A Legendary Defeat

Massillon Fourth Ward Councilman, Shaddrick Stinson, worked tirelessly to show the homeowners at the Legends of Massillon Golf Course love.

He fought tirelessly to get the City to hire a $65,000 a year golf course manager and marketer.

The key priorities of his re-election campaign were laid out in a Repository election story;

"He would like to continue to move the city out of fiscal emergency status and he would like to see a manager hired for the Legends of Massillon Golf Course."
(The Repository, April 13, 2015)

And the word on the street is that Councilman Stinson was so passionate about protecting the golf course for his Ward 4 constituents, and hiring a $65,000 per year golf course manager, he almost got in a fight over it, a physical confrontation, with a certain Parks Board member at the conclusion of the March Parks Board meeting. They had to be physically separated by Parks Board member Dave Irwin.

Shaddrick Stinson was clearly all in on his attempt to help the golf course and his constituent homeowners at the Legends of Massillon.

He and his campaign manager, Robert Spencer, repeatedly reached out to the Extraordinary One as he sat on his thrown in exile next at his home adjacent to the Golf Course.

Stinson promised to be 'Independent,' a word former mayor Cicchinelli is recently familiar with.

Stinson repeatedly opposed the current mayor on proposal after proposal so he could prove his 'independence ' of the mayor by doing whatever Councilman Paul Manson, a die hard Cicchinelli loyalist, wanted.

He desperately wanted to fit in with the Cicchinelli city council faction.

He did everything Team Cicchinelli wanted him to do.

He supported Team Cicchinelli on every issue.

So, of course, he was rewarded at election time, right?

Nope.

Team Cicchinelli had other ideas.

Stinson got crushed in the Massillon Ward 4 Democratic Primary.

Just crushed.

Team Cicchinelli member Jill Creamer beat Stinson 61.8% to 38,2%.

So, with a margin of defeat so large, we must assume that Stinson was repudiated through out the entire 4th ward, right?

Nope.

Stinson actually won 3 out of the 4 precincts in Ward 4.

Stinson won every precinct except the one precinct comprising the homes around the Legends of Massillon Golf Course.

The three precincts Stinson won are known as the Traditional 4th Ward.

Stinson actually received 71.5% of the vote in the Traditional 4th Ward.

But, under the leadership of Joy and Frank Cicchinelli, the homeowners around the Legends Golf Course have been whipped into a virtual political party.

And in the one precinct comprising the Legends of Massillon Golf Course, Stinson only received 12.8% of the vote.

12.8%.

He almost got into a fist fight protecting the golf course, and his reward from the Legends homeowners was 12.8%.

As we have already discussed, this one precinct (1 of 26 citywide) was responsible for over 10% of the entire Democratic vote in the City of Massillon.

This one precinct in Ward 4 was responsible for almost 57% of the entire Ward 4 vote.

And they gave their sitting councilman, a man who tirelessly fought for their cause, an embarrasing 12.8% of the vote.

We find it odd that Jill Creamer, who's husband was the former Massillon Tigers Boys Basketball Coach, has struck up such a tight alliance with Team Cicchinelli.

Surely they are aware of the rumors that The Extraordinary One was part of a faction that wanted Matt Creamer out as coach?

But politics makes strange bedfellows, and the Creamers are all in with the Cicchinellis.

And Shaddrick Stinson is out after suffering a Legendary political defeat.

Despite carrying the water of the homeowners at the Legends Golf Course, his reward was 12.8% of the vote.

The Extraordinary One is back flexing his political muscle.

In a Legendary fashion.