Mike Wells ( I removed his email and date/ time to protect him from any attacks),
I read your piece and can't tell you how good it is to have like minded men like you here in Vienna. God Bless
In any case, thank you Mike. A kind word is always appreciated when usually all I get are vicious attacks.
I noted the other day I was going to comment on the paranoia as a person put it going on at City Hall lately? It seems that Mr. Rapp is on the warpath? He is supposedly accusing there is at least one person there of being a "leak" to me on what is happening? Mr. Rapp, you are wrong. It is not just one person that is putting out the truth on what is going on there; it is several. But not by the means you think?
So I will here and now apologize for getting anyone into hot water for whatever the internal allegations against City Staff are going on?
Mr. Rapp it is your arrogance which has led to the abuses of Position, Power and Authority that you wield like an imaginary Lord and Master, people are in some and in other ways, many seem to be unhappy with what you are doing to "manage" them. Manage is the key and operative word.
In 2014 when some were asking me to run for Mr. Thornton's empty seat I declined because I felt I could do more good for the City as an outsider than to be on the City Council were I to win. As we all now know, Mr. Azinger swooped in based on name familiarity if not on any ability and cleaned house.
But at that time I was approached by a person who wanted to tell me about how you "allegedly" treated your employees when you owned the gas stations? I said as it was a personal issue I would not want to get involved as I have tried to stay out of personal issues up to now. But in hind sight which is always 20- 20 makes me wonder but that I should have at least listened if nothing else?
Another person some months later wanted to tell me about alleged bankruptcies in your businesses whatever that covered? Again, I declined; but again based on your insatiable spending on just about everything with City dollars and how the Capital Reserve is being depleted from what it was; maybe I should have at least listened to that too?
As I watched in the last Budget and Finance meeting where you just got up and walked out to talk to whomever without so much as an "excuse me" to your staff, myself excluded of course and your return a couple of minutes later, again not a bit "sorry, let's continue", shows me that arrogance and disrespect from you.
I will not tell you of yet two other incidents concerning City Staff that alerted me to trouble in Paradise or should I say "Mayberry"? So if you want to go after these people, it will not be on my part in any way, shape or form. Mr. Rapp, YOU are YOUR own worst enemy as Mayor; not your Staff.
See where the State has had its bond rating downgraded. That is going to be tough for us. It will take some time, maybe years to get it back up. In the mean time we will ALL pay in higher interest rates as the State borrows from whomever for whatever. And as we know, the worst is still not over as the Legislature tries to balance the 2016- 2017 Budget. Can Mr. Tomblin provide enough smoke and mirrors or will the folks have to provide their own? Time as in all things will out the Truth on this?
And is anyone really surprised at the fact that Ohio accidents have increased since the speed limit went up to 70 MPH on their freeways? In the speed limit is 70, we all know many are doing 80- 90 MPH. You do NOT stop easily or quickly at those speeds. It was a mistake then and will continue to be one. How long till we decide traffic enforcement on speeders is more easily done by raising the limit than enforcing saner speeds here? 'nuff said'.
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