Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

WITH YOU

NO TED I DONT THINK YOU ARE RUNNING ALONE, I FOR ONE SUPPORT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE AND ARE DOING. I WILL BE RUNNING RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU.
BRUCEW ROOKSTOOL

Majority still rules

I understand that Mr. Shaver told the City Council last night that they had an obligated under state law to send this initiative on to the board of elections. They could not if they suspected fraud or deception on the part those that circulated the petition. No evidence was presented to the council or the Law Director. Mr. Mapes did acknowledge that the initiative was filled out on the proper form. It also had sufficient number of signatures verified at the board of elections.

Mr. Mapes statements indicate that he thinks the petitioners attempted to change an old revision of the Pickerington City Charter. Yet he didn?’t provide any proof. He only speculated. Obviously he only complaint he has with the is those four words (three-fourth?’s, three fourth?’s, manager, and ten) I will challenge anyone in this city to show where the city charter ever called for emergency legislation to be passed by ?¾ of the council members. It has called for 2/3 of the council to pass emergency as long as I can remember. So exactly what is Mr. Mapes trying to say? That because the petitioners changed the word manager and ten that they were amending an old version of the Pickerington City Charter?

Mayor Hughes tried to analogize that Mr. Hackworth was an idiot because if he had turned in a paper to him in his class that looked this bad he would have given him a failing grade. Hughes tries to divert the argument from the abuses of this city council to the personal attack on the circulator, while all along admitting that he was not aware of any deception on the part the circulators. So apparently Mr. Hughes has been too busy abandoning his classroom to get a good reading on what the legal requirements are of the Mayor and the Council. Should we give the Mayor and Council a break? After all this is the very first time that an initiative has actually been before council with the current sitting council members.

Apparently Mr. Hughes knows best for this community. He is worried that a minority will now have control over the issues before the Pickerington City Council. In the Hughes mind if they can?’t passed their legislation by emergency then the city will stop dead in its tracks. However it is the opposite of that. Once this emergency city Charter amendment is adopted by the citizens of Pickerington, then the majority will then have control. Democracy is supposed to be slow and deliberate. The current council (with the exception of Shaver) has abused the use of the emergency declaration called out in the city charter. It is time that the Citizens take back the government that has been stolen from it from the likes of one Randall L. Hughes.


By Commander Cody