They Hate Massillon

Massillon's Extraordinary Mayor for Life, King Francis the Eternal, Lord Sovereign of the city is just shocked.

Shocked that the same five members of city council voted the same way on the same budget they voted "No" on just three months ago.

And after all the work Cicchinelli has put into fixing the budget since the "No" vote on December 20th.

Which was none.

Of course, we speculated that in the 'Buck stops every where but the mayor's desk,' world of Frank Cicchinelli, none of this would be his fault.

And Frank Cicchinelli does not disappoint.

It's all the fault of the five members of city council who voted "No" on the same budget they voted "No" on three months ago.

And why did they vote no?

Because the budget was an unbalanced mess?

Nope.

Because they hate the mayor, and they hate Massillon.

"I really believe you have members of council who their only goal is to create controversy, create chaos so somehow it would of course hurt the city and hurt me in particular" (Frank Cicchinelli, The Independent, March 22, 2011).

It's all about Frank.

He did nothing wrong.

Donnie Peters, who has donated thousands of dollars to our Extraordinary Mayor for Life's campaigns, wanted to "hurt the city and hurt Frank."

Larry Slagle, who votes for what the mayor wants 90% of the time, wanted to "hurt the city."

Larry Slagle, who votes to use our Community Development Block Grant Money to pay the mortgage on the Hampton Inn, voted to spend our park dollars to buy a restaurant, and voted to impose Taxman Hersher's "Storm Water Utility Fee," wanted to "hurt Frank."

"The action tonight by the five members of council to me show the disdain that they have for the operation of city government" (Frank Cicchinelli, post council meeting press conference, March 21, 2011).

We all knew none of this would be his fault.