Vet . .. Thank you for giving our cause a focus and for outlining a plan ofaction to bring honesty and integrity back to Middletown citygovernment. Every point you made is valid while also being realisticabout the feasibility of achieving our goal. I’m sure these ideasare not new to you after fighting this battle for so long.

Sinceit’s so late in the game this year, and that makes failure morelikely, a default plan could be a petition for recall next year. Your idea, Vet!! (Not suggesting that we shouldn’t try this year.) That means we would need five candidates for next year to replaceall of council and the mayor. If we started planning now for nextyear, we may have a better chance. I wonder if we could draw on theinner circle of this forum to run as a block; to at least gaincontrol, straighten things out and then foster some interest in a newgroup to train to take over from there.?!?

Then,assuming success, we could “clean house” starting with the firingof Doug Atkins (unless he jumps ship first) and work right throughthe rest of city hall. We could dump all the abusive ordinances;close down the exclusive, expensive and useless bureaucracies and getback to basics.

To thecity employees who monitor this forum, we would quickly find out who,among all the employees in city departments, are concerned citizensand who are out just for themselves alone. We know that many cityworkers are just hanging on til retirement so that they can thenescape Middletown. Some, I’m sure have had their jobs held hostagefor their silence about less than acceptable practices in the citybuilding. A priority would be to recover funds which were purposelymisspent..

But thecolossal tangle in the financial department will take some time andexpertise to repair and reorganize. There would be no more shellgames played with Enterprise Funds and the General Fund.

The pages of thisforum are filled with so many political and moral transgressionsperpetrated by the current city hall that it is impossible todeal with all of them in the confines of one page. The currentand past two and one half years of extreme mismanagement, abuse ofpower, and fiscal and fiduciary irresponsibility may take some timeto correct.

Wecould hire Nick Kidd as city manager!!!

ToMiddletown’s ‘sheeple’ (sheep and people combined into a newword):

Weneed your attention! Citizens of the silent, but perhaps no longer,majority (due to the large number of Section 8 residents) who gave upyears ago, who have laid down and now wait to be sheared and/orslaughtered; please read the original report, then the paraphrasedcopy of the following quote. Hopefully you will see the parallels,and comparisons drawn inside the ( )’s! If you can see it, you most likely can draw more parallels of yourown! But, if you get bored (hope not) just skip down to “THE END”and read the rest. And then let’s TAKE IT TO THE BALLOT! Thereis no time like the present to regain control of ourcity government.

WorldNews Report by EIN Newsdesk & EIN Presswire (a pressrelease . . .

BearChases 200 Sheep Over Cliff Edge to Their Deaths

Jul24, 2017 - Trending on EIN Newsdesk quoted from www.theguardian.com

“Morethan 200 sheep have plunged to their deaths in the Pyrenees whileapparently trying to escape a brown bear. The bears have beenreintroduced to the mountain region over the past 15 years afterbeing wiped out by hunters.

Thesheep, which belonged to a farmer in Couflens, south-west France, arethought to have taken fright when the bear appeared in the area lastSunday.

Afterthe predator attacked one of the sheep, 209 others in the flockpanicked and hurled themselves off a 200 metre-high cliff on theborder between France and Spain.

Thebodies of 169 sheep were found the next day at the foot of the cliffin the Spanish village of Lladorre. The other dead animals were foundin France.

TheSpanish news agency Europa Press said bear fur had been found on oneof the dead sheep and would be analysed to try to establish exactlywhat had happened.

Althoughthe French government will compensate the farmer for his loss, theincident has provoked an angry response from the local branch of theFrench farmers’ federation.”

Analogywith paraphrasing:

Morethan 200 sheep (Sheeple,or almostallthe peopleinour city)have plunged to their deaths (havebeenstruck deaf and dumb)in the Pyrenees(inMiddletown) whileapparently trying to escape (whileallowing themselves to bemisled, overtaxed andplacedinto bondage withtheir property held hostage by) a brown bear(anoppressive city hall).The bears (Theoccupants of city hall) havebeen reintroduced to the mountain region overthe past 15 years (havebecome more powerful overthe past three decades)after being wiped out (afterthey werenot kept under control)by hunters (bysheeple citizenswho failed tokeep themselves informedabout the operation,integrity and accountability oftheir city government).

Thesheep,whichbelonged toa farmer(sheeplecitizenswhowereunaware ofthelack ofhonest leadershipintheircitygovernment)inCouflens, south-west France,(inMiddletown)arethought to have takenfright(hadlostinterest, losttheir willand therefore lost control)whenthe bear(citycouncil)appeared(brazenlydeclaringthat they would decide all governing matters for all the sheeple. Thencitycouncil suppressedor ignored any citizen participation andrefused to acknowledge the protest of a few citizens who had not beentransformed into sheeple. inthe arealastSundayoverthe last several decades.

Afterthepredator(cityhall)attacked(andbeganto abusetheir power,taxand spend on everything except the legallyrequired fiduciary responsibilities[publicsafety and maintenanceofinfrastructure];repeatedlyshowingthemselvesto be incompetent and/orcorrupt;sadly,many)sheep(sheeple)209others in the flockpanicked(wereblindlyfooled by aclevercity council’s lazy,pompous,selfinterested propaganda. Councilsaid ‘everythingisOK’ andthe sheepleallowed council to give allthe governingpowerto thecity manager whosaidshe/he wouldtake care of everything for them.)andhurled themselves off a 200 metre-high cliffonthe border between France and Spain(Andtheblindedsheeplesealedtheir fate as slaves because theyforgotabouttheirright to vote the ‘bears’out of office inMiddletown). Thebodiesof169sheep(sleepy,spell-boundsheeple)werefound the next day at the foot of the cliff in the Spanish village ofLladorre(havesince then been stuckina quagmire of city ordinances designed to swallow upanyand all revenueswhichwillbe frivolously spentonemploying theircroniesas directors of craftily created, new and redundant bureaucracies oronanyotherdesiredpurpose whichwill aid in hiding the costly,clandestine, circuitousflow of, sometimes non-existence funds). Theother deadanimals(Othersheeplewho have beencaught tryingto expose corruption or are being punished for trying to help orvolunteer their time and expertise tohelp others)werefound in France(werefound in Middletown’s kangaroo court, paying fines for minorviolationsof the 6” grass or peeling paint ordinances. Somecases were carried to such extreme that, eventually,homeswere lost dueto inability to pay exorbitant, excessive and cumulative fines whichthe city had assessedto the sheeples’real estate taxes forminor violations ofabusive ordinances.)

TheSpanish news agency Europa Press (TheJournal News) saidbear fur had been found on one of the dead sheep and would beanalysed (saidexactly, and only, what the city council told them tosay) totry to establish (aidand abet a cover upof)exactly what had happened(. . . the completeruin of the city of Middletown).

Althoughthe French government (HUDand other government assistanceprograms and grants, etc.,which were oftenabused,) will(but,may nolonger, in some cases,)compensate the farmer (citizenryof Middletown) for his loss (forthe city’s self-inflicted problems and misuseof funds;) theincident (plusyears of abuse) has provoked (shouldhave provoked) an angry response (andwide spread uprising) from thelocal branch of the French farmers’ federation(amonga shockedand awakenedsheeple citizenry.)

THEEND

Ifonly we had an active, informed federationof Middletown citizensto return our citygovernment to reason and balance. Shall we continue to be‘sheeple’? Are there ANY responsible, thinking citizens who arewilling and able to break the sheepish, blind and dumb mold intowhich our City Council(s) have pressed us?

Allpower and control has been usurped and placed in the hands of a citygovernment which is out of control and which represents a few elitecitizens to the detriment of the silent (now oppressed)majority. Years ago, City Council asked for and was given (by asmall percentage of Middletown voters at the ballot box)discretionary spending over the city’s Income Tax Revenue and thenWITHOUT asking for voter approval, illegally took libertieswith ALL city revenues including Enterprise Funds which should NEVERhave been used for anything other than their designated purpose.

Thiscircumstance has been exacerbated by the Section 8 residents who votefor every proposed additional Real Estate Tax (such as levies toUNNECESSARILY replace school buildings which, by the way, has NOTimproved our extremely poor academic rating). BUT SECTION 8’ersDON’T PAY ONE RED CENT OF REAL ESTATE TAX!!! Most of them don’twork, so don’t contribute to City Income Tax, but they can vote toraise income taxes on all the other residents! They can vote onelection of council members and other issues. (Maybe that’s howCouncil stays in office?) Also quite a number of Section 8’ers maylikely be opioid addicts . . . our most recent problem which madenational news. We were already the lowest of the lowly dying cities. Now we must jump up to reach bottom.

Aren’tyou tired of looking ridiculous in the eyes of our nation? WHAT MOREWILL IT TAKE TO WAKE US UP? TO TAKE ACTION? TO BECOME REAL, VOTINGAMERICAN CITIZENSAGAIN? We must not be duped by the CityManager’sclaim that others have the same problems and poor conditions thatwe do. Justlook around, WAKE UP! The surrounding area is BOOMING . . . suchas West Chester where OURformer Corporate Office of AK Steel relocated. We can be ‘BOOMERS’ too, if we TAKE IT TO THE BALLOT. Votethe predators out!!!! Thenholdthe newly elected to their promise forchange andrestoration of honestyand integrity,bystayinginformedaboutourcitygovernment’soperations. ANDSOME OF US MUST BE WILLING TO BECOME THE NEWLY ELECTED! Thereis no quick fix but we must start sometime!Whynot now? Obviously,just pointing out and complaining about our problems is NOT ASOLUTIONand WILLNOT SUFFICE.