Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Evil continued

Just this past Wednesday Brian Fox was trying to regain a foot hold into the county government by supporting a lieutenant of the Former Sheriff DeMastry into the Clerk of Courts appointment. He was challenging central committee members and he was successful in removing at least two votes that opposed a member of the infamous DeMastry clan.

Good overcame evil last Wednesday once more and the ethical Republicans won again.

It is imperative that the area residents have a clean SWEEP this fall and remove the other elements of the Pickerington syndicate. Clearly expect huge amounts of money coming from the builders and Maxey's mass mailing business. Those council candidates depending on the local grass roots support will be at a disadvantage in money and the only way they can make up that difference is through the public's support. Don't fool yourself into complacency.

PLEASE!!!!!!

Your vote and your money will be of help to our entire community including the Township and the School District.



By Watch Dog

Vigilance, the Price of Liberty

To recoin a phrase.

We have good government in our City by a one-vote margin. This has allowed the three remaining holdovers from the bad old days to block an amendment to the City's Charter to prevent any future council from approving rezoning requests as emergency measures, thereby denying citizens the right to challenge them by referendum. It has allowed these three to slow, and almost kill, the Diley Road widening project. They likewise have been able to slow imposition of builder impact fees, to slow regional cooperation, and to gum up the works in countless other less obvious ways.

If we want good government, we must fight for it. We must elect Mitch O'Brien to a full term, and elect new councilpersons who will support the current council majority, and our current mayor. We must support Gary Weltlich on the Board of Trustees, and see that he receives the support he needs. And we must elect a fiscally responsible majority to the School Board, which we can do this November if three good candidates will just step forward.

We must never let down our guard. We must never take what we now have for granted. It's only the beginning, only a one-vote margin, and it can be lost in an instant. Our friend Watch Dog's posting shows what can happen in a community when voters and taxpayers turn complacent.

We really elected this truly awful person to a judgeship, with support from several of our councilmen, who did not waver in that support until this dreadful person was finally locked up. This man really had been chosen by our former leaders to be Pickerington's legal counsel. We actually elected a man who claims to have been stoned on the bench; who really did threaten witnesses; who really did burn down his house to collect on an insurance policy sold to him just weeks before by our former mayor.

Vigilance is the price of liberty. This is what can happen when we let down our guard. Let's never let it happen here again.

Tammany Hall Machine

Now that we know a little more about Maxey, Fox, and the arsonist Judge McAuliffe we can now continue on to others in our former city administrations.

If you look further down the left side on this web site in what is called ''our pages'' you will find a series of letters (manager Conflict of interest) that outlines the corruptions of these former Pickerington so called leaders.

In 1997 with the full knowledge of the Pickerington Law Director, Don McAuliffe, the City manager, Joyce Bushman, purchased a land purchase option on the Strickland Farm. For those that don't know where this property is located it is what is currently the Diley Middle School and Preston Trails sub-division.

First lets talk a little about a Land Purchase Option. Purchase Options are similar to a person buying their home. They put down some Ernest money and make an offer on the home. This agreement normally has a time of when it will expire. This agreement is necessary for the buyer to arrange financing and other inspections prior to the purchase/closing. If the financing fails and the buyer is not at fault for an example then normally the buyer gets all of his Ernest money back.

On bigger purchases such as commercial property and say farms that are about to be developed into 650 new homes the seller wants a little more to take their property off the market. The pre-sale arrangements are also normally much more complicated. So Joyce ''purchased'' a land option where she pays the property owners an amount of non-refundable money for a certain time and she had exclusive rights to purchase that property at a agreed to price. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT DON MCAULIFFE KNEW ABOUT THIS. IN ADDITION THESE OPTIONS ARE NORMALLY NOT PUBLIC RECORD BUT PRIVATE AGREEMENTS. So if you go down to the court you will probably not find anything to incriminate Joyce. Probably good legal advice coming from a crooked Law Director.

Then we have the New Law Director Bob Mapes who replaced Don McAuliffe who thinks Joyce purchased the property. Bob one of the reasons you are no longer the Pickerington Law Director, I suspect, is that you are incompetent with anything dealing with real estate. The property never went into Joyce's name she simply reaped the benefits at closing of the difference of what she agreed to in her purchase option and what the developer paid her for the newly rezoned land.

This was simply land speculation which was truly a conflict of interest because she supervised the Planning and Zoning Director. I do not have any public records on how Joyce controlled the Chairman of Service, Craig Maxey, to vote this out Service but if you take this full circle this same chairman of service now holds the power of attorney for McAuliffe and McAuliffe was the legal mind behind this land speculation.

In 1998, was there a''PAY OFF''? to Maxey?

Did these crooks share the profits of this land deal?

Was this the only land deal that our former city manager had land purchase options on?

Then in 2004 when the new council tried to pass an ethics ordinance who stood in the way? Go to the city web site and look at the minutes of May 2004 and answer that for yourself.

It is clear that these three holdovers want to preserve their City Hall corruption on into the future. You must stop them this fall.







By Boss Tweed

Bushman made another purchase

Some of you are aware of this but but for those who are not....if you go to the Franklin County Auditor site, and go to property records, and search under Joyce Bushman, you will discover that she purchased and office building in Columbus about two weeks before her last day as city manager. The price is recorded in the record, it is over one million dollars.