PAT DELUCA OF "DELUCA IN THE MORNING" ASKED MAYOR HEALY POINT-BLANK WHETHER OR NOT HIS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR EARNS $70,000. HEALY'S ANSWER: "NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT." HMM?

UPDATED TO INCLUDE LINK TO THE ENTIRE DELUCA/HEALY HOUR LONG INTERVIEW OF 12/01/2009

Will Mayor William J. Healy of Canton ever get away for spinning (the SCPR being nice) or others - not being so nice:  lying?

Yesterday, Mayor Healy appeared on the "DeLuca in the Morning Show" on Q92.  DeLuca grilled Healy for over an hour on just about every aspect of the Healy administration and Canton city finances.

The Report has taken the hour long exchange and edited it down to 7minutes and 53 seconds so that readers who do not have the hour to spare to listen to the entire interview get the gist of the DeLuca grilling.

Here is a link to the entire session (CLICK HERE).

The SCPR believes that Healy (to be euphemistic) was "spinning out-of-control."  DeLuca had done his homework and asked questions that revealed those of us who know the inside story of Canton city politics and the Healy administration caught the spin in spades.

The SCPR will be on DeLuca in the Morning tomorrow, and, hopefully, Pat will ask about the "spin" that The Report picked up on.

A glaring example:

DeLuca:  "They [commenters in The Rep's comment section] mention your $70,000 or more a year communications director, is that true."

Healy:  "No, that is absolutely not true."

Go back and look at the graphic provided to the SCPR earlier this morning by the city of Canton auditor's office.  Do you think that there is any way Healy can honestly say "No, that is absolutely not true?"

If one talked with the FOP members, Canton Patrolman's Association (CPPA) members and Canton Professional Fire Fighters Association members, what  "tales of Healy spin would they have to tell" on the Healy rhetoric.

As the SCPR has been saying for months now, Mayor William J. Healy will say whatever on whatever to get him by the moment.

You can bet that he will come back to the Herman matter with a:  "Well, his base salary is $51,250.00."  Who accepts this number as the true cost of the city of Canton and the Healy administration employing Adam Herman?

For anyone who does, I own a parcel of swamp land in the Everglades of Florida that I will sell you for a bargain.

Kudos to DeLuca for the splendid job he did in putting Healy on the public record.

At the end of Healy's tale, it seems to the SCPR that Mayor Healy will have to take on the characteristics and talents of the great magician Houdini if Canton is to survive. 

And he has a good start.

In the opinion of the SCPR, Healy has a terrific chance to be a political Houdini.  He is a master of "sleight-of-hand.

Here is, in video format, a condensed version of the core of the DeLuca/Healy exchange.