Unbelievable!!

Well, well, well, if the days don't surprise you! I still do not believe my ears.
Around 3 today I went over to get my mail, and there is ole' Chucknuts outside the Jiggershop putt-puttin'. I still have to pinch myself, because its what I am about to write next is the stuff that lawyers, prosecuters, and investigators dream of--its when a "perp" splays himself for you. And this is how a Chucknut splaying evolves:

He is alone in his putt-puttin' and spies an opportunity to speak with the person that he perceives as his fiercest enemy. He calls me over and then acknowledges everything that I have been revealing about his conduct.

He admits that, for decades now, he has been fervently pushing a modernly refined method of political corruption: he calls it "expense-generation".

In short, he relies on his two best buds, the solicitor and public works director, to come up with any-which-way they can to create, for the public, an impression that this teeny-tiny municipality needs the staff, labor costs, fleet of earth moving equipment and vehicles, etc. of a municipality 8 times our actual size.

In addition, they used the unique situation here, where the homeowners association perfectly overlaps the municipality, to mix and muddle the money trail so badly that no layman is ever able to detect that there is so much redundancy and double-dipping that it would make your head spin.

He then admits that this "governing" strategy has allowed is other friends to collect State Pension Funds when they really weren't eligible, to collect over $20,000 a year in overtime--again, when there really was no overtime necessary to provide the municipality with services, and to bloat their timesheets to the point where we taxpayers pay almost $200,000 a year more than we needed to to get good public services.

He then apologized for denigrating me and my family and trying to harass us out of town.

He further promised that from now on, he would be on his best behavior--not his best christian behavior, but his best neighborly behavior, that he would cull the Borough down to two full time staff--which is a 30% more staff that other municipalities our size average, and would get rid of his "expense-generator" conduct.

He then admitted that this winter has been hard on him and that he would like to let some one else be the politicial spotlight. He feels that he has done all he can to get his "stuck in this fuckin' town" son on his feet and ready for taking care of himself, and that that is the only reason why he let all his other friends walk all over us Borough taxpayers--to set up an "estate" for his only offspring to inherit. (And then, in a rather humble way, he confided in me that he was never so proud of his boy as when he finally cut off the rat-tail that he sported for so many years.)

We then agreed that abandoning his "expense-generating" ways would effectively cut our budget by at least half without ever impacting delivery of services to the public, and that there are several people here that have the integrity and capacity to step up to the plate and work to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of mount gretna borough proper.

Wow!