It appears the candidate for Cincinnati City manager Milton Dohoney is already getting himself an up close and personal look at the ghetto. Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory with his personal bodyguard in tow, Cincinnati police officer Scotty Johnson decided to get Mr. Dohoney familiar with the hood a.k.a Over-The-Rhine.
This is what was written in today's Cincinnati Post Online edition about this lil excursion.
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory escorted his candidate for city manager, Milton Dohoney, through a street fair in Over-The-Rhine on Sunday and predicted that Dohoney will be confirmed by City Council on Wednesday.
However, council member Jim Tarbell, also at the fair on Main Street, said he doesn't believe there are enough votes on council to confirm Dohoney and suggested that the mayor delay the vote and offer more candidates.
Tarbell also ripped Mallory for "parading" Dohoney in public "like he's already been confirmed."
"It's absolutely unacceptable, totally inappropriate and very unnerving because he's not been selected," said Tarbell. "He's far from being approved,and yet he's out here in public being parading around as someone who is in office.
"The Mayor is at odds with council, and it's a tense atmosphere right now."
Mallory made no appologies for escorting Dohoney, the chief administrative officer of Lexington Fayette Urban County Government, through Cincinnati and said he had taken him to numerous events in various parts of the city.
"Milton is in town to experience Cincinnati, to meet Cincinatians," said the mayor. "The whole idea is to get him acclimated to Cincinnati, to give people a chance to meet him.
"We expect great things Wednesday (at council), and we expect council to confirm him. Milton is going to be confirmed. I'm very confident of that.
"Council members will make their decision about confirmation based on his qualifications, and that's why I'm so confident that he will be confirmed because he's got fantastic quailifications."
Tarbell said the concerns that he and several other council members have is not so much about Dohoney, but about the lack of other candidates offered by the mayor.
"The city charter says candidates, not candidate. That's two or more," said Tarbell.
"I hope the mayor will come back with more choices and more time to discuss it. The mayor says he's going to ask for an up or down vote Wednesday. I hope he rescinds that request and that we'll have more time to work this out."
"Right now , I don't think there are enough votes to confirm the mayor's candidate."
Mallory said he and the city solicitor don't interpret the city charter as requiring more than one candidate.
"If there were more than one candidate to present, I might have done that , but in this case, I only have one, so that's what council has to decide. Council has the power to say yea or nay to this selection," said the mayor.
"I'm confident that his quailifications will come through, and they will see that he is the right person for the job."
Dohoney said he isn't put off by the dispute.
" I'm still very interested in getting this job and coming to Cincinnati," he said. "I don't take this as as a personal affront. These people don't know me, and I don't know them. So it really can't be about me personally.
"At the end of the process, I will respectfully accept whatever decision they make. If they choose to confirm me, then I will move forward with my plans to move here amd make Cincinnati my home and bring my family here.
"If they determine that they would rather have someone else, then I would be disappointed with that, but I would go back to Lexington and do my job there."
Dohoney said the controversy hasn't shaken his confidence.
"The mayor has said I'm his choice, and I'm hopeful I will win out in the end," he said. "I believe I am quailified for this position, and I hope to land it.
"If council says the process is not done, I'm willing to continue to compete, if that's what I need to do. If they need more time to think about it, that's fine too.
"At somepoint, though, there has to be closure. I've got a son. I've got to get him in school somewhere. I want to cooperate fully. But I'm hopeful they will reach a decision soon."
Tarbell said Dohoney's chances of being confirmed by council were hampered by the mayor putting Dohoney on public display this weekend.
"Absolutely, without question, it causes more damage than has been done before," said Tarbell. "Why would you force him on somebody when he's not been selected, when the process is not completed?
"Rather than entering into an atmosphere of conciliation and negotiation, you put yourself at odds with council."
Tarbell also criticized Dohoney for agreeing to be chaperoned around town by the mayor.
" I don't know why the candidate would do that," Tarbell said. "The candidate has to know better. The candidate is fully aware that he's not been appointed yet or whether he will be appointed."
Dohoney said he was just trying to learn about Cincinnati.
"I'm going around with the mayor so I can see things up close and personal," he said.
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There are several things that bother me with this whole controversy.
But all I will say is Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory is catching hell from his own first draft pick (check the achives of this blog and you'll see I've commented on this subject) vice-mayor Jim Tarbell.
Mark Mallory has long stopped listening to the people who put him in office so let him and Tarbell and the rest of council duke it out.
He won't be getting any support from The Black Fist this trip.
We're still wondering what he ever saw in Peanut JimTarbell at the from the jump! But these days where Mallorys' decision making processes are concerned, ie. his Banks Working Group selection (the whiteman) & etc, all we do is.....WONDER.
One of the biggest questions of wonderment we have is...."Why the hell did you pick 'ol no-good Tarbell for your vice-mayor in the first place?!?"
The people who put Mayor in office he's turned his back on (namely black folk) and his vice-mayor (the whiteman) he had such confidence in has now turned on him!
Don't 'cha just love Karma...
OTR isn't the only place he paraded Uncle Miltie. They were amongst the negro gays & lesbians in Clifton on Sunday (there's was white folks there, too!).
ReplyDeleteNot only did Marky & Miltie have Scotty with 'em, they had their lead car loaded with black & white thugs in black suits, Oakley wraparounds & phones up to their ears.
Miltie got a real warm reception. The GLBT people heckled Marky during the parade down Ludlow Ave.
This black mayor you people voted for sold you out before the votes were counted. All of you need to get over it. He's the white man's boy. If he doesn't do as he's told by the white folks, he'll be as finished as his crackhead brother, Dale. And that boy is over with. Check out the Cincinnati Business Courier. He's through.