Loyal Cicchinelli supporters were in tears as their Dear Leader and his motorcade left City Hall for the final time.
The crowd is massive, but well behaved.
Fortunately, Fire Chief Burgasser did not have to call in the National Guard to maintain order.
We understand the motorcade will be stopping at Menches for a quick burger, and then over to the West Side for one final oil change at Louie Brio's Express Lube.
The First Lady is taking her husband's departure quite hard, as she has been feverishly posting throughout cyberspace in one more last ditch effort to attack her husband's successor.
What will become of us as power transfers from a god fearing, native born Massillonian, to an anti-Massillon, anti-Cicchinelli, anti-administration carpetbagger with the last name of "Perry."
Only time will tell if our Fair City survives.
Our crack Massillon Review Photojournalism Team has exclusive photos from the Cicchinelli motorcade as it headed West down Lincoln Way as Frank Cicchinelli starts the transition from Mayor for Life to humble citizen.
You can see the mayor's motorcade in this picture;
And grief stricken, native born, pro-Cicchinelli citizens in this picture.
"There is no doubt the parks and recreation department is getting more criticism this year (than in the past)," he said. "I think the reason is two things. One there will also be anti- (Mayor Frank) Cicchinelli people. If he says the sky is blue they will think it is green and, two, there are people who are continually looking for something to pick on."
- Parks Czar Kenn Kaminski explaining that the parks aren't in horrible condition despite visual evidence to the contrary. It is only that critics of the parks system are "Anti-Cicchinelli" (The Independent, May 10, 2010).
