We Need Better Carpetbaggers

Insidious blood sucking parasites, who embed themselves in our community, and are impossible to rid.

Is it bed bugs?

Worse. Carpetbaggers.

Our Mayor for Life has warned us of these vile creatures.

"Cicchinelli also said outsiders should not dabble in city politics. He said he will 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).

We at the Massillon Review have taken this call to action, and have exposed these carpetbaggers.

They include;

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 relation firm;

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

And the mayor himself

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

Today, in the Independent, we learn there are even more carpetbaggers.

Clerk of Courts Johnnie Maier, and Deputy Clerk of Courts Shane Jackson now run the city.

They don't live in our beloved city and they control Kathy Catazaro-Perry. Probably with some kind of jedi mind trick.

"I'm my own man," he (Cicchinelli) said. "Kathy is not her own lady. She's being told what to say and what to do" (The Independent, February 8, 2011)

Well of course she is. She's a woman. Government, as implied by our mayor, is men's work.

We are going to guess he would not have made this same misogynistic statement if his opponent were a man.

Carpetbaggers in Charge

"On Wednesday, Cicchinelli accused Massillon Clerk of Courts Johnnie Maier and Deputy Clerk Shane Jackson of trying to control the city and called them "carpetbaggers" because they live outside Massillon" (The Independent, February 8, 2011).

Mr. Jackson and Mr. Maier do not appear to be doing a very good job of controlling our city.

Maier and Jackson have a golf course that is mired deeply in debt, are paying the mortgage on a private hotel, bought a restaurant with no business plan, and presented a city budget that under funds police and fire budgets by well over a million dollars.

We definitely need better carpetbaggers.