citizens who have dared
to question the present administration have been treated in a like manner.

It was only after one of Mayor Jim Kalb’s victims confronted Kalb and brought up the
matter of Clay Johnson ignoring the sidewalk law and let Kalb know that he had been
legally advised to file a Federal Discrimination Complaint against Kalb and the City
that Clay Johnson began repair.

Discrimination by many departments under Kalb’s supervision has been rampant since
Kalb became Mayor three years ago after Mayor Greg Bauer was removed from office by the
people in a recall action for thefts in office and violation of rights by discrimination
against citizens, in July 2004.

More on discrimination by the Mayor and his agents will be published here soon with
information on how to file Federal complaints. There is no cost in filing complaints.

Written by Austin Leedom at 1:05 a.m. Friday, August 31, 2007

MAYOR JIM KALB IS NOT WELL

Written by Austin Leedom, Wednesday, August 15, 2007.

EVIL PLAN TO SELL OFF CITY HALL SITE EXPOSED

On Monday night, August 13, 2007 at the City Council meeting
Mayor Jim Kalb looked sick and angry as numerous citizens spoke against
the building of a City Hall on the Mearan/Singer/
Adelphia site on Washington Street.

From the talk of the opponents to Kalb’s plan Kalb learned that they knew the truth
he has been hiding from the public for so long.
The real purpose of the proposed new building is to vacate the present City Hall site
because Kalb and his over-privileged criminal accomplices have special plans
for the present city hall site. Kalb also learned that the citizens now know that
the alleged City Building Committee Search for a new building site was all a
scam and a delusion.

Jim Kalb, it is time to awaken. The citizens have had enough.

Jim Kalb, you can’t run this crooked “new building” deal past the citizens
like you did with the MARTINGS SWINDLE in 2002. If you persist with
this giveaway to your crooked comrades you are going to be history.

Mayor Kalb, when was the last time you have walked the residential streets
of this decadent town and taken time to talk to real people.?
You haven’t cared to do this. You get your plans, your orders, and the special favors
(the BENS) for yourself behind closed doors.

I’ve been on the streets, talking to real people, the citizens, who live here.

Jim Kalb, your current popularity rating is lower than ex-Mayor Greg Bauer's
when he left office in a recall. Remember former Mayor Bauer.

Jim Kalb, your elected term may be shortened just as the last Mayor's term was in a
recall by 64-36 margin in June 2004. Many people are talking recall again.

The consensus of opinion of the real people in this town is they want
NO NEW CITY BUILDING –THEY WANT THEIR TAXES USED FOR THE
GOOD OF ALL THE CITIZENS.

Mayor Jim Kalb; Forget about enriching your special friends with your back-room
deals behind closed doors, (you don't need the money)
Begin to be a Mayor for all the people and STOP DRUG ADDICTION
OF OUR CHILDREN, and PROVIDE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES
FOR THE KIDS.

Jim Kalb: Increase PAY FOR OUR HARD-WORKING CITY EMPLOYEES
AND FURNISH MORE EMPLOYEES FOR OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS.
Fix our sewers and clean up the city.
FORGET SELLING OUR CITY BUILDING SITE TO YOUR
CRIMINAL “BUDDIES.”

No new CITY BUILDING is wanted or needed. We also don’t want
our present building site sold off to your wicked-wealthy friends.

Jim Kalb: It is long past time that you repent and begin to afford all citizens equal
consideration and stop dealing special privileges to the few. People have
had enough; they know who and what you are now and they are angry.
Written by Austin Leedom, Wednesday, August 15, 2007.

Cincinnati ordered to pay $335, 000 in Eminent Domain Suit
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070731/NEWS01/707310387/1056/COL02
Swimming Pool did open yesterday afternoon, on June 27th, 2007.
Mayor Jim Kalb and Service Director Chris Murphy blame unpaid volunteers for their

own failure according to a Portsmouth Daily Times article yesterday by JEFF BARRON.
Even with many volunteers and extra money from PMHA and First Ward Councilman
Mike Mearan, the operation of the pool is apparently more than Mayor Jim Kalb and Service

Director Chris Murphy can handle. Was this late opening planned or are Kalb and Murphy

both simply incompetent?
Remember, these two wanted to sell the pool earlier. Was there a
hidden motive in that proposal? Perhaps to sell the land to Kalb's buddy?
Perhaps Mayor Kalb had other motives in wanting to sell the pool?
Do you remember the recent report by John Welton on Mayor Kalb's active youthful

membership in the vicious Jackson Street Gang who targeted citizens from the

"Ville" with violence for several years?

MCKINLEY POOL MAY OPEN TOMORROW AFTERNOON.June 26, 2007
The City Mayor and his Service Director Chris Murphy recommended sale of the City

Swimming Pool earlier this year citing that it cost $21,000 per year to maintain and

this was too much expense for the city. An enraged citizenry appeared at City Council

and their talks changed the mind of the few councilman who might have supported

this devilish idea.
Now, several weeks after the pool should have opened it is still closed.
In a heat wave with temperatures in the nineties, hundreds of citizens, young and old are

deprived of a place to play and cool off with a swim at McKinley Pool. Ms. Eileen Perry

complained to City Council of the failure to open the pool on time at the City Council

Meeting last night.
Many people believe the failure of Mayor Kalb to get the pool opened on time is

irresponsible at the best; some citizens feel that the continued neglect of the pool

and the dis-service to these citizens is more sinister than just lack of responsible

oversight. Remember, this is the pool that the Mayor and his City Service Director

wanted to sell earlier this year.
A spokesperson for the Mayor's Office said opening he pool has been a top priority for the Mayor,

but repairs and painting of the pool needed to be completed and a faulty water pump had to be repaired.

Also trained life-guards were needed.
Other sources have told the Sentinel that the pool has been over-chlorinated, once by a pool worker

and the second time by the City Service Director Chris Murphy.
The spokesperson for the Mayor's Office said that chlorination

will be done again tomorrow morning and the Health Department will check it.

If all is proper the pool may be open by tomorrow afternoon, June 27, 2007.

Needed certified life guards have been procured and should be available for work tomorrow.
Written at 5:57 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2007 by Austin Leedom

PORTSMOUTH CITY RACKETEERS - Mayor Jim Kalb's RICO

plan to give away present City Hall site to local real-estate gangsters

will cost Portsmouth taxpayers at least twelve million dollars, plus

the loss of present city hall land.

This racketeer influenced criminal operation (RICO)

“moves forward” as appointed Mike Mearan illegally

leads willing fellow city councilors Jerrold Albrecht,

David Malone and Howard Baughman down to a new

sub-low disgrace of official conspiracy and corruption.

ATTENTION:
Most Honorable Mayor James D. Kalb
YOUR CITY BUILDING INSPECTOR LARRY JUSTICE IS A DOCUMENTED LIAR.
He is your man! Did you order discriminatory action by Building Inspector Larry
Justice against former 3rd Ward Councilman Harald Daub? Will Building Inspector
Larry Justice be disclipined or fired for lying to his superior concerning the Daub case on 22nd Street?
Larry Justice was reprimanded by his previous supervisor,
(Assistant City Engineer Juanita Jewett,) for lying about failing to follow her orders to distribute notices

to property owners on 12th Street concerning a matter before the Planning Commission.

He did not distribute the notices, but lied to Ms. Jewett by telling her he had made the distribution.
At that time he was warned further lies would result in more severe action by the Assistant Engineer.

Larry Justice is still lying to his supervisor (now Bill Beaumont.)
Will Engineer Beaumont continue to allow his Building Inspector Larry Justice to mistreat

citizens and lie to him?
Larry Justice has lied to his supervisors. Does he tell citizens the truth?
More on this disgraceful situation soon. We will place documents on the Internet for the public to view.
Who, on June 1, 2007, ordered Police Chief Charles Horner to direct police to look for parking

violations on Eighth Street in the neighborhood of Council Candidate
Wayne Lee Nichols' home? Four parking tickets were written that day by the entire police force.

Candidate Wayne Nichols received two of the four tickets written.
Mayor James Kalb is in charge of the Police and Engineering departments.
Tell us, Honorable Mayor; who is giving the orders at City Hall?
I have made four trips to the Mayor's office in the past 17 days and have not found the
Mayor in. I made a Public Information Request last week at the Mayor's office. A request

for a discrimination document in the Ohio Pest Control suit now pending in Common Pleas

Court was not provided to the Sentinel although it is known to be in Mayor Kalb's possession.
We also did not receive a requested copy of the contract for the city to take possession of the

Adelphia Building. Why the secrecy, Mayor? Was an addition to the contract added illegally

at the direction of Attorney Mearan?
City of Portsmouth Building Inspector Larry Justice gave Assistant Engineer Bill Beaumont false

information about his actions on 22nd Street during past two weeks,
according to witnesses who were present with Engineer Beaumont and Inspector Justice at the

Daub home on Tuesday, June 12, 2007.
Investigation by Sentinel group reveals discrimination, falsehoods, and special privileges.
The Sentinel has offical documented evidence of lying on city matters by Mr. Justice. ................
Breaking........documents are being posted.
Breaking news.................................................
City of Portsmouth Building Inspector Larry Justice gave Assistant Engineer
Bill Beaumont false information about his actions on 22nd Street during past two weeks.
Investigation by Sentinel group reveals discrimination, falsehoods, and special privileges.
The Sentinel has offical documented evidence of lying on city matters by Mr. Justice.
Breaking....more on Monday
Citizens: You are invited to go to 1221 22nd Street and look at examples

of unfair, arrogant, disrespectful, discriminatory actions against the

honest citizenry of Portsmouth

The continuing violations of residents of Portsmouth by
Mayor Jim Kalb's appointed agents is a part of a growing disgrace
that deserves the attention of federal courts in a class action
discrimination suit.

On Friday, June 15, 2007 Portsmouth Daily Times Writer Jeff Barron
wrote an article about Harald Daub’s accusation that the City is harassing him.

Discrimination is true! Retaliation is a fact.
Former 3rd Ward Councilman Harald Daub spoke

critically of City Council in a meeting at City Hall
Monday night, June 11, 2007.

The following morning on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Assistant City Engineer Bill Beaumont,
and his subordinate City Inspector Larry Justice went to Daub’s home on 22nd Street.

Daub had complained to the Engineering Department recently about a neighbor
who had built, without a permit, a garage over the legal height
and directed the gutters on the new structure to drain downhill against Mr. Daub’s
retaining wall. Daub’s wall is now leaning downhill and will require expensive
rebuilding. Also, in the rear of the lot, to the rear of the retaining wall Daub's privacy fence
is leaning downhill toward Daub's property; in this area the neighbor has placed heavy
construction blocks leaning against Daub’s fence, forcing the fence to lean
downhill.

“Paint some of the neighbors’ sidewalks so it won’t look like we are picking on Daub.”
According to witnesses, Engineer Beaumont and Inspector Justice found no merit
in Mr. Daub’s complaint about his neighbor, but did find a flaw in Mr. Daub’s sidewalk.

Inspector Justice was ordered by Engineer Beaumont to spray orange paint on the
crack in Daub’s sidewalk. Engineer Bill Beaumont then ordered Inspector
Larry Justice to spray orange paint on some of the neighbor’s sidewalks also “so it won’t

look like we are picking on Daub.”
Mr. Justice did paint several other sidewalks in the area.
Directly across the street from Harold Daub’s home Mr. Justice painted nearly every joint in

Bill Meixner’s sidewalk. This orange spray paint is to indicate that Mr. Meixner has a limited time

to repair his sidewalk, (using approved contractors?) or face severe penalties.

I examined Mr. Meixner’s sidewalk carefully. It is an excellent sidewalk in nearly perfect condition.

The sidewalk is about forty feet long. It looks as though you could roll a marble the entire length

of the sidewalk with no difficulty.
Mr. Meixner has an immaculate well kept home with a beautiful lawn of mowed grass.
No reasonable person with one grain of responsibility could find anything on
Meixner’s property to criticize or penalize. Mr. Meixner's sidewalk was only painted to show,

“so it won’t look like we are picking on Daub.”

East of Daub’s home (1221 22nd Street) on the corner on the north side
of 22nd Street a sidewalk was spray painted extensively by Larry Justice; the lady owner

told neighbors it was going to cost her about $3,500.00 to have her sidewalk repaired.
This lady’s sidewalk, while not dangerous, does need some repair but is not nearly as

bad as the severely deteriorated sidewalks at the homes of two nearby city employees who

were not marked for repair. More discrimination!

   If you can believe that the acts of discrimination against citizens who dare
challenge the present corrupted city government are coincidental you may
also want to believe that SOGP Boss Clay Johnson is Santa Claus.
(Remember Johnson is the crook that stole Two Million Dollars from us
in the fraudulent sale of the Martings Building in 2002)

Crippled veteran who dared run for

              City Council has been targeted repeatedly.

: Let us look at Wayne Nichols, a severely handicapped disabled veteran who
   survives on a very small VA pension in the house (with new vinyl siding) he owns

in the 2000 block of Eighth Street. This is an industrial residential area.
Nearby neighbors are the Laborer’s Union Hall, the Star Cleaners and the

old Harbinson-Walker Brick Factory land.

Consider that Wayne Nichols was ticketed by the Health Department
for having a “cluttered porch” soon after he took out petitions to run for

Council against appointed city council member Jerrold Abrecht. Remember Mr. Albrecht;

he was video-taped by Moezine Reporter Joe Ferguson and James K. Wilson, Sr.

(“Big Jim”) in an illegal backroom quorum meeting in the City Clerk’s office

prior to a regular council meeting.

Jerrold Albrecht, (along with
Councilmen David Malone, Marty Mohr and Howard Baughman,)
was part of the illegal group caught rehearsing an action to unlawfully
deny the citizens’ rights to speak in city council about items not on the agenda.
Albrecht must be retained in office if the Council is to continue to run illegal acts through Council.

By daring to run for office against Albrecht, Wayne Nichols became a target.

This ticket by the Health Department may cost Mr. Nichols $134.00.

This ticket was caused by Mr. Queen of the Star Cleaners who complained
to the Health Department about Wayne Nichols "cluttered porch" after Nichols fell on t

he icy sidewalk in front of Queen's Star Cleaners. The Health
Department officials kindly granted Mr. Nichols some time to "unclutter"

his property but due to his limited physical ability and inclement weather he
was unable to finish his cleanup in time.

The most suspicious part of this is that the Portsmouth Daily Times ran a

front page article on Mr. Nichols' violation on election day. Nichols still managed

to qualify for the election this November by winning a play-off spot in the primary.

We have investigated this thoroughly and believe no one in the Health Department

informed the Portsmouth Daily Times of the ticket.

Health Commissioner Peggy Burton and her staff are among the fairest and
finest in the City, and have performed exceptionally well for many years.

We have good reason to believe the information against Mr. Nichols came to the

Portsmouth Daily Times from another city source in a deliberate effort to damage

Mr. Nichols in order to help keep appointed Jerrold Albrecht in office.

TWO PARKING TICKETS FOR CANDIDATE NICHOLS

On the first day of June, 2007 Wayne Nichols was hit again; Police were
ordered to find parking violators on Eighth Street where Nichols lives, and

on three other nearby streets. Mr. Nichols was ticketed for parking in the same spot

for over 24 hours and also for having one wheel upon the curb. This was on

wide Eighth Street across from his home in the 2000 block.

Two parking tickets were issued; the cost to Council Candidate Nichols was
$50.00. The entire police force wrote four parking tickets that day.
Wayne Nichols got two of the four tickets.
Why has Mayor Jim Kalb granted the downtown Kirby Flowers Company immunity

from the law while ordering police to write parking tickets in the 2000 block of Eighth Street

where Candidate Nichols lives? This is discrimination!
Compare these parking tickets to hundreds of never-issued tickets to favored persons.

A good example is Kirby’s Flowers. They don’t get tickets although at night their trucks

not only have one wheel on the curb; they have all four wheels on the curb and/or on the sidewalk.

NO TICKETS are issued to these favored merchants. Usually two or more Kirby trucks are parked

completely up on the sidewalk making pedestrian traffic hazardous. Often one or more of the

Kirby Flower trucks are parked beside the fire hydrant, even overnight many times. How much
is Kalb collecting for allowing these violations. Or, perhaps Chief Horner's "protection" group is being paid
A serious violation but NO TICKETS….. Often during business hours you
may see Kirby trucks completely blocking the sidewalk; pedestrians,
including elderly citizens and young mothers with babies in strollers, are
forced to walk in the street to get past the flower trucks...NO TICKETS

   Honorable Mayor Jim Kalb: Please enforce
   the law equally.   Stop the discrimination and stop your two-bit bribery
actions. You, Kalb, are the crook that hired a "special" Police meter
maid whose most noteworthy production was writing Lee Scott a ticket for parking

13 1/2 inches from the curb. We were told having a meter maid
would free up a regular police officer for other work, but your Chief Horner

had the lady ticket writer being driven around town in a police cruiser
by a regular police officer. Big savings there, Jim. The Judge threw the case

and the ticket out of court but you, Kalb, permitted your Chief to refile the

parking violation against Lee Scott. Maybe you figured Scott deserved such

selective harassment after Scott had refused to go to court and lie for your
Police Chief Charles (Chuckie) Horner.

This is only the first of many articles on discrimination here on the
website and in the coming hard copies of the Shawnee Sentinel newspaper.
We have a wealth of photos ready to print.

ALL POINTS BULLETIN AIRED TO APPREHEND City Council Candidate Wayne Lee Nichols of Eighth Street. Car description and tag number broadcast.
Allegedly, Portsmouth Police have been searching all day to arrest Nichols on a charge of having a cluttered porch. This complaint was made against Nichols after he took out petitions for election to City Council February, 2007. Nichols, a crippled veteran, is not known to be armed and dangerous. Will Chief Horner send his raiders to “knock down the doors in the middle of the night?” 6:l5 p.m