Let's Get This Party Started

Ohio Governor John Kasich has made his third and final appointment to Massillon's Financial Planning and Supervision Commission.

Bob Gessner of Massillon Cable TV.

He joins local businessman Bob Yund and former Perry Township Administrator Elaine Campbell.

Some may question the appointment of Campbell, as she worked in that pagan wasteland known as Perry Township, but we decided to give her a pass after the uncovering of several facts by our crack Massillon Review research team.

Firstly, we can find no evidence that Perry Township ever experienced the dire financial problems plaguing Massillon that occurred as a result of the poor deals and overspending under the leadership of the Extraordinary One, Massillon's Once & Future Mayor for Life.

Secondly, Campbell does reside here in the warm confines of the City of Champions as she is a citizen of Tigertown.

The players are in place and it appears time the Commission gets to the serious of work of straightening out the mess.

We hope they do not maintain the same laser like focus on municipal finances that our city council has, or they will spend six weeks debating the seating chart, and whether or not the mayor has to sit in the hallway during the meetings.

Just last week, despite facing a multi-million dollar shortfall, with delinquent bills piling up to the ceiling, City Council decided it was time to spend more money on capital acquisitions.

Seriously.

How about using that money to pay the bills?

Part of this attitude, no doubt, results from the fact some members of council won't believe their own eyes and see the financial wreckage wrought by the former regime.

It would be a sign of disloyalty to the prior occupant of the mayor's office.

They continue to believe all is fine, all is well, and the only problem is that the current mayor, Kathy Catazaro-from-Perry scammed the State of Ohio, and cheer leaded us into a problem that otherwise did not exist.

Unfortunately for Massillon, the problem is real.

We are broke.

And ignoring the problem hasn't worked.

It has brought the State of Ohio into the mix.

And hopefully the Commission won't tolerate the shenanigans going on by some of our elected so-called leaders.

And will worry about the finances instead of who sits where at the meetings, and selecting a parks director who already has the job.