Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Thank you KT


KT,

Thanks you for verbalizing what I have been wrestling with last night and all morning. I have been trying to put into words the shame I feel. I am deeply ashamed of the 5 people you called out and I am ashamed of the city manager. But mostly, I am deeply ashamed of myself.

I provided a lot of support financially and in the form of foot power to all these people. I spoke for them. I wanted them to win and I wanted the community to be the better for it. Whatever I put into words seems like an attack on these people and that is not my intent because so many others are doing it. My words need to release the guilt and shame I feel for being so na?¯ve and blind as to trust these people. I am most deeply mortified of a choice I made that I thought was the right one at the time. One of the people you mentioned forced me to make a choice between him and another candidate already serving. Given the information presented at the time, I thought this other candidate had turned his back on a lot of his supporters in the form of rejecting their involvement as a political body. I was given tales of each and every effort to reach out to him to bring him into the political fold but he rejected all attempts. He claimed to be his own man and didn?’t wish to bring partisan influence into a nonpartisan arena.

Anyway, I can?’t change the past and I can?’t simply put the right person back in office who truly belongs there. And I am sure he wouldn?’t want to be there and I can?’t blame him. Several years ago, after PATA had begun, another group, mostly of the same people, formed to begin to tackle political issues in the city, township and county. We were wildly successful in routing what were purported to be bad guys and replace them with good guys. How childlike we were to believe that we were all divided into good guys and bad guys! There is no such thing. I think the truer classification is people who want to serve others and people who want to serve themselves. Had we understood and abided by that delineation of service instead of good or bad, we would have a completely different face on county politics.

Well, again, we can?’t change the past, but the passion and determination of making the change has to go on. We deserve the truth. We deserve to know all of the information that apparently 5 elected officials know and three don?’t as to the financial implications (or, and probably equally important the management of such an agreement) of entering into partnership with the township.

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Thanks again KT

I personally know a couple of councilmen, past and present, and some trustees and even some school board members. I knew them before they entered office and after they left and one thing I can tell you with all certainty is that entering office did not, by default, make them smarter and leaving did not dumb them down. There is no reason for us to believe that Jeff Fix got so much smarter after taking the oath that we should all accept his word at face value that this economic agreement is beneficial to anyone other than his township cronies. One thing I have learned from my years of association with Jeff is that we have no reason to ever believe he is telling us the truth. He has an undeniable track record of half-truths and outright lies. Ask any of us who came together in support of county-wide changes a few years back. Each and every one of us can recall an instance of an outright lie and when confronted with it, a heartfelt apology with the promise that it would never happen again (which was another lie). Tory Kramer claimed to have forgiven but not forgotten. I doubt it. As badly as Tory was defiled by Fix and knowing Tory from our kids knowing each other, if he is saying he forgives and forgets, I say bunk! If it is truly him posting this fiction and not someone else posting under his name then I say he was coerced much like so many others in the community and county.

Regrettably I feel powerless to help the community and her servants any more. I feel betrayed and as I said, ashamed of myself. I was duped. Hopefully Tory Kramer will open his eyes and see he is being deceived also. I was hoping to see Tory run again for council but now I am not sure. He doesn?’t seem to take a side on the issue at hand but just wants to extol Rodney King?’s statement of ?“Can?’t we all just get along??” Shake hands and forget and forgive? Sorry Tory, apparently you can?’t grasp the magnitude of the issue. You need to stick more to the issues and less to your simple platitudes of getting along.

Same crap different group

I would carefully read this opinion by the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. They decided that cities can use public funds to fight a referendum campaign. Basically you should hear the word CHECK MATE coming from 100 Lockville Road if the Citizens run a referendum.

What have we done?

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/06a0346p-06.pdf#search=%22Kidwell%20Union%20City%20%22

Same group?

I think back to the days when Gary Weltlich worked so closely with Bob Harding to not only make PATA what is was but how he slowly and quietly gained control over city council. I remember a conversation between Weltlich and another elected official at one of Shaver's drunken bashes where he just railed on Fix for blowing the trustee election after Weltlich financed it, orchestrated it and ran it. Now they're co-owners of the empire.

I remember how he played the leader of the NE Civic association into garnering the votes and money to get him elected and how, when he was done with her how it nearly cost her so much.

I would never have thought Bob Harding could have been played do mercilessly as he was by Weltlich. Just goes to show you what a consummate politician he really is.

Congratulations Gary on purchasing a majority of city council and the mayor's office. Looking at the cartoon to the left, it looks like you also bought proerty on Lockville Road. I suppose it is safe to assume you have that pathetic excuse for a woman the city manager in your pocket or absolutely none of this would have happened.