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Where do I begin with this? My dear Mrs. Dubyah, laws are very often interpreted based on intent. You know that and I know that. Ask Mr. Mapes when he is in today. Didn?’t he withhold the citizen?’s petitions based on his interpretation of the law? If everything was as black and white as you claim it must be, he would have realized before a lawsuit loomed that he had no jurisdiction to judge and pass sentence on the petitioners from his high court. He usurped due process based on an interpretation. His interpretation, or was it someone else?’s in your office?
And by the way, in our City, there is no right and wrong. No black and white. Just various shades of gray. That is what keeps you in business and off the front page of the Dispatch (re: New Rome). If everything is as black and white as you claim it is, would the City continue to spend tens of thousands of dollars (taxpayer dollars ?– MY DOLLARS!) wastefully every day? Spend it to entice developers to build more when the taxpayers want you to slow down? Spend it to duplicate utility services when and where it is totally unnecessary? This line of questioning could go on for a long time and words are limited in this forum.
You refuse to advertise in the other local papers because the last thing you want is to get too many City residents informed. (Trust us, you say) Nothing scares you more than a full house at a Council or Committee meeting. Despite your continuous despicable actions, somewhere under all that anger and pretense you all put up, there is a conscience deeply buried. A conscience that still gnaws at you a little bit when you have to face the Citizens/Voters/Taxpayers in person and tell them you are screwing them again. Refusal to take the extra step for your constituents by adequately informing them is your last ditch effort to make that little gnaw disappear.
As to the cost of additional advertising, you and the boys made $100,000 appear from thin air to be ready to fight Mr. Hackworth?’s suit against you. Can?’t you wave your magic wand again and make 10% of that amount appear for an annual advertising budget? Forget the Dispatch. They are too expensive and they really don?’t give a hoot about Fairfield County anyway. Just hit the Times-Sun, TWIP and the SE Messenger.
On to the last and sorest subject of your ramblings. If you don?’t want the residents of the unincorporated areas of Pickerington to be involved in your business, have your Police force stand guard and inspect the identification papers of each and every person setting foot inside your City Hall. Have the interlopers pushed off to a holding pen in the parking lot until such time as you can herd them onto a train and take them off to a ?“labor camp?” for reprogramming. Censure them from the press. Burn their books. But any way you decide to handle it, get off your horse on this subject. You can?’t rally the honest-to-God, card carrying, tax paying residents of this City off their duffs long enough to care if the residents of the unincorporated areas of Pickerington scream, speak out in the press, form their little hate-mongering groups or do what they themselves should be doing. They?’re just too lazy for that. Look at the voter turnouts. They?’re lazy and if the people outside the City want to do all the dirty work, the will let them. You won?’t hear them complain so get off it. They will not share your outrage. You need to pick something new to whine about.
By Maverick
