Do You Believe in Miracles? Yes!

Residents of the Tuslaw School District stood up to the undisputed King of Massillon Politics, a man who has dominated the Massillon political scene for 37 years, our Mayor for Life, Frank Cicchinelli. And Cicchinelli backed down.

With no legal right to object to our Mayor for Life's plan to annex an entire school system, the residents of Tuslaw could have easily rolled over and played dead.

They instead chose to stand and fight. They pressured the mayor. They pressured the rubber stamps on city council. They pressured the rubber stamps so much, that some of them openly claimed that they would oppose the mayor's plan.

Then the residents of Tuslaw started going door to door... in Massillon, and had Massillon residents overwhelmingly support their cause, and sign their petition opposing this tax grab masked as an annexation.

Our Mayor for Life's budget shortfall is huge. The $120,000 in income tax he would have reaped from Tuslaw's teachers would have helped him close his budget chasm.

But he overreached. A school system is the heart and soul of a community. What Massillon's Mayor for Life proposed was a theft of the Tuslaw schools. Tuslaw residents knew this was wrong. Massillon residents knew this was wrong, too.

The political pressure became too much for our embattled mayor to handle. Even the rubber stamps were beginning to retreat from the battlefield. Donnie Peters, David McCune, and even Taxman Hersher began to object.

Our Mayor for Life is running for a seventh term next year. He isn't as popular as he once was. And he knows it. This isn't his first retreat;

www.massillonreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/mayor-has-got-tonys-back.html

But it is his biggest. The mayor is on the run. He is concerned. He was beaten by a bunch of carpetbaggers from Tuslaw.

Congratulations to the residents of Tuslaw who chose to fight against long odds. You have taken the battlefield.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTgx_pj6m8

The day is yours.