He believes he is being picked on.
From yesterday's Independent newspaper;
FOR YOUR INFO During a public comment period, Councilman at-large Larry Slagle, a Democrat, offered to donate $250 to a charity of choice to anyone who ousts an anonymous “blogger” or website producer who he claims is unprofessionally “attacking” him periodically.
Slagle called the website author a “coward” for not putting a name and face to the content. In addition, he noted he doesn’t like being called a “boy” or “boy wonder” on the site.
Slagle cited professional courtesy as a reason for the individual to go public.
"Attacking him."
And referring to him as "boy" or "boy wonder."
Well, he certainly can't be referring to the crack staff at the Massillon Review, as we do not refer to him with the pejorative "boy."
Now, as far as the "Boy Wonder," that is another issue entirely.
For those unfamiliar with the exploits of the Caped Crusader, the protector of Gotham City, Batman, be advised that Batman has a sidekick, a junior partner, a "Watson" to Batman's "Sherlock Holmes."
And this sidekick's nom de plume is Robin, also referred to as "The Boy Wonder."
A sidekick.
Now, we understand that the Honorable Member of Council might be upset because we have done the unthinkable.
We repeated his previously printed quotes, shared with our readers his proposed park plans, and delved into his prior interest in the parks system.
Yes, certainly a horrific attack from which he shall never recover.
It is certainly not our fault he left in "City of Brunswick" when cutting and pasting together his ordinance.
He can only blame himself.
While our crack staff discusses the topics of the day in our fair city, gleaned from the pages of our local newspaper, or shared with us by our faithful readers, we do so with a tongue in cheek approach, with personal animus towards none.
Perhaps we would be better served by the Honorable Member of Council's own example of professional courtesy.
Or, perhaps we would not.
Our faithful readers like to share with us, and we like that they like keeping us informed.
And we were so pleased to learn of the decorum and respect shown at a Massillon City Council meeting several weeks ago when the Honorable Member of Council Larry Slagle and his colleague, the Honorable Member of Council Paul Manson queried our City's Chief Executive as to the reasoning behind former Park Director Kenn Kaminski's resignation.
Now, be mindful that Mr. Kaminski departed from the employ of the City of Champions a year and a half ago.
He resigned.
But his resignation seemed to be the topic of the day with the Honorable Larry Slagle and the Honorable Paul Manson.
The fact our beloved hometown was slipping deeper and deeper into a fiscal morass did not draw comparable attention.
The Honorable Mr. Slagle and the Honorable Mr. Manson began to grill our mayor, the Honorable Kathy Catazaro-Perry as to her role in Mr. Kaminski's departure.
They claimed she drove him out.
And when she claimed this was not the case, they claimed she lied and called her a liar.
Liar.
Harsh words and a strong allegation.
So what's the truth?
Let's ask Kenn Kaminski.
We now present an excerpt of a letter shared at a subsequent meeting of our esteemed City Council, a correspondence rapidly making it's way through cyberspace;
Good afternoon Mayor,
I hope all is well and you are enjoying the nice weather. As you know I have been gone from my position for you for a year now. I have been watching Massillon from a distance and I see that you are doing an admirable job even under the very bad financial situation that you were dealt. Keep up the good work.
The reason that I am writing you is because I wanted to make you aware of why I withdrew from the interview process for the Director of Recreation. I am going to have to digress a little to give you a little background. After you were elected, I felt that we had a very good relationship and I truly respected all that you and Mr. Maier were trying to accomplish. I felt that we would have a great working relationship and I felt that both of you realized that I put my whole heart and soul into being the best employee for the recreation department. I made the decision to leave 100% due to the Recreation Board’s two members, Mr. Rickett and Mr. Hickey. At the time I thought that you and Mr. Maier could trust me and most importantly count on me to lead the department in a positive direction. I understand that the trust factor is very important on both ends and I felt that we believed in each other even as I was carrying around the tag “a Cicchinelli guy”, I think both you and Mr. Maier realized that I was loyal to who was in the office of the Mayor and Safety Service Director and not the previous administration...
Yes, we can clearly see by the above correspondence that the Honorable Members of Council were quite right to question the Honorable Mayor Kathy Catazaro-Perry's integrity and call her a liar.We are also confident that the Honorable Members of Council in question subsequently apologized in a profuse and sincere manner for incorrectly sullying the integrity of our mayor.
For to do otherwise would indicate a complete lack of professional courtesy.
We only ask that the Honorable Member of Council, Larry Slagle join with us in cherishing the uniquely American right of free speech.
And we encourage him to donate his $250 "bounty" to a local civic or charitable organization of his choice. Perhaps even one that would have been eligible for community development dollars had they not been expended on a hotel mortgage.
