High School Confidential Part 1

The word on the street is that certain members of our esteemed, serious minded city council decided it was time to discuss a rubric for seating at the meetings right after Mayor Kathy-Catazaro-from-Perry appointed former Massillon Schools Superintendent Al Hennon as her Safety & Services Director.

They were mad at "the usurper" and were not going to let her sit at their lunch table any longer.

Were the Democrats mad because she appointed a Republican, as she is a Democrat?

Nope.

Were the Republicans happy that one of their own was selected to the top appointed post in city government?

Nope.

They believed the appointment was shenanigans on the part of the Catazaro-from-Perry administration.

Because Al Hennon was running for election as a Republican against Democrat Tony Townsend in November in the race for council president.

Hennon dropped out and Townsend got a free pass.

Did this change the balance of power on council?

Nope.

The council president only votes in the case of a tie, and as there are nine members on Massillon City Council, if everyone shows up to the meeting, there won't be a tie.

Word is that some folks believe "that woman" appointed Hernnon purely to give her pal Tony Townsend a free ride because Townsend would be her lackey as council president.

But if Hennon agreed to work for her, isn't he now her lackey, too?

So aren't they both her lackeys?

So did it really matter who became council president?

Both candidates appear to be Catazaro-from-Perry lackeys.

In discussing mayoral appointees by "that woman," Team Cicchinelli uses it's own rubric for evaluating their fitness to serve.

If the person knows Catazaro-from-Perry, they are a lackey, and if they ever agree with anything she wants to do, they are a rubber stamp. And trust us, nobody knows more about rubber stamping than Team Cicchinelli.

So, logic would dictate the only people "that woman" could hire who would garner the approval of the associates of our Once & Future Mayor for Life are people she has never met who hate her.

Those people probably are not going to get hired.

We would well imagine that for Al Hennon to be offered and accept the top job in the city, he probably already knew "that woman," and probably (gasp) agreed with the way she was running our fair city.

The problems at high school were more important than this.

Someone else wanted to be King of Homecoming.