Marshall's logic
"Recent issues including an assistant coach and booster club member growing and selling marijuana, could have been avoided, Weinberg said, if the football coach could report directly to the superintendent."
- Marshall Weinberg, in explaining his support for the 'reorganization' of the Washington High School Athletic Department, which would have made the head football coach the athletic director, and the offensive coordinator the assistant athletic director, and how this move could have stopped a major marijuana growing operation where the main culprits went to prison (The Independent, March 30, 2010).
Lisa Carmichael's terms of endearment
"You're an ***hole, Marshall"
- Massillon City Schools Superintendent Lisa Carmichael, expressing her unvarnished opinion of School Board member Marshall Weinberg (The Independent, March 8, 2010).
Spouting the party line
"There is no doubt the parks and recreation department is getting more criticism this year (than in the past)," he said. "I think the reason is two things. One there will also be anti- (Mayor Frank) Cicchinelli people. If he says the sky is blue they will think it is green and, two, there are people who are continually looking for something to pick on."
- Parks Czar Kenn Kaminski explaining that the parks aren't in horrible condition despite visual evidence to the contrary. It is only that critics of the parks system are "Anti-Cicchinelli" (The Independent, May 10, 2010).
Give me liberty or...
tax "comes with the territory," noting he's tired of hearing arguments about "taxation without representation."
- Alleged Republican and Massillon's answer to Patrick Henry, 5th Ward Councilman Donnie Peters expressing his views on the people opposing Massillon's annexation of R.G. Drage school. (The Independent, April 13, 2010).
Paranoia will destroy ya'"Cicchinelli is a vindictive, sociopathic control freak. He's running the city into the ground."
- Andrew Oser, potential mayoral candidate (The Independent, October 29, 2010).
"And I really feel bad for the mayor because every time someone comes up with something and is an independent thinker he thinks there has to be a conspiracy. The guy's got a serious case of paranoia."
- 4th Ward Councilman Tony Townsend (The Independent, November 20, 2010).
The Pledge
"Mayor Cicchinelli told 4th Ward residents there are no plans to sell Shriver park, or many others, and he pledged to Councilman Tony Townsend that he would help him rename Shriver by urging his Parks and Recreation Board appointees to vote in favor of it."
- Massillon's Mayor for Life, after being pressured at a Ward 4 Town Hall meeting, pledging his support to rename Shriver Park after former Ward 4 Councilman, the late T. Roy Roberson (The Independent, August 31, 2010). Of course the mayor's appointees on the Park Board both voted no, as did the mayor's rubber stamp bloc on council. So much for his "pledge."
July's Frank Cicchinelli
"We'll be able to pay for these increases," Cicchinelli said. "I'm not concerned about it. We will be there. I feel confident the dollars will be there to make it through this year and we'll have the dollars to make it through next year" (The Independent, July 6, 2010).
November's Frank Cicchinelli
"The need for additional revenue is not going to go away," Cicchinelli said, urging council to help find new money for the city" (The Independent, November 9, 2010).
Prudent city planning
"You're right. We did go into this without a business plan"
- Julie Jenkins, Office Manager, Parks and Recreation/ Legends Golf Course, in a letter to the Massillon Review confirming that the City of Massillon spent almost $200,000 dollars to buy the restaurant at the golf course without having a business plan.
