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24 0430 Chuck Douglas PH Podcast Circleville and Hilliard 610 WTVN · Chuck Douglas

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  Greetings, my friends. On April twenty ninth and twenty twenty four, I
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  went on a bit of a rant, a bit of a tie rate.
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  I had a little attitude problem with Circleville, more so with Hilliard, Ohio.
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  Had some requests to make sure I put that up as a podcast.
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  So it is done. Here it is, and Joy, we've been waiting
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  for weeks. Okay. They had the police chief, the assistant police chief,
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  the safety director all fired, and a shroud of mystery was around this
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  story. And I'm not going to, you know, go through and give
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  you verbatim of the report. I read through the reports today, the media
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  coverage, and what it sounds like. Here's my synopsis. If you know
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  better, feel free to tell me my synopsis. They hire a former Columbus
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  police officer to be safety director. The chief of Circleville Police has had some
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  run ins with the guy and said, I don't like him. I don't
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  want him down here. I think he should get rid of him right now.
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  And I'm not real happy that you hired him in here without telling me
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  that you were doing it. I'm the chief of police. You hire a
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  safety director and don't tell me he's coming in because we would have had this
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  talk and I would have told you why. And the mayor said, well,
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  I did it. It's done. And he said, yeah, well
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  you did it. You did it secretively. I don't like that. And
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  she says, so you're calling me a liar. He said, yeah,
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  I'm calling you a liar. So she against got upset and left the meeting,
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  and then they saw her leave her office and go out to the street.
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  Here's where the story differs. Chief comes out. He says, I
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  put my hand on her shoulder because she was obviously too upset to drive.
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  She says, he grabbed my shoulder two different things. This is where we
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  have the disconnect. This is where we have the disconnect. This sounds like
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  a family argument. It really does. The chief, as I understand,
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  it, was the one who went back inside and called nine to one one
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  to get an ambulance there for her because she was, I guess hyperventilating.
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  She was very upset over this meeting and the fact that he blatantly called her
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  a liar. One of the city administrators said, hey, you need to
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  apologize, and he said, no, I'm not apologizing. She hired a
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  safety director, didn't talk to the chief of police. I don't like the
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  guy. I don't think he's good for Circle Bill. I don't know him,
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  so don't ask me. And so they they get in this argument,
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  and she's angry and he's angry, and Will you did this? And you
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  should have talked to me. Will you shouldn't have called me a liar.
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  This is more like a soap opera. I thought somebody did something. I
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  mean, said je Zach. Do you think I'm oversimplifying this thing here?
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  No, you make complete sense. It makes complete sense. I thought I
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  was going to see a report. You know, the police were dealing drugs
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  out of the cruiser trunks or robin houses when people were on vacation, or
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  you know, some criminal activity. This sounds honestly like a family quarrel to
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  me, and believe it or not, I see both both sides of it.
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  That's how I am to be the mayor, to be the boss,
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  and to have a subordinate being. Your chief of police look at you and
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  say you are a liar. Okay, you better bring some AMMO for that
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  fight. Seriously, don't just stand here and call me a liar. I
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  am the mayor. I understand. While she would be upset being the chief
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  of police. You hire somebody in a safety director who's going to have this
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  umbrella authority over me, my department, My actions are procedures and so forth.
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  You don't even consult me about this, and you bring in somebody from
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  the big city that I have a history with, and I think his presence
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  here is going to be detrimental to my performance in my department. Yeah,
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  I got a problem with you. I see both sides of this argument.
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  What I don't see is the reason for all the drama and the costs of
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  the taxpayers to buy out contracts when, oh my gosh, you can't.
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  I'm sorry, you cannot have your emotional battles at taxpayer expens You really can't.
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  And I love Circleville. It's a wonderful town, offers a great deal.
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  It's a wonderful atmosphere. The people there are are welcoming and friendly,
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  and the neighborhoods are are you know, for the most part, clean,
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  well kept streets. And I can't say anything bad about Circleville except this.
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  I am embarrassed on the behalf of Circleville over what I'm seeing develop here.
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  Now that we're starting to get details I was seriously waiting for some criminal activity.
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  Instead I see a family's bad Hilliard. I love Hilliard. I mean
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  I really love Hilliard. I mean I really love Hilliard. I fell in
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  love with Hilliard several years ago. A celebration at the station, that summer
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  party that they do, And if you've been with me for a while on
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  Facebook, you see me post video from up there and say, hey,
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  Columbus, this is how it's done. All of these people gathered in this
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  area together. The band is playing, the children are dancing. There's a
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  shoulder in his shoulder. There is no erromata of Merrowana in the air.
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  It is family friendly. Nobody's shooting, nobody's fussing and fights. I went
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  many times and enjoyed it every single time. That is a jewel in the
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  crown of the City of Hilliard. I love Hilliard. That being said,
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  city council takes a vote and I don't know why. I don't know a
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  vote for a call for peace in Gaza. There are calls now for the
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  resignation of the city council president. I don't even think that is necessarily appropriate
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  because other council members were involved in the decision as to whether or not this
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  vote would be taken. Nobody stopped it. Now the council president after consulting
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  with other members of council and they agreed to move it forward. I personally
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  would not have consulted. I would have banged my presidential gavel and said,
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  due to a conflict of interest, due to holidays scheduling, this will be
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  a delayed vote. We'll take it up again in a couple of weeks.
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  And the President said, well, we already had published the agenda and people
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  on it. Well, sometimes things change, and I believe this would have
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  been an appropriate time to change if you felt the need to even take the
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  vote. Council passed the resolution on Monday, calling for peace in Gaza.
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  Resolution came weeks after pro Palestine protesters came to Council asking them to speak about
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  the Israel hamas War. I blame Columbus, I blame Chicago, I blame
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  other big cities. For the most part, I believe Democrat run big cities
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  that continue to feel like they have a place, a need, a responsibility,
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  a function in international politics. Your Hilliard flipping, Ohio, what you
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  think about Gaza doesn't matter. Be the best damn Hilliard you can be.
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  Don't be like Columbus. It is not incumbent upon you to do this.
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  Why let's get the townships Prairie Township, Franklin Township, Jackson Township, Madison
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  Township, Mifflind Township. Let's get townships to take a position on Gaza.
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  Why don't we how about Hoa's let your next Hoa Milie should you have a
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  vote on? Come on, man, be the best Chillyer you can be,
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  or Bexley you can be, or Upper Arlington you can be, or
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  Lincoln Village you can be, or Hilltop you can be. Be the best
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  at what you are, and quit sticking your nose into everybody else's business,
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  trying to be more prominent and more important on the international stage where you don't
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  even have a presence. And worst of all, you took the vote.
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  You decided to take the vote, you thought about it, knew there was
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  a problem, took the vote on the first night of passover. That is
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  not only stupid, but that's offensive. Jewish people right now are subject to
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  these riots, these sit ins, these threats, these not able to go
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  into buildings, not able to go, parents paying a ton to have their
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  kids educated kids can't even go to class. Does this sound familiar at all
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  to you? First it was the Israeli government, then it was Israeli Jews.
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  Now it's just Jews in general. Does this sound familiar to you at
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  all? Remember history and remember which side to be on. That's simple.
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  Music's up. Time for me to fly. We'll do this again tomorrow night,
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  unless I get canned. In the meantime, The Power Hour Join me
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  at six o'clock Tuesday on six ten w U t v N The Power Hour
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  with Shuck Douglas