Day 47

We are 47 days into 2011.

And the City of Massillon still does not have a budget.

Shockingly, Massillon City Council rejected our beloved Mayor for Life's unbalanced sham masquerading as a budget back in December.

The rubber stamp bloc of Taxman Hersher, Lap Dog of the Treasury Manson, "I am the law" McCune, and Ron Mang voted yes.

Kathy Catazaro-Perry, Gary Anderson, and Tony Townsend voted no.

They were joined by both Larry Slagle and Donnie Peters in rejecting the budget scam.

And what has our mayor done to fix the budget in the past two months?

Absolutely nothing.

It's always been "my way or the highway" in King Francis the Eternal's world.

He gave council a budget, screwed up as it was, and in his mind, his job is done.

It is now the auditor's problem, and council's problem, and every one else's problem.

But not his problem.

The buck never stops at the mayor's desk in Massillon.

The budget plan, if you can call it that, is to convince either Slagle or Peters to change his vote.

One of them will cave in. It's just a question of who.

And the budget will be passed as originally submitted by the mayor.

Because the mayor is never wrong.

Massillon Review Fun Fact

The City of Massillon still owes $9,788,907.50 in payments on the Legends of Massillon Golf Course.

Almost 10 million dollars.

The golf course, on a good day, is worth less than $3 million dollars.

This year's payment will be $524,045.00.

Over half a million dollars.

We could fix a lot of parks with half a million dollars.

Or even fix the dam at Reservoir Park before it bursts, preventing a "probable loss of human life."

We at the Massillon Review realize the golf course debacle can't be the mayor's fault.

It must be the fault of "overzealous golfers," or worse yet...

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