We Don't Need The Money

This past Friday, The Independent ran a story about how our Mayor for Life would be making his big pitch to Massillon City Council on September 27, urging them to pass a statement of services for his proposed Tuslaw School District annexation.

He can't annex the Tuslaw schools if city council does not pass a statement of services.

In regards to the fact that his annexation of the Tuslaw schools would mean that the teachers and support staff of the Tuslaw School District would begin paying the Massillon City income tax, our Mayor admitted that was part of his plan all along. He wasn't proposing an annexation of the Tuslaw schools because he wanted to improve them, or that he gave a damn about the Tuslaw Local School District, but you can't really blame him, he was just following orders;

"I've said from the very beginning there is a financial benefit to the city. Aren't I supposed to do that? Isn't that what council asked me to do in January? 'Well, mayor, come to us with proposals to increase revenue because we're going to have to make some salary line items in our budget.' I thought I heard all that. I do it, and then I'm criticized for doing it" (The Independent, September 10, 2010).

Massillon City Council is pushing our mayor around again, making him do unpopular things, and then attacking him for doing what they told him to do. Do they think he is some kind of rubber stamp, or something?

Council is making him do this. We really don't need the money, but that independent, free thinking city council is bullying our Mayor for Life. After they passed his unbalanced budget. Check that. After Paul Manson, David Hersher, David McCune, Ron Mang and Donnie Peters passed his unbalanced budget, exactly as he proposed it, the no good bastards criticize him for robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Two things are obvious. One, our Mayor for Life has the thinnest skin in the history of Massillon politics, and two, we don't need the income tax from the Tuslaw teachers after all. Council made him do it. Our City Council. This merry band of rubber stamps was now pushing our mayor around.

We don't need the money

One Massillon official has stated over, and over that everything is rosy in Tigertown. We don't need the money we would receive by taxing Tuslaw teachers. Who says so?

Our Mayor for Life says so!

When our mayor was passing out 4% pay increases to the city's unions, some were concerned that they city didn't have the money to pay them.

"We'll be able to pay for these increases, Cicchinelli said. I'm not concerned about it. We will be there. I feel confident the dollars will be there to make it through this year and we'll have the dollars to make it through next year" (The Independent, July 6, 2010)."

www.massillonreview.blogspot.com/2010/07/thud.html

Why is he pursuing this unpopular annexation when he himself stated that we don't need the money?

Massillon City Council is making him do it.

Of Course.