TUSCARAWAS TOWNSHIP: DEHOFF WAS SMART ENOUGH NOT TO RUN AGAIN; DEAN GREEN WASN'T - TOWNSHIP VOTERS SHOW HIM THE DOOR. IS SUNSHINE ABOUT TO BREAK OUT IN TUSCARAWAS TOWNSHIP COME JANUARY 1, 2010?

Tuscarawas Township residents owe Trustee Celeste Celeste DeHoff a debt of gratitude.

How's that?

She chose not to run for re-election as township trustee.

Dean Green, on the other hand, had to be pushed out the door by township voters last night.

DeHoff and Green have been driving forces over the past four years to keep Tuscarawas in a state of turmoil.

Trustee Speicher is not all absolved from the shenanigans in Tuscarawas.  He has sat and watched and to a large degree participated in the decisions pushed by the DeHoff/Green duo.

It seems as if they have kept the "Mustang" community in one fight after another after another with neighboring Massillon:  annexation fights and "which community is to maintain shared roadways" fights.

Recently, DeHoff and Green got into a tiff with The Massillon Independent over an alleged Ohio Sunshine Law violation.

Going back to 2006, they and Trustee Speicher got Tuscarwas Township in an extended legal fight with two of its Road Department employees whom the trustee board fired on October 25th (of 2006, mind you).  One would think the fight would be over by now.  Is it?

No, it is not.

 

Readers can see that the trustees filed an appeal from the SERB decision finding for the employees.

So on and on and on and on it goes.

Readers have to remember that while township officials drag this out, real "live" human beings are suffering.  And, all the Township has done is loose each step of the way.

As an attorney, yours truly can say that the odds of the Township of turning this case around are not very good.  As a "rule of thumb," reversals or modifications of lower court proceedings and administrative rulings have a extremely low percentage chance of success.

And get this.

Township legal counsel has already asked for an extension, to wit:

One has to believe that part of the reason Green lost was his role in pursuing this case to "seemingly" - "the end of the earth."

The biblical saying is:  "How much longer, O Lord, how much longer."

The answer as provided by the voters of Tuscarawas Township is:  "until January 1, 2010."

On the dawning of the new year in Tuscarawas Township, it surely will be with "a burst of sunshine!"