The Governor Is Stopping By

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland is coming to town today. He is stopping by the home of a Massillon resident. Who is Governor Strickland coming to visit? Massillon Third Ward Council Representative Kathy Catazaro-Perry.

We bet Massillon's Mayor for life is none too happy. Our Mayor for Life sees Catazaro-Perry as his arch political nemesis because she does crazy things like voting against using park money to buy a restaurant with no business plan, or voting against the mayor's unbalanced budget, or voting against spending our tax dollars to pay for the mortgage of a private hotel, or by asking for a performance audit of city government to root out waste and mismanagement, or demanding that the mayor and council give up their annual, unvoted pay raises. No, she thinks for herself and doesn't rubber stamp for the mayor. That makes her evil. Worse than evil, that makes her "Anti-Cicchinelli."

Catazaro-Perry must have some serious political mojo to have the Governor of Ohio pop by the house for a chat. Maybe she is running for mayor. Any one who can get the Governor to drop by their home for tea and cookies is someone to be taken seriously.

Our mayor, never one to hold a grudge (cough, cough) is probably screaming about how "Anti-Massillon" Strickland is to anyone within earshot. We can almost hear him...

"Strickland hates Massillon. He tried to get rid of Obie."

We are going out on a limb and speculating that our Mayor for Life will not be on Catazaro-Perry's guest list.