The West End Kid

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The Courier recently wrote an article about Dale Mallory cutting checks out of the West End Community Council Bank Account months after he was impeached. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/06/12/daily11.html?t=printable =============================== If Mallory is cutting checks and spending money all these months after he has been impeached he should face criminal charges. They have a blog you can follow these developments: http://www.impeachmallory.blogspot.com/

I have heard the same thing about Mallory's involvement in Queensgate, but I don't have a lot of the details nailed down. Something big is going down. They are talking about moving the Drop Inn Center and the Pouge Center in the news this week, and I have heard about other agencies being "asked" to leave. I wonder who is doing the asking. The CityLink effort involves relocating several social service agencies as well. CityLink is appealing their loss at the hands of the Zoning board of appeals. It looks like we are going to have a major shakeup in the social service sector downtown. Something big is going down.

If you live in the 32nd and you can vote in the primary, please vote for Eve Bolton over Dale Mallory. We just finished impeaching Dale from our community council. I think what the man has done is criminal, and he would only expand his operations at the State level. Check out the impeach mallory blog: http://impeachmallory.blogspot.com/

That is F-in hilarious.

Wow.

CityLink project heading for court By Jay Hanselman 4/7/2006 3:12:37 PM The group’s that want to build a one stop social services facility in the West End are going to appeal a zoning board ruling saying it cannot be built on Bank Street. ================================== More here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/NEWS01/604080372/1056 CityLink Center goes to court Appeal keeps West End services project alive BY DAN KLEPAL | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The case for a controversial center that would provide services for the city's most needy people in the West End will be heard in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. =============================== From WVXU: They say they understand many people are uncomfortable with the proposed CityLink Center, and are opposed to it. I like the way that reads as if CityLink is opposed to their own development. They should be. When CityLink lost the appeal of the Zoning board, they didn't know what they are going to do. You could tell they didn't really have a plan. One lawyer I spoke with talked about the hesitation and referenced how they were going to "consider their options", and she said that was proof positive that they didn't have a plan B. She was critical of CityLink lawyer Tim Burke because he had not planned for a contingency, even when the zoning law was pretty explicit that this type of facility would not be allowed. How anyone can deny that a 100,000 square foot mega social service mall is not a community service facility is beyond me. Now they have appealed at the deadline. I think this is because they have no other options. They shouldn't have bought the property without finding out if they could use it. It is going to be a costly mistake. We told them in good faith that we would appeal, but they closed on the property anyway. They should have read the code. Tim Burke should have warned them. If I was one of the big fish donors who put down my nut I would be pissed off. The West End drama never ends.

The Citylink Saga is far from over. I have heard that CityLink has had closed door meetings with media outlets over the city. They are making their case directly to the media instead of the people. Something is about to happen between now and April 13th. They are already in the process of ramping up the media push. It is tough to tell what their next move will be. They can appeal the zoning, but they will lose that as a matter of law. The Bank Street site isn't zoned for social service facilities, in fact they are expressly prohibited.

Old president disputes new West End council election BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER WEST END - A Procter & Gamble executive who is a seven-year resident of the neighborhood was elected president of the West End Community Council on Tuesday night, one month after the group ousted longtime president Dale Mallory.

The West End Drama Never Ends. Whiner Dale Mallory is angry and he wants his toy back. That guy should take it like a man: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/NEWS01/603070346/1056 Mallory sues West End council THE ENQUIRER Dale Mallory, who was removed as president of the West End Community Council by members on Feb. 21, filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Monday, claiming he was illegally removed and asking to be returned to the office.

Quim, I will try to get look up the bylaws and Constitution of the WECC and cite the specific section for you.

Damn Jimmy! You make me feel like a jerk. I am a bit vindictive I guess. But hear me out. Dale Mallory got impeached by over 75% of the vote, and then he says that it doesn't mean anything and that he is still the President. When we voted against Citylink is was almost unanimous, yet Dale Mallory has tried to claim that the vote did not count. Remember that we had to vote after Dale had already stormed out of his second consecutive meeting, and we voted without Dale present. According to Dale, we haven't been able to vote on anything since October. According to Dale, the people who come to meetings don’t “represent the community.” He claims that the people who want CityLink won’t come to meetings. What does that mean? It means that Dale Mallory has decided what is best for the community, because only he can know what the community really wants, because he is Dale Mallory. I have the inherent weakness of not being Dale Mallory, which is why I fail to see things so clearly. It doesn’t matter how we vote. Dale has his own agenda. In the November Meeting, Dale shut down the meeting before we could vote on CityLink. He shut it down without a motion after 2 and half hours. No vote, no motion, no nothing, he just walked out of the meeting. The very next meeting was December, and he started out that meeting by telling everyone that there would be no motions and no votes. CityLink catered that meeting. When people demanded a vote after what happened in November, Dale walked out again. This time, Vice President Shirley Colbert presided and we had a near unanimous vote. The January meeting came, and Dale would not release the agenda before the meeting. He said that CityLink would not be on the agenda before the meeting. He told people that we had our vote, and he wasn’t going to revisit it. But the January meeting opened up, and Dale Mallory started out with a special guest to speak to us, his lawyer Jim Carroll. Jim Carroll explained to us that our vote in December did not count. No minutes were ever read, much less approved, and Dale announced that no vote would be taken at the January meeting. For three straight meetings he wouldn’t let people vote. All the while he was claiming to the press that the members of the West End Community Council don’t represent the community. The CityLink people had a now infamous quote after the December meeting, where they said that it doesn’t matter what the community council thinks, they are going ahead with the project anyway. It appears that Dale Mallory feels the same way with his own agenda. And without our vote of opposition, without Shirley Colbert standing up for the people, we never could have challenged the zoning as a community. And that was a fight that we won. It was a fight that Dale Mallory struggled to not let us have. After those three meetings a Pastor from the West End stepped up and served Dale Mallory with a petition for his impeachment. While Dale was being impeached, he called a special community meeting at the Lincoln Center to be devoted solely to CityLink. Who got invited? Nobody from the West End Community Council. CityLink got invited though, along with hundreds of members from Crossroads Community Church. It has been well documented that they have been flooding our meetings in massive numbers. They were at the impeachment hearing the other night. And not only do they come to our meetings, Dale is apparently giving them membership cards. The same cards he has routinely withheld from us. He tries to pick and choose who can join the council, based upon their undying devotion and support for his highness. Before we went to the ballot box for his impeachment, we had a stand up vote where members stood up to be counted at our last meeting. All the people from CityLink and Crossroads stood up and tried to vote for Dale Mallory. Mark Stecher, the Executive Director of the OneCity Foundation (parent of CityLink), was standing up and yelling his support for Dale. He was even screaming “We won!” when the standing members of Crossroads outnumbered West End Community Council Residents. But when it went to ballot, Dale Mallory lost with over 75% of the WECC members voting to impeach him. So yeah, I am a bit vindictive. I am being a bit of a jerk. But honestly, what would you do? Dale Mallory plans to preside over the next meeting. He claims he is still President. He is going to come into that meeting with his thugs and an army of true believers from Crossroads Community Church, then he is going to bull rush the podium and claim that he is President and that nobody can impeach him. The Crossroads sheeple will probably give him a standing ovation. If that is allowed to happen, the City of Cincinnati should disband the West End Community Council. At that point, it wouldn’t be a community council; it would be a Dale Mallory council. I don’t care if his brother is the mayor, or if another brother is a judge. His dad is a West End legend, but that is his dad, that ain’t Dale. Dale Mallory has been impeached by a wide margin. He is no longer President. If he tries to preside he will be arrested for disrupting a public meeting. “ I hope those now in control will build consensus and keep orderly meetings. Continuing the division will only damage the neighborhood” I would hope the same thing, but it is going to be difficult to build any kind of consensus with Dale Mallory and CityLink trying to hijack our community meetings. Crossroads Church members need to stop coming to our meetings. They need to stop standing up and yelling at people and disrupting our meeting. That the executive director of Citylink (Mark Stecher) would do that is crossing a line. They aren’t part of our community, and they need to mind their own business. As for Dale, he needs to walk away and concentrate on his run for the State House.

Dale Mallory lost his shyt at that meeting once he found out he wouldn't preside. It was the politics of self destruction. It was also like watching a car wreck in slow motion. He released a tape to the media that nobody commented on. He claimed it was telephone conversations of two West End Community Council Members plotting against him. Nothing was on the tape when he played it. It was comical. And to top if off, after losing over 75% of the vote, he still thinks he is president of the WECC. The man is on drugs. I will beg and plead you all to come to the next WECC meeting to watch strong man Dale Mallory "preside" and take back what is rightfully his own. The rules don't apply to him, his last name is Mallory. It should be fun to watch the end of his political carreer. For a short time, I am waiving the 10 dollar cover charge.

As for City Council, I would have to say "WOO HOO!". I would like to thank the people who showed up to the Tuesday and/or the Wednesday Council meetings. I would like to thank the people who have written council on behalf of the opposition. A lot of neat people have come together on this. People have talked about having a bash at the Mockbee, with the proceeds going to the legal defense fund (the zoning appeal and any legal action beyond that). The Mockbee has a liquor license as well. I think it sounds like a great idea, but then again I have a drinking problem. WOO HOO!

Amen to that Max. Those aren't people, they are sheeple! That pep rally last night was comical. I don't think that Brian Tome wants to go anywhere to speak unless he knows he can pack the house with hundreds of his own people who fawn over him and slobber like pavlovian dogs. That guy has some F'in ego. What about this one: Some of that "small group" include: Cincinnati City Council West End Community Council West End Churches and Pastors Over the Rhine Chamber of Commerce CUF Neighborhood Association (Clifton Heights, University Heights, Fairmont) Brighton Business Owners Westwood Concern Dayton Street Neighborhood Association Clifton Heights Improvement Association Clifton Heights Business Association Over The Rhine Brewery District Klotter/Conroy Resident’s Association Pendleton Neighborhood Council West McMicken Improvement Association Principals of the three schools across the street from CityLink Brian Tome is lying to his own people.