D-DAY FOR DOHONEY

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory & Milton Dohoney walking in O-T-R with Mallory's personal bodyguard Scotty Johnson in tow.

Very Interesting. This story comes straight from the Cincinnati Enquirer Online edition. It looks like there's been some kind of "compromise" reached between the mayor, Mark Mallory and Cincinnati City Council regarding the issues of Milton Dohoney and his candidacy for Cincinnati city manager.

Read this....Then let's talk about it shall we.....

MALLORY AGREES TO WAIT A WEEK FOR DECISION ON CITY MANAGER: COMPROMISE SOUGHT AS COUNCIL INTERVIEWS DOHONEY TODAY

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory will not ask City Council to vote on his nominee for city manager for at least a week. In what might be the most awkward job interview in the city's history, Milton Dohoney Jr. will appear before council today and answer questions from all nine council members - four of whom say the mayor has to bring at least two candidates to them for public interviews before asking for a vote.

That's not going to happen.

Mallory said he would most likely ask council to confirm Dohoney at the council meeting a week from today. "It seems appropriate to wait so they can digest what they hear," Mallory said Tuesday.

Dohoney, 50, is the top administrator in Lexington and, if confirmed by council, would become the city's 14th city manager. He would replace Valerie Lemmie, who resigned last fall. The extra time also would allow City Council and the mayor to continue negotiating potential compromises. Among the possibilities being discussed. Hiring Dohoney on an interim basis. That would allow council another vote after he's been on the job for a specific period of time.

Clarifying language in the charter so the process is clear for the next time a city manager is hired. Restructuring the contract Mallory negotiated with Dohoney with incentives so that council has more say over his performances.

"No city manager has ever been hired by a 5-4 vote," Council Member LaKeta Cole said. "That doesn't send a good message. We need a compromise."

Bortz and Berding said they're open to the idea of compromise, and the additional time will give those negotiations time to play out.

"I don't want to shut the door on any opportunity to reach a compromise," said Bortz.

WRITTEN BY DAN KLEPAL - ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

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Now, what are they really talking about here? I can give it to you in two words: Power & Control. Council members Leslie Ghiz, Jeff Berding, Chris Bortz and Mallory's own first draft pick, vice-mayor JimTarbell are seeking Power & Control. These individuals are looking to undermine Mallory at every turn. Jim Tarbell is term-limited. And thank God for that. Ghiz, Berding and Bortz are up for re-election next November 2007, and a possible run for the Mayorship in 2009. These are slippery charactors but then again as it appears, so is Mayor Mark Mallory.

As I stated before Mark Mallory has been very disappointing as of late. This council made up of: Cecil Thomas, Jeff Berding, Leslie Ghiz, Chris Monzel, Jim Tarbell, LaKeta Cole, Chris Bortz, John Cranley and David Crowley are not a council of doing what's in the best interest of the black community -NO- They are a council made up of me, me, me, I, I, I. And we can see this just from the last few issues to come before them such as: The Banks Working Group selection(s), The Panhandling Law, 3CDC and etc. There is a former council member, Christopher Smitherman, whom I understands replays City council audiotapes on his weekly radio show "exposing" council for their mishandling of so-called city issues and violations against the black community via tax payer dollars. Well that's all nice & good but it would be even better as a now private citizen for Christopher Smitherman to go down to council, as The Black Fist and other activist as well as regular citizens have done and fill out the little yellow card, sit down, wait to be called and speak before council a.k.a. tell the devil to his face what he [Smitherman] feels and speaks about weekly on the radio. I understand he [Smitherman] plays audiotapes of the late Kabaka Oba speaking before city council and hailing him as a hero for doing so. If that be the case then why doesn't former council person Smitherman do the same thing?

As far as Milton Dohoney goes I've heard he was a sellout in the place where he's from and not one to speak out against racial injustice against blacks whatsoever. Our dear brother, Bro. Endure X went to Kentucky with other activist (myself & The Black Fist not included) and did battle on the ground on behalf of black folk who were suffering under the scrouge of racial profiling, racial injustices and police brutality. I will do my best to contact Bro. X and ask him as one of our contributing writers to lay it all out about Mr. Dohoney, he can most certainly tell you better than I can. He touched upon it this past week on 88.3 FM WAIF.

I only speak upon what I know as fact and anything other than that I will conclude publicly as my opinion.

The Black Fist will be watching this one very closely, not so much as to whether Dohoney is confirmed or not but to watch the interactions of council on this matter and the tone as well as the potential undermining of Mallory's so-called "authority as Strong Mayor".

I'll tell you, I've always stated that the vice-president of the United States of America, Slick Dick Cheney probably doesn't always agree with everything President George W. Bush has to say and probably doesn't agree with some of his policies, one of noteworthiness as of late; The gay/lesbian issue. But I've never heard 'ol slick Dick come out in the media and publicly blast the man who appointed him. Publicly ripping 'ol G Dub to shreds. Naw, slick tricky Dick plays his cards close to the vest and rolls with it, so to speak. With the gay/lesbian issue he even agreed with Bush's commentary/policy AGAINST gay marriage knowing full and damn well his [Cheney's] own daughter is an out of the closet lesbian who may want to marry her own "partner" one fine day.

Another example: As in the case of The Black Fist, if a Black Fist member has a Head of Security (General Nikki X) and she tells one of her members (General Kabaka Oba) it's time to vacate a particular location due to our protest being over at 6:00 P.M. and that particular General refuses to vacate due to his own arrogance & ego and is subsequently arrested at 6:29 P.M. for so-called threatening a police officer (Cincinnati police Lt. Jeff Butler), then whose fault is it? The Head of Security in Charge of Security -OR- The egotisical head-headed General that nobody (General Nikki X) doesn't tell what to do? I beleive we all know the answer to that one, don't we? George W. Bush may not like or even agree with his secret service but when they tell his ass to duck -or- dip, what do you think G Dub does? You guessed it, He ducks -and- He dips! NO QUESTION ASKED!

Jim Tarbell, vice-mayor of Cincinnati appointed by Mayor Mark Mallory should take a page out of slick Dick's book and shut the hell up -OR- Mayor Mark Mallory needs to man-up fast and boot his ass out of that vice-mayorship ASAP!

It's never too late!