Tiffin University's Paul Marion Renders Police and City Prosecutor Irrelevant!

As I have said before, I do NOT make any of this stuff up!

Tiffin City Councilman Lepard said in the Advertiser-Tribune only days ago that criminal action was sponsored by the Tiffin University in an effort to thwart campaign opposition to their Miami Street Project from the referendum on Ordinance 07-70. Mr. Lepard was ignored by our County Board of Elections when he asked them to delay the certification of the referendum vote. He clearly explained the circumstances that put a Tiffin University Employee at the middle of the threats that successfully shut down the Monaco Family's campaign attempts to raise money and appear in public to personally ask people to vote 'NO' on the referendum." Our Board of Elections soiled Seneca County's good name by not getting permission to delay the certification "on principle". Where is the honor in that? I guess Dr. Marion was right the first time when at the public hearing he declared Tiffin Citizen concerns to be "irrelevant". At that time, he did NOT mention that he was also including the Seneca County Board of Elections, too.

As the face of the opposition campaign, I was compelled to leave Tiffin in the last weeks before the election because of the threats of harm to my elderly mother, my brother, and to our family home. I did not return until after the election, and AFTER the police said they were soon going to charge the person responsible with "telecommunications harassment".

Up to the time I left, every indication said that we stood a good chance of winning the November 4th election. Tiffin University knew this from the results of their own "telephone survey". We had been beating them from the first reading of the Ordinance when Tina Miller's objections stopped the vote at that time. We beat them at the second reading, too. Then came the Public Hearing, where we had so many regular Citizens show up, Dr. Marion and Dr. Grandillo earned themselves the equivalent of a public de-pantsing for misleading the public, the US Congress, and for lying about various matters that are now immortalized on the video cassettes made possible by our local cable company's broadcast. Through a stroke of good fortune, Councilman Pete Galipaeu, on the forth meeting of the ordinance, gave us a chance to petition for a referendum ballot, even though Tiffin University, City Council and the Mayor secretly agreed to pass the Ordinance and then voted publicly to indeed pass it. They didn't think the Monaco's could get the required 470 signatures from Registered Voters. We did NOT get 470 signatures. We got 1170! This was far more than needed!

Like I said, we were winning from the beginning. Marion and Grandillo knew this. Now, with the Monaco Family fearing for their lives and home, there was NO WAY we could do much more than ask others to "talk it up", make phone calls, enter blog articles, go out only under cover of night, pray, and join the NRA. At that time, Tiffin University started "pulling out the stops". They enlisted EVERY available resource, legal and illegal, to mount their campaign. They even hired a nationally recognized political consultant to direct their campaign that spent well over $200,000, fully loaded. The Monaco's on the other hand were so hampered at this critical time before the election, we couldn't raise ANY money for the campaign and spent much of our time trying to figure out how to fund police protection from Tiffin University's students and employees who were whipped into a frenzy; ready to [kill] us and [fire-bomb] our family home.

What exactly do they teach at Tiffin University's Criminal Justice Program? I have a theory about why they have such a program in the first place. Can you guess what that theory might be? Is the head of the TU Criminal Justice Department, a former US Government (FBI, CIA, Homeland Security) employee now acting as a cartel on behalf of Tiffin University? It is a pathetic observation.

So, why is Councilman Lepard's claim of election wrongdoing so important? Well, Think about it! Mr. Lepard was the person who originally, ON BEHALF OF TIFFIN UNIVERSITY, sponsored Ordinance 07-70! When he started learning of Tiffin University's "dirty tricks" and abuses to Tiffin Taxpayers, he did the principled thing. He started campaigning against the very Ordinance that he originally sponsored! I don't care what anyone says on this matter, Mr. Lepard acted on good civic principles...even in the face of many others surrounding him that did not and do not.

So, do I blame Mr. Fenik for sending two threat messages? Please be clear that I do blame him, and I forgive him his transgressions. I also believe that his punishment is NOT as severe as it should be since the police told me from the beginning that the prosecutor was going for a much more serious charge, Telecommunications Harassment, that could have resulted in a felony conviction. I also know, and you should too, that Dr. Marion and his happy chimpanzees were working over-time to figure out how to do "damage control". The entire neighborhood knew of the the many and long meetings at the Tiffin University with every legal person who Tiffin University ever knew...and then some. So what was the "plea bargain?

Mr. Fenik was given the equivalent of a traffic fine for going 20 miles per hour over the speed limit, with jail time that was "mysteriously" suspended so he could celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas...if he so chooses! It is ONLY because he got caught doing Dr. Marion's dirty work that he is being rewarded with such a sweet punishment...orchestrated by Tiffin University Officials. I don't buy it. If you buy it, you are probably one of those drunken chimpanzees pandering to President Marion's sick idea of community leadership...or one of our so-called civic leaders without the courage to act on good principle.

Fenik's punishment should have been related to the fact that he SCREWED us all out of $800,000 worth of Federal Tax Funds, and screwed his employer's political opposition out of more than $200,000 worth of campaign activities on Tiffin University;s Miami Street Project Referendum. When you add to that the terrorism to my very elderly mother and to me and to my brother and to our family home, this is attrocious! It is bad politics! It is embarrassing to every Tiffin City resident who calls our town their "home". Marion and Grandillo need to be stopped! Their abuses are unacceptable. They need to be put in jail for enabling and encouraging criminal behavior in their employees and students. Here's a link to the A-T article that if you read between the lines, will confirm everything I've been saying:

http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/category.detail/nav/5006/Editorials.html

Now, why should we all be marching on the Mayor's Office? (Unlike the Tiffin University Students, please leave your incendiary devices home!)

Why should we be screaming anger down at City Hall? Why should we all flood the FBI, and Congressman Latta's office with phone calls? Why should someone call Oprah...or Hannity and Colmes?

Contrary to the public face of it, Tiffin University President, Paul Marion, has created a campus environment that is so aggressive and hostile that it enabled and encouraged, directly and indirectly, criminal actions against the Monaco's and other Citizens. Mr. Fenik did NOT have any quarrel with the Monaco's until Marion and Grandillo fed him and others with the idea that it was "OK" to abuse an 88 year old women and threaten her and her family out of their home.

Mr. Fenik, and others on the Tiffin University campus, who are now also under investigation for criminal actions, did NOT act outside of this context. Everything you see in the A-T about Mr. Fenik is orchestrated by Dr. Marion and those happy chimpanzees I mentioned. Even the misdemeanor menacing charge makes a mockery of our City police and prosecutor. Dr. Marion has become a very very large fish in a very small pond we call Tiffin. He publicly declared the Monaco's and other Citizen concerns to be "irrelevant". Now, with this latest action related to his Miami Street Project, and without having to say another word in public, he has rendered our Tiffin City Police and the Prosecutor's office "irrelevant", too. Am I making this up? Just ask any other regular citizen who has called the police for an offensive college student incident. Tiffin City Police Officers routinely respond to City Residents with either "I have to get permission from the school before I can do anything to a student", or "Don't call us. Call Tiffin University (or Hiedelberg) so they can take care of it". Did I say irrellevant? Did I say "dark"?

I am embarrassed for our Mayor. I am embarrassed for our Police Chief. I am embarrassed and saddened that NONE of our prosecutors are able to hold powerful and influential so-called Civic Leaders accountable for their criminal actions against the rest of us normal citizens.

It should not be this hard to participate in this democratic republic we call Tiffin Ohio. Because of it, Tiffin University's President, Dr. Marion, will sleep happily again, tonight, I'm sure.

Best wishes,

Joe Monaco
Tiffin Ohio Registered Voter