The Minions of Goocher

 

Tuesday's election wasn't as big a surprise to me as you might think. I know the depravity and lack of ethics of Mayor Nickolas Guccione and those who kiss his ring; Cheryl Kross, Michael Hays, Sonya Shryock, ex-Judge Michael Carter, and the surprise conspirator, State Representative Bryan Spencer. In fact, I don't blame them for being underhanded in their actions, their candidates have no accomplishments, therefore they needed to pull every sleazy, unethical trick in their bag or they would have failed against two aldermen who's job approval was off the charts compared to the others they served with (excluding Chris Gard).

 

Mark Twain said; "History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes." Ten years ago, Mayor Vickie Boedeker did the same thing by chaining Wentzville progress to a huge anchor when she got Bill Schuette, John Luby, and Nickolas Guccione, the Lurchettes, elected to the board of aldermen. She would have taken full control of the board if she only hadn't made one mistake; not being re-elected herself.

The current board of aldermen made a lot of mistakes in the past four years. Allowing the appointment of Michael Hays was huge, but one of the most damaging was to put four-year terms for the Mayor on the ballot—incredibly stupid! When Wentzville elected a mayor who was totally unqualified or incompetent to lead, they simply voted him/her out of office after two years and tried it again. Wentzville history is filled with one-term mayors, and if we ever had a candidate for a two-year term, King Nickolas is one of them. With the cast of sock-puppets he's assembled, it will take a decades for the USS Wentzville to right itself.

 

Yesterday, I caught a post by the highly revered Alderman of Ward 2, Chris Gard. I think he sums up what happened Tuesday, April 8th very well:

 

"On my website is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt that says 'We are the government-you and I." He was absolutely right. We choose the people who represent us in government, and we need to hold them accountable. Yesterday, only 8% of registered voters showed up to vote in municipal elections. That means 92% of voters never bothered to participate. Wow. 92%. Wow. As a result, City government was completely changed. I'm always so confused when people say their vote doesn't matter. If you don't even show up to the ballot box, you're absolutely right. It doesn't. C'mon gang, we can do better. Surely we can care more about our City leadership than 8%?"

 

I'm confident that most of my readers are registered voters, and that they did their civic duty by voting. If you did not; you, and the apathetic masses, are responsible for the politically-unhealthy environment that will be sworn-in on April 23rd to govern our once proud city. I'm truly ashamed of our Wentzville registered voters who did not vote. Guccione has made the mayor's office the laughing stock of the county—everyone knows it, and now he's added two more reasons to believe that Wentzville is in serious trouble; Linda 'Wrong' Wright and Robert 'Back-Door' Hussey. Because Wentzville has no regular newspaper, or other effective news coverage, King Nickolas is still in office. Had there been regular media-coverage of what he's done in his first two years to disgrace his office and the people of Wentzville, Mayor Guccione would be back to being plain old Schnucks butcher Guccione.

 

I'll take great pleasure in covering this new board of aldermen and following their every public blunder. I'm confident that my readers will not be disappointed. Something may happen soon to remedy the lack of news coverage in Wentzville, it may cause grief for Guccione and his minions, I'll let you know when it's about to happen.

 

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The Board of Aldermen meeting Wednesday, April 9th was relatively consistent with most Guccione meetings. He mumbled, stumbled, and fumbled through two "Certificates of Recognition" and a "Proclamation." He managed to embarrass everyone in attendance by mumbling, getting tripped up on two and three syllable words, and his total lack of being able to read people's names. You need to watch the video (that doesn't appear to be posted yet, or I'd have given you a link), it's incredible!

 

During last night's meeting the thing that seemed to be weighing heavily on Alderman Cheryl Kross' mind was trees. She must have talked about trees on at least a half-dozen occasions. The first was a single tree on the property of Chick-fil-A. It seems that the new owner had inherited a tree that was a smaller caliper than specified in the code, and come hell or high water, Kross was going to get it fixed. I wonder if she goes around town checking every tree looking for code violations. What I find puzzling about this whole matter is; it's not even in her ward, but with sword drawn, Kross plunged forward.

 

Kross is a meticulous micro-managing meddler in the staff's jobs. She could not seem to understand that the situation had been addressed by the Public Works, and she kept bringing it up at every opportunity throughout the meeting. Kross was on a mission. The next trees she was concerned with are owned by Dairy Queen, two large pines of some variety. The owner had bought the property next to Dairy Queen and is wanting to build a pizza place by the name of Tommy D's. Well, the trees would end up right smack in the middle of his parking lot. "Isn't there some way you can save them," she begged? She brought up this same concern at the meeting last month and got the same answer, but the engineer on the project gleefully explained it to her again. The only thing different about these trees, and the Chick-fil-A tree is; at least this time they are in her ward. I wonder if she knows that?

The City of Wentzville has an eighty million dollar budget, and the most important thing on Cheryl Kross' agenda is three trees, which are the problem of Planning and Zoning and the Public Works department. Why does she continually probe issues that are insignificant compared to the developments and major problems in the city? She needs to focus on her job and quit trying to micro-manage the entire city and its employees.

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Beginning April 23rd, the new board will be sworn-in and I believe there will be a lot more to talk about. I'm looking forward to thickening up the skin of the new minions; 'Linda Wrong' and 'Back Door' Hussey, the newest members of; The Unholy Alliance (click here). See you soon!

 

Vote April 8, 2014 For Ethical Government

 

Tomorrow, April 8th, 2014, registered Wentzville voters will go to the polls to elect aldermen for Ward 1 and Ward 3. One change from last year; you will not see the mind-numbing barrage of signs placed at the polls by ex-Judge, Michael Carter when he attempted to recover his seat on the bench. Voters were fed up with his crippling of the police budget and kicked him back to the curb in favor of Steve Martin for his second term. Something you will see again is our Mayor passing out his city business cards and endorsing his retreaded candidates; Robert Hussey and Linda Wright. You may even see ex-judge Carter and State Representative RINO, Bryan Spencer handing out their cards.

When you see Guccione and he gives you his city business card introducing his candidates, ask him; Mr. Mayor, What have you accomplished for Wentzville during your last two years in office? And; Why are you endorsing this candidate when you've clearly accomplished nothing in your term? Another great question might be; Why are you spending so much time meddling in campaigns for aldermen hopefuls, shouldn't you be concentrating on your job and trying to work with the board of aldermen, rather than control it? Or, Is it true, you visited pornographic websites on city owned computers? (that ought to get some interesting conversations started) For my money, I'd even ask; What have you accomplished in seven years of derelict public service, and how much did the city spend trying to scrub your email to keep it from infecting our entire city system?

 

There are some questions you might ask of Hussey such as; "Mr. Hussey, what was the real reason you were fired from your city administrator job with Dardiene Prairie," and "Why did you violate the rules of an international benevolent society by using their membership list for your personal campaign?" And then; Given your shifty history and highly unethical use of a private membership list, how can you possibly compete with the most ethical and procedure-wise alderman in Wentzville; Forrest Gossett? I seriously doubt you'll get the correct answers, but it's worth a try.

 

Now the Wright quiz; "Ms. Wright, why are you running against Wentzville's most effective alderman, Rick Stokes, what do you bring to the table that he hasn't already?" Or; "Is it true you work administering Obamacare? And; Do you have any knowledge of procedure or city management?" Or; "Weren't you initially recruited by Guccione to be his pawn, voting with him on the board?" And finally; Didn't you run a pathetic third in your embarrassing loss to the appointed, and now useless Michael Hays, why would you think you could beat the powerhouse Rick Stokes?" These are all good questions if you plan to vote for her.

 

Local government is where voters can make the largest impact. You can choose to have our representatives run our city in an ethical, and fiscally responsible proactive way, or you can choose the path Mayor Nickolas Guccione is trying to impliment—an unethical, irresponsible, shoot-from-the hip kind of government, where he controls the aldermen and doesn't know any thing other than dirty, mud-slinging, good-ole-boy politics. 

 

Guccione once proudly told me; "I voted for Obama!" I disagree with what Obama is doing to our country, but I believe Guccione wants to be just like him. Our country today has the worst economic, and social problems the world has ever seen and Guccione wants to bring Wentzville to that same breaking point. There is only one way he can accomplish his goal of total control and that's by duping the voters into electing Hussey and Wright.

 

So what are Guccione's goals if he gets Hussey and Wright elected? Everything listed here can be verified through public record;

 

• Chief of police, Lisa Harrison will be fired within the first 90 days.
• Opposes the CID extension that would allow a movie theater, a workout center, and a new steak house to be built in Wentzville.
• Wentzville will get stricter Gun laws.
• Ordinances and ethics policies will be changed to allow the mayor to give money to any 501c3 organization or hard-case story individual he hears about.
• He will continue to pardon individuals or business owner friends who violate Wentzville law.
• He will dictate to, and micro-manage builders.
• He will oppose anything (other than baskets for the Mayor's Ball) brought to Wentzville by Sam's Club, or WalMart.
• He will continue bringing new unfunded laws to the city.
• He would oppose anything Ranken Technical College brings (except donations to the Mayor's Ball) before the city.
• He would infect the Wentzville computer system without having anyone on the board to rat him out.
• He would shut-down any and all pet shops in Wentzville.

 

The list goes on, but these are all things he wants, or has already gotten in his first two years in office. If he gets two more yes-men elected to the board, he'd have a super-majority who all agree with his politics, and he'd get everything on this list and more, for the remainder of his political life in Wentzville.

 

Frankly, I find Guccione dangerous, his supporters, and his politics disgusting, and can't wait to have someone beat him out of his job in 2016. He and his closest confidants have brought sleaze to Wentzville government and it's time to put a stop to it. If you vote for Hussey or Wright, you are telling Guccione that we want you to do any and/or all of the things listed above.

 

So here we are, another heart-wrenching Guccione campaign, filled with mud-slinging and inferior candidates, I'm really tired of it. We need to stop his unethical endorsements and send them home for the second time, hoping they get the message—Wentzville doesn't want you or anyone connected with our dysfunctional mayor.

 

Remember to vote tomorrow, and I hope you vote for either Forrest Gossett in Ward 1, or Rick Stokes in Ward 3. We need to let the mayor know where we stand on his brand of politics!

 

The Three "D's": Deceit, Deception, and Diversion

 

Just four days remain until Wentzville voters go to the polls to elect aldermen for Ward 1 and Ward 3, and this is an extremely important election for the well-being of our city. Mayor Nickolas Guccione is using Mike Carter (the rejected municipal Judge) to sling most of the mud at candidates; Rick Stokes and Forrest Gossett. Carter is using his copy-cat blog, and now mailings to Ward 3 voters attempting to overthrow the strongest aldermen on the board, in the typical slash-and-trash King Nickolas campaign style.

 

The Guccione-Carter-Spencer campaign tactics are used because they have nothing positive to say about their own candidates. About Linda Wright they tell us; "She's a good mom," or that "Robert Hussey is a good man." We've had a; "She's a good mom" disaster in Ward 2 for two years; and we're not sure of a man who steals the membership list of a benevolent society to use for campaigning, or being fired by the good City of Dardiene Prairie "is a good man." The problem is that Wright knows nothing about city government, or any government. I guess they could make points by saying Wright makes her living working in the Obamacare system (which is a fact), if you happen to agree with Obamacare, but I'm not sure that it qualifies as a positive reason to vote for her. It's the silk purse, sow's ear syndrome — They think; if they can pile up enough trash on their opponent, and get enough titles e.g., Mayor, Judge, and State Representative to endorse him/her, they can make a star out of nothing while destroying a true star.

What they are overlooking is; Wentzville voters are not as stupid as Guccione/Carter/Spencer think they are, and, they remember the lies they were told. Guccione used the three "D's"; Deceit,  Deception, and Diversion getting himself elected, and voters have seen what they got; an unqualified, illiterate, dysfunctional mayor. Guccione has endorsed numerous alderman candidates in every election, including his own, and not a one of them were ever elected. The voters know that he's a deceit filled airbag of questionable morals and they know; if he is endorsing Wright and Hussey, something must be wrong with them. Both of his candidates were endorsed by the Guccione machine last year and both failed. This year he's boosted endorsements for the retreaded Hussey and Wright thinking that that would do the trick. If he and Carter couldn't get them elected last year, what's changed, why would he think that by throwing a half-baked RINO State Representative in the mix it would make any difference? Remember Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing expecting different results.

Voters know about the narcissistic King Nickolas, they know about the egotistical self-centered ex-Judge Carter, and they are finding out about the lack of ethics of the meddling Missouri State Representative, Bryan Spencer. These three men are trying to overturn our Wentzville representative government by ousting Rick Stokes and Forrest Gossett, giving Guccione another yes-man and yes-woman that have no intention of representing Wentzville and who have no knowledge of government. It's a bad situation and the voters of Wentzville won't stand for it!

If Guccione's candidates are so good, why won't they tell us what they plan to do, what they have done, and what makes them qualified to be an alderman in Wentzville. "He's a nice man," or, "She's a good mom," are not good reasons to ask us to vote for them. Throwing trumped-up-trash and gathering more phony endorsements against incumbents; Rick Stokes and Forrest Gossett, will not discredit the dedicated representation they have given their constituents and the people of Wentzville. The Wentzvillian asks every voter in Wards1, and Ward 3 to stand up against Hussey and Wright. Send a message to King Nickolas Guccione: "We are tired of your brand of non-leadership. We're appalled at the loss of employees, at the rate of one a week. And we're disgusted by your use of city computers to visit porn-sites." We want honest, ethical leaders who work for the people, not sock-puppets to a lunatic who lied, cheated, and stolen his way into the mayor's office!

Be sure to vote April 8th! Re-elect FORREST GOSSETT in Ward 1, and re-elect RICK STOKES for Ward 3. Wentzville needs open government and honest aldermen who govern ethically!
 

It's About Power, Not Qualifications

 

One week left to find out if Mayor Nickolas Guccione's group of groans (Mike Carter and Bryan Spencer, Michael Hays, Cheryl Kross, and John Luby) will overthrow two very engaged aldermen with Guccione's cast of clowns; Robert Hussey and Linda Wright. I know about Hussey's unethical background especially since being fired by the city government of Dardiene Prairie, but recently I got a comment from a Wright fan who tells of her "extraordinary accomplishments," so I thought I'd take a moment to see what she has to say for herself.

 

First, I know that she has no declaration; "Paid for by" on her website—campaign ethics violation number one. Then I received her campaign flier in the mail this weekend so I had to go dig it out of the trash to check out her "extraordinary accomplishments." Low-and-behold there was no "Paid for by" declaration on it either—campaign ethics violation number two. Some of you may not think this is a big deal but Guccione sent violations to the Missouri Ethics Commission against his opponents in every election he ever ran in; if our own brilliant mayor thinks it's a big deal, it must be a big deal. From this I must deduce that Linda Wright is in the category; unethical.

 

Looking at Wright's flier, the first thing I notice is the smiling face of King Nickolas (unquestionably, the most unethical politician to ever be elected in Wentzville) standing closer to Wright than any coffee filters I ever tried to separate, it looked like a wedding photo without the dress. Turning the card over, there I see Republican (RINO) Representative, Bryan Spencer's smiling face, I don't think there's ever been a Missouri state Representative publicly endorsing an alderman candidate in Wentzville history, it makes me wonder why? The answer is simple; Wright in unelectable, especially against a powerhouse alderman the likes of Rick Stokes. She must be a great mind with "extraordinary accomplishments," to garner the support (with pictures) of a morally questionable mayor and a RINO State Representative who spends more time meddling in Wentzville politics than representing his district in Jefferson City.

As with any campaign that Guccione is involved in (which is all of them), there's always unethical, or shady things going on. Sneaky as he is, he knows that an ethics violation cannot be filed 15 days before an election. So now we see two ethics violations from his candidate; Wright, which he knows will not get a black mark until after the election. He's probably stupid enough to think he can pardon her anyway. Now what's going on with his other candidate; Robert Hussey? It appears that one of Forrest Gossett's mailings has gone undelivered, and missing, tampering with the mail is a Federal Offense. I'm not suggesting that Guccione is that stupid, but someone is, because a second mailing in two weeks has been put on the missing list. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there isn't a Postal investigation underway to see if there isn't a mail tampering charge waiting for someone! If they find that the coincidence points the finger, the election between Hussey and Gossett could be contested and somebody might get a healthy fine or imprisonment.

 

Still wondering why such an array of high-power support, I read on. Next to Spencer's image is a list of other endorsements, notably; Michael Hays and John Luby both Ward 3 Aldermen. Luby was one of the original yes-men to Bill Schuette, and member of the infamous Lurchettes. It amazed me how little he did as my ward representative, but it was his mission to go along to get along. Luby's lack of engaging at meetings is only exceeded by my current representative, Michael Hays, and his do-absolutely-nothing-approach method of leadership. So let me recap; Guccione the porn-king mayor, Spencer, the meddling Missouri State Representative, and two useless aldermen who's greatest accomplishments were to keep the snoring down so as not to wake the mayor are supporting Linda Wright, the retread that lost in last year's election to the most useless alderman EVER, Michael Hays.

Being unimpressed by Wright's inferior list of supporters I had to look deeper into the flier. Unfortunately, the closest thing to an "extraordinary accomplishment" on the flier was the list of losers she has gathered to support her. There was nothing saying what she's done, or wants to do, or change, just endorsements. I hope Ward 3 residents see what's going on here, she has no good reason to run for office other than to be another in the list of stooges Guccione has already; Hays and Cheryl Kross—who also have no good reason to be on the board of aldermen.

This is about power, Guccione needs another yes-man in order to take control of the legislative branch of Wentzville government and Wright and Hussey are his choices to take over. Guccione hates the logical good-government actions of Forrest Gossett and Rick Stokes, and he hates them personally. If he succeeds in what he wants, Wentzville will suffer. Only one person will have fun from having Hussey and/or Wright elected, and that one is; The Wentzvillian. The mayor and board of aldermen will be an even more target-rich environment than it is today.

At one time, I told Spencer that The Wentzvillian does not cover state government because we have too many problems in Wentzville. He approached me prior to his election because I had posted something about his qualifications that he found detrimental to his coming election and wanted to set me straight. I didn't want to talk to him then, and even less today, in order to get him away from me, I lied to him. I hate lying, and feel guilty that I had to do it to get rid of him. So, to set the record straight: Mr. Spencer I told you that I would vote for you then: I'm sorry but that was a lie! I didn't then, and will never in the future—Oh, and I'd appreciate it if you would stay out of Wentzville politics and do the job you were elected to do by those in your unfortunate district! I have a request of you: If you can, do you think you can get your bud, Guccione, a job as a State Representative and get him out of Wentzville too? Wentzville would appreciate it!
 

Mr. Speaker—Please Don't Spank Me

 



On March 19th, I posted Oepidus Rex (click here) and divulged the meddling in our upcoming Wentzville city election by Republican In Name Only (RINO), Missouri State Representative, Brian Spencer. I told of him holding hands with Mayor Nickolas Guccione's Great White Hope; Robert Hussey, while he walked the streets of Ward 1 trying to convince its residents that "he be da man." I mentioned that Spencer was handing out taxpayer compensated state literature and endorsing Hussey at the same time. As Paul Harvey always said; "Now, for the rest of the story."

 

As every informed voter should know by now, Hussey is a Dardiene Prairie reject, after being fired from his City Manager position by that city, and besides, there are simply enough shady characters in Wentzville Government now. Enter Representative Spencer, introducing himself to residents using state paid pamphlets and endorsing Hussey. As cheesy, and underhanded as it seems for a State Representative to campaign for a local wannabe politician, there are laws, and Spencer found out the hard way. He got a phone call from the Speaker of the Missouri State House of Representatives who told him that if he wants to campaign for someone he needs to do it as "citizen" Brian Spencer, not "Representative Spencer," oh, and stay the hell out of other Representatives districts when you do. Unfortunately, Representative Chuck Gattesenberger was not a happy camper when Spencer came through his district campaigning for Hussey.

Where do they find these kinds of unethical narcissistic-sleezeballs; Guccione, Hussey, Spencer, Wright, Hays, Carter, Shryock, and Kross. All eight people who have an agenda, and are all hell-bent on the complete control and destruction of Wentzville Government. Aldermen Chris Gard, Rick Stokes, and Forrest Gossett are working hard to keep Guccione and his band of knuckleheads in check. They now need our help; vote April 8th for Forrest Gosset in Ward 1, and Rick Stokes in Ward 3, let Guccione know that we do not want his kind of ethics in office. Our city computers are clean now, and we want to keep them that-a-way.

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It's two weeks prior to the election. Those with pitiful or nonexistent public records are hard at work slashing those with real accomplishments and worth to the city. I want to look at each of these useless individuals and list of their greatest accomplishments:

Nickolas Guccione: Guccione's record after almost eight years of public humiliation service has to his credit, one semi positive initiative; "Double Fine Zones." Unfortunately, those who trusted him to implement this program don't know that he made no budget recommendations and it cannot be enforced, tsk, tsk. Other accomplishments include; being pardoned for crimes against the city, running the foulest unethical campaigns in the history of Wentzville, and who can forget, using his elected office and city resources to entertain himself all day watching pornography in the comfort of his mayor's office. This is the man who leads the negative campaigns against three of the most effective aldermen Wentzville has ever known. and supporting two of the most undeserving; Robert Hussey and Linda Wright. Guccione knows that this election will be his last chance for a two-year free ride before he's dumped by the voters in 2016 and he's pulling out all the stops.

Mike Carter: He has restarted his blog and Facebook blitz, trash talking the three Aldermen who rank highest after a year-long poll; Forrest Gossett, Chris Gard, and Rick Stokes in favor of Guccione's flawed couple of candidates. He has tagged these alderman's Facebook pages with his blog which ignores any resemblance to what is really going on, but when they have no qualifications or public record, trash is all they have. Carter, as you remember is the failed municipal judge who after two years on the bench almost single handedly destroyed the Wentzville police budget. Voters realizing his lack of abilities said "Hell No!" and sent him packing in favor of Steve Martin. Carter has absolutely no interest in this election other than being pissed at the voters for giving him the boot (twice), and being Guccione's bud. You may also remember seeing his campaign signs that covered almost every square inch of property at the polls, lots of folks complained about that stunt.

Representative Brian Spencer: What can be said about a State Representative who spends more time and effort meddling in Wentzville and its elections than he does in Jefferson City? This RINO (Republican In Name Only) just got his ass handed to him by the Speaker of the House for campaigning for Hussey out of his district. Spencer is just another of those airhead elected officials who out-live their usefulness and most times become a bad one-term memory.

Robert Hussey: This is Hussey's second try at being a ward 1 alderman, last year he was unsuccessful against Cheryl Kross. Guccione took him under his wing after he was fired from his City Manager job in Dardiene Prairie, and even tried to sneak him into the Wentzville City Administrator position through the back door. When that failed Guccione thought he'd be perfect at replacing his enemy, Kross, and that didn't work out either. Hussey took one of Wentzville's fine benevolent society's membership list, against policy, and used it to send out campaign information, this should highlight his unethical nature. Hussey has nothing to add to Wentzville and these clowns are showing their agenda by recycling a candidate that the voters didn't want in the first place.

Linda Wright: Wright is another recycled loser but this time she's going up against a more formidable opponent, President of the Board, Rick Stokes. She came in a miserable third place in last years election with a pathetic 142 votes out of 646 cast. Guccione is running out of fresh candidates, time, and he knows that he needs to get rid of Stokes or the party's over and he won't get another chance to unseat him before his own mayor election in 2016.

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I challenge anyone to bring fourth one positive public service either of these candidates (or their handlers) bring to the table, and then count the times each of them trash-talk their opponents. Gossett and Stokes are running on their records, Hussey and Wright are running on how much garbage they can throw and how much a Mayor, a State Representative, and an exiled municipal judge can influence Wentzville's election. This group of unethical boobs are trying to change Wentzville, and I'm sure we really don't want their change. Vote to re-elect Forrest Gossett and Rick Stokes for good and ethical government on April 8th.
 

Oedipus Rex

Lessons in life come in various ways; some people believe in taking heed of the experiences garnered by the terrible mistakes of others, then there are those who tread disastrous paths ignoring the less painful experience in favor of suffering the slings and arrows of repeating them—Einstein described this method to be the definition of insanity. Since there are questions regarding the formal education of Mayor Nickolas Guccione, he probably never read Einstein, or Oedipus Rex and he fails to recognize the results of hubris—to Guccione I would suggest he locate the writing of Sophocles and brush up. The day will come when the mayor may discover the error of his current ways, but then again narcissists very seldom recognize their failings.

 

Nickolas Guccione never paid attention to the overwhelming criticism laid upon him during his highly unethical election campaigns of the past simply because he knows no other way than to repeat the misguided suggestions of those who failed before him. His villainous advisers include some of the most  politically despised people in Wentzville; Vickie Boedeker, Bill Schuette, Donna Sherwood, and Mike Carter. Everyone of them learned the same lesson, and felt the same rejection when a huge majority of the voters here drove them out of their offices, or campaign hopes. It's not pretty when a town turns against you.

 

This town is turning on Guccione as his list of ego-driven blunders mount up, so many in fact they couldn't possibly be listed here. Being pardoned for ethics violations by the outgoing Mayor Lambi (who also overlooked Guccione's pornography problem and tried desperately to keep it under covers, so to speak) started a snowball of irrational initiatives and liaisons like the appointment of Micheal Hays, who is the most useless alderman of Ward 3 since Guccione himself.

 

Today, unknown to him, Guccione the puppeteer, has become Guccione the sock puppet of another in his long list of ill advised puppet masters; Alderman Cheryl Kross. Watching him make a fool of himself spouting her exact words would be funny if it weren't disgusting because of his total ignorance of what she's doing to him. Last Wednesday night at the board meeting he went off on the presenters of the Downtown Economic Development and Historic Preservation Committee (DEDHP) making a host of new political enemies. He parroted exactly what Kross has been saying in private for years. Kross is sly, she recognizes that vocalizing disdain in a public meeting for the committee recommendations would hurt her in her drive to be re-elected in 2015 and her desire to become Mayor in 2016. Guccione who tries so hard not to upset voters, bought into her unpopular concept and tagged himself as one who wants to remove Historic Preservation from the DEDHP, alienating several large groups of civic organizations in the process. He had absolutely nothing to gain and much to lose by his ego-driven public rant against the committee recommendations.

 

Hey Nick, Cheryl Kross isn't doing you any favors when she makes you look like an idiot when you get huffy in a public meeting by using her words. Who do you think looks bad here? The answer is; "not her!" I cannot believe that you are okay with throwing away votes in your next election just to display your misguided sense of ultimate power. You forget that you can do nothing to stop the will of the board, all you did was to anger quite a few voters—who have influence on so many other voters—you bit the big one—Kross is laughing at how easily you are led.

 

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Back on the campaign trail, a host of villains are working to build the Guccione machine. Guccione himself is using his Facebook page to vigorously campaign for Robert Hussey and Linda Wright. I find it amazing that any mayor who was pardoned for crimes against the city, and cost taxpayers money by using city resources to entertain himself with pornographic websites, is so unashamed to campaign for others (who obviously look up to him for guidance).

 

Mike Carter, the failed Wentzville ex-Judge, is busy weaving Gucione's web of fault laden candidates on the Internet. And low-and-behold, Brian Spencer, the RHINO (Republican in name only) State Representative, has actively joined the mix, adding to the cauldron full of miscreant reprobates meddling in local politics. Spencer spends more time in Wentzville than he does in Jefferson City and a growing number of Wentzville citizens are asking—why?

 

Spencer has been walking the streets with his soul-mate, Mayor Nickolas Guccione, for almost a year lending support and trying to regain some respectibility for a mayor who has been digging his own political grave since he was first elected. Now, Spencer is walking the streets with Robert Hussey (whose jaded work record in Dardiene Prairie is a dark shadow hanging over his electibility) who needs help to unseat incumbent Forrest Gossett. Oh, and by the way, he's handing out propaganda on how well he's doing in the Missouri House of Representatives (that were more than likely paid for by tax dollars). After he introduces himself as the all-high State Representative he probably adds; "With me here today is Mr. Hussey, we happened to be walking along and ran into each other so we decided to kill two birds with one stone and walk the streets together. He needs your support to help our wonderful mayor build his political machine to throw out any resemblance of good government in Wentzville."

 

This crew of jokers are working hard to push a couple of unworthy candidates into office and upset the logical balance of power which would give Guccione authority over two branches of Wentzville Government. Mayor Vickie Boedeker tried it and failed, leaving Wentzville with a dysfunctional board of misfits that we are still paying for today. Should Robert Hussey or Linda Wright get elected, Wentzville will see it's darkest days since Vickie's Lurchettes. I beg our voters to re-elect Forrest Gosset in Ward 1, and Rick Stokes in Ward 3. Keep intelligence and ethics on our board of aldermen.

 

2014 Campaign Trivial Pursuit

 

A number of interesting (but not surprising) events have been discovered (or uncovered) in the last couple of weeks and I am going to share them with you today. With the election drawing near, the campaigns of Rick Stokes (incumbent Ward 3) vs. Linda Wright, and Forrest Gossett (incumbent Ward 1) vs. Robert Hussey are under way. Mayor Nickolas Guccione will be using the Internet heavily to campaign for both Hussey and Wright, which could prove entertaining. I've seen preschoolers write better sentences on their nursery room walls with the contents of their diapers. If I were them, I'd proofread his scrawling and recommend wearing gloves in the process.

 

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Alderman of Ward 1, Cheryl Kross, who has stated on numerous occasions, "I'm staying neutral. I will not support anyone in this election," is campaigning for Linda Wright, as witnessed by her Facebook re posts of Wright's Facebook blathering. It is no secret that Kross' hatred of her mortal enemy Rick Stokes has been in high-gear for over a year, and this latest display is proof that her attitude (not looking out for the best interests of the city) persists by continuing to press her own agenda.  Why else would she go out of her ward to promote someone who is inferior to a highly accomplished incumbent alderman? But then again, she was instrumental in saddling that same ward with the worst alderman on the board, Michael Hays. Kross has a marked propensity toward screwing up ward 3. Stokes has been a leader on the Board of Aldermen since being first elected four years ago and being elected President of the Board for two consecutive years. Petty jealousy should not be a reason for dumbing down Wentzville government. The political war she's waging on Stokes is unhealthy for the city of Wentzville and her future in it. Her statement and recent actions are proof that she is a liar and cannot be trusted by voters in her ward, or in Wentzville. Alderman Kross has become an embarrassment to Ward 1.

 

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Robert Hussey, candidate of Ward 1, who was fired from his city manager job with the City of Dardiene Prairie, is running against hyper-ethical incumbent Forrest Gossett for the Ward 1 seat. As everyone knows, ethics in government has become a big concern in the country today and Wentzville's campaigns reek with a lack of it. Kross has abandoned all semblance of ethics and if you look into the history of Hussey in Dardiene Prairie, you'll see that he may very well be in the same mould.

If you are familiar with benevolent organizations, they have a rule regarding the use of their membership lists for political or personal gain (for the benefit of Mr. Hussey, the rule is; NOT TO USE IT!). Rules don't appear to mean much to Mr. Hussey, he decided to use the membership list to send out campaign literature to its membership. I won't mention the organization simply because it does such good work in the community, I don't want to tarnish its good name by illuminating the fact that one of their members is so lacking a respect for rules.

 

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I don't dislike Mayor Nickolas Guccione, but I strongly disagree with his politics, lack of leadership, and communication skills, I believe it advertises the wrong face for Wentzville and besides, he's just plain embarrassing. Contrary to popular belief, I really find it difficult to expose the ridiculous and foolish things he does with his position, but the residents of Wentzville need to know what kind of person is sitting in his high office.

 

I had noticed some time ago that Guccione's city email address is: mayor1@wentzvillemo.org, which is a change from the email address used by every mayor since Wentzville started using email. I asked around wondering why every mayor of Wentzville used: mayor@wentzvillemo.org, and Guccione was now "mayor1." I originally thought it was a vanity thing but recent information has exposed the reason and it's far from vanity. It's an involved story so I'll try to explain it as simply as possible.

 

During the time Guccione was an alderman, (five years) he was in the habit of opening porn websites, why he used his city account is beyond me? I would have thought he would have kept it on his personal computer—but that's our lovable mayor—anyway, he continued visiting these sites even after he was elected to his high office. At some time, he must have realized that someone in the IT department might discover that he was spending way too much time frequenting websites of a somewhat less official nature than a mayor should be visiting, especially while utilizing city resources. To make a long story very short, it took the IT department over two months of scrubbing the address (fearing it might infect the entire system) before they reassigned the new "mayor1" address. For my money, they probably needed to scrub some other things too—but we won't go there, just let your imaginations run with it—if you dare ... oh my! I wonder just how much money in taxpayer dollars he cost the city entertaining himself?



 

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Just think, Guccione has changed history, even if it's just an email address. So here we are; election time, and our hate-filled Ward 1 Alderman, Cheryl Kross and our shining Mayor1 are endorsing Linda Wright and Robert Hussey, need we say more?