Friends are important in the daily hustle and bustle of the modern world.
You see, even a Mayor for Life can't impose his extraordinary will on our fair city without help from City Council.
Back in the day, these folks on Council would cheerfully rubber stamp proposals such as golf course expansions, hotel purchases, and arena boondoggles with nary a word of discussion.
And as a result, Tiger Town is still reeling from the financial ramifications of these extraordinarily questionable expenditures of our tax dollars.
Drowning in the vat of red ink left by Massillon's former CEO.
For example, as a result of the ill-fated nine hole expansion of our beloved municipal golf course, we will still be paying off the debt on the Legends of Massillon until 2032.
Only 19 more years and it's all ours!
For those keeping score at home, it will be paid off in what we assume will be the first year of Frank Cicchinelli's 11th term in office, as no doubt his prudent and responsible fiscal management during his first reign as sovereign will, no doubt, convince the voters of Massillon to return him to power in 2015, and having survived the "Usurper," "That Woman from Perry," we will prudently return him to office every four year hence.
Ah, but those deals for golf course expansions, hotel purchases, and plans for a 6,500 seat hockey arena happened in the past.
In the long ago, and the far away.
Those deals were rubber stamped by people who have long since departed Massillon City Council.
Disappeared into the mists of history.
All of those people must be long gone by now, mustn't they?
