Throw Us A Bone, Guccione

Last week in the mail I received Wentzville's bimonthly newsletter; The Vision, the May/June 2012 issue. As always, there's the Mayor's Comments article but this time, instead of Mayor Paul Lambi, I see Mayor Nickolas Guccione's newyly elected smiling face with the title: "Serving Wentzville Residents Will be My Foundation." This is his first opportunity to reiterate to the 1224 people who voted for him that he's there for them, as for the 1664 who voted for someone else, and the other 27,336 in apathy, go suck eggs.

In his closing sentence of the first paragraph: "...residents have afforded to me to serve...and I promise to do everything within my power to be deserving of the honor of the office." Watching and listening to Mayor Guccione for over five years gives me a unique view of him and his "deserving" to be Mayor of Wentzville. If he had gotten what he deserved, he would be paying attorney fees, trying his best to keep from having a felony charge and paying huge fines in court. Within 15 minutes of taking office Guccione was pardoned by the outgoing Mayor. That's a hell of a way to start leading a city and in no way is that deserving of the "honor of office." Guccione brought dishonor to the office by being pardoned even before he took office.

Later on in the article he says how excited he is about the next four years and how Wentzville is heading in the right direction, he talks about General Motors adding workers and the new Sam's Club. C'mon Nickolas, why didn't you say how hard you worked to keep Sam's Club from coming to Wentzville. You voted against every item regarding this subject and pandered to the protesters who swarmed City Hall to keep Sam's out. Your campaign supporters gave you money and directed you to vote against it while you were an Alderman. Being a union man, you couldn't afford to go against their wishes, so please don't try taking any credit for Sam's Club being here.

In that same paragraph I caught a line reading: "I look forward to working with City Staff members, the Board of Aldermen..." What Board of Aldermen is he talking about? Surely it couldn't be Wentzvilles. Not the one he badmouthed, trashed, and got fined? The one he will not even consider a recommendation for his vacated seat, not that Board of Aldermen? The same Board he thumbed his nose at when he got pardoned, that Board of Aldermen? Don't say crap you have no intention of doing. When are you going to work with the Board of Aldermen? When they do everything you want, when they kiss your ass?

Now a little about what he's going to do for the City. Guccione writes: "While the specifics on some ideas I have for the City have yet to be defined,..." Mayor Guccione campaigned for at least six months on something, what was it. Throw us a bone, give us something, tell us one thing you are going to do for the City. You must have something you can say that you're going to accomplish that's revolutionary, or even benign, just tell us one thing. You're personnel board was trashed, what's next? Hell you won't even put a name on your appointment for Ward 3 Alderman. Our Mayor will never commit, never take a stand, and will never lead us anywhere but backward!