Looks like the ImpeachMallory Bloggers missed their mark with a recent proclamation that the City of Cincinnati had reinstated Dale Mallory as president of the West End Community Council (WECC).  (The Cincinnati Beacon covered their proclamation earlier today here.)  The City of Cincinnati has not reinstated Dale Mallory, and the Mayor’s office has no knowledge of any such suggestion.

The Impeach Mallory Bloggers used a recently updated list of Community Council presidents posted to the City web page as evidence of their conspiracy.

This afternoon, The Cincinnati Beacon spoke to Jason Barron, Mayor Mallory’s media liaison.  He said the Mayor’s office had no knowledge of the updated list whatsoever, and had no knowledge of any change to the WECC presidency.  Barron advised that the list is administered by the Community Development and Planning Office.

Turns out the list was mistakenly updated by Velda Chapman.  “In the process of updating,” she explained,” I updated the old list instead of the current one.  It is my mistake.  The proper list is being updated as we speak.”

So it turns out there was no conspiracy, no secret plans in the Mayor’s office to reinstate his brother as some form of protection.  Nothing of the sort.  There was just a minor clerical error that should be resolved by the end of today.

I have always said the ImpeachMallory guys should be a bit more careful with how they report.  Here’s why.  This one completely missed the mark.

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1. Male Dallory says:
   03 Oct 2006  at  02:57 am | #

   I would like to thank the Dean and The Cincinnati Beacon for providing a forum where issues like this can be discussed and disected.

   I don’t mean to spam.  We have too closely related threads and I wanted to put my response on both of them.  The other thread has more comments, and here is what I posted on the other thread:

   Dean makes some great points.  It is an office document, not an “official listing”.  As far as I know, the city doesn’t maintain “official listings” of community council presidents.  This document is about official as it gets.  I believe that Nate Livingston has even cited this document in the past in defense of Dale.

   That said, just because we are paranoid doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get us.  Nate is claiming again that Dale Mallory is still the WECC president.  I do not believe that Dale Mallory has ever admitted that he is no longer the WECC president.  He continued to hold meetings and even closed down the WECC bank account months after being removed from office.  This isn’t exactly the dead issue / moot point that you play it out to be.

   The WECC has never received bank records or any historical information from Dale Mallory.  That information is supposed to be transferred by law.  Historical records are the property of the West End Community Council, which Dale Mallory is no longer a part of.  The only legitimate reason that he would have to keep them is if he still considers himself to be the President of the WECC.  We have no idea if Dale is still holding meetings, or still claiming to be West End Community Council President.

   The only defense that he can have for spending those funds months after being removed from office is that he was never removed from office.  If he admits that he wasn’t President, then closing down the account is an open and shut case.

   The police are currently investigating the WECC complaint of criminal embezzlement against Dale Mallory.  As that investigation is “reportedly” coming to a close, a City of Cincinnati listing suddenly is altered to list Dale Mallory as the WECC president.  The fact that this clerical error is both timely and also supports his criminal defense that he is WECC president was alarming.  It was brought to my attention and I blogged about it.  Dean’s advice to use more restraint and more research in my blogging is well taken.  I am personally not entirely sold that this was just a clerical error, given recent developments.  I will grant you that I can’t prove otherwise, and that this does present the most plausible explanation.

   We have had some tough luck with City Hall and the authorities.  It has been 137 days since Dale Mallory illegally closed down the WECC bank account.  You can view the timeline right here.  The CPD didn’t want to investigate the complaint, and handed it off to the FBI.  The FBI didn’t want to investigate the complaint, and handed it back to the CPD.  Meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking.

   In late June, members of City Council called for an audit of questionable expenditures of the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation.  Funding was frozen in June.  Here we are in October, and funding has been restored without any investigation ever being completed.  The last I heard they hadn’t even selected an auditor to look at the concerns addressed by Council.

   Given the track record of recent developments, you can expect more than a bit of skepticism from our camp.  When the public spotlight is on people pledge to investigate and preach transparency.  When that spotlight fades when redirected to other pressing issues things appear to go back as business as usual.

   Dale Mallory is a candidate for State Representative in the 32nd District.  It will be interesting to see if he can continue to duck the press on these issues.  Somebody should ask him if he still considers himself WECC President.  If he doesn’t claim to be President, they should ask him when he stopped being WECC President.

   Was it in February when he was impeached by over 76% of the West End Community Council? 

   Was it in April, when the two lawsuits he filed were resolved?  One lawsuit was thrown out of court, and the other was dropped by Dale Mallory.  When he dropped it he stated he had no intent of remaining WECC President.

   Was it in May when he cashed out and closed down the WECC bank account?  When did Dale Mallory stop being the President of the WECC?  Or as Nate alleges, does he still consider himself President today?

   Dale Mallory could clear up the considerable confusion by addressing these issues publicly.  He closed down the community’s bank account, and the community deserves answers.

2. Jesus Christ says:
   03 Oct 2006  at  04:35 pm | #

   If you actually think that Dale Mallory is ever going to address the public on these issues you are crazier than I thought.