We Have Questions

This morning, Massillon's Mayor for Life will be delivering his annual 'State of the City' address at the Massillon Fraternal Order of Eagles.

The audience will be filled with loyal lap dogs, city employees, and city department heads who have been 'encouraged' to buy tickets, and pass them out to their employees.

People may ask the mayor questions, but they must first put them in writing, including the media, and the mayor will decide if he wishes to answer a particular question.

This sham format is being orchestrated by Bob Sanderson, Massillon Chamber of Commerce President, and a former Cicchinelli employee.

The questions are being screened, so that our mayor for life will not be embarrassed, and will not have to answer the tough questions.

Tough questions about the unprofitable golf course, its staggering debt, and how he raids the park income tax to subsidize it.

Questions about the private hotel we pay the mortgage on, a restaurant we bought without a business plan, a dam about to burst, and unvoted lifetime pay raises for elected officials.

No, these questions won't be answered.

They will, however, be asked.

A number of our faithful readers are attending the 'State of the City,' and they will be asking these questions.

We suspect they will be screened.

We suspect the mayor will not be answering them.

The mayor for life will not be handling the tough questions because...

You don't get to be mayor for life by answering the tough questions in a room full of people, with the local press covering the event.

The question and answer session is a joke. The format is a sham.

This is a campaign event, and the local media should treat it as such.