Weller rants and raves about the First Capitol News
At a meeting of the City Council a couple of weeks ago Council members along with City Hall and television audiences were subjected to the wild ranting and raving of Councilman Mike Weller. For over twenty minutes Weller went on complaining that the First Capitol News has not called him for any quotes but yet quotes attributed to him have appeared in this publication. “Since they never called me for quotes the First Capitol News is full of lies printing quotes they never called me for It’s nothing but lies, lies, lies.. Why don’t they ever call me for quotes instead of making up lies. I want their questions.”
All quotes attributed to Weller in our newspaper are comments he has made on the Council floor during City Council meetings. We stopped calling him early on in his career as a Councilman when our repeated attempts were ignored. Since Weller says all of the quotes we have credited to him are lies and since we took those quotes from City Council meetings is he telling us that he lies, lies, lies during the Council meetings?
Weller wants us to ask him questions so we will. Right here in the newspaper.
Michael, we were told that at a recent meeting of the Missouri Municipal League at the Lake of the Ozarks you were missing from most of the meetings and seminars. They mentioned you even missed a presentation of a certificate you were to receive. But later one evening you walked into a private dinner sponsored by EMC (they operate the City Sewer facilities) for St. Charles officials with the attractive young Mayor of Mountain Grove, Missouri as your guest. Your EMC hosts made it known they were highly agitated because you brought an uninvited guest to their private dinner. But that aside, our question is: Since you missed the meetings and seminars of the Municipal League and since your attendance at the meetings and lodging was paid for by the City of St. Charles, did you return the taxpayer’s money to the City or did you keep it. Perhaps you thought, as you mentioned at a City Council meeting when you were attempting to justify a raise for the city Council, you could, “Use the money to do something nice for my family.?’
That is our question Michael, we await your answer.
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