Split among Council

You people must act. You are being taken for fools. The mayor talks to you as if you are idiots.

First, you must only wait until 11/2011 to vote for a new councilman if it is the mayor’s seat that is vacant. Read your charter. Other seats can be filled at the next “regular election.” This November (2010) is a “regular election.” Perhaps they are just stalling until after it is too late for candidates to file. That sounds like the kind of trick Landen would play.

Next the 2 factions are obviously deadlocked. don’t wait for them to maneuver or compromise. Insist that they do not. Insist on someone with the character to make the right decisions and the integrity to stand by those decisions regardless of which side votes whatever way. It should be someone with no conflicts of interests, not somebody who already has them going in.

One of the old, war-horse businessmen would be a good choice and even one in ill health would be likely to accept, as long as it was only for the rest of this year and not until January 2012. Someone who does not want it would be the best choice. Someone like Nagy or Mike Guyler or Presta or maybe even Doc Martin (is he still alive?) would be examples of the types I’m talking about. It’s not about popularity right now. It’s about character and integerity. Someone who knows the tricks these clowns play. No more lawyers or bankers or preachers or salesmen. No one who has an iron in the fire, but someone who has had to make a dollar. Someone who doesn’t owe anyone and who nobody owns.

It aint that hard, think a little bit and then demand it.

Pac,

I think Dead Man may be right. Consider the wording in the two successive paragraphs in the Charter that deal with filling vacancies on council, one dealing with “Vacancies in the City Council, other than the Mayor…” and the next dealing with “When the office of Mayor becomes vacant…”:

Appointees to fill seats “other than the Mayor” shall serve only until the next “regular election”, while an appointee to fill the seat vacated by the sitting member chosen by council to serve as Mayor shall serve only until a new Mayor is elected at the next “regular municipal election”.

There is a “regular election” every year in November, while there is a “regular municipal election” only in odd numbered years. It seems to me that the key words are “other than the mayor”!!!

Pac,

There are two types of “regular elections” according to the Ohio Revised Code. These two are:

“Regular municipal elections,” which are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year.

“Regular state elections,” which are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year.

I guess that a case could be made that since the Charter mentions “regular municipal election” in one case, that was the intent in each case.

I think that one could also make a case that since the Charter was specific in the case of the mayor, but not in the case of the other council members, that is exactly what they meant: the next “regular election” as opposed to the next “primary election” or “special election” (which are also defined terms in the ORC.)