Mayor Mack announced a series of successes this week.

1st:  The completion and unveiling of Trenton’s Wall of Mayors. The wall displays mostly all of Trenton’s past Mayor’s but also hosts Mack’s own mug.  The project, although a bit self serving on Mack’s part, marks one of the first successful projects in this administration’s tenure of almost 15 months.  The Mayor may regret his decision to create such a display.  His plaque could soon be the only one with an asterisk saying “Recalled”.  Better still would be if the next photo in line was dated 2012 and labeled “City Manager”.  When criticized about the cost of the project, Mack pointed out that by spending $4,000 on the wall, he saved the city money.  This project makes clear why other issues, like the floods, police layoffs and responding to council, took a back burner.

 

2nd: Finally, Trenton has a new, state of the art, tennis center. Now that construction is done, what will be the cost of securing the courts?  If  24/7 security isn’t provided then these courts, like the last ones, will be a wreck.

 

3rd:  Mack Math, Part 2 — The Mayor announced that although about 1/3 of the police department was laid off, the actual number of officers on the street will increase.  A City Hall source reports that Mayor Mack was elated to learn that by forgetting to carry a 2, he can actually get the total number of cops to equal 413, meaning these layoffs are actually increasing the number of officers.

 

The Previous Failure Known as Mayor, Doug Palmer, Flees Trenton

For 20 years he ran Trenton into the ground. Failing schools, ignoring gangs, creative crime counting and much much more, all happened under Palmer’s terms. And now, when the shit is really hitting the fan, he runs away to Yardley. The Re-Invent Trenton blog addresses Palmer and how Trenton got to where it is now.

 

 

 

 

Mayor’s Recycled Letter
Mayor Mack issued a heartfelt letter to all the police officers that were laid off today. Mack empathized with the officers and related he experienced the same thing years ago and persevered … ad nauseam.

Those who read the letter, took exception to a miserable failure comparing himself to them. Other than being laid off, the officers have absolutely nothing in common with the mayor. Each realized that the letter lacked any effort on the part of the Mayor. Each had received the same “woe was me” letter last year during the threatened lay offs.

 

I wouldn’t want to be a ham sandwich around this guy…