"They're Here."

Insidious, unwanted, blood-sucking parasites, who embed themselves in our community, and are impossible to rid. Bed bugs?

Worse. Carpetbaggers.

When announcing his candidacy for a seventh term as Massillon's Mayor for Life, our mayor warned us of such vile creatures;

"Cicchinelli also said outsiders should not dabble in city politics. He said he would call out such "carpetbaggers..." There's going to be a line drawn in the sand, he said, refusing to identify such people" (The Independent, July 31, 2010).

The Massillon Review once more stands with our Mayor for Life in drawing a line in the sand. We are once again calling out the carpetbaggers.

We have called out numerous carpetbaggers in the past, including;

The mayor's campaign contributors;

www.massillonreview.blogspot.com/2010/08/line-in-sand.html

The mayor's department heads;

www.massillonreview.blogspot.com/2010/08/they-walk-among-us.html

The mayor's public relations firm;

www.massillonreview.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-carpetbaggers.html

and the mayor himself;

www.massillonreview.blogspot.com/2010/08/carpetbagger-exposed.html

We now sound the trumpet to warn of even more carpetbaggers. These carpetbaggers have invaded our fair city, are dabbling in our city politics, and are making life difficult for our beloved Mayor for Life. These people are the residents of the Tuslaw School District who are protesting our mayor's plan to annex every school building in the Tuslaw Local School District.

This is a Massillon issue. These people are jealous because our Mayor for Life had hatched a scheme to skillfully exploit a loophole in Ohio law, and annex the Tuslaw schools. He was going to harvest $120,000 in income tax off the backs of Tuslaw teachers to help plug the black hole that is the Massillon City budget. By law, the Tuslaw schools had no right to object. Everything was going fine until those pesky Tuslaw people invaded our town.

These carpetbaggers grabbed their pitchforks and rode to the sound of the Massillon Council meetings, and to the mayor's town hall meetings. They phoned, emailed, and badgered Massillon City Council members to object to the mayor's plan.

These carpetbaggers have even been seen on Massillon's West side, going door to door, and having decent, God fearing native Massillonians sign their petition objecting to our Mayor for Life's scheme.

The pressure seems to be working. Several of the mayor's normally reliable council rubber stamps may actually oppose our mayor's scheme. For several members, this would be the first time they ever objected to a plan hatched by our Mayor for Life.

The Mayor is calling a press conference for 2:00PM tomorrow. Will he be changing his annexation plans? Has the Tuslaw carpetbaggers foray into Massillon politics been successful? Our Mayor for Life doesn't like to lose. The ball is now in his court.