Friends, citizens, Middletonians, lend me your ears!

You are about to embark upon an election season of paramount importance, not only to you but to your children and their children, and to our entire city.  We are perched upon the edge of a steep cliff, about to plunge over. The importance of the upcoming election cannot be overstated.  We were warned three years ago that we are among the fastest dying cities in our whole nation and that has not changed.  If anything, it has gotten worse.

Our city’s debt has grown larger every year, but our leaders have not mentioned it to you.

Our existing businesses are struggling mightily, yet our leaders look the other way, and even find more obstacles to put before them.

Neighboring communities have landed businesses and industry.  They grow, prosper, and begin to climb out of this recession while we languish and decline since no one wants to deal with our tyrannical city hall.

We would be laughing stock among our neighbors, save the fact that they mostly have come to despise us due to the heavy-handed, hard-headed manner in which we have dealt with them.

Our city, which once grew rich with the roar of great steel and paper mills, with their world headquarters, and with respected engineering and construction companies, now looks to pizza places and hamburger havens for “job opportunities.”

Our roads are crumbling and our streets stink, actually stink.

Our current so-called leaders talk of our so-called “historic” areas, but our true historic areas are now gone, vanished, mostly due to poor leadership and lack of common sense by the sad lot now entrenched in city hall.

The future is now up to you, my friends and neighbors and fellow Middletonians.  It is up to you, good citizens and compatriots!

This election will likely be your last chance.

Do not be led over the edge of the cliff by the false music of the Pied Piper of Main Street.  Don’t be fooled again by the Dandy Dan.  Mr. Mulligan and Mr. Picard have gotten you nothing these last years but more debt, and they won’t even admit to you how much.  They get streets paved in their own neighborhoods, but not yours. You must pay to pave your own streets.  Mr. Picard can’t even decide in which neighborhood he wants to live, and he is using this as an excuse to run for a four year term while he still has over two years remaining on his current term.  Throw Ms. Mort in with them and you will have three of a kind, three triplets, if you will.  She has made a living in the business of fooling people.

Three people who will tell you that there is nothing wrong with Middletown!  Are they blind?

Don’t be fooled, my fellow citizens.  The first two have done nothing the whole time that they have been in office.  To reelect them, and throw in their cohort Mort, will be the death knell for our city.

It will guarantee you the very same as you have been getting.  It will guarantee that millions more of your children’s money will be wasted on the wants of two or three hundred of their friends.  Everything will be decided behind closed doors.  You will be told as little as possible, and only after the fact.

Think even now how many things would be glossed over if the good patriots that post here did not bring it into the open before the meetings, things that would be routinely passed with no discussion if the flags were not raised right here.

Watch how much money they spend on this election.  Watch how much money they receive in donations.  Watch where those donations come from.  Follow the money.

If Mulligan and Picard are reelected, and their triplet sister is added to council, there may as well never be another open meeting.  Middletown will be doomed.

Do not say that you have not been warned.  I have sounded the call.  I have rung the bell.  The rest is up to you and your neighbors.  Register to vote.  Get your friends and relatives registered to vote.

Then use your vote wisely, and heed my words.

Everyone,

In deciding to run for Council, I wanted to offer creative policies that would rebuild our economy and improve our city’s image.  I’ve tried to do more than just create an agenda—I’ve tried to create an economic model. While we see things happening around town—Pendleton Art Center, VA, Atrium, Greentree Health Academy, Sun Coke—we have not seen significant economic growth.  We must, therefore, stimulate the economy by adopting specific, targeted programs.  The model that I’ve created will: (1) stabilize housing values and broaden the middle-class, expand our tax base within 2 years and (2) create targeted programs to stimulate business attraction-retention, retain the middle-class, increase post-secondary educational attainment, decrease unemployment, build assets in the community, build a new workforce and overcome our “skills gap,” foster collaboration, and reduce Section 8 housing.  More details will follow, but if we adopt sensible policies we will overcome our economic stagnation and become a vibrant, productive city.  Let’s make great things happen in Middletown! 

I look forward to your comments. 

Thanks,

Todd Moore

Visit: votetoddmoore.com or facebook.com/votetoddmoore

Everyone,

Are we out of the "City is dying" scenario yet?  Please clarify.  Are you comfortable that our current city manager is meeting or exceeding thier job description?  Please clarify.  Please clarify your vision for increasing revenues that will benefit the city and small business owners.  If it's already part of the "Master Plan" that was created,  please just tell me the page number.  Thanks