Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

For anyone out there who is still naive enough to think that Pickerington's Mayor and Council think for themselves...get with the program. These guys are all mindless puppets of the city manager from hell. The city manager who manipulates things so that only other people who are willing to be her puppets serve on all citizen boards and commissions. The city manager who constantly covers her butt and keeps her job by putting her twisted, evil slant on everything (i.e., constant lies) and groveling and sucking up to and flattering the council and the mayor. The city manager who abuses most of the city employees EXCEPT her close personal friends...who can do whatever they please (including only showing up for work about 20 hours/week while collecting full-time salaries...of course, the manager spends much of her ''work week'' getting her hair and nails done and her legs waxed at a local beauty shop). The city manager who crucifies any city employee who DARES to express a differing opinion; she then considers them enemies and HATES them and spends much of her work week working to get them fired or treating them so badly they resign (this has happenened with at least 4-5 good employees in the last four years) or she maneuvers and manipulates her puppet mayor to fire them himself--this happened recently with the mayor's secretary...who the city manager HATED and was working for years to get fired, and she is only the most recent example. Of particular delight to the city manager is when the mayor allows her to fire city employees herself...she then goes out to lunch with her best friend the personnel director and celebrates the ''victory'' over another ''enemy.'' The only way to rid the city of this tyrant is to make sure council gets a majority of people elected who are smart enough to not be snowed by the city manager's manipulative BS and who take their jobs seriously. Then, when the current puppet mayor comes up for re-election, vote him out and get someone in there who knows the score. Someone who will bounce the city manager from hell back to wherever she came from, and put someone in the position besides the current police chief, so that this wicked fairy tale can end and Pickerington can regain its integrity.

I STRONGLY DISAGREE

I can see how you would call her the City Manager from hell, I disagree it is the whole City Council from hell, and the mayor, (Gray), the vice mayor, (Hughes), the King, (Berry), the Queen, (Bushman), the court jesters, (Mark Uher, lead puppet, and the whole group of jokesters that are called Citizens for a Strong Violet Township/Pickerington) [of course it is like England where the King has less power in the face of the people]. If they were really looking out for the good of the people, they would not rule like a monarchy. When the mayor makes comments about Nazis and communists, I wonder how healthful he is to have teaching in the schools. I personally would like to see this whole regime removed from office. There are 4 city council seats up for reelection in November. That would be a majority. Like SBH I am not a likely candidate, but a noisy resident who is fed up.
I just heard that your CMfH is carving a niche for herself in the form of a committee to represent municipalities at the state level. I believe it is an offshoot from the 'coalition for equitible annexations' or some faction like that. She has convinced other city managers that they need her.
I also heard that she applied to the city of columbus, but was turned sown. Imagine if she had gotten in there. She knows Pickerington's weaknesses and could have done some real damage here. She also has lots of contacts here and would surely have used them.
I challenge everyone who reads this to make a commitment to do something to improve Pickerington. Write a letter, tell a neighbor, call a friend. STOP THE INSANITY!


By Violet