Our town manager has written a letter to me demanding that I apologize by March 2nd for my blog post "Charter Change Would Disenfranchise Elderly Voters". He doesn't seem concerned with the main point of the post which is summed up in the title. Instead, he's concerned that the town clerk gets credit since it was her idea to begin with. Whew...this is "I was only following der orders" turned on its head. Regardless of the who first came up with this brain fart, the fact remains that it was the town manager who presented this "idea" using the words "we" and "I propose" repeatedly at the January 26th workshop. No matter what the source, this proposal would disenfranchise voters not known for their fealty to the "town manager party" only a short time before the town election.
Instead of me apologizing for reporting the facts, I think that the town manager owes us an apology. In fact, I can think of 238,000 reasons for an apology as our budget deficit (which preceded the global financial crisis) leads to the shrinking of town services including police protection.
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Good for you Toby! Salkisbury News will be putting up a Post very soon about this Idiot of a Town Manager that you have. Here's the funny part though. While Salisbury News was the #1 Blog in the State of Maryland for 2008, we have also been ranked #1 for the first 7 consecutive weeks of 2009 as well. With more than 100,000 hits a day, we are also the #1 Google search result and I plan on using the Town Managers name ay leadt 10 to 20 times in my article on purpopse so everyone around the world can see just what kind of Idiot you're dealing with out there.
I hope we are able to partner up throughout 2009 as I feel more Marylanders need to know more abojut your little part of the world too. Tell your Town Manager to call Mayor Barrie Tilghman about me and she'll give him an ear full. She's an Idiot too.
You mean we're finally gonna get someone in the media to expose him for what he is? Sure wish this could have happened 3 yrs ago, but better late than never!
I don't know if JA knows about all of his shenanigans, but I'll gladly sit down with him and tell him a few stories, not just about the town manager, but two of the commissioners too!
The town can not afford to wait for the commissioners to get their act together and get rid of this fool along with a couple of commissioners who are enabling him. Somehow, since Jere, Dale, and Lou left, the town commissioners can't manage a town manager. It would be great if we acually had town commissioners with a backbone and a town manager that could do their job.Right now the citizens are being screwed. Most citizens are too uninvolved to realize the grave situation the town has been in for a long time. Citizens rise up!
We've certainly had bad luck with town managers. Commissioner Smith constantly tries to force accountability and former Commissioner Gearhart tried. But it takes at least one more to manage the manager. Unfortunately, if a Commissioner's only source of info is the TM who isn't a stakeholder in Ridgely, there will be problems. Ridgely is in awful shape because of this fact.
We need comprehensive charter change that sets up a strong mayor/commission system. Until then, we are dependent on electing the very competent Dale Mumford to work with Commissioner Smith to put Ridgely's house back in order.
Yea, Joe Albero is on the case! Everyone from all over reads his blog. He is the truth detector.
Ridgely's Town Manager definitely needs to hand his resignation ASAP.
He has totally lost credibility--while driving the town into huge debt.
What's that Town Manager been smokin'? He wants you to apologize--that's nuts. Has he ever heard of the Right of Free Speech.
And after all Mangini has done to (not FOR) the Town of Ridgely. he should just resign.
Resign? No. The commissioners should grow a pair and terminate him for defaulting on his contract. Plain and simple.
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